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29 July 2026Falk Huettig featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung on the societal impact of reading
Following the release of his book 'The Perks of Being a Bookworm', Falk Huettig, Senior Investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, was featured in a major two page interview with...
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20 July 2026Cas Coopmans has been awarded an NWO Veni grant
Dr. Cas Coopmans has been awarded a Veni grant from NWO. He will use the grant to rejoin the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, having previously been a PhD student in Peter Hagoort’s...
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24 June 2026How delayed sound reveals the hidden system behind human speech
Have you ever been on a phone call where you suddenly hear your own voice echo back a split second later? It feels strange, confusing, and for many people it becomes impossible to keep speaking...
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23 June 2026New study finds: Forgetting may be the secret to better AI language learning
Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck...
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23 June 2026Paula Rubio-Fernández receives ERC Advanced Grant for research on common ground in multimodal communication
Paula Rubio-Fernández has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project COMMON_GROUND. The grant, one of the European Research Council's most prestigious and competitive forms of funding, will...
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23 June 2026Falk Huettig's new release: "The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading"
Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: the way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his...
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28 May 2026Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching
New study by Emanuela Campisi (University of Catania) and Anita Slominska and Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) reveals that Italian and Dutch adults adapt their hand gestures...
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13 May 2026Can ChatGPT really understand language?
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, questions about how AI systems process and generate language are attracting growing public attention. Can systems like ChatGPT...
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13 May 2026Whose turn is it? Toddlers already know the answer
Researchers at our Baby & Child Research Center (a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI), Radboud University and the Radboudumc) and the University of Chicago...
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08 April 2026Can we make speech visible in the brain?
Recent research shows that MRI technology can do more than tell us where brain activity happens: it’s helping us understand how we process and produce speech.
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