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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · 7d

New paper together with Elin Runnqvist and Friedemann Pulvermüller (accepted right before his passing 😔).

Must be the first time I am sad to announce a publication, though I am glad Friedemann still got to see this cool collaborative work published.

A short 🧵 /1

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Shared phonological networks in frontal and temporal cortex for language production and comprehension

Abstract. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated whether language production and understanding recruit similar phoneme-specif

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding

We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · 4d

Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....

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Torge Dellert @torgedellert.bsky.social · 5d

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !

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Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

Neural correlates of consciousness in an auditory no-report fMRI study

Dellert et al. use functional magnetic resonance imaging and inattentional deafness to identify the neural basis of conscious auditory perception in humans. Their results reveal a dominant role of sti...

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, DJ Brain is now streaming his set online for the kids: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Meet the Brain’s DJs: Brain Rhythms Help us Understand Language

The human brain is made of many cells called neurons, responsible for processing information. Neurons work in rhythms, setting the pace for language. Like a DJ playing music to set the pace for dancin...

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · 14d

People, mark your Kalender *now* to be well prepared for a Language Circle Deluxe Edition with @andrearavignani.bsky.social—18 November, 1:30 PM CET, live at @mpicbs.bsky.social or online at zoom.us/j/94686183586. Let everyone else know, too!

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 20d

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social -
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2026 | Max Planck Institute

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 19d

Open assistant professor position in noninvasive brain stimulation in cognition at Maastricht University: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3557...

Assistant Professor in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Cognition

Welcome to the Brain Stimulation and Cognition lab at Maastricht University! Our goal: The Brain Stimulation and Cognition group at Maastricht University aims to unravel the psychological and neural m...

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Noémie Monchy @noemiemonchy.bsky.social · 20d

What if the “oscillatory” brain networks we study aren’t truly oscillatory?

In EEG, we show that most functional connectivity patterns reflect aperiodic activity, challenging a key assumption in neuroscience.

@jduprez.bsky.social will present it at @sfn.org

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Functional connectivity is dominated by aperiodic, rather than oscillatory, coupling

Functional connectivity (FC) has attracted significant interest in the identification of specific circuits underlying brain (dys-)function. Classical analyses to estimate FC ( i.e ., filtering electro...

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · 25d

Here he is, jamming his straight beat in Berlin, Einstein watching.

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 26d

I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · 26d

Lena Henke aka The One and Only Lena Henke of team Language Cycles graduated SUMMA CUM LAUDE from the University of Leipzig today. Thank you for the journey—it was an honour to supervise you. Your scientific attitude and rigor and your power as a person are exemplary.

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · Oct 8

You want to study a natural science of language—processing, theory, body, and brain? You want practical skills and broad overviews, but no theoretical bias? From this winter term, I shall teach Phonetics & Phonology / Morphosyntax / Neuroscientific Methods at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · Sep 30

Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open!

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Apply for AI and Linguistics (Assistant, Associate or full Professor) | U-M Careers

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · Sep 30

There’s only one original Andrea E. Martin.

andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · Sep 29

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · Sep 29

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 29

Get to know New fellow @andreaeyleen.bsky.social from the MPI for Psycholinguistics. In a recent paper (Weissbart & Martin, 2024, Nature Communications), she shows that the brain doesn’t just rely on word statistics or grammatical rules, but it uses both. Very excited to have her in our program! 🧠🧠🧠

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · Sep 25

Learning the moment-to-moment, fast-paced dance of turn-taking in conversation is tricky. Imme, Maartje, Middy and I show how 2 year old (Dutch) kids track pronoun use to predict who is gonna speak next in an interaction. Just published in JECP. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation

Children’s exposure to language is shaped by interactional needs in conversation. Prior research has largely focused on how such language influences w…

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · Sep 13

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(PDF) Brain Treebank: Large-scale intracranial recordings from naturalistic language stimuli

PDF | We present the Brain Treebank, a large-scale dataset of electrophysiological neural responses, recorded from intracranial probes while 10 subjects... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · Sep 9

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

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Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Aug 31

Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind. New book by @falkhuettig.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/9781....

Looking Ahead

Cambridge Core - Cognition - Looking Ahead

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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · Aug 21

Finally settling a critical debate?!

Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · May 21

I really like the backstory of this paper. I had been working w C Dideriksen & @chrismmcox.bsky.social on weird properties of Danish Infant Directed speech (srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). I wanted to rigorously understand our findings given what was known on IDS across languages 1/

Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · May 21

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · May 21

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

LLM finds it FAR easier to distinguish b/w DO & PO constructions when the lexical & info structure of instances conform more closely w/ the respective constructions (left 👇). Where's pure syntax? LLM seems to say "🤷‍♀️" (right) @SRakshit
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 13

Evaluating scientific theories as predictive models in language neuroscience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669958v1

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