Aurélie Pistono
@apistono.bsky.social
Associate prof. University of Toulouse
(dis)fluency, psycholinguistics, aging, neurocognitive disorders
https://sites.google.com/view/apistono/
(dis)fluency, psycholinguistics, aging, neurocognitive disorders
https://sites.google.com/view/apistono/
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The first publication of the #ERC project ‘LaDy’ is a fact and it’s an important one I think:
We show that word processing and meaning prediction is fundamentally different during social interaction compared to using language individually!
👀 short 🧵/1
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#OpenAccess
We show that word processing and meaning prediction is fundamentally different during social interaction compared to using language individually!
👀 short 🧵/1
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#OpenAccess
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The first publication of the #ERC project ‘LaDy’ is a fact and it’s an important one I think:
We show that word processing and meaning prediction is fundamentally different during social interaction compared to using language individually!
👀 short 🧵/1
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#OpenAccess
We show that word processing and meaning prediction is fundamentally different during social interaction compared to using language individually!
👀 short 🧵/1
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#OpenAccess
Reposted by Aurélie Pistono
Really happy to see this finally published. Hard work together with colleagues @engra.me and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Really happy to see this finally published. Hard work together with colleagues @engra.me and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Researchers aim to provide clinicians with information related to discourse collection methods, outcome measures (including psychometric properties), and key factors to consider when providing aphasia clinical services.
on.asha.org/445TfnB
@mdutta.bsky.social
on.asha.org/445TfnB
@mdutta.bsky.social
Let's Chat About Spoken Discourse: A Tutorial to Support Use of Spoken Discourse Analysis When Providing Aphasia Clinical Services
Purpose: Spoken discourse is integral to everyday communication; improving discourse
outcomes is a primary goal for individuals with aphasia and ...
on.asha.org
June 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Researchers aim to provide clinicians with information related to discourse collection methods, outcome measures (including psychometric properties), and key factors to consider when providing aphasia clinical services.
on.asha.org/445TfnB
@mdutta.bsky.social
on.asha.org/445TfnB
@mdutta.bsky.social
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🗣️ New paper alert! Ever wonder how strangers navigate the messy world of casual conversation? We analyzed 200+ video calls to uncover the hidden structure behind "idle talk" – and found it's way more systematic than you'd think!
Thread 👇
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June 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🗣️ New paper alert! Ever wonder how strangers navigate the messy world of casual conversation? We analyzed 200+ video calls to uncover the hidden structure behind "idle talk" – and found it's way more systematic than you'd think!
Thread 👇
Thread 👇
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🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com
Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics
Communications Psychology - Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a...
rdcu.be
June 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com
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🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩🔬👨🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
👩🔬👨🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
May 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩🔬👨🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
👩🔬👨🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
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www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PV4EH...
New paper out with former @emcl.bsky.social student Yiting Chen and @apistono.bsky.social
New paper out with former @emcl.bsky.social student Yiting Chen and @apistono.bsky.social
A comparison of different connected-speech tasks for detecting mild cognitive impairment using multivariate pattern analysis
It is common for the elderly population to have age-associated cognitive decline and/or develop neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. Several studies have suggested that classification algor...
www.tandfonline.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PV4EH...
New paper out with former @emcl.bsky.social student Yiting Chen and @apistono.bsky.social
New paper out with former @emcl.bsky.social student Yiting Chen and @apistono.bsky.social
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Interested in um disfluencies in speech? Come to Lisbon this September for the 12th Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech Workshop!
diss2025.inesc-id.pt?p=322
diss2025.inesc-id.pt?p=322
Call for Papers – DISS 2025
diss2025.inesc-id.pt
March 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Interested in um disfluencies in speech? Come to Lisbon this September for the 12th Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech Workshop!
diss2025.inesc-id.pt?p=322
diss2025.inesc-id.pt?p=322
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
June 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Reposted by Aurélie Pistono
I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/
Automated Transcription in R using Whisper – Joey Stanley
joeystanley.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/
Reposted by Aurélie Pistono
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🚨 New paper alert!
Kasper Van Craeyenest, Bram De keersmaecker, @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social, and I empirically tested whether filled pauses like um and uh serve a communicative function. 🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0163...
Kasper Van Craeyenest, Bram De keersmaecker, @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social, and I empirically tested whether filled pauses like um and uh serve a communicative function. 🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0163...
Do filled pauses serve a …um… communicative function? A comparison of self-directed and social speech
Some authors argue that filled pauses serve a communicative function in speech. The current study aims to test this function by analyzing the difference in filler-use in a self-directed and social ...
doi.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚨 New paper alert!
Kasper Van Craeyenest, Bram De keersmaecker, @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social, and I empirically tested whether filled pauses like um and uh serve a communicative function. 🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0163...
Kasper Van Craeyenest, Bram De keersmaecker, @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social, and I empirically tested whether filled pauses like um and uh serve a communicative function. 🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0163...
Reposted by Aurélie Pistono
Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h
Recent experience with a word significantly influences its subsequent interpretation. For instance, encountering bank in a river-related context biase…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Where do disfluencies come from? Our new study (with @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social and @cogsenoussi.bsky.social) uses Drift Diffusion Modelling (DDM) to investigate semantic interference and disfluency in a Picture-Word Interference task.👇👇👇
🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Disfluencies reflect a... uh... competition between response options: Evidence from a drift diffusion analysis - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Disfluency can occur when a speaker faces difficulty in language production, but it is also as a strategy to stall for time and create an illusion of continuity in speech. To better understand the ori...
doi.org
February 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Where do disfluencies come from? Our new study (with @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social and @cogsenoussi.bsky.social) uses Drift Diffusion Modelling (DDM) to investigate semantic interference and disfluency in a Picture-Word Interference task.👇👇👇
🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Word production has typically been studied using two distinct approaches. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology draws from both approaches to discuss how speakers assess whether production is going smoothly, adjust to difficulties and fix errors. https://go.nature.com/40Oc0sS 🔒
February 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Word production has typically been studied using two distinct approaches. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology draws from both approaches to discuss how speakers assess whether production is going smoothly, adjust to difficulties and fix errors. https://go.nature.com/40Oc0sS 🔒