The International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity (IMPRS NeuroCom) is a unique PhD programme to study the functional, structural, and plastic bases of human communication through an integrative and interdisciplinary approach.
The school is based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences and the University of Leipzig, and also involves the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, UK. This graduate school strengthens the already close working relationship between all participating institutions.

The overriding goal of the IMPRS NeuroCom is to train PhD students in the multidisciplinary aspects of cognition, psychology, and neuroscience that are involved in communicative action, and to introduce them to specific research topics within this broad area of academic endeavour. The School brings together students from various backgrounds, who choose a research topic that falls within the scope of one of the four modules; two of which are cognitive in theme, while the other two cover basic neuroscience.