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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…

A network of interacting proteins disrupted in language-related disorders

Fast speech can sound slow: Effects of contextual speech rate on word recognition

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…

How does learning to read change our brain? Does reading take up brain space dedicated to seeing objects such as faces, tools or houses? In a functional brain imaging study reported in Science…

The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Senior Investigator Evan Kidd has been named Australia’s leading researcher in Language and Linguistics. The prolific Australian-born linguist is an expert…

Language involves many different regions of the brain. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute at Radboud University discovered previously hidden…

Reasons for every-day activities

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

The second edition of our conference series on "Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Language Sciences" will take place from June 3-5, 2020.

WHEN LISTENING TO LANGUAGE IS HARD Much of the research on speech perception has looked at relatively “easy” listening conditions: adult listeners, listening to their native language spoken by…

Control and Monitoring in Bilingual Speech Production: Language Selection, Switching, and Intrusion

Sometimes described as a blending of the senses, synaesthesia is an unusual trait where exposure to a triggering stimulus (e.g. music or letters of the alphabet) causes an immediate additional…

Speech Planning in Dialogue - Psycholinguistic Studies of the Timing of Turn Taking

GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE. A COMPLEX DIALOGUE. Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common childhood condition which has lifelong consequences for affected children. We have…