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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…

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…

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…

Getting ahead: Prediction as a window into language, and language as a window into the predictive brain

Dr Dean D'Souza, Lecturer in Developmental Psychology (Research and Education) at City, University of London will give a colloquium, title: Identifying constraints on early language and cognitive…

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…

Discovering the units in language cognition: From empirical evidence to a computational model

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…

Neural representation of speech segmentation and syntactic structure discrimination

On 5, 6 and 7 July 2022, the Nijmegen Lectures were given by Stanislas Dehaene, Director of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit near Paris and Professor of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at…

We are saddened to learn that Marnix Krop suddenly passed away on Thursday July 28.

In her new department at the MPI for Psycholinguistics Asli Ozyurek will explore the human ability to use language not only through speech or text but also through the visible body.

Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone – it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening to a book, reading or conducting a conversation. Contrary to…

What is the biological basis of our uniquely human capacity to speak, read and write? A genome-wide analysis of five reading- and language-based skills in many thousands of people, published in PNAS,…

Professor Caroline Rowland, appointed as professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences, will assume her office in an academic session on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 4.00 p.m. in the Aula of Radboud…