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  • Egzi thesis cover
    09 May 2024

    Ezgi Mamus defends thesis 13 May

    On 13 May April at 14:30 am, Ezgi Mamus will defend her thesis "Perceptual experience shapes how blind and sighted people express concepts in multimodal language" in the Aula of the Radboud University...

  • Daniel Dennett
    22 April 2024

    Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

    The MPI is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Daniel Dennett (1942-2024), Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Dennett was...

  • Peter Hagoort
    11 April 2024

    Yuen Ren Chao Prize for Peter Hagoort

    The MPI is proud to announce that Prof. dr. Peter Hagoort will receive the Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Sciences. The prize is initiated and hosted by the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong...

  • Chinmaya thesis cover
    09 April 2024

    Chinmaya Mishra defends thesis on 17 April

    On 17 April at 16:30 am, Chinmaya Mishra will defend his thesis "The Face Says It All: Investigating Gaze and Affective Behaviors of Social Robots" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event...

  • Variability in autism features is related to multiple genomic dimensions
    04 April 2024

    Variability in autism features is related to multiple genomic dimensions

    Autism-related features have many different presentations. To what extent is this variability related to differences across the genome? In a genetic study, funded by the Simons Foundation and...

  • Katja Stärk thesis cover
    03 April 2024

    Katja Stärk defends thesis on 8 April

    On 8 April at 10:30 am, Katja Stärk will defend her thesis "The company language keeps: How distributional cues influence statistical learning for language" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The...

  • Rowena Garcia
    27 March 2024

    IASCL inaugural Early Career Award for Rowena Garcia

    The MPI congratulates Rowena Garcia for winning the IASCL inaugural Early Career Award (ECA) 2024. She will be recognized at the IASCL 2024 Congress in Prague, and will give the ECA Plenary talk:...

  • Music and Genomes: Beethoven’s Genes Put to the Test
    25 March 2024

    Music and Genomes: Beethoven’s Genes Put to the Test

    To what extent are exceptional human achievements influenced by genetic factors? This question, dating back to the early days of human genetics, seems to be easier to address today as modern molecular...

  • Stephen C. Levinson: The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
    22 March 2024

    Stephen C. Levinson: "The Dark Matter of Pragmatics"

    Recently, the latest book by MPI director emeritus Stephen C. Levinson was published entitled "The Dark Matter of Pragmatics”. Stephen Levinson says: “Ever wondered what linguistic pragmatics is all...

  • Elly Thesis Cover
    20 March 2024

    Elly Koutamanis defends thesis 22 March

    On 22 March 12.30 hrs, Elly Koutamanis will defend her thesis 'Spreading the Word: Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Bilingual Child’s Lexicon’ in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event will...

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