PostDoc     Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin DFG-Projekt ZW65/5-1 ‘Neural and psychological

2006-12     correlates of phonological categories‘  im DFG-SPP 1234 ‘Sprachlautliche Kompetenz: Zwischen  Grammatik, Signalverarbeitung und neuronaler Aktivität‘, 1. Förderperiode 2006-09, 2. Förderperiode 2009-12

Promotion  27.11.2007  (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, NL), Promotor: Prof. Dr. W.J.M Levelt, Copromotor: Prof. Dr. R.H. Baayen, 'On the production of morphologically complex words with special attention to effects of frequency.'

2003-06      Promotionsstipendium (Max-Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, NL)

Studium      01.2003 Diplom in Psychologie (WWU)

1999-03      Studium Diplom-Psychologie (WWU) & Studentische Hilfskraft, Prof. Dr. Zwitserlood

1998-99      Fulbright Scholar Graduate Psychology & MBA (University of Kansas, USA) & Grad. Research Assistant,  Prof. Marion ’Brien, Human Development Family Life Inst.

Publikationen - Publications (peer-reviewed)

• Bien. H., Baayen, R.H., Levelt, W.J.M. (2011).  Frequency effects in the production of Dutch deverbal adjectives and inflected verbsLanguage and Cognitive Processes, 26: 4, 683-715, First published on: 02 November 2010 (iFirst)

• Hirschfeld, G., Bien, H., de Vries, M., Lüttmann, H., & Schwall, J. (2010). Open-source software to conduct online rating studies. Behavior Research Methods, 42 (2), 542-546. 

• Bien. H., Lagemann, L., Dobel, C., & Zwitserlood, P.(2009). Implicit and explicit categorization of speech sounds – dissociating behavioural and neurophysiological data. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 339-346.  

• Bien, H. (2007).  On the production of morphologically complex words with special attention to effects of frequency. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nijmegen (MPI Series in Psycholinguistics, 46), Ponsen & Looijen: Wageningen. The Netherlands. 

• Bien, H., Levelt, W.J.M., & Baayen, R.H. (2005). Frequency effects in compound production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(49), 17876-17881..

Konferenzbeiträge - Conference Presentations

Bien, H., Hanulikova, A., Weber, A., & Zwitserlood, P. Sinking about speech - Akustische Ähnlichkeit versus linguistische Erfahrung in Prälexikaler Sprachverarbeitung. 44. Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie (HexKop 2011). Center of Excellence - Cognitive Interaction Technology, Universität Bielefeld, Nov 2011. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Hanulikova, A., Weber, A., & Zwitserlood, P. Sinking about speech. Acoustic similarity versus linguistic experience in prelexical processing. 17th Meeting of the European Society of Cognitive Neuroscience. (ESCOP 2011). Donostia – San Sebastian, Spain, Sept/Oct 2011. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., & Zwitserlood, P. Producing hogwash using a dunky. Semantic priming effects in the production of transparent and opaque compounds. 7th International Morphological Processing Conference. (MOPROC 2011). Donostia – San Sebastian, Spain, June 22-25 2011. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., & Zwitserlood, P. Nützlich ist uns oft ein Feind: Er dient, wenn er zu schaden meint. Semantische Primes als Abrufhilfen. 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP 2011). MLU Halle-Wittenberg, March 2011. [Talk]

Bien, H., & Zwitserlood, P. The syllable as a relevant unit for speech perception in German – an ERP study. 16^th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2010), Barcelona, Spain, June 2010. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., & Zwitserlood, P. The syllable as a relevant unit for speech perception – an ERP study. 17^th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (CNS 2010), Montréal, Canada, April 2010. (‘volcano poster’) [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., & Zwitserlood, P. Die Silbe in der Sprachwahrnehmung – eine ERP Studie. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP 2010). Universität Saarbrücken, Germany, March 2010. [Talk]

Bien, H., Lagemann, L., Dobel, C., Zwitserlood, P. Neurophysiological and behavioural correlates of the categorization of assimilated nasals in speech perception – an intriguing dissociation. 15th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2009), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 18-22 2009. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Schmidt, A., Zwitserlood, P. Priming the production of intransparent compounds. 6th International Morphological Processing Conference. MOPROC 2009. Turku, Finland, June 14-17 2009. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Lagemann, L., Dobel, C., Zwitserlood, P. Early automatic categorization of speech sounds is not misled by changes in the surface form. 16th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2009), San Francisco, CA, USA, March 21-24 2009. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Lagemann, L., Dobel, C., & Zwitserlood, P. The categorization of assimilated nasals – behavioural and neurophysiological correlates. OCC symposium: Fusing brain states and mental domains, Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, September 2008. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Lagemann, L., Dobel, C. Zwitserlood, P. (2008). The categorization of assimilated nasals – behavioural and neurophysiological correlates. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.01.238 (ICON X, Bodrum, Turkey, September 2008) abstract [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Lagemann, L., & Zwitserlood, P. The phonological categorization of assimilated nasals. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PIF 2008). Ghent University, Belgium, June 2008. [Talk]

Bien, H., Zwitserlood, P., Dobel, C., & Elling, L. Die phonologische Kategorisierung assimilierter Laute. 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP 2008). Universität Marburg, March 2008. [Talk]

Bien, H., Baayen, R.H., Levelt, W.J.M. Frequency effects in the production of morphologically complex words. Fifth International Workshop on Morphological Processing. MOPROC 2007. Université de Provence, CNRS, Marseille, France, June 2007. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H. Häufigkeitseffekte in der Produktion morphologisch komplexer Wörter. 49. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP 2007). Universität Trier, Germany, March 2007. [Talk]

Bien, H. Frequency effects in compound production. CLS Colloquium Series in Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, April 2006. [Talk]

Bien, H., Baayen, R.H., Levelt, W.J.M. The role of frequency information in compound production. Proceedings of the XIVth meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2005). Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2005. [Talk]

Bien, H., Baayen, R.H., Levelt, W.J.M. Was uns Frequenzeffekte über komplexe Wörter verraten. 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP 2005). Universität Regensburg, April 2005. [Talk]

Bien, H., Baayen, R.H., Levelt, W.J.M. Frequency effects in the production of Dutch noun-noun compounds. 1^st International Workshop on Language Production. Marseille, France, September 2004. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Baayen, R. H., Levelt, W.J.M. The role of frequency information in compound production. The 10th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP 2004). Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS, Université d'Aix-en-Provence, France, September 2004. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Levelt, W.J.M., Baayen, R. H. The role of frequency information in compound production. Tutorials in Behavioral and Brain Sciences Summerschool (TuBBS 2004). Ehzerwold, The Netherlands, July 2004. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H., Levelt, W.J.M., Baayen, R. H. Morphem-Frequenz Effekte versus Wort-Frequenz Effekte: Benennungslatenzen in der Produktion niederländischer Komposita. 46. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP 2004). Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, April 2004. [Talk]

Bien, H., The role of frequency information in compound production. Tutorials in Behavioral and Brain Sciences Summerschool (TuBBS 2003). Grimma, July 2003. [Poster Presentation]

Bien, H.,  Assimilation in morphologisch komplexen Wörtern. 45. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP 2003). Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, March 2003. [Talk]