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23 June 2026Paula Rubio-Fernández receives ERC Advanced Grant for research on common ground in multimodal communication
Paula Rubio-Fernández has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project COMMON_GROUND. The grant, one of the European Research Council's most prestigious and competitive forms of funding, will...
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23 June 2026Falk Huettig's new release: "The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading"
Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: the way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his...
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28 May 2026Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching
New study by Emanuela Campisi (University of Catania) and Anita Slominska and Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) reveals that Italian and Dutch adults adapt their hand gestures...
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13 May 2026Can ChatGPT really understand language?
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, questions about how AI systems process and generate language are attracting growing public attention. Can systems like ChatGPT...
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13 May 2026Whose turn is it? Toddlers already know the answer
Researchers at our Baby & Child Research Center (a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI), Radboud University and the Radboudumc) and the University of Chicago...
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08 April 2026Can we make speech visible in the brain?
Recent research shows that MRI technology can do more than tell us where brain activity happens: it’s helping us understand how we process and produce speech.
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07 April 2026MINT 2026: new workshop explores the future of face-to-face AI interaction
MINT 2026, the workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue, is a new addition to our event calendar. MINT is co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary.
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20 March 2026Essay Peter Hagoort
In his essay 'Kanttekeningen bij het liberalisme vanuit een cognitief-neurowetenschappelijk perspectief', Peter Hagoort casts a scientific and critical eye on the foundations and development of...
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11 March 2026Radboud Young Academy Cross-Faculty Catapult Grant
Yayun Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, MPI), Merel van Goch (Centre for Language Studies, CLS), and Esther Steenbeek-Planting (CLS, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, DCCN)...
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11 March 2026Robot vs. Therapist: public experiment explores AI’s role in relationship advice
Can artificial intelligence provide meaningful relationship advice, or do humans still offer something essential that machines cannot replicate?
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