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  • Marnix Krop
    03 August 2022

    Marnix Krop (1948-2022)

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

  • Nijmegen Lectures
    26 July 2022

    Nijmegen Lectures 2022 now available online

    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...

  • Anne Cutler
    08 June 2022

    Obituary Anne Cutler

    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...

  • A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
    31 May 2022

    Unique Papuan language described for the first time

    Stephen Levinson, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, has just published after a quarter of a century’s work a grammar of Yélî Dnye, a language spoken on a...

  • Stanislas Dehaene
    13 May 2022

    Nijmegen Lectures 2022

    From 5 to 7 July, the Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures 2022. This year the lectures will be given by Stanislas Dehaene...

  • The role of variability: from playing tennis to learning language
    13 May 2022

    The role of variability: from playing tennis to learning language

    The effect of variability on learning is recognised in many fields: learning is harder when input is variable, but variability leads to better generalization of the knowledge we learned. In this...

  • Baby & Child Research Center  and KION joined hands
    01 April 2022

    Baby & Child Research Center and KION joined hands

    To connect science and practice, and to exchange knowledge and experience, the Baby & Child Research Center (BRC) and daycare organisation KION started a collaboration. The BRC is a partnership...

  • Stephen C. Levinson
    17 December 2021

    Huxley Memorial Medal 2020 for Stephen Levinson

    On Tuesday December 14 our director emeritus Stephen Levinson, recipient of the Huxley Memorial Medal 2020, delivered in the British Museum, the “Royal Anthropological Institute Huxley Memorial...

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    30 November 2021

    Nomination Director MPI

    Nominations and self-nominations sought for the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

  • Pieter Seuren
    08 November 2021

    Pieter Seuren 1934-2021

    We were deeply saddened to learn of Pieter Seuren’s passing away on November 6, 2021.

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