Speech comprehension is thought to depend on #auditory - #motor interactions via brain rhythms. This study by @johannarimmele.bsky.social &co links theta and motor rhythms to stronger #speech tracking, the latter among those with high auditory-motor synchronization. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4fDnKY0
Very happy to see this paper out, and congratulations to Christina Lubinus and @johannarimmele.bsky.social
Johanna Rimmele@johannarimmele.bsky.social · 2d agoWe had a look at a question I am really excited about: does an individuals intrinsic brain rhythm predict speech tracking and comprehension? And how do speech motor and auditory rhythms work together? by Christina Lubinus, @annekeitel.bsky.social @jonasobleser.bsky.social @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
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Yosef Grodzinsky's new book, mitpress.mit.edu/978026205200... Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy (MIT Press), provides helpful comparisons between LLMs and human language representation and processing, and outlines important points for both research directions (linguistics, AI).
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New paper that merits a read (Im totally unbiased...not). Simple, straightforward, impactful message. Prediction a la LLM is nice. Constituent-constrained prediction is nicer. @jiajiezou.bsky.social and Nai Ding show brain, behavioral, MEG, ECoG data. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
Constituent-constrained word prediction during language comprehension - Nature Neuroscience
Zou et al. reveal a key difference between human brains and large language models (LLMs). While LLMs are optimized to predict the next word, the human brain modulates prediction efficiency by strategi...
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Cool new data. Please check it out.
Benjamin Morillon@bnmorillon.bsky.social · 4mo agonew collaborative paper! Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @luc-arnal.bsky.social @brungio.bsky.social @jremygiroud.bsky.social @ilcb.bsky.social
This conference is going to be so cool! Good science good people good location. Register ASAP! #neuroskyence www.fens.org/news-activit...
The Brain Conference on Neural Foundations of Communication: Integrative Approaches Across Species - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece Early registration and stipend applications deadline: 7 April 2026 Regular registration and abstract submission deadline (no further stipend applications accepted)…
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This will be a terrific meeting in a lovely location!
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 5mo ago📢 Registration for the #BrainConference on the 'Neural Foundations of Communication' is now OPEN! 🇬🇷 Join the #neuroscience community and enjoy several days of science, poster sessions, discussion-driven networking and social events! 📍 Crete, Greece 🗓️ 5–8 October 2026 👉 buff.ly/RQBp4Fr
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 5mo ago📢 Registration for the #BrainConference on the 'Neural Foundations of Communication' is now OPEN! 🇬🇷 Join the #neuroscience community and enjoy several days of science, poster sessions, discussion-driven networking and social events! 📍 Crete, Greece 🗓️ 5–8 October 2026 👉 buff.ly/RQBp4Fr
I played around with building a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. subscribe to: neuromethods.bsky.social and like the corresponding post to have a shiny methods label appear in your profile.
Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social
Great opportunity for important work and training! I hope to collaborate closely with Nina and Pierre on this innovative cog sci/ cog neuro project. #neuroskyence
Pierre Mégevand@vanmedge.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
Amazing work by star postdoc Francisco Garcia Rosales in collaboration with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social . Happy reading :)
For aficionados of timing, prediction, psychophysics-and anyone who wants to look at something other than the news to be distracted-a new study by Matthias Grabenhorst and Georgios Michalareas: The anticipation of imminent events is time-scale invariant www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... #neuroskyence
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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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A friendly little back and forth with Rosas and colleagues to clarify some concepts about research strategies in neuroscience. Check out Rosas1 - then van Bree - then Rosas2. Maybe useful. Maybe. Hope springs eternal.
Sander van Bree@sandervanbree.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew Correspondence with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social in Nat Rev Neurosci. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here, we critique a recent paper by Rosas et al. We argue that "Bottom-up" and "Top-down" neuroscience have various meanings in the literature. PDF: rdcu.be/eSKYI
Why stop at 8? Hopefully a useful short exchange, in any case.
Spencer LaVere Smith@spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 8mo agoBreaking: Marr's Three Levels have been upgraded to Eight! @jpillowtime.bsky.social Seriously though, good points in this piece with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social highlighting the importance of rigor and conceptual resolution bsky.app/profile/spen...
My colleague, friend, former PhD/postdoc @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social and his colleagues argue for (yet) another interesting attribute of music listening. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening
Human movements are known to synchronize with rhythmic patterns in music. This study expands our understanding of embodied music perception, by revealing that spontaneous eye blinks also align with mu...
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Surprise visit in our seminar. We were discussing Reflections on Language (Chomsky 1975), and guess who stopped by?
Greg's new book. CONGRATS! Finally! A *must-read* for everyone interested in brain and language. Full of important (old/classical & new) stuff, exceptionally clear, integrative, provocative, carefully argued. This will stimulate lots of new experiments, models, ideas.
MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn "Wired for Words," cognitive neuroscientist @gregoryhickok.bsky.social provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research on the brain’s networks that enable us to communicate through language: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
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A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language: "Brain structural networks underlying language" by Angela Friederici journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Brain structural networks underlying language | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
The unique human ability to process complex language requires the interaction of multiple brain areas located in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex connected by white matter fiber trac...
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I really like the cogsci thinking and music in this paper. Happy that it's finally out! Thanks @omriraccah.bsky.social and Michael Seltenreich for leading this project. Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
Music; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science
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I'm incredibly honored to receive the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring. This makes me very sentimental! I'm so proud of the wonderful, super sharp students and postdocs that I have had the privilege and pleasure to work with. ❤️ Thank you!!!
Society for Neuroscience@sfn.org · 9mo agoCongratulations to the 2025 SfN award & prize recipients! Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries. SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25. Learn about the recipients. 🔗 vist.ly/4cni8 #neurosky
The psychology program at NYU Abu Dhabi has open rank open area positions in cognition-perception-cogneuro. Wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure (incl MRI, MEG, EEG), close ties to NYU New York. Superfast growing part of the research world apply.interfolio.com/175417 #neuroskyence
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