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05 June 2024Brain waves shape the words we hear
The timing of our brain waves shapes which words we hear. In a study published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics and Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in...
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16 May 2024Singing researchers find cross-cultural patterns in music and language
Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen contributed to a global study of music and speech...
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09 May 2024Ezgi Mamus defends thesis 13 May
On 13 May at 14:30 am, Ezgi Mamus will defend her thesis "Perceptual experience shapes how blind and sighted people express concepts in multimodal language" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The...
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22 April 2024Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
The MPI is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Daniel Dennett (1942-2024), Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Dennett was...
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11 April 2024Yuen Ren Chao Prize for Peter Hagoort
The MPI is proud to announce that Prof. dr. Peter Hagoort will receive the Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Sciences. The prize is initiated and hosted by the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong...
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09 April 2024Chinmaya Mishra defends thesis on 17 April
On 17 April at 16:30 am, Chinmaya Mishra will defend his thesis "The Face Says It All: Investigating Gaze and Affective Behaviors of Social Robots" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The event...
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04 April 2024Variability in autism features is related to multiple genomic dimensions
Autism-related features have many different presentations. To what extent is this variability related to differences across the genome? In a genetic study, funded by the Simons Foundation and...
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03 April 2024Katja Stärk defends thesis on 8 April
On 8 April at 10:30 am, Katja Stärk will defend her thesis "The company language keeps: How distributional cues influence statistical learning for language" in the Aula of the Radboud University. The...
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27 March 2024IASCL inaugural Early Career Award for Rowena Garcia
The MPI congratulates Rowena Garcia for winning the IASCL inaugural Early Career Award (ECA) 2024. She will be recognized at the IASCL 2024 Congress in Prague, and will give the ECA Plenary talk:...
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25 March 2024Music and Genomes: Beethoven’s Genes Put to the Test
To what extent are exceptional human achievements influenced by genetic factors? This question, dating back to the early days of human genetics, seems to be easier to address today as modern molecular...
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