Let’s study learning trajectories in self-supervised speech models! 🔊 Do they reflect the hierarchical organization of spoken language? We have analyzed a lot of training checkpoints to find out 🌠 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.02043 ⬇️

check out our latest preprint led by the one and only @mdhk.net !! using intracranial EEG, we find that distinct neural populations within the temporal lobe encode preceding context, and future context, during naturalistic speech comprehension! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 Using intracranial recordings in a multi-talker task and LLM representations, we show that the brain tracks linguistic context in both attended and unattended speech, with reduced context-length encoding for unattended streams. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Large language models reveal the neural tracking of linguistic context in attended and unattended multi-talker speech

Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) capture long-range contextual structure in natural language and have recently been shown to align with the human brain’s contextualized linguistic encoding. This...

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Our lab (w/ @patrickgbissett) is hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, dense fMRI, computational modeling, and human-AI interaction. Designed for post-bacs looking to start a Ph. D in ~2 years. Please repost. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDNLbWAG

Social Science Research Coordinator (Hybrid Opportunity) in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States

Professor Russ Poldrack’s lab is seeking a new full-time Research Coordinator. The RC will work closely with and report directly to Dr. Patrick...

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The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏

Our novel measure: ❗Overcomes the constraints of traditional static measurements ❗Can be effectively integrated with neuroimaging techniques like EEG and MEG, offering a tool for research on dynamic processes during naturalistic listening 🗣️🧠 11/11

➡️ A TRF model fit to the slider time course revealed individual differences in response delays, showing that the slider can be used to model individual trajectories of comprehension. 10/11

So exciting to see “the slider project” finally published🤩 go check it out⬇️

Irmak Ergin@irmakergin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to share our new publication, “Measuring Naturalistic Speech Comprehension in Real Time”! ➡️ rdcu.be/fa3hk #psynomBRM w/ @kriesjill.bsky.social, Shiven Gupta, Maria Papworth Burrel, & @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 🧵1/11

Language, Intelligence & Thought lab is looking for a lab manager! This is a 2-year postbac position that will allow you to gain experience in human neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research prior to applying to PhD programs. Express interest here: forms.gle/npXEGUjGUbp5...

In stroke patients with aphasia, the brain spends too little time processing ambiguous sounds, suggesting new targets for precision therapies. (@lauragwilliams.bsky.social, @kriesjill.bsky.social) Read the story by @stellamayerhoff.bsky.social here: neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/why-bra...

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

Excited to share our new publication “The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Phoneme Encoding in Aging and Aphasia”, published in JNeurosci 🧠 ➡️ www.jneurosci.org/content/46/4... with @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @mvandermosten.bsky.social 🤝 Check out @stanfordbrain.bsky.social ’s summary of it ⬇️

The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Phoneme Encoding in Aging and Aphasia

During successful language comprehension, speech sounds (phonemes) are encoded within a series of neural patterns that evolve over time. Here we tested whether these neural dynamics of speech encoding...

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@stanfordbrain.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A new study by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social, @kriesjill.bsky.social, and team suggests that phonetic features are robustly encoded in healthy older adults, but show reduced encoding strength in individuals with post-stroke aphasia during speech comprehension. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/4...

"Lesioned Language Models Reproduce Symptoms of Human Aphasias" - Nathan Roll + @kriesjill.bsky.social + @lauragwilliams.bsky.social (Sunday talk) 3/5

Thanks for featuring my research on Science.lu @fnr.lu Luxembourg National Research Fund! The article is available in German🇩🇪 and French🇫🇷 ➡️ science.lu/de/outstandi...

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I am so honored to have received an Outstanding PhD Thesis award from the Luxembourg National Research Fund @fnr.lu! 🏆 My PhD research was about how language is processed in the brain, with a focus on patients with a language disorder called aphasia 🧠 Find out more➡️ youtu.be/E-Zww-B1jFQ?...

FNR Awards 2025: Outstanding PhD Thesis - Jill Kries

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Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social Summary 👇 1/8

New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb

In August I had the pleasure to present a poster at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference in Amsterdam. My poster was about 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 🧒➡️🧑 🧠

#CCN2025 happy to chat with you about the developmental trajectory and neuroanatomical correlates of speech comprehension at poster session A on Tuesday 👉A41 🧒➡️👩🧠

Laura Gwilliams@lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 12mo ago

looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨

Looking forward to this edition of the Bayli meeting in Davis!

Nora Beier@norabeier.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you study language processing? Are you in (or close to) the Bay Area? Join us for the third meeting of the Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group at UC Davis this Friday, April 11th!

🗣️ How strongly speech amplitude fluctuations are encoded in brain activity of people with aphasia holds promise as biomarker! 🧠 🔗 academic.oup.com/braincomms/a... 👉Check out our new paper led by Pieter De Clercq

Neural tracking of natural speech: an effective marker for post-stroke aphasia

The study examined brain responses to natural speech, i.e. neural tracking, in post-stroke aphasia. Individuals with aphasia exhibited reduced neural track

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Interpreting LLMs to Interpret the Brain

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Please come and work with us and the amazing @lauragwilliams.bsky.social ! Really special project using E/MEG to look at receptive language in non speakers. Please repost!

Laura Gwilliams@lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 2y ago

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

grateful to work in a lab with such cool research and a stellar advisor @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 🙏✨

Laura Gwilliams@lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 2y ago

are you into auditory neuroscience, speech perception and comprehension, music, tonotopy, psychophysics, MEG, EEG, time-resolved signals, data science for neuroscience? reflecting on 2024, i am proud to share the first three papers from my lab! brief description of each below 🧠 🚀

Interested in a continuous behavioral measure of speech comprehension? Check out our new preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... led by @irmakergin.bsky.social 👏 @lauragwilliams.bsky.social

Holiday party time!! 🤩 @rdhawkins.bsky.social @coryshain.bsky.social

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

such a nice first year & a bit in the ✨GLYSN✨ lab☺️ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 🙏

Laura Gwilliams@lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 2y ago

GLySN Lab photo wall!!! 😍😍😍😍 (thank you @kriesjill.bsky.social for your vision and execution!!!!)

excited for this menu of GLySN Lab research at the neurobiology of language conference! 🧠

Preprint alert: SPOKEN vs. WRITTEN English word frequencies --> After a favorable R&R from Behavior Research Methods in summer 2023, for *reasons* I did not have the capacity to complete this project before I finished my PhD...still deciding on a resubmission but for now: osf.io/preprints/ps...