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For the first time, the raw genetic material that codes for bats’ unique adaptations and superpowers such as the ability to fly, to use sound to move effortlessly in complete darkness, to survive and…

The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Emeritus Director Anne Cutler has been welcomed as a new Fellow by The British Academy, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to subjects within…

To understand language, we have to remember the words that were uttered and combine them into an interpretation. How does the brain retain information long enough to accomplish this, despite the fact…

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) has published an environmental law that has resulted in smoking being prohibited in educational areas from 01-08-2020.

On Thursday 24th of September 2020, at 10.30, Joe Rodd will defend his thesis entitled "How speaking fast is like running: modelling control of speaking rate". As with all defenses, it is a public…

On Monday 28th of September 2020, at 12.30, Zeynep Azar will defend her thesis entitled "Effect of language contact on speech and gesture: The case of Turkish Dutch bilinguals in the Netherlands". As…

Memory for speaking and listening

Masculine generic pronouns: Investigating the processing of an unintended gender cue

The Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics acquired Professor Jerome Bruner’s personal library after he died at the age of 100 on June 5, 2016. The Jerome Bruner Library was opened at the…

On Friday 2nd of October 2020, at 12.30, René Terporten will defend his thesis entitled "The Power of Context: How linguistic contextual information shapes brain dynamics during sentence processing"…

Joe Rodd has been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant to spend two years at the Institut für Linguistik - Phonetik of the University of Cologne conducting his research project ‘ Iterated intonation:…

Individual differences in syntactic knowledge and processing: Exploring the role of literacy experience