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11 January 2022Dilay Z. Karadöller will defend her thesis on Monday 17th of January 2022
On Monday 17 January 2022, at 16.30 (CET), Dilay Z. Karadöller will defend her thesis entitled 'Development of Spatial Language and Memory: Effects of Language Modality and Late Sign Language Exposure...
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10 January 2022Andrea Ravignani awarded ERC Grant to study origins of rhythm
Andrea Ravignani, Independent Group Leader of the Comparative Bioacoustics Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, has been awarded a European Research Council...
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10 January 2022Hans Rutger Bosker receives ERC grant to study audiovisual communication
A European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant has been awarded to Hans Rutger Bosker, senior investigator at the Psychology of Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
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17 December 2021Huxley Memorial Medal 2020 for Stephen Levinson
On Tuesday December 14 our director emeritus Stephen Levinson, recipient of the Huxley Memorial Medal 2020, delivered in the British Museum, the “Royal Anthropological Institute Huxley Memorial...
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30 November 2021Nomination Director MPI
Nominations and self-nominations sought for the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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17 November 2021Large study compares the brains of left-handers and right-handers
Roughly ten percent of people are left-handed, but the neural basis of handedness has been unclear. An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the...
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15 November 2021A new approach to identify mammals good at learning sounds
Some animals—such as red deer—sound ‘bigger’ than they really are. This means that their calls are lower than you would expect based on their body size. Biologists think that ‘faking’ body size in...
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08 November 2021Pieter Seuren 1934-2021
We were deeply saddened to learn of Pieter Seuren’s passing away on November 6, 2021.
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02 November 2021Baby seals can change their tone of voice
Hoover the ‘talking seal’ famously imitated human speech. But can baby seals already adapt their voices to sounds? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Free...
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25 October 2021That primate’s got rhythm!
What are the origins of musical rhythm? Are humans the only mammals that have rhythm? Researchers from the universities of Turin, Lyon/Saint-Étienne and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
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