People often move their hands up and down to ‘highlight’ what they are saying. Are such ‘beat gestures’ important for communication? Hans Rutger Bosker from the Max Planck Institute for...
To celebrate our 40th anniversary, and as part of our search for a new director to lead a Department for Linguistics, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics invites you to the fourth and final...
On Tuesday, 19th of January 2021, at 10:30, Greta Kaufeld will defend her doctoral thesis entitled “Investigating spoken language comprehension as perceptual inference”. Due to the restrictions...
Theresa Redl will defend her dissertation called “Masculine generic pronouns: Investigating the processing of an unintended gender cue” on Thursday January 21st, 2021 at 12:30. Unfortunately, only a...
To celebrate our 40th anniversary, and as part of our search for a new director to lead a Department for Linguistics, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics invites you to the third of four...
On Tuesday 12th of January 2021, at 14.30, Alessandro Lopopolo will defend his thesis entitled "Properties, Structures, and Operations: Studies on language processing in the brain using computational...
Kletskoppen Children's Language Festival receives 200,000 euros from the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) for setting up the spin-off 'Kletskoppen op Maat', which focuses on three new target groups in...
On Friday 18th of December 2020, at 13.30, Eirini Zormpa will defend her thesis entitled "Memory for speaking and listening". Due to the restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, the event will...
Why do people differ in their ability to use language? As part of a larger study into this question, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and Radboud University tested...
The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Sonja Vernes has been granted an ERC Consolidator Grant for her BATSPEAK project proposal. Vernes is an MPI Research Group Leader, she heads the...
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