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15 July 2022Sentences have their own timing in the brain
Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS...
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27 June 2022Julia Misersky will defend her thesis on Wednesday 29 June
On Wednesday 29 June 2022, at 13.30 (CET), Julia Misersky will defend her thesis entitled ‘About Time: Exploring the Role of Grammatical Aspect in Event Cognition’. Due to the restrictions surrounding...
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08 June 2022Clyde Francks appointed professor of Brain Imaging Genomics
Clyde Francks, research group leader of the Imaging Genomics group at the Max Planck Institute, has been appointed Professor of Brain Imaging Genomics at Radboud university medical center. He studies...
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08 June 2022Obituary Anne Cutler
It is my sad duty to let you know that our director emeritus Anne Cutler passed away on 7 June, 2022. Please see below for an obituary by Pim Levelt. The institute will organise a memorial event for...
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07 June 2022Aurora Troncoso Ruiz will defend her thesis on Monday 13 June
On Monday 13 June 2022, at 10.30 (CET), Aurora Troncoso Ruiz will defend her thesis entitled ‘Non-native phonetic accommodation in interactions with humans and with computers’. Due to the restrictions...
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06 June 2022Chen Shen will defend her thesis on Wednesday 8 June
On Wednesday 8 June 2022, at 12.30 (CET), Chen Shen will defend her thesis entitled ‘Individual Differences in Speech Production and Maximum Speech Performance’. Due to the restrictions surrounding...
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31 May 2022Unique Papuan language described for the first time
Stephen Levinson, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, has just published after a quarter of a century’s work a grammar of Yélî Dnye, a language spoken on a...
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13 May 2022Nijmegen Lectures 2022
From 5 to 7 July, the Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures 2022. This year the lectures will be given by Stanislas Dehaene...
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13 May 2022Animal Bioacoustics and Human Speech Symposium
The Research Group Comparative Bioacoustics invites you to the Animal Bioacoustics and Human Speech symposium on 8 June. Four keynote speakers Dr. Livio Favaro, Dr. Olga Feher, Dr. Marco Gamba, and Dr...
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13 May 2022The role of variability: from playing tennis to learning language
The effect of variability on learning is recognised in many fields: learning is harder when input is variable, but variability leads to better generalization of the knowledge we learned. In this...
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