David Poeppel
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social
I'm incredibly honored to receive the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring. This makes me very sentimental! I'm so proud of the wonderful, super sharp students and postdocs that I have had the privilege and pleasure to work with. ❤️ Thank you!!!
Congratulations to the 2025 SfN award & prize recipients!
Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries.
SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25.
Learn about the recipients.
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#neurosky
Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries.
SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25.
Learn about the recipients.
🔗 vist.ly/4cni8
#neurosky
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm incredibly honored to receive the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring. This makes me very sentimental! I'm so proud of the wonderful, super sharp students and postdocs that I have had the privilege and pleasure to work with. ❤️ Thank you!!!
The psychology program at NYU Abu Dhabi has open rank open area positions in cognition-perception-cogneuro. Wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure (incl MRI, MEG, EEG), close ties to NYU New York. Superfast growing part of the research world
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#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
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November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The psychology program at NYU Abu Dhabi has open rank open area positions in cognition-perception-cogneuro. Wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure (incl MRI, MEG, EEG), close ties to NYU New York. Superfast growing part of the research world
apply.interfolio.com/175417
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
CogNeuroLanguage: new by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence
Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the human brain | PNAS
Speech comprehension involves transforming an acoustic waveform into meaning. To do
so, the human brain generates a hierarchy of features that conv...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
CogNeuroLanguage: new by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence
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BREAKING
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
October 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
BREAKING
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Just a couple days ago, these two Swedish musicians—classical guitarist Emil Ernebro and harmonicist Filip Jers—released this cover of the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." It's jammin' and it's lovely. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmh...
”While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - harmonica and guitar cover by Filip Jers & Emil Ernebro
YouTube video by Filip Jers Music
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October 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Just a couple days ago, these two Swedish musicians—classical guitarist Emil Ernebro and harmonicist Filip Jers—released this cover of the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." It's jammin' and it's lovely. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmh...
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This from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is just amazingly good. Turns out you can be wildly successful at politics while still being smart, thoughtful, and aware of history. I hope politicians all over will use this as a role model.
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is just amazingly good. Turns out you can be wildly successful at politics while still being smart, thoughtful, and aware of history. I hope politicians all over will use this as a role model.
Very interesting and helpful data/paper on slower speech modulations by @ayeletlandau.bsky.social lab, with Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS
Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech
[W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...
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September 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Very interesting and helpful data/paper on slower speech modulations by @ayeletlandau.bsky.social lab, with Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
If you like music, music theory, cognitive science, and new ideas, this merits a look
@omriraccah.bsky.social, Michael Seltenreich, Claire Pelofi, plus Fred Lerdahl & me
osf.io/preprints/ps...
If you like music, music theory, cognitive science, and new ideas, this merits a look
@omriraccah.bsky.social, Michael Seltenreich, Claire Pelofi, plus Fred Lerdahl & me
OSF
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August 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
If you like music, music theory, cognitive science, and new ideas, this merits a look
@omriraccah.bsky.social, Michael Seltenreich, Claire Pelofi, plus Fred Lerdahl & me
osf.io/preprints/ps...
If you like music, music theory, cognitive science, and new ideas, this merits a look
@omriraccah.bsky.social, Michael Seltenreich, Claire Pelofi, plus Fred Lerdahl & me
This 2021 paper by @benjamingagl.bsky.social and colleagues is full of important findings and ideas about the temporal structure of reading and speech. I keep coming back to these data.
Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production - Nature Human Behaviour
Speech is produced and perceived at a rate of 4–5 Hz. Gagl et al. show that the temporal structure of our eye movements during reading is similar (3.9–5.2 Hz), suggesting a temporal link between readi...
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This 2021 paper by @benjamingagl.bsky.social and colleagues is full of important findings and ideas about the temporal structure of reading and speech. I keep coming back to these data.
Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Will there be midterm elections? Mayoral elections in big blue cities? Will "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER" fuck with all elections? Are we just gonna watch??
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Opinion | Would You Trust This Man With Your Elections?
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August 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Will there be midterm elections? Mayoral elections in big blue cities? Will "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER" fuck with all elections? Are we just gonna watch??
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Yikes!
Cash crunch + repressive federal government = Chicago crashing out of the top tier of schools for a while. Not great days for my alma mater.
The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”
August 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Yikes!
Just revisiting this paper that itself revisited *ooold* papers of mine (2001, 2003). This reanalysis and review shows clearly what remains right / plausible and what is unclear / dodgy about the AST hypothesis. Thanks, coauthors, for making me take a new look.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives
Auditory and speech signals are undisputedly processed in both left and right hemispheres, but this bilateral allocation is likely unequal. The Asymme…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just revisiting this paper that itself revisited *ooold* papers of mine (2001, 2003). This reanalysis and review shows clearly what remains right / plausible and what is unclear / dodgy about the AST hypothesis. Thanks, coauthors, for making me take a new look.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
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M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
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@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation
Job Offer from August 11, 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
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Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006
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August 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006
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a seemingly general electrophysiological phenomenon: once you have to process stimuli, low-frequency rhythms disappear, spectrum becomes flatter & sometimes an increase in broadband gamma activity.
we also found this for visual memory encoding in #iEEG data: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2404-24.2025
we also found this for visual memory encoding in #iEEG data: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2404-24.2025
July 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
a seemingly general electrophysiological phenomenon: once you have to process stimuli, low-frequency rhythms disappear, spectrum becomes flatter & sometimes an increase in broadband gamma activity.
we also found this for visual memory encoding in #iEEG data: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2404-24.2025
we also found this for visual memory encoding in #iEEG data: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2404-24.2025
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A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...
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August 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
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Happy Birthday Gary Larson, 75 years old today. A perfect excuse to celebrate his tireless efforts documenting major breakthroughs in science, including this pivotal moment for language research:
August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Birthday Gary Larson, 75 years old today. A perfect excuse to celebrate his tireless efforts documenting major breakthroughs in science, including this pivotal moment for language research:
Uh oh.
It has been "known" that musical experience improves auditory coding in the brainstem. But...a new multilab study concludes
"Our findings provide no evidence for associations between early auditory neural responses and either musical training or musical ability."
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Our findings provide no evidence for associations between early auditory neural responses and either musical training or musical ability."
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding - Nature Communications
Widely cited studies have claimed that musical training is associated with enhanced neural encoding for sound at early stages of the auditory system. Results from this large-scale multisite study do n...
www.nature.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Uh oh.
Just looked through this paper again - and I still think these results are cool (and less obvious than one might think) :-)
"Syllables and their beginnings have a special role in the mental lexicon" Yue Sun providing a nice perspective on phonology and the lexicon.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
"Syllables and their beginnings have a special role in the mental lexicon" Yue Sun providing a nice perspective on phonology and the lexicon.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Just looked through this paper again - and I still think these results are cool (and less obvious than one might think) :-)
"Syllables and their beginnings have a special role in the mental lexicon" Yue Sun providing a nice perspective on phonology and the lexicon.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
"Syllables and their beginnings have a special role in the mental lexicon" Yue Sun providing a nice perspective on phonology and the lexicon.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
Just saw a terrific Tosca and Sunday in the Park w George at the excellent Glimmerglass Festival @ggfestival.bsky.social
In addition to the first-rate music, I appreciated the important reminders about our responsibility and citizenship given the dangerous direction the US is taking.
In addition to the first-rate music, I appreciated the important reminders about our responsibility and citizenship given the dangerous direction the US is taking.
August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Just saw a terrific Tosca and Sunday in the Park w George at the excellent Glimmerglass Festival @ggfestival.bsky.social
In addition to the first-rate music, I appreciated the important reminders about our responsibility and citizenship given the dangerous direction the US is taking.
In addition to the first-rate music, I appreciated the important reminders about our responsibility and citizenship given the dangerous direction the US is taking.
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Five under the radar things Trump snuck into his "Big Beautiful Bill":
- Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil
- Defunds Planned Parenthood
- Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway)
- Hikes monthly student loan payments
- Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency
- Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil
- Defunds Planned Parenthood
- Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway)
- Hikes monthly student loan payments
- Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency
July 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Five under the radar things Trump snuck into his "Big Beautiful Bill":
- Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil
- Defunds Planned Parenthood
- Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway)
- Hikes monthly student loan payments
- Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency
- Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil
- Defunds Planned Parenthood
- Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway)
- Hikes monthly student loan payments
- Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
🍾🙌 Congrats to Cas Coopmans for winning the Otto Hahn medal for his terrific PhD thesis (2023)! Clever experiments, very thoughtful ideas, analyses & discussions - and important topics. Congratulations to Cas (next to Peter Hagoort). (And I am happy to work with Cas as a postdoc now 👍)
July 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🍾🙌 Congrats to Cas Coopmans for winning the Otto Hahn medal for his terrific PhD thesis (2023)! Clever experiments, very thoughtful ideas, analyses & discussions - and important topics. Congratulations to Cas (next to Peter Hagoort). (And I am happy to work with Cas as a postdoc now 👍)
Good list for new students in neurobiology of language by @wmatchin.bsky.social
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/m213u2uh...
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/m213u2uh...
Neurobiology of language: the top 15 most influential papers (to me)
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July 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Good list for new students in neurobiology of language by @wmatchin.bsky.social
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/m213u2uh...
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/m213u2uh...