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Matteo Maran he/him/his
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Matteo Maran he/him/his @matteomaran.bsky.social · 13d
In this work we show that beat gestures made by an avatar can bias lexical stress perception of vocoded speech. Now out in Applied Psycholinguistics!
The timing of an avatar’s beat gestures biases lexical stress perception in vocoded speech | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core
The timing of an avatar’s beat gestures biases lexical stress perception in vocoded speech - Volume 46
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matteomaran.bsky.social
In this work we show that beat gestures made by an avatar can bias lexical stress perception of vocoded speech. Now out in Applied Psycholinguistics!
The timing of an avatar’s beat gestures biases lexical stress perception in vocoded speech | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core
The timing of an avatar’s beat gestures biases lexical stress perception in vocoded speech - Volume 46
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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bcbl.bsky.social
📣 We are looking for talent! 📣

At #BCBL we have 9 positions available to work on our research groups.

🔸1 PhD position
🔸3 Research Assistants
🔸1 Junior Systems Engineer
🔸4 Postdoctoral researchers

Would you like to know more? +info👇

https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job-offers
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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maijatervola.bsky.social
Call for papers is open!

10th Conference of the Scandinavian Association of Language and Cognition will be in Umeå, Sweden, in June 2026.

Deadline for abstracts: 30th November

Let's meet in Umeå!

#linguistics
#language
#cognition
SALC-10
SALC-10 Conference
www.salc10.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“The delegation of tasks to “tools & assistants” constitutes a methodological decision (…) Researchers should therefore be required to explain why they are trusting a black box that is neither open nor fair.”
— @altibel.bsky.social & @petertarras.bsky.social

www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why...
Why AI transparency is not enough
Recently, a taxonomy to disclose the use of generative AI (genAI) in research outputs was presented as an approach that creates transparency and thereby supports responsible genAI use. In this post we...
www.leidenmadtrics.nl
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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simonegastaldon.bsky.social
Super happy to have had the chance of organizing this symposium for the 15th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience in Porto together with these amazing scientists but most importantly amazing people #ICON25
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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olivia.science
I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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andreaeyleen.bsky.social
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
matteomaran.bsky.social
Interested in if and how avatars' hands can affect what we hear💡? Have a look at our latest work, now published in the Proceedings of Interspeech 2025!📜
www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

p.s: I'll present this work at #interspeech on Thursday
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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frosas.bsky.social
Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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yifeihe.bsky.social
New manuscript! Together with Junqing Huang & @straubeb.bsky.social, we used an innovative paradigm & DDM to show that gesture's processing hierarchy from a behavioral perspective!

Gestures are visual—but they’re also layered, structured, and unfold like language. 🧠🖐️

👇👇👇
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June 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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stan-vd-burght.bsky.social
New preprint: using #MVPA of #EEG data we show that during #language #production, a word's stress pattern is available before information regarding syllable structure. By the incomparable @glicalzi.bsky.social (now at Uni Zurich) @mpi-nl.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/os...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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mpi-nl.bsky.social
Congrats to @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social (@mpi-nl.bsky.social and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) on his NWO Veni grant. In his research he will process intonation: not just what we say, but how.
#intonation #linguistics #research #MaxPlanck
July 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jun 28
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves. • Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves. • Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
June 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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olivia.science
Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia Our demands, see link
June 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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giosuebaggio.bsky.social
New paper! We replicate *,** earlier P600 effects for meaning composition; we also show that composition requires morphosyntactically well-formed words and morphosyntax depends on lexical storage #ERP #EEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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roperlou.bsky.social
indeed, but someone should notify university 'administrators' who seem to have been behind the door (ed. default setting?) when this notice went out 😑
freereed59.net Ali Messer @freereed59.net · Jun 15
'Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being co-opted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas'
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Jun 15
"Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing."
June 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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mgreenephd.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3
June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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unrwa.org
"Food and hunger are being weaponised in Gaza,” UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini tells @metro.co.uk.

The continued Israeli siege is blocking lifesaving supplies from entering #Gaza.

Full story: metro.co.uk/2025/05/13/top-un-general-warns-hunger-used-as-weapon-of-war-to-starve-palestinians-23077347/
Top UN general warns 'hunger used as weapon of war' to starve Palestinians
metro.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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brittawestner.bsky.social
Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within.

This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵

bsky.app/profile/imag...
imagingneurosci.bsky.social Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · May 7
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:

Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software

doi.org/10.1162/imag...
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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un-spexperts.bsky.social
States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in #Gaza: UN experts demand immediate international intervention as Israel continues relentless destruction of life in Gaza

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
May 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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unrwa.org
“This is hunger as never seen before,” an UNRWA team member in #Gaza describes the current situation.

Gaza has become a land of desperation.

The siege must be lifted, supplies must flow in, the hostages must be released, the #CeasefireNow must resume.
May 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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mpi-nl.bsky.social
From “I dance” to “she danced” with a flick of the hands: Audiovisual stress perception in Spanish. New paper by Patrick Louis Rohrer & al. with Ronny Bujok, Hans Rutger Bosker
doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02683-9
From “I dance” to “she danced” with a flick of the hands: Audiovisual stress perception in Spanish - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
When talking, speakers naturally produce hand movements (co-speech gestures) that contribute to communication. Evidence in Dutch suggests that the timing of simple up-and-down, non-referential “beat” ...
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
matteomaran.bsky.social
💡New work out, led by Elena Pyatigorskaya! In this ERP study, we tested the neural correlates of masked syntactic categorical violations in the visual modality (reading), observing an automatic P600 effect independent from masking.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Investigating the neurophysiological correlates of syntactic processing in a visual masked priming paradigm
Language comprehension proceeds rapidly on a millisecond timescale. To achieve such efficiency, our brain must perform specific linguistic computations highly automatically. While automaticity of s...
www.tandfonline.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM