I am Enikő Ladányi, a linguist and cognitive scientist at the University of Potsdam, where I work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Linguistics. My research focuses on typical and atypical language development, with a particular interest in the roles of executive functions and musical rhythm processing. From 2022 to 2024, my research was supported by a postdoctoral grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and since then by the Postdoc Network Brandenburg. Since 2026, I have also been a principal investigator in project B01 of the Collaborative Research Center Limits of Variability in Language.

I completed my PhD at the Department of Cognitive Science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics under the supervision of Ágnes Lukács, studying the relationship between cognitive control and language development in children with typical development and those with Developmental Language Disorder. In 2015, I joined the Marie Curie ITN project PredictAble, which aimed to find early markers of later language problems, at the Paris Descartes University. Between 2019 and 2022, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Music Cognition Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where I studied the relationship between musical rhythm and language abilities in infants and children.