Laura Gwilliams
@lauragwilliams.bsky.social
Language processing - Neuroscience - Machine Learning - Assistant Professor at Stanford University - She/Her - 🏳️🌈
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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November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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...
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I’m excited to share our Findings of EMNLP paper w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social , @rtommccoy.bsky.social, and @rdhawkins.bsky.social !
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I’m excited to share our Findings of EMNLP paper w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social , @rtommccoy.bsky.social, and @rdhawkins.bsky.social !
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
Thank you @lingdustin.bsky.social for hosting such a fun and interesting fourth edition of the Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group “BAyLI” meeting at UC Santa Cruz!
Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!
October 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thank you @lingdustin.bsky.social for hosting such a fun and interesting fourth edition of the Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group “BAyLI” meeting at UC Santa Cruz!
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Applications are open for the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience, supporting early-career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Learn more: klingenstein.org/esther-a-jos...
Learn more: klingenstein.org/esther-a-jos...
October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Applications are open for the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience, supporting early-career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Learn more: klingenstein.org/esther-a-jos...
Learn more: klingenstein.org/esther-a-jos...
really fun getting to think about the "time to consciousness" with this dream team! we discuss interesting parallels between vision and language processing on phenomena like postdictive perceptual effects, among other things! check it out 😄
New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb
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October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
really fun getting to think about the "time to consciousness" with this dream team! we discuss interesting parallels between vision and language processing on phenomena like postdictive perceptual effects, among other things! check it out 😄
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September 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
become my colleague at penn bioengineering: apply.interfolio.com/173716
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📣@futrell.bsky.social and I have a BBS target article with an optimistic take on LLMs + linguistics. Commentary proposals (just need a few hundred words) are OPEN until Oct 8. If we are too optimistic for you (or not optimistic enough!) or you have anything to say: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models
How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models
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September 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
📣@futrell.bsky.social and I have a BBS target article with an optimistic take on LLMs + linguistics. Commentary proposals (just need a few hundred words) are OPEN until Oct 8. If we are too optimistic for you (or not optimistic enough!) or you have anything to say: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Delighted to be working with @norabeier.bsky.social! Bringing together information theory and prosodic processing in new and interesting ways 🧠
Very excited to share that I am starting a postdoc position with the amazing @lauragwilliams.bsky.social at Stanford University!
We will be measuring neural tracking of prosody and linguistic information load in intracranial EEG. Can’t wait to explore this really cool dataset! 🧠
We will be measuring neural tracking of prosody and linguistic information load in intracranial EEG. Can’t wait to explore this really cool dataset! 🧠
September 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Delighted to be working with @norabeier.bsky.social! Bringing together information theory and prosodic processing in new and interesting ways 🧠
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📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!
Links below:
Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
Links below:
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Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
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September 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!
Links below:
Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
Links below:
Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
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Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
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September 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
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We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation
Job Offer from August 11, 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
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📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (Second Language Learning)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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August 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
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I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026
tinyurl.com/ccn26committee
And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form!
tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...
tinyurl.com/ccn26committee
And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form!
tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...
CCN 2025 Participant Survey
❗ This is the general CCN post-conference survey. For the application form for positions on the committees at CCN 2026, please see the CCN 2026 Committee Application.
Thank you for participating in C...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
That’s a wrap, folks!! I really enjoyed serving as the program chair of #CCN2025. Wonderful seeing it all come together, and get to engage with many inspiring scientific contributions. Thank you to everyone who made it possible!
#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,
August 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
That’s a wrap, folks!! I really enjoyed serving as the program chair of #CCN2025. Wonderful seeing it all come together, and get to engage with many inspiring scientific contributions. Thank you to everyone who made it possible!
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The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
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Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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@davidpoeppel.bsky.social points out the elephant in the conference: whichever direction of the planet we look, things are bad.
Einstein, chomsky and arendt point out to us that silence is not neutral
👏 #CCN2025
Einstein, chomsky and arendt point out to us that silence is not neutral
👏 #CCN2025
August 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social points out the elephant in the conference: whichever direction of the planet we look, things are bad.
Einstein, chomsky and arendt point out to us that silence is not neutral
👏 #CCN2025
Einstein, chomsky and arendt point out to us that silence is not neutral
👏 #CCN2025
looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨
August 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨
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These job ads have now been posted! 🎉
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
August 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
These job ads have now been posted! 🎉
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
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Excited to announce that my lab has moved to UC Berkeley Dept of Neuroscience and Dept of Statistics! I will be continuing to collaborate with colleagues and students in TX at UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine, and will start new collabs in the Bay. Will be taking new grad students this fall!
August 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Excited to announce that my lab has moved to UC Berkeley Dept of Neuroscience and Dept of Statistics! I will be continuing to collaborate with colleagues and students in TX at UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine, and will start new collabs in the Bay. Will be taking new grad students this fall!
looking forward to speaking at #NeurIPS2025 !
🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
August 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
looking forward to speaking at #NeurIPS2025 !
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🧠🤖 We're hiring! The @UCSF NeuroAI Lab @UCSFmac seeks a Data Scientist to join our interdisciplinary team developing AI Voice Agents for neurology healthcare.
Details here:
neuroailab.ucsf.edu/careers/rese...
Details here:
neuroailab.ucsf.edu/careers/rese...
Research Data Analyst - AI Voice Agents in Neurodegenerative Disease Care
neuroailab.ucsf.edu
July 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
🧠🤖 We're hiring! The @UCSF NeuroAI Lab @UCSFmac seeks a Data Scientist to join our interdisciplinary team developing AI Voice Agents for neurology healthcare.
Details here:
neuroailab.ucsf.edu/careers/rese...
Details here:
neuroailab.ucsf.edu/careers/rese...