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22 July 2025Esam Ghaleb receives grant to develop gesture and interaction-aware multimodal generative AI
Esam Ghaleb has been awarded the NWO XS Open Competition - Domain Science grant for his project Grounded Gesture Generation in Context: Object- and Interaction-Aware Generative AI Models of Language...
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21 July 2025We rarely make ourselves as clear as we think - and the consequences can be serious
A recent article in The Observer revisits an important finding from 2022 by Ruth Corps and Antje Meyer: everyday conversations are so fast paced, with very short turns and much overlap between them...
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21 July 2025Research Report 2023–2024 now available
We are delighted to share the publication of our Research Report 2023–2024. The report reflects two years of steady progress and interdisciplinary discovery at the Max Planck Institute for...
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17 July 2025NWO Veni grant for Constantijn van der Burght
Constantijn (Stan) van der Burght (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Leiden University / Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) receives the maximum NWO Veni grant for his research. The...
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16 July 2025ISGS10 brings together over 300 gesture researchers for three days of innovation and community
July 9–11, 2025 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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27 June 2025Els den Os passed away
It is with deep sorrow that the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) community mourns the loss of Els den Os, the first-ever Graduate School Coordinator of the International Max Planck...
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24 June 2025Brains over Bots: Why Toddlers Still Beat AI at Learning Language
Even the smartest machines can’t match young minds at language learning. MPI's Caroline Rowland and other researchers share new findings on how children stay ahead of AI - and why it matters.
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20 June 2025FOSTERLANG: New EU project to boost Europe’s endangered and minoritised languages
A major new EU project, FOSTERLANG (Fostering Linguistic Capital), has launched to support Europe’s endangered and minoritised languages. Funded with €3 million under the Horizon Europe programme, the...
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17 June 2025Barbara Molz appointed as Research Coordinator
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Barbara Molz as Research Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI).
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13 June 2025The MEDAL Summer School: Cutting-edge Methods in Computational Modelling for Young Linguists
The time is coming close for the last summer school of the MEDAL consortium, which will take place from 23 to 27 June at the University of Birmingham, one of the consortium partners. This summer...
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