Can we process meaning unconsciously? Our new study suggests: not really… unless language has a way to express it!🧵 New paper out with Andrea Nadalini, Daniel Casasanto, @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social and Roberto Bottini

Some words sound like what they mean. In IconicITA we show that the (psycho)linguistic factors that modulate which words are most iconic are similar between English and Italian. Lots more details in the paper!

Our paper “The cost of thinking is similar between large reasoning models and humans” is now out in PNAS! 🤖🧠 w/ @fepdelia.bsky.social, @hopekean.bsky.social, @lampinen.bsky.social, and @evfedorenko.bsky.social Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (1/6)

So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...