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21 January 2020Mathias Barthel will defend his thesis Thursday 23rd of January 2020
On Thursday 23rd of January 2020, at 14.30, Mathias Barthel will defend his thesis entitled "Speech Planning in Dialogue: Psycholinguistic Studies of the Timing of Turn Taking" in the Aula of Radboud...
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20 January 2020Valeria Mongelli will defend her thesis Monday 20th of January 2020
On Monday 20th of January 2020, at 14.30, Valeria Mongelli will defend her thesis entitled "The role of neural feedback in language unification: How awareness affects combinatorial processing" in the...
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20 January 2020Julija Baranova will defend her thesis Tuesday 21th of January 2020
On Tuesday 21th of January 2020, at 10.30, Julija Baranova will defend her thesis entitled "Reasons for every-day activities" in the Academiezaal of Radboud University. As with all defenses, it is a...
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06 January 2020Tseltal children learn language with minimal child-directed speech
How important is it to talk directly to children? Talking to young children boosts their vocabulary development, but in many cultures children learn their languages with very little directed talk....
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06 January 2020APS Rising Star designation for Hans Rutger Bosker
The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Hans Rutger Bosker has been honoured as APS Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in Washington DC. The Rising Star designation...
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06 January 2020How speaking fast is like running
People can speed up or slow down their speech, which is essential for successful communication. To investigate how people control their speech rate, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for...
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05 January 2020Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition awards Peter Hagoort
The MPI is proud and happy to announce that the Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition awarded Peter Hagoort with its medal of honour for his scientific contributions and his continuous efforts to...
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16 December 2019How minds make meaning
Meaning is central to language. But how do we combine the building blocks of thought and language to compose meaning? A special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, edited...
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16 December 2019MPI for Psycholinguistics 40 years
In 2020 the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen celebrates its 40th anniversary. The anniversary of our Institute will be celebrated with a number of events, which will be...
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06 November 2019Merel Maslowski will defend her thesis Thursday 12th of December 2019
On Thursday 12th of December 2019, at 11.00, Merel Maslowski will defend her thesis entitled "Fast speech can sound slow: Effects of contextual speech rate on word recognition" in the Senaatszaal of...
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