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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

News
  • Limor Raviv
    27 October 2024

    NWO Vidi Grant for Limor Raviv

    Limor Raviv has been awarded a Vidi Grant from the...

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  • 18 October 2024

    Interview with Peter Hagoort: 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'

    With his grand valedictory speech on 27 September, Peter...

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  • 09 October 2024

    Wanted: Children to Participate in the Great Letterprins Study

    We often hear it: “Dutch children are reading worse and...

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Link to MPI TalkLIng website

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

Events

Vacancies

Jobs paragraph
  • MACHINE LEARNING STUDENT ASSISTANT

    Student Assistant
    Multimodal Language Department
    part-time

    Join Our Cutting-Edge Research Team as a Student Assistant in the Multimodal Language Department! We are offering a part-time...

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  • IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2025

    PhD
    IMPRS Fellowships Language and Genetics Multimodal Language Department
    full-time part-time

    The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is offering two fully-funded PhD Fellowship for four...

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