Research facilities

The MPI is home to a wide range of facilities which can be used by our researchers, from the baby and child labs, molecular biology lab, behavioural labs, EEG labs, eye-tracking labs, and gesture labs to a state-of-the art virtual reality lab.

Besides the MPI's own labs and facilities, our researchers can also use those at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.

Researchers at our Language Development Department carry out their studies into early development here at the Baby and Child Research Center. This research focuses on language development - specifically children's language, social, and cognitive development.

The library at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics first opened in 1976, and the collection has been expanding ever since. The collection closely reflects research that is currently being carried out at the Institute.

The MPI's IT Services supports the experimental and computational work performed at the Institute. The group also develops tools for research, which are also widely used at other research centers.

Numerous collections of language materials are stored in The Language Archive. This includes corpora of endangered languages, language development/acquisition corpora, and sign language corpora.

Data collected by our researchers as part of MPI research projects can be accessed through the MPI archive. This includes data resulting from neurobiological studies, genetics studies, and behavioural studies.