If you are at SNL for Poster session A today, please consider stopping by A25 to see Chandana present his PhD work on the heritability of cortical asymmetry of language regions

We’re recruiting a new PhD student (full scholarship, tuition fee waiver) for our project investigating systematic form meaning mappings in natural language using fMRI and MEG. Candidates should have a masters degree with relevant training and experience. Email me for details!

New paper from the Special Issue on Conceptual Knowledge, published in Cortex! ✨ Greig de Zubicaray et al. show that statistical knowledge about non-arbitrary form–meaning mappings is a core component of how the brain represents the concreteness of concepts. 🧠 1/🧵

Very happy to see @vtolkacheva.bsky.social's paper on the role of premotor cortex in perception and misperception of speech now open access in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

No Causal Role for Premotor Cortex in the Perception or Misperception of Degraded Speech: Evidence from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Abstract. Although listeners can enhance perception by using prior knowledge to predict the content of degraded speech signals, this process can also elicit “misperceptions.” The neurobiological mecha...

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Very happy to see @vtolkacheva.bsky.social's paper on the role of sublexical information in perception and misperception of speech now open access in Journal of Memory & Language: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @profkatie.bsky.social (7 experiments!!)

Exploring the role of sublexical information in speech perception and misperception

Listeners are able to use previously acquired knowledge to predict the content of upcoming speech when the latter signal is distorted or degraded. How…

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