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Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsAug 30, 2010
Casasanto named McDonnell Scholar
On August 28, the James S. McDonnell Foundation announced the recipients of the 2010 McDonnell Scholar Awards. MPI researcher Daniel Casasanto received 600,000 USD to support his research on language and thought. Casasanto was one of twelve scientists worldwide selected for their potential to advance the understanding of the human brain and mind.
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Aug 27, 2010
Do languages shape the way we think?
On August 26, 2010, the online magazine of the New York Times has published an extensive story on how languages shape the way people think. It's covering much of the space research done by the Language and Cognition group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics.
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Jul 29, 2010
Good and bad in the hands of politicians
Politicians’ gestures can reveal their thoughts, according to a new study published on 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 MPI for Psycholinguistics.
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Jul 29, 2010
Baby Research Center celebrates 10th anniversary
The Baby Research Center (BRC), owned jointly by the MPI for Psycholinguistics and the Radboud University Nijmegen, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with an afternoon of games and activities for children and information for parents. The festivities took place on Sunday, July 11, at the MPI.
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Jul 22, 2010
CLARA Summer School in July
From July 5th to July 16th the first CLARA Summer School on Advanced Resource Creation, Archiving and Usage took place at the MPI for Psycholinguistics. 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.
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Jun 30, 2010
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.
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Jun 28, 2010
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.'
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Jun 17, 2010
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'.
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