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The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute of the German Max Planck Society. Our mission is to undertake basic research into the psychological,social and biological foundations of language. The goal is to understand how our minds and brains process language, how language interacts with other aspects of mind, and how we can learn languages of quite different types.

The institute is situated on the campus of the Radboud University. We participate in the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, and have particularly close ties to that institute's Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. We also participate in the Centre for Language Studies. A joint graduate school, the IMPRS in Language Sciences, links the Donders Institute, the CLS and the MPI.

 
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Jul 29, 2010
Good and bad in the hands of politicians
Good and bad in the hands of politicians
Politicians’ gestures can reveal their thoughts, according to a new study published July 28, 2010, in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. "In laboratory tests, right- and left-handers associate positive ideas like honesty and intelligence with their dominant side of space and negative ideas with their non-dominant side," says Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. To find out whether people link ‘good’ with ‘dominant’ beyond the laboratory, Casasanto and co-author Kyle Jasmin examined spontaneous gestures during positive and negative speech in the final debates of the most recent US presidential elections. more >
Jul 29, 2010
The baby lab celebrates its tenth anniversary
The baby lab celebrates its tenth anniversary
The Baby Research Center (BRC), owned jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Radboud University, celebrated its tenth anniversary with an afternoon of games and activities for children and information for parents. The festivities took place on Sunday 11 July from 2- 5pm on the grounds of the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen. more >
Jul 22, 2010
CLARA summerschool from July 5 to July 16
CLARA summerschool from July 5 to July 16
From July 5th to July 16th the first CLARA Summer School on Advanced Resource Creation, Archiving and Usage took place at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. 21 participants from 15 countries participated in this Summer School to learn about methods of state-of-the-art data management in research from the process of data creation until data archiving. more >
Jun 30, 2010
PhD Defence Laura Menenti on July 2
PhD Defence Laura Menenti on July 2
Laura Menenti, PhD student at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and the MPI for Psycholinguistics, studied the role that regions in the right hemisphere play in language processing. She explored reading, listening, and speaking, using functional MRI to measure brain responses. On July 2, 2010, she will defend her thesis, called 'The Right Language', in the Aula of the Radboud University Nijmegen. more >
Jun 28, 2010
Launch of fieldmanuals.mpi.nl
Launch of fieldmanuals.mpi.nl
A newly launched website provides access to many of the field manuals produced over the years by the Language and Cognition Group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics. The site contains a bonanza of material for the field elicitation of semantics and the field collection of verbal behaviour. 'These are unique resources that have been compiled over nearly twenty years of investigation of under-studied languages', says MPI director Stephen C. Levinson. 'During this period, we collectively pioneered the field of semantic typology.' more >
Jun 17, 2010
PhD Defence Eva Reinisch on June 29
PhD Defence Eva Reinisch on June 29
How do listeners use and evaluate temporal information to recognise spoken words in their native language? That has been the central question in Eva Reinisch's PhD research at the MPI for Psycholinguistics. On June 29, 2010, she will defend her thesis in the Aula of the Radboud University Nijmegen, entitled: 'Processing the Fine Temporal Structure of Spoken Words'. more >
May 20, 2010
International workshop on languages of hunter-gatherers
International workshop on languages of hunter-gatherers
How does a way of life influence the way we think about our environment? Do hunter-gatherers categorise their physical and social world differently from other groups? To explore such questions and to promote collaborative research on endangered languages, the MPI for Psycholinguistics will co-organise an international workshop on hunter-gatherers and semantic categories. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and will take place in Neuwied, Germany, from May 30 to June 4. more >
Apr 16, 2010
New issue of Nijmegen CNS
New issue of Nijmegen CNS
Volume 5 of the Nijmegen CNS journal, composed by master students of Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS), will appear on April 23, 2010. The journal contains the latest studies in the interdisciplinary field of Cognitive Neuroscience conducted by research master students at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the MPI for Psycholinguistics, the Centre for Language Studies, and the Centre for Molecular Life Sciences. It covers topics related to brain, cognitive and behavioural research. more >

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