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On Friday, 12th of March 2021, at 14:30 (CET), Francie Manhardt will defend her doctoral thesis entitled “A tale of two modalities: How modality shapes language production and visual attention”. …

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics celebrates its 40th anniversary with a series of scientific events. One of these events is a two-day meeting on the topic of The Neurobiology of…

Speech researchers are often interested in intelligibility. This is typically measured by playing utterances to volunteers and asking them to type out what they hear. However, manually scoring those…

Andrea Martin, Max Planck Research Group Leader of the group Language and Computation in Neural Systems" (LaCNS), has been chosen as one of the Lise Meitner Group Leaders by the Max Planck Society…

The left and right sides of our brain specialise in different functions. But what is the genetic basis of this left-right asymmetry? In a large-scale genetic study, scientists from the Max Planck and…

Listening with great expectations. A study of predictive natural speech processing

Speaking while listening: Language processing in speech shadowing and translation

Babies prefer baby talk in any language, but particularly when it’s in a language they’re hearing at home. “Together, the results of the first two ManyBabies studies, testing monolingual and…

On Tuesday 30th March 2021, at 10.30, John Huisman will defend his thesis entitled "Variation in form and meaning across the Japonic language family with a focus on the Ryukyuan languages". Due to…

Synaesthesia – hearing colours, tasting sounds

The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics are pleased to announce that The Halmahera collection has been added to the archive.

It is with a true sense of loss that we record the unexpected death of Pieter Muysken on April 6th 2021. He was an External Scientific Member for the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,…

Left-right asymmetry of the human brain: associations with neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic factors

On 8 and 9 April, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Neurobiology of Language Department held its conference entitled 'Key Issues and Ways…

On Wednesday 21st April 2021, at 14.30, Chara Tsoukala will defend her thesis entitled "Bilingual sentence production and code-switching: Neural network simulations''. Due to the restrictions…

On Thursday 22nd of April 2021, at 10.30, Martijn Bentum will defend his thesis entitled "Listening with great expectations. A study of predictive natural speech processing''. Due to the…

Learning second language speech perception in natural settings

Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. Limor Raviv of the MPI for Psycholinguistics will…

Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. Ella Lattenkamp will receive this prestigious…

As part of the 40th anniversary of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the 'Key Issues and Ways Forward' conference of the Neurobiology of Language Department was held on 8 and 9 April.