A Unified Neural Time Course for Words, Phrases, and Sentences. The last part of @nigelflower.bsky.social’s dissertation is now out in @jneurolang.bsky.social!

Nigel Flower@nigelflower.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 New paper out in Neurobiology of Language! Using MEG, we found that the brain's responses to full sentences are strikingly similar to those elicited by single words. Our results suggest a "global-to-sequential" process: first a snapshot of structure, then left-to-right composition.

This is not a drill ⚠️ The abstract submission deadline is around the corner and you should all be planning your trip to Geneva.🇨🇭Get in touch if you have questions or comments.

SNL Annual Meeting@snlmtg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don't miss the latest episode of @smwilson.bsky.social's Language Neuroscience Podcast with @rmc-law.bsky.social and @vborghesani.bsky.social teasing the program of #SNL2026! 🍏 open.spotify.com/episode/0zAE... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Great teaser from @smwilson.bsky.social @vborghesani.bsky.social & @rmc-law.bsky.social about #SNL2026 in Geneva! I’ll add some visuals from my morning run today-I'm here on sabbatical & can vouch the meeting will be awesome! @snlmtg.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Congratulations to Dr. Simone Krogh, who has just successfully defended her dissertation "How linguistic structure impacts the neural representations of words"!!🎉🎉🎉 @simonekrogh.bsky.social

Congratulations to Boxuan Li on her 1st yr PhD project, now out in @jcgntn.bsky.social! This study uses neural Structure Superiority Effects to probe adjective order knowledge, showing that order violations don’t disrupt early structure detection, challenging syntactic accounts. tinyurl.com/3kk2vtwr

Honored to have been elected AAAS fellow! Beyond grateful for all the amazing students, RAs and postdocs I’ve had the privilege to work with, this is for you! Congrats to all new fellows and especially to my NYU colleagues! www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

New paper from @nigelflower.bsky.social’s 2025 thesis: an RPVP-MEG study on the neural representation of quantification finds that LATL responses are consistent w Restricted Quantification theory, suggesting discourse-sensitive conceptual combination. Congrats Nigel!! 🎉🎉

Nigel Flower@nigelflower.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚀 New paper out now in Cognition! In it, we show how the left anterior temporal lobe (LATL) contributes to interpreting quantifiers like all, some, and no during language comprehension. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106403

Happy New Year, @snlmtg.bsky.social community! In response to a “wish list” request, our first virtual activity of the year will be a mentoring session focused on MENTORING. Early-career PIs, join me and @smwilson.bsky.social on Tuesday, Jan 20! tinyurl.com/bdb3yf99

Labsgiving 2025, feeling grateful! 🧡

Thank you for the great day @gt-neuro.bsky.social !

Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society@gt-neuro.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today, the #INNSightForum welcomes its second external speaker, Liina Pylkkänen (@liinapy.bsky.social)! Join us as we explore language processing to take a glance into the brain’s temporal dynamics at 11:15 a.m. in the Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128) or online | 🗓️ neuro.gatech.edu/innsight-for...

The most gorgeous moonrise over river Neckar at the end of the very inspiring Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 🙌, thank you for having me, @snstuebingen.bsky.social! #SNS2025

Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

On our way to #SNL2025 as a big group, full NeLLab poster menu below, please come chat with our students and see you soon!!! @snlmtg.bsky.social

At-a-glance processing of syntactic dependencies in minimal DANISH two-word sentences by @simonekrogh.bsky.social! Sentence-superiority and dependency effects emerge in fronto-temporal cortex from ~230ms.

Simone Moeller Krogh@simonekrogh.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to share my first PhD paper with @liinapy.bsky.social! From rapid flashes of Danish two-word stimuli, left fronto-temporal areas detect not only sentence–list contrasts but also grammatical details like syntactic frame. Huge thanks to the Danes who volunteered their 🧠 to make this possible!

It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup! #neuroskyence #compneurosky

Tübingen SNS 2025@snstuebingen.bsky.social · last yr.

🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵 #SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠 Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/

A great postdoc opportunity w my colleague @nogazs.bsky.social at NYU!

Noga Zaslavsky@nogazs.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

Excited for this in early October!

Tübingen SNS 2025@snstuebingen.bsky.social · last yr.

🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵 #SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠 Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/

Lab hike turned into rainy day art outing! ☔️🖼️

Dr. Nigel Flower hooded!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 @nigelflower.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social for the successful defense of his dissertation “Combinatorics at-a-glance: On the spatiotemporal dynamics of temporally unstructured language”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh). Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025 2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...

Today Marco Lai @marcochlai.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation "Developing Language in the Brain: The Neural Development of Language Processing in School-Age Children"! Congratulations Dr. Lai!!

During natural reading with eye movements, the left posterior fusiform cortex reflects both fixated and upcoming words in parallel—and distinguishes whether an upcoming word is skipped or fixated. A new preprint from Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social!

Graham Flick@grahamflick.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to share a preprint from the final project of my PhD with @liinapy.bsky.social! Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7

Tracking neural correlates of contextualized meanings with representational similarity analysis

Although it is uncontroversial that word meanings shift depending on their context, our understanding of contextualized lexical meaning remains poor. How is a contextualized semantic space organized? ...

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What do we need, in good as in bad times? A community. Today is as good a day as any to: ✨renew your membership to the Society for the Neurobiology of Language ✨submit an abstract/symposium to #SNL2025 ✨ register for one of the member-initiated virtual activities 2025.neurolang.org/virtual-acti...

Two pub days in a week! I could get used to this 😎 Lead by UGA students Donnie Dunagan & Tyson Jordan, with John Hale and @liinapy.bsky.social . This is my team's first entry in our bicoastal NSF project on the brain's responses to 'at-a-glance' lg processing! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Evaluating the timecourses of morpho-orthographic, lexical, and grammatical processing following rapid parallel visual presentation: An EEG investigation in English

Theories of language processing – and typical experimental methodologies – emphasize the word-by-word processing of sentences. This paradigm is good f…

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Dustin A. Chacón@lingdustin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to Cognition for accepting Donnie Dunagan's and my paper (w/ Tyson Jordan, John Hale, and @liinapy.bsky.social ) 'Evaluating the timecourses of morpho-orthographic, lexical, and grammatical processing following rapid parallel visual presentation: an EEG investigation in English'!

Hot off the presses w @lingdustin.bsky.social! 🎉

Dustin A. Chacón@lingdustin.bsky.social · last yr.

It's up! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Always love the challenge of concise, accessible #scicomm—thanks @npr.org for featuring our research on at-a-glance language comprehension (led by Jacqui Fallon & Nigel Flower) on The Academic Minute! www.npr.org/podcasts/564...

The Academic Minute

The Academic Minute features researchers from colleges and universities around the world, keeping listeners abreast of what's new and exciting in the academy and of all the ways academic research cont...

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Chance to work w @lauragwilliams.bsky.social!! 🌟🌟🌟

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

✨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! 🧠

Labsgiving! 💕 Happy Holidays from our lab to yours!