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05 October 2018Genes, Memes and Tremes. The Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lecture by psychologist Susan Blackmore
In an exciting event jointly sponsored by Radboud Reflects and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Susan Blackmore will visit Nijmegen on October 29th to talk about the evolution of...
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26 September 2018Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition
Melissa Bowerman presented these ten lectures in 2010. Her sudden death in 2011 prevented her from turning them into a book-size publication, as was her intention. Her close colleagues and dear...
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24 September 2018Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius
In this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored.
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18 September 2018Prof. dr. Antje Meyer inaugurated into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)
Prof. dr. Antje Meyer, director at the MPI for Psycholinguistics and professor of individual differences in language processing at Radboud University, has been inaugurated into the Royal Academy of...
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13 September 2018SFARI Pilot Award
Dr. Beate St Pourcain, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, has been granted a SFARI Pilot Award for her project ‘Disentangling autism heterogeneity through multivariate...
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07 September 2018What’s the use of “actually”, actually?
Everyday language use is packed with so-called discourse markers (of course, you know, well, I mean, actually, indeed), expressions that we use to comment on what we are saying. Geertje van Bergen and...
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07 September 2018Brainwaves synchronize to the speed of talking, influencing the way we hear words
Have you ever found yourself finishing someone else's sentences, even though you don't really know them that well? Fortunately, the ability to predict what someone is going to say next isn't the...
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03 September 2018Minister ECS opens InScience
The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science (ECS), Van Engelshoven, opens the fourth edition of InScience, International Science Film Festival Nijmegen. The five-day science film festival is...
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19 July 2018Daniel Dennett will deliver Nijmegen Lectures on October 15 and 16, 2018
We are happy to announce that world-renowned philosopher Professor Daniel C. Dennett has accepted to deliver the Nijmegen Lectures about Autonomy, Language, and Consciousness on October 15 and 16...
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04 July 2018Language in Paradise
On the 17th December 2017, Peter Hagoort - managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - held a public lecture on humans' unique ability for the use of language in Paradiso...
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