Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is a Max Planck Society research institute in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the Society's only full institute outside Germany. It was founded in 1980. It studies how humans produce, understand, and acquire language, including genetic and neurobiological bases. It does not grant degrees; Ph.D.s are awarded mainly by Radboud University.

Departments cover language and genetics, language development, psychology of language, and neurobiology of language, with laboratories for EEG, eye tracking, child language, and fieldwork. The International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences trains doctoral students with Radboud University.

Staff and students number about 200, with a high international share. There is no large undergraduate population. Alumni work in linguistics, cognitive science, and psychology departments.

Doctoral study is typically a four-year research project with IMPRS coursework and a salaried post. Students live in Nijmegen, a university city on the Waal, with the institute on the Radboud campus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics lists 1 doctoral program, in languages & linguistics.