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A European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant has been awarded to Hans Rutger Bosker, senior investigator at the Psychology of Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics…

On Monday 17 January 2022, at 16.30 (CET), Dilay Z. Karadöller will defend her thesis entitled 'Development of Spatial Language and Memory: Effects of Language Modality and Late Sign Language…

Sonja Vernes, research group leader of the Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, will be receiving a Blavatnik Award for Young…

On Thursday 27 January 2022, at 10.30, Nadine de Rue will defend her thesis entitled 'Phonological Contrast and Conflict in Dutch Vowels: Neurobiological and Psycholinguistic Evidence from Children…

On Tuesday 1 February 2022, at 16.30 (CET), Laura Hahn will defend her thesis entitled 'Infants' perception of sound patterns in oral language play'. Due to the restrictions surrounding the COVID-19…

On Monday 14 February 2022, at 10.30, Merel Wolf will defend her thesis entitled 'Spoken and written word processing: Effects of presentation modality and individual differences in experience to…

International research team investigates impact of lockdown measures on 8- to 36-month-old infants across 13 countries

Individual Differences in Speech Production and Maximum Speech Performance

People often move their hands up and down to ‘highlight’ what they are saying. Are such ‘beat gestures’ important for communication? Hans Rutger Bosker from the Max Planck Institute for…

To celebrate our 40th anniversary, and as part of our search for a new director to lead a Department for Linguistics, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics invites you to the fourth and…

On Thursday February 4th 2021, at 14:30, Thijs Trompenaars will defend his doctoral thesis entitled “Bringing Stories to Life - Animacy in narrative and processing”. Due to the restrictions…

Effects of aging and cognitive abilities on multimodal language production and comprehension in context

How the sensitivity to auditory rhythms shapes the reading brain

On Tuesday February 9th 2021, at 16:30, Lara Todorova will defend her doctoral thesis entitled “Language bias in visually driven decisions: computational and neurophysiological mechanisms”. Due to…

When we listen to speech sounds, our brain needs to combine information from both hemispheres. How does the brain integrate acoustic information from remote areas? In a neuroimaging study, a team of…

Bilingual sentence production and code-switching: Neural network simulations

Great Apes as Models for Understanding Human Brain Evolution

On Friday 5th of March 2021, at 10.30h, Ellen Verhoef will defend her thesis entitled ‘Why do we change how we speak? Multivariate genetic analyses of language and related traits across development…

On Thursday, 11th of March 2021, at 10.30 (CET), Anne Mickan will defend her thesis entitled "What was that Spanish word again? Investigations into the cognitive mechanisms underlying foreign…