New PhD-opportunity at Aarhus University with a project investigating the cognitive correlates of having no inner speech. Supervised by Johanne Nedergaard and yours truly. Deadline 11 November. Starting date 1 February 2027. Get in touch if you want to know more. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

Workshop on Spatial Cognition and Spatial Communication in Ageing. We invite submissions for this international workshop on all aspects of spatial communication and spatial cognition development and change throughout the lifespan. www.istc.cnr.it/en/media/eve...

The 10th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC10) We invite proposals for oral presentation sessions as part of SALC10: www.salc-sssk.org www.salc10.com at Umeå University, June 23-25, 2026.

In our new paper Line Kruse shows that The Demonstrative Choice Task (DCT) can be used to predict depression across a number of languages. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

This and that in depression: Cross-linguistic semantic effects

Demonstratives (in English “this” and “that”) are pivotal to human communication, facilitating joint attention and the establishment of a common ground of reference. All languages have at least two fo...

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Heart talk! Does emotional inner speech have a direct influence on cadiac physiology? Across two experiments we test to see if emotional inner speech alters heart rate. The short version is: Yes! It does. (1/5)

Evidence for inner speech in reading!?

This 2021 paper by @benjamingagl.bsky.social and colleagues is full of important findings and ideas about the temporal structure of reading and speech. I keep coming back to these data. Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vascular draining confounds laminar decoding in fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672278v1

In our new preprint we show (and replicate) that emotional inner speech leads to increased heart rate relative to non-emotional inner speech, while controlling for movement. With Line Kruse, Xinyi Yan, Paula Samide, Anja F. Meerwald, David T. Fjendbo & Johanne S.K. Nedergaard osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper out !!Children use spatial gestures to complement speech more for complex than simpler spatial relations - gestures might reduce mapping difficulties of complex spatial concepts to arbitrary speech symbols - in Cognitive Science !! @ercenurunal.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller @beyzasumer

Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations

In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross-linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to front and behind, followed by l...

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Our Ready to Connect (eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/home-2/ready...) project is hiring a postdoc (at UConn): eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/open-postdoc... We investigate conversational success in autistic and non-autistic teenagers during realistic social interactions. Ideal start date: May 15, 2025

PhD call: Investigate how spatial language and mental body maps are modulated by ageing. Behavioral exps and f/MRI & MEG used to map the structural and functional variability of brain regions known to be involved in linguistic and non-linguistic spatial processing. Deadline 15 March.

A study with 5M+ data points explores the link between cognitive parameters and socioeconomic outcomes: The stability of processing speed was the strongest predictor. BayesFlow facilitated efficient inference for complex decision-making models, scaling Bayesian workflows to big data. 🔗Paper

We have a new reproduction. Siepe et al. reproduce: "A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of the acoustic features of infant-directed speech" by Cox et al. @naturehumbehav.bsky.social. Full report below.

We are looking for a Phd student for a project on modeling second language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors. Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

PhD position to work on the neural correlates of spatial communication at Aarhus University and in a European Training Network. Please pass on. Deadline 15 March. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

Across nine single participant experiments, we investigated if emotional inner speech influences vascular physiology (heart rate and blood pressure) relative to a number of control conditions (inner speech rate, respiration, cognitive load and muscle tension. And it does. Next step: group studies.

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Emotional inner speech influences heart rate and blood pressure - a case study: http://osf.io/vhn37/

Just published! "Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses Reveal No Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception" doi.org/10.1111/sode...

Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception

Women score higher than men on measures of social cognition such as empathy and reading non-verbal cues. How early does this gender difference emerge? Systematic review and meta-analyses were used to...

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Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Plz RP My excellent colleague @Andreas Hoejlund and I are recruiting 2 PhD students for a project on the neural correlates of spatial communication and mental body map in typical and atypical ageing. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o... Start date: Feb 1 ‘25 Appl deadline: Oct 1 ‘24

Want to know what inner speech does to your heart? Or just want to chat with Johanne Nedergaard and yours truly at #CogSci2024? Come by our poster (P2-EE-386) 13-14.15 and/or read the proceedings here: escholarship.org/content/qt8f...

“This pain” or “that pain”? Can simple lexical choices be used to infer maladaptive mental states such as depression? Our new work hindawi.com/journals/da/... based on the Demonstrative Choice Task (DCT) suggests so. By Line Kruse with @rockberta.bsky.social and me. Thread in X x.com/LineKruse4/s...

amazing department at Aarhus University is looking for an associate or full prof in cognitive science and/or computational linguistics international.au.dk/about/profil...

Re-advertisement — Associate or Full Professor of Cognitive Science and/or Computational Linguistics - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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I'll be advertising a 2-year postdoc in a few weeks supported by an ESRC grant. An interesting project looking at the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. Feel free to get in touch via email if you are interested! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky