This is the former lab account of Director Emerita Angela D. Friederici (Department of Neuropsychology, @MPI_CBS). It remains online for archival purposes only.
Joined November 2017
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16 Aug 2025
Is language processing modality-independent? And what have we learned from research on sign languages? Join the discussion with our invited presenters by submitting your work to our workshop on "Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain": sign-language-grammars-parse…
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🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️
For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains.
New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒
📖 Read the full story: rdcu.be/el857
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#Language connection discovered in #chimpanzee brains 🐵 @YannickBecker7 @AlfredAnwander & @FriedericiLab , in collab with @MPI_EVA_Leipzig and @AWI_de, have identified a neuronal connection in🐒, evolved from an evolutionary older structure.@NatureComms cbs.mpg.de/2358103/20250515
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#Evolution of #language revisited: Long arcuate fascicle was found in #chimpanzees using high-resolution diffusion MRI #tractography of animals that died naturally in the jungle.
Now in Nature Comm: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
@YannickBecker7 @FriedericiLab @TaiChimpProject @MPI_CBS
🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️
For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains.
New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒
📖 Read the full story: rdcu.be/el857
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Hey Arcuate freaks and geeks!
I first contacted Erin Hecht in 2019. At the time, I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections?
The article: rdcu.be/eifzU
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Core #language network separated from other networks during primate #evolution - @FriedericiLab & @YannickBecker7 argue in their recent correspondence article in Nature Reviews #Neuroscience: cbs.mpg.de/2317687/20241220
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Exciting!
@ev_fedorenko and coll. @NatRevNeurosci's piece functionally separated a core lang network from a percept.-motor network ( others);
and asked for an evo perspective!
Here we go: s.gwdg.de/WUPS8h
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17 Oct 2024
#SNL2024 Dissertation Award Lecture by Katharina Menn, How Early Electrophysiology Shapes First Language Acquisition: A Naturalistic Approach, Saturday, October 26, 2024, 4:00- 4:30 pm, Great Hall 1. Find out more: neurolang.org/2024/dissertat…
Sponsored by Brain and Language.
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1 Sep 2024
We are accepting applications again to our fantastic fully funded program with excellent faculty and interdisciplinary research opportunities! APPLY NOW!!! cognition.maxplanckschools.o… #maxplanckschools #passionforscience 👌💪🏻🧠🍀
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17 Aug 2024
Submitted my #PhD dissertation yesterday! 🥳
Special thanks to Thomas Gunter, @num_ole @LeonKroczek @GesaHartwigsen @FriedericiLab for their support! #PhDone
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24 Jul 2024
Congratulations to Katharina Menn Recipient of the #SNL2024 Dissertation Award sponsored by Brain and Language.
Find out more: neurolang.org/2024/dissertat…
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11 Jul 2024
@FriedericiLab: back then only senior scientists had access to computing systems during the day at @MPI_NL, and everyone else had to do it in the evening.
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11 Jul 2024
@FriedericiLab and Peter go way back. Peter still had a full head of hair and an enviable beard.
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14 Jun 2024
Incredible work by team@MPI_CBS on high res white matter mapping in the chimpanzee brain. Thanks to @CornEichner, @AlfredAnwander, @FriedericiLab, @NikWeiskopf for all this beautiful work! Looking forward to the next steps!
Mapping the white matter in chimpanzee now on the cover page of @naturemethods.
Amazing work by @CornEichner and the Evolution of Brain Connectivity (EBC) team including @MPI_CBS @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
@TaiChimpProject @NikWeiskopf & @FriedericiLab nature.com/nmeth/volumes/21/…
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Mapping the white matter in chimpanzee now on the cover page of @naturemethods.
Amazing work by @CornEichner and the Evolution of Brain Connectivity (EBC) team including @MPI_CBS @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
@TaiChimpProject @NikWeiskopf & @FriedericiLab nature.com/nmeth/volumes/21/…
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Many thanks to @TaiChimpProject for initiating this project and all collaborators, in particular
@ConEichner, @PaquetteMic, @FriedericiLab, @NikWeiskopf, @MPI_CBS, @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, @AWI_Media
Press release:
cbs.mpg.de/2234520/20240603?…
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3 Jun 2024
Interested in primate brain evolution? Then check out this Resource presenting a high-resolution diffusion MRI dataset of a chimpanzee brain.
@CornEichner @AlfredAnwander @FriedericiLab @MPI_CBS
nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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Researchers @CornEichner & @AlfredAnwander @FriedericiLab, with colleagues from @MPI_EVA_Leipzig and @AWI_de present in @naturemethods a freely accessible map of high-resolution #MRI data that shows the #brain structure of #chimpanzees for the first time: tinyurl.com/yr5nk3n2
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19 Apr 2024
🆕📰 New paper by @GiorgioPapitto, Angela Friederici, & @e_zaccarella:
"Distinct neural mechanisms for action access and execution in the human brain: insights from an fMRI study"
Read/download here for free (#openaccess): doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae1…
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15 Feb 2024
🧠Is language acquisition visible on a neuronal level? Tune in to Angela Friederici's (@FriedericiLab) #videopublication to find out more! 💭
@MPI_CBS
lt.org/publication/language-…
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