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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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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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 Nov - 19 Nov
MPI Colloquium Prof. Dr. Kathy Rastle
Max Planck InstituteColloquiumRoyal Holloway, University of London
- 20 Nov - 20 Nov
Soft skills: Behind the journal
Max Planck Institute & onlineWorkshopBehind the scenes of an academic journal &...
Vacancies
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IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2025
PhDIMPRS Fellowships Language and Genetics Multimodal Language Departmentfull-time part-timeThe International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is offering two fully-funded PhD Fellowship for four...
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Research Internship: Exploring the relationship between genetics and languages
InternshipLanguage and GeneticsDoes our DNA influence our ability to learn a new language? If this question intrigues you, and you are interested in genetics and...
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