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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06 March 2024
Brain responses to sentence structure differ for speaking and listening
How does the brain respond to sentence structure as we speak...
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04 March 2024
MPI researchers at the InScience film festival
Next week several of our researchers will feature at the...
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19 February 2024
Early vocabulary size is genetically linked to ADHD, literacy, and cognition
Are genetic factors underlying children’s language...
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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
- 19 Mar - 19 Mar
MPI Colloquium Prof. Aniruddh D. Patel
Max Planck InstituteColloquiumProf. Aniruddh D. Patel is a Professor of...
- 22 Mar - 22 Mar
IMPRS DOCTORAL DEFENCE: Elly Koutamanis
Radboud University NijmegenDefenceSpreading the Word: Cross-Linguistic...
Vacancies
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Research Coordinator
Research CoordinatorCorporatefull-timeThe Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is looking for a Research Coordinator position to support the Managing Director in...
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Multimodal language and diversity outreach assistant
Research AssistantMultimodal Language Departmentfull-timeThe Multimodal Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands is offering a Multimodal...
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