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Falk Huettig

@falkhuettig.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology @ Max Planck https://www.falkhuettig.com/ Author of 'Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind' and 'The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading' published by Cambridge University Press

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Are visuospatial working memory influences on prediction in speech contingent on the co-presence of a relevant visual world? An ERP study. Final version by Christopher Allison & al. With @falkhuettig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2026.2688404

Are visuospatial working memory influences on prediction in speech contingent on the co-presence of a relevant visual world? An ERP study

A concurrent visuospatial working memory (vsWM) task has been shown to reduce predictive gaze behaviour in several visual world eye-tracking experiments. This reduction could be due to general aspe...

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

We’re reading less. And it’s making us stupid

We’re reading less. And it’s making us stupid

Books have never been trendier, but studies show that as more and more things compete for our frazzled attention spans, we’re reading less and less. This is a problem because reading has a wealth of cognitive benefits that we’re in danger of missing out on.To find out why declining literacy could affect everything from memory to IQ, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample. She also hears from Prof Falk Huettig, an experimental psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and author of The Perks of Being a Bookworm

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@newsarea.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How reading shapes and enhances our cognitive activity Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: The way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his new book, Falk Huettig, senior investigator…

How reading shapes and enhances our cognitive activity

Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: The way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his new book, Falk Huettig, senior investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, brings together research spanning psychology, linguistics, neuroscience and education to answer that question. The result is a systematic account of how literacy reshapes memory, attention, language processing and reasoning—and even abilities readers might not expect, like face recognition.

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are visuospatial working memory influences on prediction in speech contingent on the co-presence of a relevant visual world? An ERP study. New paper by Christopher Allison & al. with @falkhuettig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2026.2688404

Are visuospatial working memory influences on prediction in speech contingent on the co-presence of a relevant visual world? An ERP study

A concurrent visuospatial working memory (vsWM) task has been shown to reduce predictive gaze behaviour in several visual world eye-tracking experiments. This reduction could be due to general aspe...

doi.org

@cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So many of us love reading! But did you know it's actually good for our brains? 📖🧠 Falk Huettig's new book 'The Perks of Being a Bookworm' explores research in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education to explain how reading transforms the human mind.

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@cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Whether you want adventure into the classic novel 'Gulliver's Travels', learn about the birth of punk, find out the science of how reading helps your brain from professor @falkhuettig.bsky.social, or delve into the interviews of famous Arthur Miller, we've got a new book for you! 📖🙌

A hand holding "Gulliver's Travels: The Cambridge Anniversary Edition" by Jonathan Swift in front of a wooden bookshelf containing various books.A hand holding a book titled "The Perks of Being a Bookworm" by Falk Huettig, with a background of a bookshelf containing several books.A hand holding a book titled "The Arthur Miller Tapes" by Christopher Bigsby, the cover is red with a black and white photo of Miller on the front, in the background there is a bookshelf containing several books.A hand holds the book "No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984" by Matthew Worley. The cover features an old TV displaying the words "No Future." Bookshelves filled with various books are in the background.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world. Final version by Christopher Allison & al. with @falkhuettig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2522272

Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world

Prediction in language is often about objects in the language users’ visual surroundings. Previous research suggests that linguistic working memory limitations in such task environments constrain l...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · last yr.

Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world. New paper by Christopher Allison & al. @falkhuettig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2522272

Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world

Prediction in language is often about objects in the language users’ visual surroundings. Previous research suggests that linguistic working memory limitations in such task environments constrain l...

doi.org

Figen Karaca@figenkaraca.bsky.social · last yr.

A great way to kick off my bluesky journey: new publication out in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 🥳 with Susanne Brouwer, @sharonneke.bsky.social & @falkhuettig.bsky.social 👇🏻

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · last yr.

Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech. New paper by Figen Karaca & al. with @falkhuettig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000331

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · last yr.

Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech. New paper by Figen Karaca & al. with @falkhuettig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000331

Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge C...

Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech

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Falk Huettig@falkhuettig.bsky.social · last yr.

‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind‘ is now available as ebook via Cambridge Core www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

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Falk Huettig@falkhuettig.bsky.social · 2y ago

My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) www.cambridge.org/de/universit...