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27 August 2024Melis Çetinçelik defends thesis 12 September
On 12 September at 12:30 am, Melis Çetinçelik will defend her thesis 'A Look into Language: The Role of Visual Cues in Early Language Acquisition in the Infant Brain' in the Aula of the Radboud...
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12 August 2024Obituary Manfred Bierwisch
Manfred Bierwisch, distinguished linguist and long-standing External Scientific Member of our MPI, has sadly passed away 31st July at the age of 94. Manfred was our first ‘auswaertiges Mitglied’...
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01 August 2024Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ act as attention tools across languages
Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ or ‘here’ and ‘there’ occur in all languages. In a study published in PNAS, researchers from Yale University and the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics (MPI) in...
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25 July 2024Cas Coopmans awarded a NWO Rubicon grant
Cas Coopmans, postdoctoral researcher in Andrea Martin’s research group Language and Computation in Neural Systems, has been awarded a Rubicon grant from NWO. With this grant, he will join the Ernst...
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19 July 2024Bantu language shows that processing of focused information may be universal
Languages have different ways of highlighting relevant information. This study shows that despite these differences, the consequences are the same: to trigger a brain response to process information...
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12 July 2024Giacomo Bignardi wins Robert Francès Award
We would like to congratulate Giacomo Bignardi on winning the Robert Francès Award for Most Outstanding Student Research Contribution from the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA).
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10 July 2024Behaviour Genetics Association Award for Lucía De Hoyos
Last week Lucía De Hoyos received the Outstanding Associate Member Oral Presentation Award at the annual meeting of the Behavioural Genetics Association (BGA) in London. We congratulate her with this...
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08 July 2024Alessio Quaresima defends thesis 12 July
On 12 July at 12:30 am, Alessio Quaresima will defend his thesis "A Bridge Not Too Far: Neurobiological causal models of word recognition" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event will also be...
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13 June 2024Rowan Sommers defends thesis on 17 June
On 17 June at 10:30 am, Rowan Sommers will defend his thesis "Neurobiology of reference" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event will also be accessible via live-stream.
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12 June 2024Otto Hahn Medals for Joery den Hoed and Laura Giglio
Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. We congratulate Joery den Hoed and Laura Giglio who...
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