Prof Kate Watkins
@kateewatkins.bsky.social
Brain, speech and language research. Works @StAnnesCollege and @OxExpPsy University of Oxford. Co-E-i-C @jneurolang. Owned by Koko.
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As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...
April 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...
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We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision
April 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision
Watery water lillies.
April 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Watery water lillies.
A curious robin
April 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A curious robin
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Doctors at one of England’s leading cancer hospitals have launched a clinical trial of headgear that emits electric fields. The pulses disrupt cell division in glioblastoma — one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer www.thetimes.com/article/23d3...
Electric ‘swimming cap’ could combat brain tumours
The NHS is trialling a headset that emits electrical fields that disrupt cell division, and it may improve survival rates if used early in treatment
www.thetimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Doctors at one of England’s leading cancer hospitals have launched a clinical trial of headgear that emits electric fields. The pulses disrupt cell division in glioblastoma — one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer www.thetimes.com/article/23d3...
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Here's a helpful article with background on the new study of compositionality of bonobo calls, & why findings might be of interest for (at least some) scientists investigating evolution of human language. From the excellent @carlzimmer.com in @nytimes.com .🧪
Today I wrote about compositionality--a foundation of human language. Is it also in the calls of apes? Gift link: nyti.ms/4iO0zct
In the Calls of Bonobos, Scientists Hear Hints of Language (Gift Article)
Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some scholars are skeptical.
nyti.ms
April 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Here's a helpful article with background on the new study of compositionality of bonobo calls, & why findings might be of interest for (at least some) scientists investigating evolution of human language. From the excellent @carlzimmer.com in @nytimes.com .🧪
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"Findings suggest that compositionality [the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures] is a prominent feature of the bonobo vocal system revealing stronger parallels with human language than previously thought." Fascinating work by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social et al.🧪
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"Findings suggest that compositionality [the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures] is a prominent feature of the bonobo vocal system revealing stronger parallels with human language than previously thought." Fascinating work by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social et al.🧪
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Did you know that @jneurolang allows you to submit your manuscript your way? We only require journal specific formatting once your manuscript is accepted. Put your figures in the text and keep reviewers happy 😃 direct.mit.edu/nol/pages/su...
submission-guidelines | Neurobiology of Language | MIT Press
submission-guidelines | Neurobiology of Language | MIT Press
Submit Your Article
Submission Guidelines
All submissions should be made via the Neurobiology of Language online su...
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March 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Did you know that @jneurolang allows you to submit your manuscript your way? We only require journal specific formatting once your manuscript is accepted. Put your figures in the text and keep reviewers happy 😃 direct.mit.edu/nol/pages/su...
Camouflage not always a good thing. Almost squished Toady on my walk this morning.
March 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Camouflage not always a good thing. Almost squished Toady on my walk this morning.
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Does your research investigate how the brain communicates using language? Consider the Neurobiology of Language journal for your next submission. We are fully open access with reasonable APCs. Check out our latest papers direct.mit.edu/nol
Neurobiology of Language | MIT Press
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March 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Does your research investigate how the brain communicates using language? Consider the Neurobiology of Language journal for your next submission. We are fully open access with reasonable APCs. Check out our latest papers direct.mit.edu/nol
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New Call for Papers for a Special Issue: The Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience of Language Disorders: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Primary Progressive Aphasias direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...
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March 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New Call for Papers for a Special Issue: The Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience of Language Disorders: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Primary Progressive Aphasias direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...
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New review on the neurobiology of sentence production by my grad student Jeremy Yeaton. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis
Although there is a sizeable body of literature on sentence comprehension and processing both in healthy and disordered language users, the literature…
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February 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
New review on the neurobiology of sentence production by my grad student Jeremy Yeaton. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Afasic helpline is open Mondays & Wednesdays 10.30am till 4.00pm to discuss difficulties your child may have with speech & language. 📞 0300 666 9410
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March 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Afasic helpline is open Mondays & Wednesdays 10.30am till 4.00pm to discuss difficulties your child may have with speech & language. 📞 0300 666 9410
afasic.org.uk
📧 Info@afasic.org.uk
www.afasic.org.uk/the-afasic-h...
afasic.org.uk
📧 Info@afasic.org.uk
www.afasic.org.uk/the-afasic-h...
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Ever wonder how the brain works to _stop_ your speech midway?🤫🧠
Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is now out @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! See a brief summary below and the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is now out @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! See a brief summary below and the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Ever wonder how the brain works to _stop_ your speech midway?🤫🧠
Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is now out @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! See a brief summary below and the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is now out @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! See a brief summary below and the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Great to see wonderful Irene Tracey on top of the league www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best...
International Women’s Day: top universities led by women
More than a quarter of the top 200 universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings are run by women, a number which is increasing year on year
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March 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Great to see wonderful Irene Tracey on top of the league www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best...
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For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Another proud supervisor moment yesterday. Congratulations Dr Nilgoun Bahar (not yet on bsky). Celebrated with brain-themed pav (of which I’m also proud 😊)
Thanks to examiners Gaia Scerif and Frédérique Liégeois.
Thanks to examiners Gaia Scerif and Frédérique Liégeois.
January 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Another proud supervisor moment yesterday. Congratulations Dr Nilgoun Bahar (not yet on bsky). Celebrated with brain-themed pav (of which I’m also proud 😊)
Thanks to examiners Gaia Scerif and Frédérique Liégeois.
Thanks to examiners Gaia Scerif and Frédérique Liégeois.
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1st preprint of 2025! @jamielmitchell.bsky.social found that as children with dyslexia improve their reading ability, their reading area in the brain grows, yet remains markedly different from their peers. So excited to see this after years of data collection with this great team! Feedback welcome!
Happy to announce that my first preprint with @jyeatman.bsky.social and @mayayablonski.bsky.social is live! After 4 yrs of collecting data, we've learned a lot about the potential for and constraints of learning-induced plasticity from this longitudinal reading intervention study shorturl.at/W2UMO
Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia
Understanding the balance between plastic and persistent traits in the dyslexic brain is critical for developing effective interventions. This longitudinal intervention study examines the Visual Word ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
1st preprint of 2025! @jamielmitchell.bsky.social found that as children with dyslexia improve their reading ability, their reading area in the brain grows, yet remains markedly different from their peers. So excited to see this after years of data collection with this great team! Feedback welcome!
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Interesting new work by Kimi Akita: Ideophones more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Interesting new work by Kimi Akita: Ideophones more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Do you want to do a phd on #speech and #song and how we use our brain for it #electrophysiology #neuroimaging #motor #rhythm ? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions.
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Please forward to everyone interested!
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Please forward to everyone interested!
October 16, 2023 at 8:35 AM
Do you want to do a phd on #speech and #song and how we use our brain for it #electrophysiology #neuroimaging #motor #rhythm ? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions.
e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...
Please forward to everyone interested!
e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...
Please forward to everyone interested!
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First obituary of Eleanor Maguire
Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:
Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:
Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...
Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory
Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
First obituary of Eleanor Maguire
Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:
Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:
One of my favourite podcasts. And this is now one of my favourite episodes.
New episode!! 🧠🎙️
A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.
How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.
How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
December 22, 2024 at 7:16 AM
One of my favourite podcasts. And this is now one of my favourite episodes.
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Neurobiology of Language is an #openaccess journal that provides articles across a range of disciplines addressing the neurobiological basis of speech & language. A new issue is out now: https://direct.mit.edu/nol/issue/5/4
Follow @jneurolang.bsky.social to stay current on the latest research!
Follow @jneurolang.bsky.social to stay current on the latest research!
December 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Neurobiology of Language is an #openaccess journal that provides articles across a range of disciplines addressing the neurobiological basis of speech & language. A new issue is out now: https://direct.mit.edu/nol/issue/5/4
Follow @jneurolang.bsky.social to stay current on the latest research!
Follow @jneurolang.bsky.social to stay current on the latest research!