Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Music touches. Until recently, this was only meant in a figurative way – now it can also be taken...

Language serves as a cornerstone of human cognition. However, our knowledge about its neural basis is still a matter of...

Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be...

Although it plays a central role in the control of movement and expression of our mental abilities, our knowledge of the...

Each month, the up and down of estrogen in women appear to not just influence the switching between fertile and infertile...

When someone offends you while smiling, should your brain interpret it as a genuine smile or as an offense? Researchers at...

Language is considered as the key to integration. But how can a new language be learned in the most effective way, and...

Irrespective of whether we offer someone a cookie, give up a seat to a pensioner, or receive refugees – the broader the...

Max Planck scientists devise a model of how human speech develops Speech is generally believed to start with our very...

How well we can listen to the speech of another person in noisy surroundings depends on our ability to adapt our alpha...

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components Grimacing, we...

The ability to produce and understand language makes humans unique. Not just humans but also monkeys and dogs can learn...

When art and science merge: Award-winning theatre performance “Musicophilia” supported by researchers from MPI...

Researchers discover how the brain completes sentences Even if we just hear part of what someone has said, when we are...

Director, Tania Singer has been voted to be among the top 50 most influential women for the German economy. Both the top...

Language that is metrically regular to an unusual degree is not only found in poetry, but also in the language of rites...

Which is more important when we plan an action: the overarching goal or the approach along the way? Scientists at the Max...

Scientists discover neural communication pathways for prosody Researchers from the Leipzig-based Max Planck Institute for...

A Trance State of Consciousness is associated with a Specific Brain Network Signature and Perceptual Decoupling In the...

Anatomical features of the survival of musical memory in Alzheimer’s disease uncovered Those who are in regular contact...

A New Model to describe cognitiv processes in the brain The Relationship between the mind and the brain remains one of...

Leaders of a group synchronize their brain activity with that of their followers during communication Great leaders are...

Movements and images facilitate vocabulary learning “Atesi” – what sounds like a word from the Elven language of...

Breastfeeding experience influences infant perception of emotional signals Individuals differ in how they perceive...

Sleep improves and structures infant memory There is no rest for a baby’s brain – not even in sleep. While infants...