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22 April 2024
Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
The MPI is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Daniel Dennett (1942-2024), Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Dennett was...
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11 April 2024
Yuen Ren Chao Prize for Peter Hagoort
The MPI is proud to announce that Prof. dr. Peter Hagoort will receive the Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Sciences. The prize is initiated and hosted by the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong...
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09 April 2024
Chinmaya Mishra defends thesis on 17 April
On 17 April at 16:30 am, Chinmaya Mishra will defend his thesis "The Face Says It All: Investigating Gaze and Affective Behaviors of Social Robots" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event...
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04 April 2024
Variability in autism features is related to multiple genomic dimensions
Autism-related features have many different presentations. To what extent is this variability related to differences across the genome? In a genetic study, funded by the Simons Foundation and...
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03 April 2024
Katja Stärk defends thesis on 8 April
On 8 April at 10:30 am, Katja Stärk will defend her thesis "The company language keeps: How distributional cues influence statistical learning for language" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The...
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27 March 2024
IASCL inaugural Early Career Award for Rowena Garcia
The MPI congratulates Rowena Garcia for winning the IASCL inaugural Early Career Award (ECA) 2024. She will be recognized at the IASCL 2024 Congress in Prague, and will give the ECA Plenary talk:...
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25 March 2024
Music and Genomes: Beethoven’s Genes Put to the Test
To what extent are exceptional human achievements influenced by genetic factors? This question, dating back to the early days of human genetics, seems to be easier to address today as modern molecular...
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22 March 2024
Stephen C. Levinson: "The Dark Matter of Pragmatics"
Recently, the latest book by MPI director emeritus Stephen C. Levinson was published entitled "The Dark Matter of Pragmatics”. Stephen Levinson says: “Ever wondered what linguistic pragmatics is all...
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20 March 2024
Elly Koutamanis defends thesis 22 March
On 22 March 12.30 hrs, Elly Koutamanis will defend her thesis 'Spreading the Word: Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Bilingual Child’s Lexicon’ in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event will...
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06 March 2024
Brain responses to sentence structure differ for speaking and listening
How does the brain respond to sentence structure as we speak and listen? In a neuroimaging study published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and Radboud...
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