The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the neurobiology of sentence...
Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a hierarchy of representations, from...
Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone – it is constantly trying to guess the next word when...
In a discussion article published in Cognition, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University...
The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the neurobiology of sentence...
When we listen to speech sounds, our brain needs to combine information from both hemispheres. How does the brain...
Visual context facilitates perception, but how this is neurally implemented remains unclear. One example of contextual...
To understand language, we have to remember the words that were uttered and combine them into an interpretation. How does...
Ancient Chinese poetry is constituted by structured language that deviates from ordinary language usage [1, 2]; its poetic...
In a review article published in Science, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University and...
Language involves many different regions of the brain. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and...
April 27 the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will induct Peter Hagoort in Washington DC as a foreign...
Low-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic input has been hypothesized as a canonical mechanism that shapes sensory...
Synesthesia is a rare nonpathological phenomenon where stimulation of one sense automatically provokes a secondary...
One in twenty-five people have synaesthesia, perceiving the world in unusual ways. An experience with one sense...
The communication between brain regions specialized in language is supported by rhythmic synchronisation of brain cells...
Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be...
Genetic variation in the non-coding DNA could give rise to language impairments in children and other neurodevelopmental...
Every day you hear at least some utterances you’ve never heard before. That you can understand them is partly due to the...
The left side of the spinal cord matures slightly faster than the right side in human embryos of four to eight weeks age...
A short film about the work of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, created...
Difficulties in social communication are part of the phenotypic overlap between autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and...
Male mice with a Foxp2 mutation known to disturb human speech, produce less sophisticated ‘songs’ according to a new...
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics have found a gene...
Scientists observe how the human brain memorizes a new grammar Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for...
The genetic risk factors contributing to autism spectrum disorders are present in all of us. This is shown in a new study...
‘Broca’s area’ processes both language and music at the same time When you read a book and listen to...
The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the neurobiology of sentence...
Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a hierarchy of representations, from...
In a discussion article published in Cognition, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University...
The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the neurobiology of sentence...
Visual context facilitates perception, but how this is neurally implemented remains unclear. One example of contextual...
Ancient Chinese poetry is constituted by structured language that deviates from ordinary language usage [1, 2]; its poetic...
Low-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic input has been hypothesized as a canonical mechanism that shapes sensory...
Synesthesia is a rare nonpathological phenomenon where stimulation of one sense automatically provokes a secondary...
Difficulties in social communication are part of the phenotypic overlap between autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and...
The IMPRS for Language Sciences is a joint initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and two research...
