calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

New paper 🌟out now in Nat. Neurosci.: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... With advisors @davidpoeppel.bsky.social and @Nai! We show that, while LLMs are optimized to predict the next word, the human brain modulates prediction efficiency by strategically grouping words into constituents. 1/n More 👇

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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main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

In this new paper led by @drcharlotte.bsky.social and myself, we explored phonological representations in monolingual and bilingual neural networks trained on speech recognition: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Efficient neural encoding as revealed by bilingualism | PNAS

The remarkable human capacity for bilingual and multilingual acquisition raises fundamental questions about how the brain develops efficient system...

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True. And before meeting Yue Sun I had no idea you could have conversations that last for hours about: syllables.

Just looked through this paper again - and I still think these results are cool (and less obvious than one might think) :-) "Syllables and their beginnings have a special role in the mental lexicon" Yue Sun providing a nice perspective on phonology and the lexicon. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

This was an interesting commentary to write on work by Binder et al. regarding impaired acoustic phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Converging and conflicting evidence for left temporal lobe regions in acoustic-phonetic perception

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Lesion correlates of impaired acoustic-phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke’ by Binder et al.

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documentary with a brief appearance of my PI arguing for basic shared values. the past few months here have been highly strange... (example: how to conduct lab meetings when your PI is not allowed to enter the building? 😶‍🌫️) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...

How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary

YouTube video by DW Documentary

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Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · last yr.

👏👏👏 to the “woke max planck director” @davidpoeppel.bsky.social! “We’re living in a time and an environment in which there are certain shared values that are non-negotiable. And that includes sexist behavior, mobbing; harassment of any kind.”

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

20+ years ago, an idea about cortical lateralization of audition was advanced: asymmetric sampling in time (AST). This extensive review/reevaluation by Chantal Oderbolz, me, and Martin Meyer assesses how the idea has fared. #notallwrong www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives

Auditory and speech signals are undisputedly processed in both left and right hemispheres, but this bilateral allocation is likely unequal. The Asymme…

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One week left to apply! We'll have so much exciting data for projects: for example, neuropixel data from humans while they listen to sentences courtesy of @shaileejain.bsky.social, Eddie Chang, and his group.

Mariya Toneva@mtoneva.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really excited for this 3 week NeuroAI summer school in Lisbon! We have course faculty from a range of neuro domains (language, vision, decision making, memory), and neuro levels (low level to cognitive). There will also be a project advised by our exciting lineup of course faculty! Come join us!

"Key attributes of successful research institutes" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... – well-written perspective on what makes research institutes successful. having a lot of resources is not sufficient, if there is no positive research culture or good governance structure.

In a new preprint with @kleind.bsky.social, we ask two questions: (Q1) People differ in how they perceive the similarity of stimuli in their environment. How can we model the features underlying similarity judgments in arbitrary domains, while accounting for individual differences? osf.io/agpb5_v1 🧵

When teaching about speech production (which I'm doing today) I always enjoy this Pink Trombone demo Also: If you really really really hate someone show this to their kids dood.al/pinktrombone/

comparing human & animal brain rhythms: it's easy to find examples where human rhythms are more pronounced than anything you can see in animals, even the famous theta-rhythm. 🙂 as evident by the higher spectral peak. 📉 (this is after adjusting for a difference in absolute signal amplitude)

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We've launched a newsletter to provide updates on development, spotlight community projects, and share information on events like live workshops and hackathons. You can subscribe here: www.jspsych.org/latest/newsl... We anticipate sending no more than 1-2 emails a month.

🚀 Excited to share our preprint! 🌍 "Doing conferences differently: decentralising for ecological and social sustainability" highlights #CuttingGardens 2023, the multi-hub conference #CuttingEEG designed to reduce carbon emissions and enhance inclusivity in international events.

Re-advertising a tool we created some time ago for rating, sorting and comparing audio samples in the browser. It can be used as a jspsych plugin for online behavioral experiments. Check the repository: github.com/pwdonh/audio_tokens 🧵

Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Assistant Professor

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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‼️New paper‼️ (also a major s-ccs #paper, with Judith Schepers & @benediktehinger.bsky.social) Do you have RTs in your 🧠📈-data? Fixation durations? Movements? How do event-durations affect your data? And how to deal with this? 🧵 ⤵ 1 / 5 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 🧪 #EEG #fMRI #neuroimage

Excited to share my first #Python package, audioset-strong-download, now on #PyPI! It streamlines downloading Google’s #AudioSet for #audio #ML & #AI research. Check it out and let me know your thoughts! github.com/curlsloth/au...

GitHub - curlsloth/audioset-strong-download: This package aims at simplifying the download of the strong version of AudioSet dataset.

This package aims at simplifying the download of the strong version of AudioSet dataset. - curlsloth/audioset-strong-download

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"So, how was your weekend?" #neuroimaging #neuroscience #worklifebalance

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...

Ein neue Folge #DGfS macht YouTube ist da 🥳 In Folge 10 berichtet @stefanhartmann.bsky.social über #Sprachwandel und warum das wichtig für die #Schule ist. 👇https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raF3wl5cOIY

DGfS macht Schule #10: Sprachwandel. Mit Stefan Hartmann

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Another appeal to OPM-, SQUID- MEG researchers. I try to find all people interested in brain magnetism on bluesky. Please respond if you identify as such or tag people who are. It's not a starter pack so there's no limit. Please repost and engage♥️ #psychscisky 🧪 🧠🟦 🤖🧠 🧠📟 🧠📈 bsky.app/profile/did:...