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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

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  • MEDAL Summer School
    13 June 2025

    The MEDAL Summer School: Cutting-edge Methods in Computational Modelling for Young Linguists

    The time is coming close for the last summer school of the...

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  • 03 June 2025

    Stephen Levinson reveals the hidden engine of human communication

    Why do we talk so much? Why do we find babies cute? How do...

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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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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

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