CeiED’s researcher Lucimar Dantas, coordinator of ReLeCo Núcleo de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa (NELP) visited the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen, Netherlands, under the Erasmus Programme for international mobility of Universidade Lusófona. During the week he was at MPI, he met with the director of the Department of Neurobiology of Language, Peter Hagoort, and with other researchers from the department, visited the neuroimaging laboratories of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, followed experiments on language studies and participated in the weekly discussion meeting of the Neurobiology of Language study group.

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is entirely devoted to research on human language and communication. Their research approach is world renowned for its interdisciplinary character, by studying language from the perspective of disciplines such as Linguistics, Psychology, Neurosciences, Genetics, Anthropology, Medicine, which allows them to study the phenomenon of language at levels ranging from cells and molecules, brain circuits, to the behaviour of individuals and populations. 

The visit opened possibilities for future research partnerships between the two institutions.