Language and Memory Aging Lab
@lamalab.bsky.social
PI: Brennan Payne. The Language and Memory Aging (LaMA) Lab is a cognitive neuroscience lab at the University of Utah. https://lama-lab.com
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Hello everyone! A brief bio: we are a cognitive neuroscience research lab in the Psychology department at University of Utah. We research the cognitive and neural bases of language comprehension across the adult lifespan using tools like EEG, eye tracking, and TMS. Account run by Brennan Payne.
Check out our new paper in CABN (special issue on neuroscience of effort). @sarahdoesscience.bsky.social shows that acoustic challenge modulates aperiodic activity in younger and older listeners, effects correlated with hearing loss and distinct from alpha modulations.
My article is officially out today!! We are using aperiodic neural activity to index listening effort in older and younger adults. rdcu.be/ePrmm
Aperiodic neural activity during speech comprehension in aging: Insights into cognitive effort
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November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Check out our new paper in CABN (special issue on neuroscience of effort). @sarahdoesscience.bsky.social shows that acoustic challenge modulates aperiodic activity in younger and older listeners, effects correlated with hearing loss and distinct from alpha modulations.
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One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).
Yay, thanks so much for sharing this! 🥳 I am excited to be starting my new lab this Fall! I’ll be reviewing applications this cycle for 1-2 graduate students to start in Fall 2026. More information about applications can be found here: psych.utah.edu/graduate/
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).
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Imagine working in a restaurant where the boss tells you the job performance is based only on tables served. But then every shift you are scheduled to the stockroom, the dishwashing station, and occasionally to like, trim the hedges outside.
Anyway. I'm an associate professor...
Anyway. I'm an associate professor...
October 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Imagine working in a restaurant where the boss tells you the job performance is based only on tables served. But then every shift you are scheduled to the stockroom, the dishwashing station, and occasionally to like, trim the hedges outside.
Anyway. I'm an associate professor...
Anyway. I'm an associate professor...
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🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
August 16, 2024 at 7:40 PM
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
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There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition.
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition.
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps...
The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!
The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!
August 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps...
The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!
The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!
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A statistical error known as pseudoreplication appears in more than half of recent mouse studies on neurological disorders, according to a new study. Peter Kind and Constantino Elfetheriou tell Lauren Schenkman why researchers should pay attention.
www.thetransmitter.org/pseudoreplic...
www.thetransmitter.org/pseudoreplic...
Sounding the alarm on pseudoreplication: Q&A with Constantinos Eleftheriou and Peter Kind
Most studies of neurological disorders in mice erroneously treat multiple samples from a single animal as independent replicates, according to a new analysis. But scientists and journals can take…
www.thetransmitter.org
June 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A statistical error known as pseudoreplication appears in more than half of recent mouse studies on neurological disorders, according to a new study. Peter Kind and Constantino Elfetheriou tell Lauren Schenkman why researchers should pay attention.
www.thetransmitter.org/pseudoreplic...
www.thetransmitter.org/pseudoreplic...
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President Trump’s FY26 budget for #NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6%
These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.
These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.
June 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
President Trump’s FY26 budget for #NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6%
These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.
These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.
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The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care?
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
May 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care?
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
Devastating...
Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut.
It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.
It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.
May 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Devastating...
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I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
And here is a free link to the published paper, now in Brain and Language: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l18O,28iJ...
May 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
And here is a free link to the published paper, now in Brain and Language: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l18O,28iJ...
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Every year at the end of the semester, I ask the students in my Psych of Language class to create memes about what they've learned. They then vote for their favorites.
Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed.
1/5
Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed.
1/5
April 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Every year at the end of the semester, I ask the students in my Psych of Language class to create memes about what they've learned. They then vote for their favorites.
Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed.
1/5
Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed.
1/5
Out now in Brain & Language -- "Did you say brain or brave? Event-related potentials reveal the central role of phonological prediction in false hearing"
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
April 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Out now in Brain & Language -- "Did you say brain or brave? Event-related potentials reveal the central role of phonological prediction in false hearing"
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Hey academics, wondering about changes for evaluating job applicants and T&P decisions.
Downgrade importance of grants if getting grants is no longer based on scientific evaluation.
Increase the value of communication with the general public. We need to speak clearly about the value of our work.
Downgrade importance of grants if getting grants is no longer based on scientific evaluation.
Increase the value of communication with the general public. We need to speak clearly about the value of our work.
April 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hey academics, wondering about changes for evaluating job applicants and T&P decisions.
Downgrade importance of grants if getting grants is no longer based on scientific evaluation.
Increase the value of communication with the general public. We need to speak clearly about the value of our work.
Downgrade importance of grants if getting grants is no longer based on scientific evaluation.
Increase the value of communication with the general public. We need to speak clearly about the value of our work.
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I'm giving a talk with Mark Seidenberg at Planet Word Museum on March 1. We haven't done a joint talk in over 30 years! My part aims to bring insights from psycholinguistic research to children's reading instruction. planetwordmuseum.org/events/eyes-...
Eyes on Reading: What’s Next in the Science of Reading — Planet Word Museum
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from Dr. Mark Seidenberg and Dr. Maryellen MacDonald, two of the world’s leading scientists in reading and language research, as they join Planet…
planetwordmuseum.org
February 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm giving a talk with Mark Seidenberg at Planet Word Museum on March 1. We haven't done a joint talk in over 30 years! My part aims to bring insights from psycholinguistic research to children's reading instruction. planetwordmuseum.org/events/eyes-...
🚨Pre-print alert! 🚨
New paper lead by Sara LoTemplio & Jack Silcox (not on bluesky)-- We examine single-trial relationships between error-related brain and pupil responses and their prediction of post-error behavior via simultaneous EEG-pupillometry.
www.authorea.com/users/869767...
New paper lead by Sara LoTemplio & Jack Silcox (not on bluesky)-- We examine single-trial relationships between error-related brain and pupil responses and their prediction of post-error behavior via simultaneous EEG-pupillometry.
www.authorea.com/users/869767...
Single-trial relationships between neural and pupillometric indices of error-processing and behavior.
The amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN) is known to be correlated with attention to task and general cognitive control abilities. Yet, previous research has struggled to consistently link ...
www.authorea.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:32 PM
🚨Pre-print alert! 🚨
New paper lead by Sara LoTemplio & Jack Silcox (not on bluesky)-- We examine single-trial relationships between error-related brain and pupil responses and their prediction of post-error behavior via simultaneous EEG-pupillometry.
www.authorea.com/users/869767...
New paper lead by Sara LoTemplio & Jack Silcox (not on bluesky)-- We examine single-trial relationships between error-related brain and pupil responses and their prediction of post-error behavior via simultaneous EEG-pupillometry.
www.authorea.com/users/869767...
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“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
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Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Hello everyone! A brief bio: we are a cognitive neuroscience research lab in the Psychology department at University of Utah. We research the cognitive and neural bases of language comprehension across the adult lifespan using tools like EEG, eye tracking, and TMS. Account run by Brennan Payne.
November 24, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Hello everyone! A brief bio: we are a cognitive neuroscience research lab in the Psychology department at University of Utah. We research the cognitive and neural bases of language comprehension across the adult lifespan using tools like EEG, eye tracking, and TMS. Account run by Brennan Payne.