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About MPI

 

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.

 

The MPI EEG lab

Our on-site EEG lab was built in 2008. Here are its major features:

  • Four combinable 32-channel BrainAmps DC amplifiers, ActiCap active electrode systems with EasyCap-manufactured 36-, 64- and 128-electrode montages, an additional biosignal amplifier (BP ExG), and Brain Vision Recorder software.
  • Fully shielded soundproof experiment room with climate-control, adjustable color-mixture lighting system, and high-quality video-monitoring and -recording of the participant.
  • Brain Vision Analyzer for standard ERP analysis, FieldTrip for more advanced analyses (e.g., time-frequency, coherence, and statistical cluster randomization tests)
  • Stimuli presented with Presentation (or Nesu) coupled to high-quality audio and video display equipment.

 
MPI EEG-lab overviewAn overview picture of the lab, seen from the control room, with a participant sitting in the experiment room.

For more pictures and a (participant-oriented) description of the standard lab procedure, look here.

 

 

 
Lab manager: Marcel Bastiaansen

 

Lab development team:
  • Gerd Klaas (technical infrastructure)
  • Jacquelijn Ringersma (technical infrastructure)
  • Erik van den Boogert (technical infrastructure, DI-CCN)
  • Johan Weustink (technical infrastructure)
  • Jos van Berkum (user input during development)
  • Petra van Alphen, Dieuwke de Goede, Emma Mulder (styling)

 

EEG-lab opening

 

 

The official opening of the EEG lab, by Neurobiology of Language Group

director Peter Hagoort, December 19, 2008.

Last checked 2009-10-01 by Jos van Berkum

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