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Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsMay 04, 2012
Since 1978, the Max Planck Society has honoured up to 30 young scientists and researchers each year for outstanding scientific achievements. This year, Matthias Sjerps of MPI's Individual Differences group received this prestigious award for his 2011 dissertation about the way listeners manage to deal with variation in speech. The official ceremony will be on June 13 in Düsseldorf.
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May 04, 2012
How do older adults adapt to speech with an unfamiliar accent? Can we identify which listener characteristics predict how quickly older adults improve on an accent they have never heard before? Yes we can, Esther Janse (MPI) and Patti Adank (University of Manchester) conclude in a study that was published online on April 25 in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Adults with better vocabulary knowledge and attentional abilities performed best.
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Apr 26, 2012
The 2011 Nijmegen Lectures were given by Nicholas Evans (Australian National University), on the topic of Coevolutionary Linguistics: Diversity, Culture, Mind and History. Videos of his lectures are now available to view on the MPI website.
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Apr 16, 2012
In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, world-leading experts at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour and the MPI for Psycholinguistics (Peter Hagoort and Martine Hoogman), together with more than 200 international colleagues of the ENIGMA and CHARGE consortia, pooled and analysed brain imaging results from about 21,000 people. "This large-scale study is really unique," says Professor Barbara Franke of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, one of the senior authors. Nature Genetics published the series of papers online on April 15.
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Apr 13, 2012
A recent study by MPI researchers offers some news for parents: even toddlers have a tendency to follow the crowd. That sensitivity isn’t unique to humans either; chimpanzees also appear more likely to pick up habits if "everyone else is doing it."
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Apr 04, 2012
Peter Hagoort, director of the MPI for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging), is the recipient of this year’s Academy Professor Prize, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The prize is worth one million euro in research funds and is intended as a lifetime achievement award for researchers who have demonstrated that they are absolute leaders in their field of expertise. The award ceremony will take place on June 21, 2012.
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Apr 03, 2012
On April 10, Willem Levelt, director emeritus of the MPI for Psycholinguistics, will receive the 'Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern' (Order of Merit) of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Order of Merit is awarded to individuals for their political, economic, social or intellectual achievements.
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Mar 28, 2012
Formal literacy seems to be related to anticipatory language-mediated eye movements, MPI researcher Falk Huettig and his Indian colleagues at the University of Allahabad have recently discovered. Their paper 'Spoken language-mediated anticipatory eye-movements are modulated by reading ability - Evidence from Indian low and high literates' was published on March 14 in the Journal of Eye Movement Research.
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