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Florence Bouhali
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientist | reading acquisition | plasticity 🤓📖🧠
@ CRPN @ilcb.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr | previously brainLENS lab @ UCSF
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standehaene.bsky.social
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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drelsje.bsky.social
🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context

🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier.

📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇
Figure 2 in the review: Levels of analysis from genes and brain systems to cognition and behaviour. The child both influences and is influenced by parents through genetically shaped interactions, and by the wider school and social environment. Figure design by Neil Usher. Figure from this review paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w23yz_v1
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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wmatchin.bsky.social
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social receiving the well-deserved @snlmtg.bsky.social Distinguished Career Award

David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.

#SNL2025
September 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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kemmorey.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to introduce DR. Brennan Terhune-Cotter who defended his dissertation last week! His work shows that occipital (visual) cortex is recruited during high-level language processing for ASL and that deaf adults who lack early sign access show greater activation in occipital cortex
Brennan standing next to his title slide "Exploring the neural network for sign language comprehension across deaf signers"
August 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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kemmorey.bsky.social
"Reading with deaf eyes: Automatic activation of speech-based phonology during word recognition is task dependent" - new paper by @katerowley.bsky.social and colleagues. Hearing readers are often more distracted by phonology than deaf readers 😀
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Reading with deaf eyes: Automatic activation of speech-based phonology during word recognition is task dependent
Literacy levels are highly variable within the deaf population and, compared to the general population, on average, reading levels are lower. As speech-based phonological coding is a known predictor o...
journals.plos.org
August 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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kemmorey.bsky.social
Read all about the neural network for sign language comprehension! New review paper with Brennan Terhune-Cotter! Please email me (or Brennan) for a copy if you can't access the paper compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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owoolnough.bsky.social
For everyone out there working at the intersection of vision and language. We are currently accepting submissions for a Journal of Vision Special Issue on the vision-language interface
Submission deadline: Dec 31st
jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan...

#neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
Journal of Vision Special Issue The vision-language interface Call for papers Vision and language are often considered to be separate cognitive systems, studied by separate research teams. However, they interact when we use vision for linguistic communication: when reading printed text, when describing verbally the things we see, and when observing the expressions and gestures of an interlocutor (during sign language, for example). The development of these critical skills changes the brain, such that the visual and language systems influence one another. In particular, regions of the cerebral cortex that are typically responsive to visual stimuli are also recruited for linguistic tasks. But some of those ideas are controversial. For instance, for well over a century scientists have debated whether the brains of literate individuals contain a region that is specialized for recognizing written words. The Journal of Vision invites submissions for a Special Issue on the interface between vision and language. The unique perspectives and techniques of vision science contribute much to the understanding of language. This special issue welcomes empirical papers that use behavioral/psychophysical, neuroimaging, electrophysiological and stimulation methods. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Functional specialization in the brain for reading and naming - Semantic representations in the brain - Letter recognition and perceptual learning - Sign language comprehension - Eye movements during reading or other linguistic tasks - Development of visual skills for reading and communication - Links between visual cortical activity and representations in large language models - Visual processing differences in dyslexia Editors: Susana Chung Kalanit Grill-Spector Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga Hans Op de Beeck Zeynep Saygin Alex White Oscar Woolnough Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2025. All papers will be subject to peer review.
July 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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olgakepinska.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨Big, BIG news!!! 🎉 In Fall 2025, I'm starting as a CNRS Researcher at LPL @univ-amu.fr in Aix-en-Provence, South of France. Thrilled to join the amazing @ilcb.bsky.social community and launch my research on fetal language acquisition & brain development in multilingual contexts. 🫄🗣️🧠 Stay tuned!
June 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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adumbmoron.bsky.social
🧠 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
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
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kathyrastle.bsky.social
Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research published in @psychscience.bsky.social shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.
May 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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franckramus.bsky.social
Les parents ont tendance à s'engager sur le plan linguistique davantage avec les filles
Une interview qui éclaire les résultats de notre dernière étude avec Lilas Gurgand et Hugo Peyre, basée sur la cohorte Elfe:
cognition.ens.fr/fr/news/les-...
L'étude source:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Actualités: Les parents ont tendance à s'engager sur le plan linguistique davantage avec les filles | DEC Département d'études cognitives
Recherche: Une étude récemment publiée dans la revue Learning and Individual Differences explore comment l'engagement linguistique des parents diffère entre les garçons et les filles et comment il…
cognition.ens.fr
May 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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grahamflick.bsky.social
Very happy to share a preprint from the final project of my PhD with @liinapy.bsky.social!

Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: Localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
Visual reading proceeds fixation-by-fixation, with individual words recognized and integrated into evolving conceptual representations within only hundreds of milliseconds. This relies, in part, on in...
www.biorxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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olgakepinska.bsky.social
Hey, that's us! @brainlanglab.bsky.social
elife.bsky.social eLife @elife.bsky.social · Apr 10
Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
Polyglot brains
A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
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April 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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olgakepinska.bsky.social
Delighted to have the Version of Record of our work published by @elife.bsky.social. Please take a look at how we answered the question of whether the auditory cortex accommodates multilingual phonological experience (spoiler: it does, and very interestingly so!) 🗣️👂🧠
olgakepinska.bsky.social Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social · Oct 19
🚨Our paper with @brainlanglab.bsky.social on how multilingual phonology shapes the auditory cortex is out in @elife.bsky.social : elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 🚨 Loved the process and looking forward to tackling the reviews out in the open!
Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience
elifesciences.org
March 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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drelsje.bsky.social
🚀 New paper & press release! 🧬📖 🧮 Our large-scale study (20,000 children) shows that #ADHD, #dyslexia, and #dyscalculia often co-occur due to shared genetic risk—not because one condition causes the other.
doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)
Genetics reveal: Children with ADHD at greater risk for learning difficulties - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De erfelijke aanleg voor ADHD overlapt met aanleg voor dyslexie en dyscalculie, blijkt uit onderzoek van de VU en UvA.
vu.nl
March 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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ilcb.bsky.social
🚀 #ILCB #SummerSchool 2025 – Apply Now! 🌞🧠

Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!

🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats

📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/

Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢
The 8th edition of the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB) Summer School 2025 | ILCB
Monday, September 1st – Friday, September 5th, 2025
www.ilcb.fr
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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sblldtrch.bsky.social
I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.

Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj

Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins
We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...
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March 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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jpeelle.bsky.social
More on the ongoing NIH firings, which include intramural scientists
jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 16
More termination emails have been going out this afternoon and into the evening. It is not clear whether these are for folks who were supposed to receive these yesterday (because there were apparently some snafus or whether this is a new wave of people who were not previously notified orally.

1/n
February 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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jurgentijms.bsky.social
It's almost time for our 11th CO-AIR webinar on audiovisual integration and reading: Wed. Feb. 19th, 6-8 pm (CET)!

So, few days left for late birds to register...

Inspiring talks: Hannah Nash, @irenebalboni.bsky.social, @gretatuckute.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lee.

Register: tinyurl.com/y6rnxp9k
February 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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parkvillegeek.bsky.social
Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship to literacy development | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM