Congrats to @brainnotonyet.bsky.social alumni Shawn Cummings, @gekagrob.bsky.social & Menghan Yan. Out in JEP:LMC @apajournals.bsky.social: listeners compensate perception of spectral (acoustic) cues based on visually-evident consequences of a pen in mouth of the speaker! dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

Very cool new accent-relatedness visualization, examples, and some insightful observations accent-explorer.boldvoice.com

Looking for researchers in computational neuroscience and cognition (incl. language, learning, development, decision-making) to join our faculty!

Review starts 11/1: Asst. prof. (tenure track), human cognition, Brain and CogSci, U Rochester www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac...

New R library STM github.com/santiagobarr... by Santiago Barreda that implements Nearey & Assmann's PST model of vowel perception, and a fully Bayesian extension (the BSTM). Easy to use and to apply to your data. It's also what we used in our recent paper www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

New work w/ Santiago Barreda: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... .We reintroduce Nearey & Assmann's seminal probabilistic sliding template model (PSTM), visualize its workings, & find that it predicts human vowel perception with high accuracy, far outperforming other normalization models 1/3

Very excited about this: putting distributional learning (DL) models of adaptive speech perception to a strong, informative test sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Maryann Tan. We use Bayesian ideal observers & adapters to assess whether DL predicts rapid changes in speech perception 1/2

Excited to see this out in JASA @asa-news.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1121/10.0.... provides a large-scale evaluation of formant normalization accounts as a model of vowel perception. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social

Now out: exciting work w/ Klinton Bicknell, @wbushong.bsky.social, & Mike Tanenhaus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... It's a massive tour-de-force, revisiting several misunderstood 'limitations' of information maintenance during spoken language understanding. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social

New work by @wbushong.bsky.social out in JEP:LMC: listeners might strategically moderate maintenance of perceptual information during spoken language understanding based on the expected informativity of subsequent context. 1/2

SFB-funded Collaborative Research Centre “Prominence in Language” at U Cologne, Germany offers junior & senior research fellowships for 1-6 months between 04-12/2025 (1800-2500 Euro/month) sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/ (20 projects in prosody, morphosyntax & semantics, text & discourse structure)

Join Andriy Myachykov in Macau =): U Macau invites applications for research assistant professor & postdoctoral fellows under UM Talent Programme aiming to attract high-calibre talents---including in neuroscience & cognitive science at UM Center for Cognitive & Brain Sciences (ccbs.ici.um.edu.mo).

New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations to Anna Persson (www.su.se/english/prof...) on defending her thesis at @stockholmuni.bsky.social! Fantastic work, thorough & insightful, a must-read for anyone interested in the auditory mechanisms supporting robust speech perception across talkers. www.linkedin.com/posts/floria...