The MPI for Psycholinguistics has six primary organizational units: The Language and Cognition Department, headed by Stephen C. Levinson, investigates the relationship between language, culture and general cognition, making use of the "natural laboratory" of language variation.
IPM memiliki enam unit organisasi utama: Departemen Bahasa dan Kognisi, dipimpin oleh Stephen C. Levinson, yang menyelidiki hubungan antara bahasa, budaya dan kognisi umum, serta memanfaatkan "laboratorium alami" tentang variasi bahasa.