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07 October 2019Why the language-ready brain is so complex
In a review article published in Science, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University and director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, argues for a new...
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01 October 2019
Neuroimaging reveals hidden communication between brain layers during reading
Language involves many different regions of the brain. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute at Radboud University discovered previously hidden...
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04 July 2019Nijmegen Campus unravels the thirty-something brain
This summer, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University, and the Radboud university medical center will unravel the thirty-something brain. The aim of the Healthy Brain Study...
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23 April 2019Peter Hagoort to be inducted as a new member of the American National Academy of Sciences
April 27 the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will induct Peter Hagoort in Washington DC as a foreign associate. Hagoort is director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
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03 April 2019Brain data of language processing available to everyone
Brain researchers have provided access to a collection of brain data of more than 200 test subjects, who were processing language during measurements. The high-quality data set has been collected and...
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13 January 2019The Economic Board reikt Parel uit aan onderzoeksprogramma Food and Cognition
Food and Cognition is een programma van de Radboud Universiteit, Radboudumc, Wageningen University & Research, Donders Instituut en het Max Planck Instituut en valt onder het overkoepelende Healthy...
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28 November 2018Researchers reveal link between job titles and gender equality
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) have revealed a link between role-nouns (e.g. job titles) in gendered languages and gender equality. The study, which examined...
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29 November 2017European Research Council Grant for Judith Holler
Judith Holler from Radboud University’s Donders Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics received the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The...
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23 October 2017Neurobiology of Language - Audiovisual Recalibration of Vowel Categories
Speech perception is a complex task. It involves making sense of an acoustic signal that is distorted by background noise (traffic noise when talking on the street, other people’s conversations in a...
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25 September 2017Neurobiology of Language - Relating genetic variation to brain volume
How does the gene CNTNAP2 relate to structural variations in the brain? In our new publication, in press in Brain and Language, we looked at the association between a CNTNAP2 variant and grey matter...
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