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On Monday 17th May 2021, at 16.30, Louise Schubotz will defend her thesis entitled "Effects of aging and cognitive abilities on multimodal language production and comprehension in context''. Due to…

On Tuesday 25th May 2021, at 16.30, Jeroen van Paridon will defend his thesis entitled "Speaking while listening: Language processing in speech shadowing and translation''. Due to the restrictions…

Beyond sensorimotor simulations? Visual knowledge in sighted and blind.

On Thursday 10 June 2021, at 16.30, Emily Felker will defend her thesis entitled "Learning second language speech perception in natural settings''. Due to the restrictions surrounding the COVID-19…

Exploring social biases in language processing

The effect of language contact on speech and gesture: The case of Turkish-Dutch bilinguals in the Netherlands

Meaning is central to language. But how do we combine the building blocks of thought and language to compose meaning? A special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, edited…

In 2020 the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen celebrates its 40th anniversary. The anniversary of our Institute will be celebrated with a number of events, which will be…

The MPI is proud and happy to announce that the Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition awarded Peter Hagoort with its medal of honour for his scientific contributions and his continuous efforts to…

People can speed up or slow down their speech, which is essential for successful communication. To investigate how people control their speech rate, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for…

How important is it to talk directly to children? Talking to young children boosts their vocabulary development, but in many cultures children learn their languages with very little directed talk. …

The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Hans Rutger Bosker has been honoured as APS Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in Washington DC. The Rising Star designation…

Typically people speak for the purpose of communicating with another person. Yet the cognitive and neural processes underlying speaking have been predominantly investigated in settings in which…

Vocal culture in songbirds and humans

Please register via link below! Exploring human brain evolution using cerebral organoids

Can you hear what you cannot say? The interactions of speech perception and production during non-native phoneme learning

On Monday 20th of January 2020, at 14.30, Valeria Mongelli will defend her thesis entitled "The role of neural feedback in language unification: How awareness affects combinatorial processing" in the…

On Tuesday 21th of January 2020, at 10.30, Julija Baranova will defend her thesis entitled "Reasons for every-day activities" in the Academiezaal of Radboud University. As with all defenses, it is a…

On Thursday 23rd of January 2020, at 14.30, Mathias Barthel will defend his thesis entitled "Speech Planning in Dialogue: Psycholinguistic Studies of the Timing of Turn Taking" in the Aula of Radboud…

Vocal Learning in the Pale Spear-Nosed Bat, Phyllostomus discolor