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07 October 2019Why the language-ready brain is so complex
In a review article published in Science, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University and director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, argues for a new...
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01 October 2019
Neuroimaging reveals hidden communication between brain layers during reading
Language involves many different regions of the brain. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute at Radboud University discovered previously hidden...
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26 September 2019MPI’s Evan Kidd named as Australia’s leading researcher in Language and Linguistics
The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Senior Investigator Evan Kidd has been named Australia’s leading researcher in Language and Linguistics. The prolific Australian-born linguist is an expert...
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19 September 2019Learning to read boosts the visual brain
How does learning to read change our brain? Does reading take up brain space dedicated to seeing objects such as faces, tools or houses? In a functional brain imaging study reported in Science...
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19 August 2019Variation in the shape of speech organs influences language evolution
Why do speech sounds vary across languages? Does the shape of our speech organs play a role? In a computer modelling study reported in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the Max Planck Institute...
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17 July 2019Community size matters when people create a new language
Why do some languages have simpler grammars than others? Researchers from the Netherlands and the UK propose that the size of the community influences the complexity of the language that evolves in it...
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04 July 2019Obituary Paul Lommen
Staff and students at the MPI are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mr. Paul Lommen, our long-time head of administration. Paul had just retired at the end of 2017, after 17 years at the...
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04 July 2019Nijmegen Campus unravels the thirty-something brain
This summer, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University, and the Radboud university medical center will unravel the thirty-something brain. The aim of the Healthy Brain Study...
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27 June 2019Our body is part of the conversation
When people talk face-to-face, they use both speech and their body to express themselves. Visual signals seem to aid communication, since people respond faster to multimodal messages (speech plus...
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25 June 2019Kletskoppen wint de Prijs der Humaniora
Op 20 juni jl. ontvingen Sharon Unsworth and Pim Franssen de Prijs der Humaniora voor hun inzet voor het Nijmeegse kindertaalfestival Kletskoppen. De prijs bestaat uit een oorkonde en een bedrag van...
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