How your brain conducts the symphony of speech. My latest post on @psychtoday.bsky.social , excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Very happy to see Angelique's paper on semantic processing and the ATL with @vipiai.bsky.social, @profkatie.bsky.social out now in Cortex : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New work on aphasia treatment outcome from Janina Wilmskoetter and the CSTAR team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indeed, an interesting take on LLMs from my Department of Language Science colleague, Richard Futrell @ucirvine.bsky.social.

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

Telegrams and Sentence Monsters | Psychology Today My latest essay on the neurology of syntax excerpted from Wired for Words my forthcoming book published by @mitpress.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

VocalMind: A Stereotactic EEG Dataset for Vocalized, Mimed, and Imagined Speech in Tonal Language www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Secret Life of Words. My new piece on the mysterious word. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Neural plasticity had a good run. A bit of a myth? I always thought it was overblown. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We are still under the spell of split-brain research. My new piece in @psychtoday.bsky.social. Excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

This looks really good! (coming soon, by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social) I don't think Steve Pinker is on Bsky, but he's promoting this blog post about it on Twitter, which is also good: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language | New book by @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive and language scientist @gregoryhickok.bsky.social explores 150 years of research on how the brain enables language *Presale available now w/ 25% discount at @barnesandnoble.com* @mitpress.bsky.social

Wired for Words Table of Contents

Honored to have such nice endorsements from Cathy Price and Steve Pinker for my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...

Pre-order sale on Wired for Words @barnesandnoble.com www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wired-for-...

How strong is the Rhythm of Perception? Molly Henry, Jonathan Peelle, and team found out in a large-scale registered replication of Hickok, et al. 2015. @jpeelle.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

"More work with causal approaches is needed..." For the interested reader, here's some citations to work involving such causal approaches that didn't make the cut in this summary. They tell a rather different story on the cortical organization of syntax. @wmatchin.bsky.social

Hard copies have arrived!!!!!

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

Coming this fall from @mitpress.bsky.social!

My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

Our study of phonological processing in word recognition, N= 150 acute stroke patients. We assessed the degree to which phonological perception is bilateral vs. left dominant. Ans: it's bilateral in the majority of people. ~18% are (atypically) left dominant. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Important study yielding new insights into the deep roots of aspects of our communication system/#language— @berthetmelissa.bsky.social M. Surbeck and S. Townsend did great work to reveal semantic composition in vocal combinations in bonobos. 🧪 Out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New review on the neurobiology of sentence production by my grad student Jeremy Yeaton. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) was an Italian physiologist who worked on “human circulation balance”. Mosso hypothesized that mental activity could affect blood flow. 👀 (1/3) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_...

Lecturer position in the Department of Language Science @UC Irvine. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09494

Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs: dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...

First in #jocnforumrerun series: Take a Good Hard Look at Your Mirror Neurons, by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social, posted May 27, 2007 on TalkingBrains.org Support @jocnforum.bsky.social's preservation efforts by submitting classic blog posts at jocnf.pubpub.org. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Proud of this work, leveraging fMRI to address theories of subject island effects in English. Now out open access in @jocn.bsky.social W/ Jon Sprouse, Diogo Almeida, and @gregoryhickok.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Interesting article featuring my colleague Richard Futrell. www.quantamagazine.org/can-ai-model...

More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/12...

Are you a quantitative psychologist looking for a teaching-focused permanent position? I have good news for you! We're hiring: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Great department and Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live. Happy to answer any questions about working and living here

Let's talk lateralization. Suppose we measure a group average left > right hemisphere asymmetry = 20% on some task, e.g., 20% more activation in fMRI or 20% more errors following LH stroke. What does it mean? a) the left is 20% dominant in most people? OR b) 20% of people are left dominant?

More evidence that receptive syntactic deficits do not implicate Broca's area (or dorsal stream more generally).

✨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! 🧠

Open-rank tenure-track position in COMD at University of South Carolina members.capcsd.org/jobboard/Det...

Nice list!

Reposting here ICYMI on X. Just published (OA). My "coordination conjecture" proposal for why humans can move to a beat. Spoiler: it's a by-product of the computational demands for coordinating speech. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My Dept is #hiring for an #SLP with expertise in neurogenic comm &/or cog comm! You'd work really closely with me! This is a clinical position with an Assistant & Associate rank option. I seriously love where I work. Apply by Dec 1 for best consideration! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/263...

ICYMI… Faculty job in Language Science here at UC Irvine. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09346

With Bluesky a-hoppin', now's a good time to advertise that faculty (inc. me!) at UConn (both in Language and Cognition and Speech and Hearing) are recruiting PhD students. Fantastic Lang. Sci. community, some cool training grants. psychology.uconn.edu/phd/language...

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia