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WELCOME TO THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. Lindenberg, Ridderstraat 23, Nijmegen Radboud Reflects and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics more > Peter Hagoort appointed Fellow of Cognitive Science Society Dec 14, 2018 The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is proud and happy to announce that director Peter Hagoort has been appointed Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society. more > Neandertal genes shed light on unique aspects of the modern human brain Dec 13, 2018 A characteristic feature of modern humans is the unusually round skull and brain, in contrast to the elongated shape seen in other human species. By studying Neandertal DNA fragments found in the genomes of living Europeans, scientists have now discovered genes that influence this globular shape. An interdisciplinary research team, led by the Max Planck Institutes for Psycholinguistics and Evolutionary Anthropology, brought together fossil skull data, brain imaging and genomics, as reported in Current 'Arte' features Sonja Vernes, leader of the MPI Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication research group. more > Antje Meyer elected as member of the Leopoldina Dec 07, 2018 The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is proud and happy to announce that director Antje Meyer has been elected to be a member of the Leopoldina. more > Learning to read comes at a cost Nov 30, 2018 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 individual words more, as these are separated by spaces in written language (‘how are you’). The early focus on larger units may have positive effects, and explain why young children are so good at learning certain areas of grammar, say scientists from the PSL University of Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They found that preliterate 6-year-olds were better at learning grammatical relations between words than at learning novel words in an artificial