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14 November 2025Max Planck among the top ten institutions of the Highly Cited Researcher awards
With 66 highly cited researchers, the Max Planck Society (7th place) is the only German among the top ten international research institutions. The Chinese Academy of Science is at the top, ahead of...
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03 November 2025Keynote lecture on multimodal language and cognition
Last week, Director Aslı Ozyurek delivered a keynote lecture at the leading international conference GENEA Workshop in Dublin, focusing on the relationship between human cognition, multimodal...
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20 October 2025David Wilkins passed away
David Wilkins, a visitor then staff member of the MPI between 1993-2000, died in Sydney on October 13th 2025.
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20 October 2025Peter Hagoort inducted as Fellow of the British Academy
Peter Hagoort, director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and one of the founders of the Donders Institute, has been inducted as a Fellow of the British Academy.
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14 October 2025New insights into SETBP1 variants reveal mechanisms behind neurodevelopmental disorders
An international research team led by Maggie Wong at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) has discovered that SETBP1 missense variants outside the canonical degron region can disrupt...
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14 October 2025Do you need to see to gesture? New research reveals how blind people express concepts without vision
People who are blind from birth talk about the world around them just as well as sighted individuals, even when it comes to things they’ve never seen, like colors. But language isn’t only spoken. We...
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13 October 2025Connecting with families at the Weekend van de Wetenschap
On 4 October 2025, our researchers represented our institute at the Weekend van de Wetenschap at the Brain Museum. They engaged with families and helped spark curiosity about our research.
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10 October 2025FOSTERLANG project launched in Wilamowice, Poland
The EU-funded FOSTERLANG project, which includes researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, was officially launched with a three-day event in Wilamowice, Poland (25–27 September...
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06 October 2025New twin study challenges oversimplified claims about social media and wellbeing
Genes, screens, and your state of mind. A new study published in Behavior Genetics offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on the ongoing debate over social media’s impact on wellbeing.
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03 October 2025Discover science with MPI & Donders at the Weekend van de Wetenschap
This year, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) is proud to join forces with Donders CityLab for an exciting scientific safari during the Weekend van de Wetenschap, Saturday 4 October 2025...
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