Main Content

Editorship

• Hintz, F. & Funk, J. (Eds.). (2025) Origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge [Special issue]. Brain Research.
• Hintz, F. & Meyer, A.S. (Eds.). (2024). Individual differences in language skills [Special issue]. Journal of Cognition, 7(1).

Papers

Submitted

• Funk, J. & Hintz, F. (submitted). Stimulus timing during word form learning modulates later processing dynamics: Evidence from pupillometry. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Ozker, M., Takashima, A., Giglio, L., Hintz, F., Meyer, A.S., Hagoort, P. (submitted). The scaffolding of individual variability in language processing by domain-general neural networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Preprint]
• Hintz, F., Emmendorfer, A.K., Strauß, A., Khoe, Y.H., & Holler, J. (Stage 2 Registered Report revised & resubmitted). Language prediction in multimodal contexts: The contribution of iconic gestures to anticipatory sentence comprehension. Cortex.
• Bethke, S., Meyer, A.S., & Hintz, F. (in revision). Psychometric Analyses of the German Individual Differences in Language Skills (IDLaS-DE) Test Battery. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
• Hintz, F., James, A.N., Nieber, L., Schultheiss, O.C. (revised & resubmitted). Domain-general skills predict individual differences in linguistic knowledge and spontaneous language use. Acta Psychologica. [Preprint]

2026

• Hoffmeister, T., Hintz, F., Scharinger, M. (in press). Rich Representations as the Missing Link Between Multimodality and Signal Honesty [Commentary on Hex et al.]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• Funk, J. & Hintz, F. (in press). Auditory short-term memory affects earlier but not later learning phases: An individual differences study on predictors of word form acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.
• Funk, J., Huettig, F., & Hintz, F. (2026). The role of presentational timing in acquiring novel written and spoken word forms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 155(5):1121-1150.
• Hintz, F. & Momenian, M. (2026). Linguistic experience and processing speed differentially affect lexical retrieval and structural assembly during language production. Memory & Cognition. Advance online publication.
• Conde, J., Martínez, G., Grandury, M., Arriaga, C., Haro, J., Schroeder, S., Hintz, F., Reviriego, P., & Brysbaert, M. (2026). Updating the German psycholinguistic word toolbox with AI-generated estimates of familiarity, concreteness, valence, arousal, and age of acquisition. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 9, pp. 1–25.

2025

• Bethke, S., Monen, J., Rinsma, T., Trilsbeek, P., Meyer, A. S., & Hintz, F. (2025). IDLaS-DE – A Web-Based Platform for Running Customized Studies on Individual Differences in German Language Skills. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 54, pp. 1–13.
• Monen, J., Shkaravska, O., Withers, P., Weustiniak, J., van den Heuvel, M., Trilsbeek, P., Dirksmeyer, R., Meyer, A.S. & Hintz, F. (2025). Timing precision for online studies using the Individual Differences in Language Skills (IDLaS-NL) test battery. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 19:1625756.
• Hintz, F. & Funk, J. (2025). Editorial: Origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge. Brain Research, 1864: 149894.
• Hintz, F., Dijkhuis, M., Van 't Hoff, V., Huijsmans, M., Kievit, R. A., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2025). Evaluating the factor structure of the Dutch Individual Differences in Language Skills (IDLaS-NL) test battery. Brain Research, 1852: 149502.
• Bethke, S., Meyer, A.S., & Hintz, F. (2025). The German Auditory & Image Vocabulary test (GAudI): A new German receptive vocabulary test and its relationship to other tests of linguistic experience. PLoS One 20(4): e0318115.e.
• McConnell, K., Hintz, F., & Meyer, A.S. (2025). Individual differences in online research: Comparing lab-based and online administration of a psycholinguistic battery of linguistic and domain-general skills. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 22.

2024

• Hintz, F., Voeten, C.C., Dobó, D., Lukics, K.S. & Lukács, A. (2024). The role of general cognitive skills in integrating visual and linguistic information during sentence comprehension: Individual differences across the lifespan. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17797.
• Funk, F., Hessler Carbonell, L.T., Al-Rubaye-Jung, D., Morgenstern, M., Schmied, E. Tzallas, J., & Hintz, F. (2024). Cross-modal priming of written words across different timing conditions. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).
• Hintz, F., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2024). Using Psychometric Network Analysis to Examine the Components of Spoken Word Recognition. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 10, 1–22.
• Hintz, F., Shkaravska, O., Dijkhuis, M., van ‘t Hoff, V., Huijsmans, M., van Dongen, R.C.A., Voeteé, L.A.B., Trilsbeek, P., McQueen, J.M., & Meyer, A.S. (2024). IDLaS-NL–A platform for running customized studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the internet. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2422-2436.

2023

• Huettig, F., Voeten, C.C., Pascual, E., Liang, J., & Hintz, F. (2023). Do autistic children differ in language-mediated prediction?. Cognition, 239: 105571.
• Hintz, F., Khoe, Y. H., Strauß, A., Psomakas, A. J. A., & Holler, J. (2023). Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 23, 340-353.
• Hintz, F., Voeten, C., & Scharenborg, O. (2023). Recognizing non‑native spoken words in background noise increases interference from the native language. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 1549–1563.

2022

• Liu, Y., Hintz, F., Liang, J., & Huettig, F. (2022). Prediction in challenging situations: Most bilinguals can predict upcoming semantically-related words in their L1 source language when interpreting. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25(5), 801-815.
• Strauß, A., Wu, T., McQueen, J. M., Scharenborg, O., & Hintz, F. (2022). The differential roles of lexical and sublexical processing during spoken-word recognition in clear and in noise. Cortex, 151, 70-88.
• Karaminis, T., Hintz, F., Scharenborg, O. (2022). The Presence of Background Noise Extends the Competitor Space in Native and Non-Native Spoken-Word Recognition: Insights from Computational Modeling. Cognitive Science, 46(2): e13110.
•  Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2022). Quantifying the relationships between linguistic experience, general cognitive skills and linguistic processing skills. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022) (pp. 2491-2496). Toronto, Canada: Cognitive Science Society.

2021

• Healthy Brain Study Consortium, Aarts, E., Akkerman, A., Altgassen, M., Bartels, R., Beckers, D., Bevelander, K., Bijleveld, E., Blaney Davidson, E., Boleij, A., Bralten, J., Cillessen, T., Claassen, J., Cools, R., Cornelissen, I., Dresler, M., Eijsvogels, T., Faber, M., Fernández, G., Figner, B., Fritsche, M., Füllbrunn, S., Gayet, S., Van Gelder, M. M. H. J., Van Gerven, M., Geurts, S., Greven, C. U., Groefsema, M., Haak, K., Hagoort, P., Hartman, Y., Van der Heijden, B., Hermans, E., Heuvelmans, V., Hintz, F., Den Hollander, J., Hulsman, A. M., Idesis, S., Jaeger, M., Janse, E., Janzing, J., Kessels, R. P. C., Karremans, J. C., De Kleijn, W., Klein, M., Klumpers, F., Kohn, N., Korzilius, H., Krahmer, B., De Lange, F., Van Leeuwen, J., Liu, H., Luijten, M., Manders, P., Manevska, K., Marques, J. P., Matthews, J., McQueen, J. M., Medendorp, P., Melis, R., Meyer, A. S., Oosterman, J., Overbeek, L., Peelen, M., Popma, J., Postma, G., Roelofs, K., Van Rossenberg, Y. G. T., Schaap, G., Scheepers, P., Selen, L., Starren, M., Swinkels, D. W., Tendolkar, I., Thijssen, D., Timmerman, H., Tutunji, R., Tuladhar, A., Veling, H., Verhagen, M., Verkroost, J., Vink, J., Vriezekolk, V., Vrijsen, J., Vyrastekova, J., Van der Wal, S., Willems, R. M., & Willemsen, A. (2021). Protocol of the Healthy Brain Study: An accessible resource for understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context. PLoS One, 16(12): e0260952.
• Tilmatine, M., Hubers, F., & Hintz, F. (2021). Exploring Individual Differences in Recognizing Idiomatic Expressions in Context. Journal of Cognition, 4(1): 37, pp. 1–12.
• Kapteijns, B., & Hintz, F. (2021). Comparing predictors of sentence self-paced reading times: Syntactic complexity versus transitional probability metrics. PLoS One, 16(7): e0254546.
• Wolf, M. C., Meyer, A. S., Rowland, C. F., & Hintz, F. (2021). The Effects of Input Modality, Word Difficulty and Reading Experience on Word Recognition Accuracy. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1).
•  Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., McQueen, J. M., & Scharenborg, O. (2021). The effects of onset and offset masking on the time course of non-native spoken-word recognition in noise. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021) (pp. 133-139). Vienna: Cognitive Science Society.
•  Jongman, S.R., Khoe, Y.H., Hintz, F. (2021). Vocabulary size influences spontaneous speech in native language users: Validating the use of automatic speech recognition in individual differences research. Language and Speech, 64(1), 35-51.

2020

• Hintz, F., Dijkhuis, M., van ‘t Hoff, V., McQueen, J.M., & Meyer, A.S. (2020). A behavioural dataset for studying individual differences in language skills. Scientific Data 7, 429.
• Hintz, F., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2020). Visual context constrains language-mediated anticipatory eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(3), 458-467.
• Hintz, F., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2020). Activating words beyond the unfolding sentence: Contributions of event simulation and word associations to discourse reading. Neuropsychologia, 141: 107409.
• Brysbaert, M., Sui, L., Dirix, N., & Hintz, F. (2020). Dutch Author Recognition Test. Journal of Cognition, 3(1): 6.
• Hintz, F., Jongman, S.R., Dijkhuis, M., van t’ Hoff, McQueen, J.M., Meyer, A.S. (2020). Shared lexical access processes in speaking and listening? An individual differences study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(6), 1048-1063. equal contributions by first and second author

2019 & earlier

• Mantegna, F., Hintz, F., Ostarek, M., Alday, P. M., & Huettig, F. (2019). Distinguishing integration and prediction accounts of ERP N400 modulations in language processing through experimental design. Neuropsychologia, 134: 107199.
• Hintz, F., Meyer, A.S., & Huettig, F. (2017). Predictors of verb-mediated anticipatory eye movements in the visual world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(9), 1352-1374.
• Hintz, F. & Scharenborg, O. (2016). The effect of background noise on the activation of phonological and semantic information during spoken word recognition. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2016: The 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 2816-2820).
• Hintz, F. & Scharenborg, O. (2016). Neighborhood density influences word recognition in native and non-native speech recognition in noise. In Proceedings of the Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (SPIRE) workshop (pp. 46-47).
• Hintz, F., Meyer, A.S., & Huettig, F. (2016). Encouraging prediction during production facilitates subsequent comprehension: Evidence from interleaved object naming in sentence context and sentence reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(6), 1056-1063.
• Hintz, F. & Meyer, A.S. (2015). Prediction and production of simple mathematical equations: Evidence from anticipatory eye movements. PLoS One 10(7): e0130766.
• Hintz, F. & Huettig, F. (2015). The complexity of the visual environment modulates language-mediated eye gaze. In Mishra, R. K., Srinivasan, N., & Huettig, F. (Eds.), Attention and Vision in Language Processing (pp.39-56). New Delhi: Springer.
• Roswandowitz, C., Mathias, S.R., Hintz, F., Kreitewolf, J., Schelinkski, S., & von Kriegstein, K. (2014). Two cases of selective voice-recognition impairments. Current Biology, 24(19), 2348-2353.
•  Díaz, B., Hintz, F., Kiebel, S.J., & von Kriegstein, K. (2012). Dysfunction of the medial geniculate body during speech perception in developmental dyslexia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(34), 13841-13846.