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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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fMRI study in twins: genes influence brain activation

Genes may contribute to individual differences in cognitive functions. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) twin study, published in Science, Jan Willem Koten, Jr., Guilherme Wood, Peter Hagoort, Rainer Goebel, Peter Propping, Klaus Willmes and Dorret I. Boomsma found a significant genetic influence on brain activation in neural networks supporting digit working memory tasks.

fMRI study in twins: genes influence brain activation

Figure 2 in the article

Genetic Contribution to Variation in Cognitive Function: An fMRI Study in Twins

(Science 27, March 2009)

 

Last checked 2009-06-02 by myrna tinbergen

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