If you use divergence point analysis code from Stone et al. 2020 or 2021, note that we made a code revision recently, detailed in the Analysis folder: osf.io/exbmk/ Shouldn't majorly affect previous analyses, but the revised version should be used going forward.

Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.

SAVE THE DATE! Join us in Lisbon next year for the International Word Processing Conference (6–8 July 2026)!

WoProc continues the legacy of MoProc―a conference that, since 1999, has brought together researchers working on morphological processing.
www.woproc2026.com

New paper with Chao Zhou in BLC: doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100114
What makes lexical tones challenging for L2 learners? Previous studies suggest that phonological universals are at play... In our perceptual study, we found little evidence for these universals.

How do memory retrieval and prediction work together during sentence comprehension?
We use computational modelling and visual world eye-tracking to unpack their interaction in German pronouns. New article led by Elise Oltrogge, together by João Veríssimo, and Umesh Patil: doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project:

"Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models"
(funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de)

📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years
🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen
🔄 Thanks for sharing!

New paper!
"A gentle introduction to bayesian statistics, with applications to bilingualism research", now out in LAB: doi.org/10.1075/lab....

Ok frequentists, let’s call a truce. This has gone too far.

3rd Workshop on Eye Movements & the Assessment of Reading Comprehension 👁️📖

The full program with abstracts is now online!
🔗 tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...

NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

New preprint! (w/ @sollago.bsky.social )
We tackle a key challenge in the analysis of visual world data: when do experimental effects first emerge?

SIX YEARS after the initial blog post, this paper is finally published.. what a wild ride

- the blog: bit.ly/3GbOqQa
- original tweet thread: x.com/Nate__Haines...
- published (open access) paper: doi.org/10.1037/met0...

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :)

vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is looking for a new Co-Editor-in-Chief!
We are looking for someone with expertise in experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics and a focus on the linguistic side of bilingualism research. See
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper with @casillas.bsky.social on Generalised Additive Models for bilingualism research: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...