Events

MPI Colloquium Marie Lallier, BCBL

How the sensitivity to auditory rhythms shapes the reading brain

MPI Colloquium Eva Wittenberg

"Using language comprehension to understand event construal"

Understanding language is to recover the conceptual structure of a message from its grammatical packaging. The aim of my research is to...

MPI Colloquium Madeline Lancaster (Cambridge University)

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Exploring human brain evolution using cerebral organoids

MPI Colloquium Nivedita Mani (Georg-Elias-Müller Institute)

Why do children learn words? "Babies learn words from early on. They also learn more words faster, the older they get. Nevertheless, there are differences in both the number and kinds of words known...

MPI Colloquium Ofer Tchernichovski (Hunter College, New York)

Vocal culture in songbirds and humans

MPI Colloquium Anna K. Kuhlen

Typically people speak for the purpose of communicating with another person. Yet the cognitive and neural processes underlying speaking have been predominantly investigated in settings in which single...

MPI colloquium Gesa Hartwigsen (MPI Leipzig)

Plasticity in the Language Network

MPI Colloquium Dianne Newbury, Oxford Brookes University

GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE. A COMPLEX DIALOGUE.
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common childhood condition which has lifelong consequences for affected children. We have...

MPI Colloquium Rochelle Newman (U. Maryland)

WHEN LISTENING TO LANGUAGE IS HARD

Much of the research on speech perception has looked at relatively “easy” listening conditions: adult listeners, listening to their native language spoken by an...

MPI Colloquium Ewa Dabrowska (U. Birmingham)

The fundamental similarity of L1 and L2 learning