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The MPI congratulates Falk Huettig, who has been appointed Professor of Psycholinguistics and Cultural Cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen.

MPI's Dan Dediu en Scott Moisik are involved in new research published in the March 15 edition of Science magazine that could revise our understanding of the history of language.

A research team led by the MPI for Psycholinguistics has compared a massive number of 17,141 brain scans to examine the similarity in anatomy of the left and right brain halves. The brains of people…

In everyday life, listeners often hear sentences with which the speaker means something different than what he or she literally said. Johanne Tromp investigated how we recognise and understand these…

For the annual writing course ‘Current Issues in the Language Sciences’ graduate students of the IMPRS for Language Sciences are judged on an article written for the general audience. The winning…

For the yearly writing course “Current Issues in the Language Sciences”, graduate students of the IMPRS for Languages Sciences are judged on an article written for the general audience. Last Tuesday,…

Brain researchers have provided access to a collection of brain data of more than 200 test subjects, who were processing language during measurements. The high-quality data set has been collected and…

On Monday May 13, 2019 at 14:30, Linda Drijvers will defend her thesis entitled “On the oscillatory dynamics underlying speech-gesture integration in clear and adverse listening conditions” in the…

Kletskoppen gaat on tour! Op 2 mei aanstaande zijn taalwetenschappers van de Radboud Universiteit en het Max Planck Instituut voor Psycholinguïstiek met leuke demonstraties en taalspelletjes aanwezig…

On Friday 7th June 2019, at 10:30, Amie Fairs will defend her thesis entitled “Linguistic dual-tasking: understand temporal overlap between production and comprehension” in the Aula of Radboud…

Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. Sara Busquets Estruch of the MPI for…

April 27 the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will induct Peter Hagoort in Washington DC as a foreign associate. Hagoort is director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics…

MPI's Prof. Caroline Rowland has been appointed professor by special appointment of First Language Acquisition at Radboud University‘s Faculty of Social Sciences.

Could artificial intelligence be a solution for people who cannot read well (functional illiterates) or cannot read at all (complete illiterates)? According to psycholinguists, speech technology…

Op 20 juni jl. ontvingen Sharon Unsworth and Pim Franssen de Prijs der Humaniora voor hun inzet voor het Nijmeegse kindertaalfestival Kletskoppen. De prijs bestaat uit een oorkonde en een bedrag van…

When people talk face-to-face, they use both speech and their body to express themselves. Visual signals seem to aid communication, since people respond faster to multimodal messages (speech plus…

Staff and students at the MPI are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mr. Paul Lommen, our long-time head of administration. Paul had just retired at the end of 2017, after 17 years at the…

This summer, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University, and the Radboud university medical center will unravel the thirty-something brain. The aim of the Healthy Brain Study…

Why do some languages have simpler grammars than others? Researchers from the Netherlands and the UK propose that the size of the community influences the complexity of the language that evolves in…

Why do speech sounds vary across languages? Does the shape of our speech organs play a role? In a computer modelling study reported in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the Max Planck…