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06 December 2024Letterprins bestrijdt ‘Brain Rot’
Oxford University en meer dan 37.000 stemmers hebben ‘brain rot’ tot het Woord van het Jaar 2024 uitgeroepen. ‘Breinrot’ verwijst naar zorgen over de invloed van het te veel bekijken van inhoud van...
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03 December 2024ERC Consolidator Grant for Andrea E. Martin
Andrea E. Martin has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The grant is given to researchers with an excellent proposal to create or strengthen an independent...
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27 October 2024NWO Vidi Grant for Limor Raviv
Limor Raviv has been awarded a Vidi Grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The Vidi Grant is for researchers who have carried out several years of postdoctoral research...
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18 October 2024Interview with Peter Hagoort: 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'
With his grand valedictory speech on 27 September, Peter Hagoort stepped down as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University. However, he is far from retiring with many lectures...
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09 October 2024Wanted: Children to Participate in the Great Letterprins Study
We often hear it: “Dutch children are reading worse and worse.” This is a big problem because illiteracy makes daily life both now and in the future very difficult. Our Institute wants children to...
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15 September 2024Profielwerkstuk Masterclass over taalonderzoek bij kinderen
Ben je geïnteresseerd in hoe baby's en jonge kinderen taal leren? Wil je meer weten over de ont-wikkeling van ander communicatief gedrag, zoals wijzen of beurtwisselingen? Of ben je benieuwd naar hoe...
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29 August 2024Sophie Slaats defends thesis 16 September
On 16 September at 10:30 am, Sophie Slaats will defend her thesis 'On the interplay between lexical probability and syntactic structure in language comprehension' in the Aula of the Radboud University...
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27 August 2024Melis Çetinçelik defends thesis 12 September
On 12 September at 12:30 am, Melis Çetinçelik will defend her thesis 'A Look into Language: The Role of Visual Cues in Early Language Acquisition in the Infant Brain' in the Aula of the Radboud...
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12 August 2024Obituary Manfred Bierwisch
Manfred Bierwisch, distinguished linguist and long-standing External Scientific Member of our MPI, has sadly passed away 31st July at the age of 94. Manfred was our first ‘auswaertiges Mitglied’...
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01 August 2024Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ act as attention tools across languages
Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ or ‘here’ and ‘there’ occur in all languages. In a study published in PNAS, researchers from Yale University and the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics (MPI) in...
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