#Postdoc vacancy in my lab as part of the STATMIND project, which aims to investigate the dynamic interplay between previously acquired linguistic knowledge (including semantic properties) and the incidental #learning of new patterns. 🗓️ Apply before August 17th. 🔗 jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Po...

Such an inspiring keynote talk by @pyoudeyer.bsky.social, stressing the importance of #curiosity-driven exploration for understanding how (small) humans and AI systems learn. #IASL26 #StatLearnBCBL

Morten H. Christiansen@mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Starting off Day 2 of the conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning we have Pierre-Yves Oudeyer giving his keynote on curiosity in human statistical learning #IASL26

30 years after her seminal #StatisticalLearning paper, @jennysaffran.bsky.social is opening our #IASL26 conference @bcbl.bsky.social. What do we now know and what are the longstanding questions that are still of great interest? #StatLearnBCBL

Heading to #BAPS? Don’t miss the talks by our lab! @brentvernaillen.bsky.social presents his work on flexible #StatisticalLearning. @Liesa Ravijts will share her #EEG findings in preterm-born children in the symposium by @stefaniamatt.bsky.social.

Whereas our meta-analysis (doi.org/10.3917/anps...) indicates a significant but small association between #StatisticalLearning and #Language, the latest work by @haoyuzhou.bsky.social using 23 tasks and latent variable methods (a fishing net rather than rod!) reveals a stronger interconnection.

Haoyu (Nina) Zhou@haoyuzhou.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Had a wonderful time presenting some fresh results from my factor analysis study on SL and language at #PsycholinguisticsInFlanders in Pavia! As a teaser for my upcoming talk on the same subject at #IASL26, here is a nice visual made by Louisa @bogaertslab.bsky.social Stay tuned!

Our #IASL26 conference on statistical learning aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines who study how humans👨‍👧🧑‍🦳, as well as other species 🐒🦜 and systems 🤖🔠, learn regularities. ↖️🔍🔎↗️ If your work touches on this theme from any angle, we would love to receive your abstract!

Morten H. Christiansen@mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 You only have one week left to submit your 200-word abstract for the 2026 installment of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning (#StatLearnBCBL), which will take place in San Sebastian, Spain June 10-12 #IASL26 www.bcbl.eu/events/stati...

🗓️💬 Delighted to be invited as a keynote alongside @valentinabambini.bsky.social for the upcoming #PsycholinguisticsInFlanders (PiF) meeting — renamed #PsycholinguisticsInPavia (PiP) for a 🔆 edition! 🧑‍🎓➰A full-circle moment, as PiF was the very first academic conference I attended as a MA student.

European Society for Cognitive Psychology@escop.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Psycholinguistics in Flanders Pavia, Italy 12-13 MAY 2026 (please not that the date in the previous post was incorrect) Abstract submission deadline: 20 February 2026 Early registration deadline: 31 March 2026 Registration deadline: 1 May 2026 sites.google.com/view/pifpavia

Very much enjoying #IndiREAD workshop on #IndividualDifferences in #Reading! While individual differences have brought my lab both excitement and headaches in recent years, I liked the optimistic take of @cuiding.bsky.social.

Presented at #NeuroCog2025 this Tuesday my pilot results of linking SL to language on the construct level. The poster is in Toy Story color theme if you did not notice🛸 and will be available on my research gate 🙌 Painting of the conference: defo the season for a good cuppa tea now ☕️

What an intellectually stimulating conference #NeuroCog2025 was! We much enjoyed the deeply engaged discussion between @jeffreybowers.bsky.social & @evfedorenko.bsky.social and fascinating talks by @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social, @mtoneva.bsky.social & @nicoschuck.bsky.social!

❗🗓️ The deadline for abstract submission for #NeuroCog2025 is tomorrow, September 30th. Don't miss it!

BogaertsLab@bogaertslab.bsky.social · last yr.

NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

Curious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📖 New on the VSC Research Showcase: Dutch language models reveal how word predictability shapes reading. 🧪 Key findings: ➡️ Smaller models often outperform larger ones ➡️ Predictability follows a logarithmic effect ➡️ Dutch > multilingual models 👉 www.vscentrum.be/post/a-syste...

A systematic evaluation of Dutch large language models’ surprisal estimates in sentence, paragraph and book reading

Reading is shaped not only by word length and frequency but also by how predictable a word is in context. Using Dutch language models, researchers show that smaller models often predict reading times ...

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👁️ 📖 👁️ @boevesam.bsky.social made this interactive visualisation to get a feeling for word predictability: 🔗 wordpredictabilityvisualized.vercel.app Curious how these predictability indices were obtained? Find out in our new paper! 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134... #Reading #LargeLanguageModels #MECO

Sam Boeve@boevesam.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 B&B is open for business 🚨 Not a new career move, the next Boeve & Bogaerts paper is out in Behavior Research Methods! doi.org/10.3758/s134... @bogaertslab.bsky.social

3️⃣ 2️⃣ 1️⃣ Just three days left to submit your nomination for the Early Career Talk at the #IASL26 conference. 🔗 ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

BogaertsLab@bogaertslab.bsky.social · last yr.

🏅 💬 At the '22 edition of our conference, we launched the Early Career Talk, giving a platform to an outstanding early-career scientist. We are now seeking nominations for the Early Career Talk at the #IASL26 edition. The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2025. Instructions in the thread.

🏅 💬 At the '22 edition of our conference, we launched the Early Career Talk, giving a platform to an outstanding early-career scientist. We are now seeking nominations for the Early Career Talk at the #IASL26 edition. The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2025. Instructions in the thread.

Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes? Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📣🗓️ The 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference #IASL26 will be held June 10-12 in San Sebastián. Our keynotes: @jennysaffran.bsky.social with 30 years of SL work since 1996. @noranewcombe.bsky.social on learning and spatial cognition. @pyoudeyer.bsky.social on curiosity.

📖 👀 When people read a novel, when do they blink? We show that blinks are more likely: (1) around punctuation marks (2) following fixations on lower-frequency and less predictable words. 🔗 Now out in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CognitiveScience #Reading #EyeTracking

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NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

Proud PI! 👏 On #TeaP2025 two lab members presented their work: Haoyu Zhou in the symposium #StatisticalLearning and its Role in #Language and #Reading acquisition. @boevesam.bsky.social in the symposium From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research.

Our theoretical note 'Statistical Learning Subserves a Higher Purpose: Novelty Detection in an Information Foraging System' is now out in Psych Review. #StatisticalLearning We argue that our environment (including our linguistic environment) is far from fixed: It's dynamic, and we interact with it.

💬🙇🏼‍♀️💬🙇🏼‍♀️💬🙇🏼‍♀️ The advantage of spaced studying is well documented for explicit learning, but is there such an advantage for incidental #StatisticalLearning of novel #Language? Jasper de Waard from @jthee.bsky.social’s lab tested it! Find out what we found here : 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Taking time: Auditory statistical learning benefits from distributed exposure - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

In an auditory statistical learning paradigm, listeners learn to partition a continuous stream of syllables by discovering the repeating syllable patterns that constitute the speech stream. Here, we a...

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Our preprint featured in The New Scientist @newscientist.bsky.social: "Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cognitive tasks" 🔗 www.newscientist.com/article/2461...

Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cognitive tasks

When reading a book, we tend to blink over less familiar words, which suggests it may have a cognitive role

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BogaertsLab@bogaertslab.bsky.social · 2y ago

👁️ When do we blink while reading? 👁️ Xander analyzed over 30.000 blink events in the Ghent Eye Tracking Corpus to find out. Could we replicate Hall (1945) who drew his conclusions based on just 139 blinks he counted by observing readers? Find out in our preprint: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🎄📄 #Preprint under the tree this year: @boevesam.bsky.social took us into the world of #LargeLanguageModels: "A Systematic Evaluation of Dutch Large Language Models’ Surprisal Estimates in Sentence, Paragraph, and Book Reading" 🔗 osf.io/preprints/os... #ReadingResearch

Thanks @sebraem.bsky.social, for inviting me as part of the 'Growing up in Science' series. Sharing the often untold aspects of becoming and being a scientist (doubts, difficulties, rejections and imposter experiences) felt very meaningful.

Three years ago, I made singleton beer coasters as goodbye gifts for the Theeuweslab members @jthee.bsky.social. A few weeks ago, I received this plant support in the brain shape of my lab logo from a PhD student. Hard to convey how much I love nerdy gifts!

👁️ When do we blink while reading? 👁️ Xander analyzed over 30.000 blink events in the Ghent Eye Tracking Corpus to find out. Could we replicate Hall (1945) who drew his conclusions based on just 139 blinks he counted by observing readers? Find out in our preprint: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

@boevesam.bsky.social & Haoyu Zhou's paper is out! The title says it all: 'A meta analysis of 97 studies reveals that statistical learning and language ability are only weakly correlated'. For those who like exact numbers, r = 0.16. 📑 osf.io/preprints/ps...