The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour , Centre for Cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen, is seeking a PhD Candidate in Network Neuroscience of Language. This project explores how brain networks support language processing using cutting-edge neuroimaging and computational methods. It’s a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive, interdisciplinary research environment and contribute to high-impact science across the Donders Institute and the Max Plan

Join our teams! We are looking for two student assistants at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. We are seeking two motivated Student Assistants to contribute to a project investigating the neural space and organisation of prosody, as well as the nature of neural interactions between prosody and diverse cognitive domains. This project is part of a broader collaborative research programme on hashtag#language as an emergent property of distributed hashtag#brain

Schilling K, Dulyan L, Guzman Chacon E, Amandola M, Landman B, Forkel SJ Inter-individual differences in brain anatomy are often treated as noise, yet may encode meaningful principles of organisation. Using >2,800 diffusion MRI scans spanning 0–100 years, we quanti ed spatial, microstructural and macrostructural variability across 64 major white-matter pathways. Variability is not random: spatial organisation follows a deep-to-super cial gradient, and variability across indiv

By Lilit Dulyan / 8 January 2026 Picture two walnuts. At first, they look nearly identical. But take a closer look, and you’ll see differences in their shape, texture, and colour. Our brains are like that too. They follow a shared blueprint—folds, cells, and wiring—but the details vary from one person to the next.  More than a hundred years ago, doctors looked at brains after people died and noticed that no two had exactly the same pattern of bumps and grooves. Today, brain

Stephanie Forkel, Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant worth €2 million. Her five-year project, EMERGENCE, will begin in 2026 and aims to transform our understanding of how language arises from the complex interplay of neural systems in the human brain. For more than a century, theories of language have centred on a small set of cortical regions—most famously Broca’s area, ass

When operating on gliomas near critical language regions, surgeons risk either leaving residual tumor or inducing permanent postoperative language deficits (PLDs). Despite the advent of intraoperative mapping techniques, subjective judgments frequently determine important surgical decisions. We aim to inform data-driven surgery by constructing a non-invasive mapping approach that quantitatively predicts the impact of individual surgical decisions on long-term language functio