
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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12 February 2025
Giulio Severijnen defends thesis 14 February
On 14 February at 10:30 am, Giulio Severijnen will defend...
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11 February 2025
Podcast by Peter Hagoort on human language ability
Human language ability is unique, and we are gaining an...
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21 January 2025
Building sentence structure may be language-specific
Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure...
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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
- 28 Feb - 28 Feb
IMPRS DOCTORAL DEFENCE: Natascha Roos
Radboud University NijmegenDefenceNaming a Picture in Context: Paving the way...
- 20 Mar - 20 Mar
Soft skills: Behind the journal
Max Planck Institute & onlineWorkshopBehind the scenes of an academic journal &...
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