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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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Melissa Bowerman elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Melissa Bowerman, senior scientist emerita of MPI's Language Acquisition Department, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. There will be an induction ceremony for the 2011 Fellows at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 1, 2011.

Melissa Bowerman elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

April 26, 2011

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 by early American scholars and scientists like John Adams, James Bowdoin, and John Hancock. The Academy is one of America's most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. It conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems.

Top academics

Each year, the Academy elects a group of top academics, artists, philanthropists and business leaders as new Fellows. Melissa Bowerman is among the 196 Fellows chosen this year for distinguished contributions to their fields of study, the Academy announced on April 19. Currently, there are 4,000 American Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members.

MPI's first member

Melissa Bowerman is MPI-Nijmegen's first scientist to be elected to the Academy. 'But there are at least three (former) members of our Fachbeirat - Herb Clark, Dedre Gentner, and Dan Slobin', according to Bowerman. 'And I found that among the new members this year I am in good company, as Svante Pääbo, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, is a new Foreign Honorary Member.'

Among the 2011 fellows is also American psycholinguist Michael Tanenhaus, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics at the University of Rochester, as well as astronomer Paul Butler, who discovered more than 330 planets; jazz pianist Dave Brubeck; singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Bob Dylan; and actor Daniel Day-Lewis.

Website of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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