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The Max Planck Society and each of its institutes promote employees regardless of gender, nationality, religion, disability, age, cultural origin and sexual identity. [more]

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Thank you very much for your interest in taking part in our research into human cognitive abilities and brain activities. [more]
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Our infant and child studies

Language Development Lab

At the Max Planck Institute's Children's Laboratory (Child Lab), for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, we investigate the way children understand and interpret themselves and others. [more]

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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences revolves around human cognitive abilities and cerebral processes, with a focus on the neural basis of brain functions like language ...

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences revolves around human cognitive abilities and cerebral processes, with a focus on the neural basis of brain functions like language ...
The Department’s research agenda is to identify the functional architecture of language and its neuroanatomical basis in the mature and the developing brain ...

Department of Neuropsychology

The Department’s research agenda is to identify the functional architecture of language and its neuroanatomical basis in the mature and the developing brain ...
Research in the department of neurology focusses on the development of vascular risk factors leading to stroke and functional recovery after stroke. We pursue the hypothesis that our behavior and concomitant ...

Department of Neurology

Research in the department of neurology focusses on the development of vascular risk factors leading to stroke and functional recovery after stroke. We pursue the hypothesis that our behavior and concomitant ...
Our vision is to develop and apply functional microstructure imaging and in-vivo histology using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as novel non-invasive MRI methods to reliably characterize the detailed ...

Department of Neurophysics

Our vision is to develop and apply functional microstructure imaging and in-vivo histology using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as novel non-invasive MRI methods to reliably characterize the detailed ...
Our overarching goal is to crack the cognitive code. The fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience—what are the key coding principles of the brain enabling human thinking—still remains largely unanswered ...

Department of Psychology

Our overarching goal is to crack the cognitive code. The fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience—what are the key coding principles of the brain enabling human thinking—still remains largely unanswered ...
The International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity (IMPRS NeuroCom) is based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...

IMPRS on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity

The International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity (IMPRS NeuroCom) is based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...

Press releases
The MRI scanner CONNECTOM is one of three of its kind worldwide. Thanks to its unparalleled gradient strength, it will reveal information about the inner wiring of the living human brain.

The super brain scanner

The MRI scanner CONNECTOM is one of three of its kind worldwide. Thanks to its unparalleled gradient strength, it will reveal information about the inner wiring of the living human brain. [more]
Brain, language, and emotion – our international graduate programme, presented by PhD students and faculty.

Discover our graduate school

Brain, language, and emotion – our international graduate programme, presented by PhD students and faculty.
This film invites you to get to know our Language Development Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

A glimpse into our Language Development Lab

This film invites you to get to know our Language Development Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.
 
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