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15 July 2022Sentences have their own timing in the brain
Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS...
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18 May 2021Jeroen van Paridon will defend his thesis on Tuesday 25th of May 2021
On Tuesday 25th May 2021, at 16.30, Jeroen van Paridon will defend his thesis entitled "Speaking while listening: Language processing in speech shadowing and translation''. Due to the restrictions...
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26 April 2021Otto Hahn Medal awarded to Limor Raviv
Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. Limor Raviv of the MPI for Psycholinguistics will...
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06 January 2020How speaking fast is like running
People can speed up or slow down their speech, which is essential for successful communication. To investigate how people control their speech rate, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for...
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06 January 2020APS Rising Star designation for Hans Rutger Bosker
The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Hans Rutger Bosker has been honoured as APS Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in Washington DC. The Rising Star designation...
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06 November 2019Merel Maslowski will defend her thesis Thursday 12th of December 2019
On Thursday 12th of December 2019, at 11.00, Merel Maslowski will defend her thesis entitled "Fast speech can sound slow: Effects of contextual speech rate on word recognition" in the Senaatszaal of...
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17 July 2019Community size matters when people create a new language
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 it...
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14 May 2019Speech recognition technology is not a solution for poor readers
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...
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11 April 2019Amie Fairs will defend her thesis on June 7
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...
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30 November 2018Learning to read comes at a cost
Learning how to read may have some disadvantages for learning grammar. Children who cannot read yet often treat multiword phrases as wholes (‘how-are-you’). After learning to read, children notice...
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