Willem Levelt is director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, which he founded in 1980. His books include On binocular rivalry (1965, 1968), Formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics (1974, 2008), Speaking: From intention to articulation (1989) and A history of psycholinguistics – The pre-Chomskyan era (2013, 2014). He is a former president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of various academies, among them the National Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Maastricht, Antwerp, Padua and Louvain and is a member of the German Orden pour le mérite.