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Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsMar 16, 2010
PhD promotion Laura de Ruiter
How do German children and adults use intonation to structure their speech? Is there a difference in the patterns they use? Yes and no, Laura de Ruiter (Berlin, 1980) explains in her comprehensive dissertation studies. On March 5, she successfully defended her thesis in the Aula of the Radboud University Nijmegen.
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Mar 03, 2010
MPI involved in EU project CLARA
Since December 2009, the MPI for Psycholinguistics has been involved in the EU project CLARA – Common Language Resources and their Applications, which is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. The CLARA network offers an intensive research exchange programme between 16 participating institutions.
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Feb 08, 2010
Archiving workshop in India
From February 5 to February 8, there was a workshop on documentation and archiving in Guwahati, Assam (India). 22 participants were trained in the recording of audio and video, handling of audio and video files, and use of the LAT software. Jacquelijn Ringersma and Paul Trilsbeek of MPI's technical group were among the workshop trainers.
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Feb 05, 2010
Field work on four continents
Since November 2009, the MPI has a new research group on information structure, headed by Max Planck Fellow Robert Van Valin. The group consists of four enthusiastic researchers doing field work on four different continents - from Oceania to America, from West-Africa to Siberia. 'We can add a couple of dots on the institute's map of MPI field sites.'
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Jan 31, 2010
Motor actions can change our memories
Simple motor actions, like moving marbles upward or downward between two cardboard boxes, may not seem meaningful. But a study published online January 27, 2010 in Cognition shows that motor actions can partly determine people's emotional memories. Moving marbles upward caused participants to remember more positive life experiences, and moving them downward to remember more negative experiences, according to Daniel Casasanto (MPI Nijmegen) and Katinka Dijkstra (Erasmus University). ‘Meaningless’ motor actions can make people remember the good times or the bad.
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Jan 26, 2010
'Close to scientific paradise'
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is 30 years old this very month! During three turbulent decades, the MPI has set the research agenda for the whole world in the psychology of language. Time to look back - and forth - with the institute's founders: Pim Levelt and Wolfgang Klein. One statement might summarise the interview: 'This place comes close to scientific paradise…'
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Jan 25, 2010
Researchers identify universal emotions
Laughter is a universal language, according to a new study of MPI researcher Disa Sauter and others. The study suggests that basic emotions such as amusement, anger, fear and sadness are shared by all humans. It was funded by the Wellcome Trust, Economic and Social Research Council, UCL (University College London), and the University of London Central Research fund. The article has appeared in the Early Edition of this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Jan 12, 2010
MPI opens virtual reality lab
From now on, researchers at the MPI for Psycholinguistics can study language in more complex settings, that is, in a virtual reality world. On January 11, 2010, the institute gathered for the official opening of the first virtual reality lab in the world of psycholinguistics. MPI's Technical Group, especially Gerd Klaas and Albert Russel, spent over a year developing the groundbreaking experimental facility that has cost almost half a million euros.
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