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Very cool new accent-relatedness visualization, examples, and some insightful observations accent-explorer.boldvoice.com
How AI Hears Accents
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October 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Looking for researchers in computational neuroscience and cognition (incl. language, learning, development, decision-making) to join our faculty!
We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in Computational Neuroscience/Cognition at
@uor-braincogsci.bsky.social! Join a Simons-supported cluster across Math/Physics/Biology/BCS. Apply by Nov 1, 2025: www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac... #ComputationalNeuroscience #Cognition #FacultyJobs
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October 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Review starts 11/1: Asst. prof. (tenure track), human cognition, Brain and CogSci, U Rochester www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac...
September 12, 2024 at 10:03 PM
New R library STM github.com/santiagobarr... by Santiago Barreda that implements Nearey & Assmann's PST model of vowel perception, and a fully Bayesian extension (the BSTM). Easy to use and to apply to your data. It's also what we used in our recent paper www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
GitHub - santiagobarreda/STM: The 'STM' (Sliding Template Model) R Package
The 'STM' (Sliding Template Model) R Package. Contribute to santiagobarreda/STM development by creating an account on GitHub.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New work w/ Santiago Barreda: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... .We reintroduce Nearey & Assmann's seminal probabilistic sliding template model (PSTM), visualize its workings, & find that it predicts human vowel perception with high accuracy, far outperforming other normalization models 1/3
Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception
Normalization of the speech signal onto comparatively invariant phonetic representations is critical to speech perception. Assumptions about this process also play a central role in phonetics and phon...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Very excited about this: putting distributional learning (DL) models of adaptive speech perception to a strong, informative test sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Maryann Tan. We use Bayesian ideal observers & adapters to assess whether DL predicts rapid changes in speech perception 1/2
September 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Excited to see this out in JASA @asa-news.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1121/10.0.... provides a large-scale evaluation of formant normalization accounts as a model of vowel perception. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Now out: exciting work w/ Klinton Bicknell, @wbushong.bsky.social, & Mike Tanenhaus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... It's a massive tour-de-force, revisiting several misunderstood 'limitations' of information maintenance during spoken language understanding. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social
Maintenance of subcategorical information during speech perception: Revisiting misunderstood limitations
Accurate word recognition is facilitated by context. Some relevant context, however, occurs after the word. Rational use of such “right context” would…
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February 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New work by @wbushong.bsky.social out in JEP:LMC: listeners might strategically moderate maintenance of perceptual information during spoken language understanding based on the expected informativity of subsequent context. 1/2
Excited to share my new paper with @hlplab.bsky.social on the role of contextual informativity in spoken word recognition! Check it out in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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February 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
SFB-funded Collaborative Research Centre “Prominence in Language” at U Cologne, Germany offers junior & senior research fellowships for 1-6 months between 04-12/2025 (1800-2500 Euro/month) sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/ (20 projects in prosody, morphosyntax & semantics, text & discourse structure)
CRC Prominence in Language
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December 16, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Join Andriy Myachykov in Macau =): U Macau invites applications for research assistant professor & postdoctoral fellows under UM Talent Programme aiming to attract high-calibre talents---including in neuroscience & cognitive science at UM Center for Cognitive & Brain Sciences (ccbs.ici.um.edu.mo).
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December 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories.

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Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNAS
Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...
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December 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Congratulations to Anna Persson (www.su.se/english/prof...) on defending her thesis at @stockholmuni.bsky.social! Fantastic work, thorough & insightful, a must-read for anyone interested in the auditory mechanisms supporting robust speech perception across talkers. www.linkedin.com/posts/floria...
Florian Jaeger on LinkedIn: Congratulations to Anna Persson on a great thesis! It has been a lot of…
Congratulations to Anna Persson on a great thesis! It has been a lot of fun to be part of this project over the last five years, I learned a lot, and it was…
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December 7, 2024 at 4:49 PM