
THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is a world-leading research institute devoted to interdisciplinary studies of the science of language and communication, including departments on genetics, psychology, development, neurobiology and multimodality of these fundamental human abilities.
We investigate how children and adults acquire their language(s), how speaking and listening happen in real time, how the brain processes language, how the human genome contributes to building a language-ready brain, how multiple modalities (as in speech, gesture and sign) shape language and its use in diverse languages and how language is related to cognition and culture, and shaped by evolution.
We are part of the Max Planck Society, an independent non-governmental association of German-funded research institutes dedicated to fundamental research in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
On this website, you will find everything you need to know about our Institute, departments, research groups, researchers and their publications, as well as our upcoming and past news and events.
Latest News
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28 May 2025
Research shows facial expressions are central to how we communicate
In human communication, spoken words have traditionally...
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27 May 2025
New insights into rural sign Languages: The Balinese Homesign Corpus
A groundbreaking linguistic study is shedding new light on...
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20 May 2025
Inside the MPI Motion Capture Lab: advancing research on human language and communication
The new video of our Motion Capture Lab, offers a behind-the...
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MPI TalkLing is the official blog of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen on which our researchers talk about all aspects of language sciences. Click here to visit our blog |
Upcoming events
- 4 Jun - 4 Jun
- 23 Jun - 27 Jun
MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling
Max Planck InstituteConferenceThe final summer school has been announced...
Vacancies
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Two PhD positions: The representation and processing of spoken language in biological and artificial neural networks
PhDLanguage and Computation in Neural Systemsfull-timeTwo PhD Positions at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 4-year fully-funded PhD...
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