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19 September 2022Language as a marker of the mind
In a discussion article published in Cognition, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University and director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, argues for the...
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19 September 2022Successful cooperation Ministry of Defence and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Last week, researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics collaborated with the Logistics Training Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Defence in Soesterberg to administer a new test of...
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15 September 2022Jinbiao Yang, 杨金骉, defends thesis on 20 September
On Tuesday 20 September 2022, at 12.30 (CET), Jinbiao Yang, 杨金骉, will defend his thesis entitled ‘Discovering the units in language cognition: From empirical evidence to a computational model’. A...
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09 September 2022Whale clans use vocalisations to mark their culture
How similar are non-human animal cultures to our own? An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and Dalhousie University...
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25 August 2022Inaugural Lecture Caroline Rowland
Professor Caroline Rowland, appointed as professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences, will assume her office in an academic session on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 4.00 p.m. in the Aula of Radboud...
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23 August 2022Massive genome study informs the biology of reading and language
What is the biological basis of our uniquely human capacity to speak, read and write? A genome-wide analysis of five reading- and language-based skills in many thousands of people, published in PNAS...
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04 August 2022Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone – it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening to a book, reading or conducting a conversation. Contrary to...
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03 August 2022Marnix Krop (1948-2022)
We are saddened to learn that Marnix Krop suddenly passed away on Thursday July 28.
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03 August 2022The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics welcomes Asli Ozyurek as new director of the Multimodal Language Department
In her new department at the MPI for Psycholinguistics Asli Ozyurek will explore the human ability to use language not only through speech or text but also through the visible body.
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26 July 2022Nijmegen 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...
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