Am I me? Am I you? Who's who? How can I tell? A quirky and innovative study that shows a neural mechanism facilitating the self-other distinction in human dyads interacting. Thanks to Manuel Varlet and colleagues for allowing me to be part of this new work. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Lateralised neural mechanisms facilitate auditory self-other distinction and coordination in human dyads

In order to coordinate interactions with others, people need to distinguish between self- and other-generated signals, such as sound, but how the brain maintains this separation is unclear. This study...

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Speech production is fast, complicated, cool (when the right thing is said...) Covert speech is a nice trick to study this. If you like speech planning, forward models, efference copies, brains this work is (we hope) helpful to clarify the brain mechs. #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Temporally structured motor and auditory representations in covert syllable production | PNAS

Inner speaking—the deliberate generation of speech through covert production mechanisms—is a common human experience. Current accounts propose that...

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Correct diagnosis

Jonathan Peelle@jpeelle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have been noticing that I’m really tired and stressed out. Like for *years*. So I did some research and checked out some medical journals and I think I figured out a diagnosis... It’s kids. I’m pretty sure I have kids 😮

The Brain Conference on Neural Foundations of Communication: Integrative Approaches Across Species www.fens.org/news-activit... Don't forget to register. Deadline Sept5. Tell your friends. Great topic, great speakers, great place-lots of time for discussion. Not to be missed, I think? #neuroskyence

The Brain Conference on Neural Foundations of Communication: Integrative Approaches Across Species - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece Final call for registration deadline (abstracts will only be considered for posters): 16 June – 5 September 2026 This conference is locally organised by the Hellenic...

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Conceptual Form: The Hidden Structure of Commonsense Concepts is out @mitpress.bsky.social This is just great cognitive science! If you like concepts, words, AI, neuroscience (like me)...Sandeep has a nuanced theory. Finally I know what DOG is all about :-) Congrats mitpress.mit.edu/978026205313...

When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president

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 · 2mo ago

We 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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How Does The Brain Process Language? | Prof. David Poeppel

YouTube video by Wandering Thoughts

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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).

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 · 6mo ago

new 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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Genetics & Neurobiology of Language

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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This will be a terrific meeting in a lovely location!

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 8mo 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

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 8mo 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 · 8mo ago

New 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

share.google/images/38xwq... I hope not.

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 · 10mo ago

New 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 · 10mo ago

Breaking: 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 · 11mo ago

In "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...