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On Friday, 17 March, 12:30 hrs, Marlou Rasenberg will defend her thesis 'Mutual understanding from a multimodal and interactional perspective’ in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event will…

Coordination of spoken language production and comprehension: How speech production is affected by irrelevant background speech

Abstract submission is now open for the 3rd Many Paths to Language workshop, which will take place at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen from 25th to 27th October, 2023. This will be a hybrid event…

Anne Cutler was director of the Comprehension Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics from 1993 until 2012. She died on 7 June 2022. In Anne’s honour, Radboud University and the Max…

Establishing intersubjectivity in cross-signing (International Sign interpretation provided)

Human culture and language may be the result of ‘self-domestication’: an evolutionary process that leads to less aggressive and more prosocial individuals. A research team led by the Max Planck…

Face-to-face communication is one of the fundamental capacities that make us human. But how does it work? Judith Holler from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University in…

What shapes the structure of languages? The Grambank database, initiated by the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology…

On Saturday 13 May 2023, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at the Wundtlaan in Nijmegen will open its doors to the public. Come and marvel at scientific research into the origins of…

Pim Levelt, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, today turns 85.

The Open Day of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen took place on Saturday 13 May 2023. More than 700 visitors came to the lectures and activities and viewed the scientific…

Need for Speed? The role of speed of processing in early lexical development

On Thursday 1 June, 10:30 hrs, Laura Giglio will defend her thesis 'Speaking in the Brain: How the brain produces and understands language’ in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event will also…