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Modelling multi-modal language learning: From sentences to words

What's On Your Mind: Mental Simulation and Aesthetic Appreciation During Literary Reading

How similar are non-human animal cultures to our own? An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and Dalhousie…

On Tuesday 20 September 2022, at 12.30 (CET), Jinbiao Yang, 杨金骉, will defend his thesis entitled ‘Discovering the units in language cognition: From empirical evidence to a computational model’. A…

In a discussion article published in Cognition, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University and director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, argues for the…

Last week, researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics collaborated with the Logistics Training Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Defence in Soesterberg to administer a new test of…

An international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands), has for the first time…

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is proud and happy to announce that Evan Kidd, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez and Rachel Nordlinger have been awarded Best Paper in Language 2023 by the…

Rhythm is important for human music and speech. But are we the only mammal with a sense of rhythm? In an experimental study published in Biology Letters, a team of researchers led by the Max Planck…

The role of iconicity and simultaneity in efficient communication in the visual modality

On Monday, 21 November 16:30 hrs, Anita Slonimska will defend her thesis 'The role of iconicity and simultaneity in efficient communication in the visual modality'. A limited number of guests is…

On Monday, 14 November 12:30 hrs, Joery den Hoed will defend his thesis 'Disentangling the molecular landscape of genetic variation of neurodevelopmental and speech disorders'. A limited number of…