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The Directorate of the MPI for Psycholinguistics stands in solidarity with victims of discrimination, and in opposition to all forms of racism, sexism, and social and health injustice.

On Tuesday 23rd of June 2020, at 15.30, Sara Iacozza will defend her thesis entitled "Exploring social biases in language processing".

The MPI is proud and happy to announce that former senior investigator - and now associate professor at Radboud University - Mark Dingemanse has been awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020…

Some animals fake their body size by sounding ‘bigger’ than they actually are. Maxime Garcia from the University of Zurich and Andrea Ravignani from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics…

Cross-linguistic influence during real-time sentence processing in bilingual children and adults

The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Andrea Ravignani has been awarded the Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award in Cognitive Science.

On Wednesday 7 July 2021, at 12.30, Merel Postema will defend her thesis entitled 'Left-right asymmetry of the human brain: associations with neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic factors'. Due to…

Neural encoding of syntactic structure

The MPI is proud to announce that Prof. dr. Peter Hagoort will receive the Distinguished Career Award from The Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

Foreign language learning in study-abroad and at-home contexts

With sadness, we announce the death of Lila Gleitman, Professor Emerita of the University of Pennsylvania. Lila was a frequent visitor and great supporter of our institute. She participated in the…

Some songbirds learn to sing by listening to other birds. Some other animals can learn to copy sounds. But what does that tell us about human speech? Sonja Vernes from the Max Planck Institute for…

On Friday 17 September 2021, at 10.30, Chantal van Dijk will defend her thesis entitled 'Cross-linguistic influence during real-time sentence processing in bilingual children and adults'. Due to the…

Dr. Michael A. Skeide is the leader of the Learning in Early Childhood research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Abstract neural representations of language during sentence comprehension : Evidence from MEG and Behaviour