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Studies in education and psychology often involve ‘normal’ readers. But is there really such a thing as ‘normal’ reading? In an opinion article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science,…

On Tuesday, 29 November 10:30 hrs, Marloes Mak will defend her thesis 'What's On Your Mind: Mental Simulation and Aesthetic Appreciation During Literary Reading'. A limited number of guests is…

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…

Development of Spatial Language and Memory: Effects of Language Modality and Late Sign Language Exposure ( in Turkish and Turkish Sign Language)

Phonological Contrast and Conflict in Dutch Vowels: Neurobiological and Psycholinguistic Evidence from Children and Adults

Infants' perception of sound patterns in oral language play

Spoken and written word processing: Effects of presentation modality and individual differences in experience to written language

We were deeply saddened to learn of Pieter Seuren’s passing away on November 6, 2021.

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…

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…

Definite objects in the wild: A converging evidence approach to scrambling in the Dutch middle-field

Nominations and self-nominations sought for the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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…

Kata Kolok phonology - variation and acquisition

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 …