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02 May 2018Peter Hagoort elected to National Academy of Sciences
The prestigious US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected Peter Hagoort, managing director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud...
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30 April 2018
Celebrating our successful junior researchers
At the MPI, we strive to guide and train the next generation of academics. This week, four young researchers are placed in the spotlight after winning awards at an international level. Their awarded...
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23 April 2018Culture shapes the brain - How reading changes the way we think
From a research perspective, reading and writing is a fascinating phenomenon. After all, the first writing systems date back less than 6,000 years – the blink of an eye in the timescale of human...
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19 April 2018Antje Meyer elected to the Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)
Antje Meyer, director at the MPI for Psycholinguistics and professor of individual differences in language processing at Radboud University, was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)...
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13 April 201813.8 million for innovative user-friendly tools to search digital sources
On behalf of NWO, the Dutch Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven has awarded 13.8 million euro to a humanities consortium including the MPI - for the development of CLARIAH PLUS, a national digital...
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10 April 2018Large-scale replication study challenges key evidence for the pro-active reading brain
When people read or listen to a conversation, their pro-active brains sometimes predict which word comes next. But a scientific team led by the MPI for Psycholinguistics now demonstrates that the...
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12 March 2018An all-encompassing view on Language Development
Elena Lieven of Manchester University gave an unprecedentedly comprehensive view on research on child language development, which triggered stimulating expert discussions during the 37th edition of...
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05 March 2018Seeing sounds: researchers uncover molecular clues for synaesthesia
1 in 25 people have synaesthesia, perceiving the world in unusual ways. An experience with one sense automatically leads to perception in another sense: for example, seeing colours when listening to...
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22 February 2018Study proposes practical solution to challenges faced by bilingual children
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in the assessment of language development among bilingual families and in the identification of those children who require extra support to improve their...
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12 February 2018Nijmegen Lectures 2018
How do children learn to use, produce and understand language during their first few years of life? This is the key question tackled by the Nijmegen Lectures 2018 this year; a three day event...
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