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SNSF Ambizione Reseach Group Leader @ISLE @University of Zurich

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

Neuromodulation & Speech, Attention & Hearing, Aphasia & Gestures

https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/ENL/ambizione-preisig.html
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21
🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
www.sciencedirect.com
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
LLRX republished the blogpost www.llrx.com/2025/08/ai-s...
August 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Ausschreibung Ambizione:

Unterstützt Nachwuchsforschende, die selbstständig ein Projekt durchführen und leiten möchten. Eingabefrist: 04.11.2025. Sie möchten mehr erfahren? Nehmen Sie an unserer Online-Infoveranstaltung vom 14.08.2025 teil!

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August 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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ycabral.bsky.social
How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it?
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...
journals.plos.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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balthasarbickel.bsky.social
‼️ PhD opportunity: join a vibrant community working on language evolution @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social please spread widely www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...
www.isle.uzh.ch
May 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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neurotma.bsky.social
❗Job Alert❗Open positions in the Petrovici lab @unibe.ch
to develop an accelerator for the simulation of cortical models of processing and learning!
PhD offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS...
Postdoc offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS...
Please repost & share widely!
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April 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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mmoerel.bsky.social
🚨Job alert🚨
We’re recruiting for another PhD position at MaCSBio @macsbio.bsky.social, focused on computational neuroscience. Come work on brain, sound, and computational models, co-supervised by myself and Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply by 18 May
🔗 tinyurl.com/bdhtwuzs
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
tinyurl.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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cedricboeckx.bsky.social
Paola Cerrito, who is starting her own Hominin Evolution Group at the University of Zürich, has just opened a great PhD position. Fantastic opportunity for someone interested in human life history evolution. I am lucky to collaborate with Paola. She is a terrific scholar
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology | Department of Evolutionary Anthropology | UZH
www.aim.uzh.ch
April 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Thoughtful and generative piece on lateralization by @basilpreisig.bsky.social and Martin Meyer. An important perspective on issues that remain complex. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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emmaholmes90.bsky.social
New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]
Divisional Vacancies
Job Vacancies in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
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March 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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balthasarbickel.bsky.social
Fantastic job opportunity: Join our community of researchers spanning the natural, social, and cognitive sciences in studying the evolution of language in all its dimensions!
March 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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nccrlanguage.bsky.social
📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!

More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
UZH: Data Science Consultant (specialized in statistics)
Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...
jobs.uzh.ch
March 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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avsp.bsky.social
Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... right-lateralized spectral >left-lateralized temporal; Stronger lateralization for speech; top-down processes drive/amplify lateralized speech processing
Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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bnmorillon.bsky.social
POST-DOC CALL!
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...
March 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
basilpreisig.bsky.social
🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread 🧵 1/12
Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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philippedomenech.bsky.social
Tenured-research position opened here in Paris : A great opportunity to leverage the full potential of the new 11.7T MRI scanner at Neurospin @inserm.fr @cea.fr @unicog.bsky.social

🧠🟦 / 🧠🤖 / 🧠🩺
#AcademicSky
March 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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moritzdaum.bsky.social
🦄 #BRAINFAIR! Diskussionsforum zum Thema „Sprachen lernen“ mit @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social, @Silvia Brem und mir.
📅 Mittwoch, 12. März 2025
⏰ 18:30 – 20:00 Uhr
📍 Grosser Hörsaal NORD 1, D 304 (Universitätsspital Zürich, Frauenklinikstrasse 10)

Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Rubina Meixger.
March 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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devcogneuroscience.bsky.social
🚀 PhD Position Opportunity in Child Brain Development Research 🧠

We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join the exciting ChildBrainCircuits+ project, part of the URPP Adaptive Brain Circuits in Development and Learning (AdaBD) at the University of Zurich.

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
UZH: PhD-Stelle im Universitären Forschungsschwerpunkt «Adaptive Brain Circuits during Learning and Development: AdaBD»
Zu vergeben ist eine Doktorand*innenstelle als Teil des Projektes ChildBrainCircuits+ (CBC+) des universitären Forschungsschwerpunktes (UFSP) AdaBD. Das Projekt wird unter der Leitung von Prof. S. Bre...
jobs.uzh.ch
March 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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volkerdellwo.bsky.social
We have to PhD positions in Voice Communication Sciences (VoCS) vailble right now. Deadline for applications is mid March. Contact me if you want to discuss your application.
March 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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tnm-lab.bsky.social
📢 Stellenausschreibung im TNM-Lab: Qualifizierungsstelle (65%) mit Promotionsziel im SFB/TRR 393 an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Forschung zu affektiven Störungen mit modernster Ausstattung (MRT, EEG). Bewerbungsfrist: 02.02.2025. stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/f...
Qualifizierungsstelle mit dem Ziel der Promotion
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de
December 29, 2024 at 11:47 AM
basilpreisig.bsky.social
Dear cognitive neuroscientists of speech and language, do you know a recent book chaptre in English or German that you would recommend that includes the very basics about the state-of-the-art in our field as basis literature for a 2h lecture for bachelor students in psychology?
January 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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briellestark.bsky.social
It's growing!
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December 27, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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lauragwilliams.bsky.social
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...

looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
Google Forms: Sign-in
Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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December 13, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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mkellyirving.bsky.social
Thank you to Prof Bishop
@deevybee.bsky.social
for taking this important stand 👇

“Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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gregoryhickok.bsky.social
Reposting here ICYMI on X.

Just published (OA). My "coordination conjecture" proposal for why humans can move to a beat. Spoiler: it's a by-product of the computational demands for coordinating speech. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The “coordination conjecture” as an alternative to Patel’s fortuitous enhancement hypothesis for the relation between vocal learning and beat-based dancing - BMC Neuroscience
Patel proposes a viable hypothesis regarding the relation between vocal learning and beat-based dancing but it is not without problems. I highlight these problems and propose a solution, the “coordina...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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jeanremiking.bsky.social
Open call for PhD at Rothschild Hospital (Paris) w/ Dr Pierre Bourdillon and me to study the brain bases of language production with intracranial recordings:
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
- MSc outside France and no work in France in the past 2 years.
- Deadline Jan 30th 2025
DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
dim-cbrains.fr
December 10, 2024 at 9:40 AM