I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New meta-analysis on reading in the brain by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, Beatrice Fumagalli, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social and myself. We looked for consistent activations across multiple levels - from letters to words to sentences to and text reading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧠 How do semantic and executive control dissociate in the frontal lobe? Applying TMS to IFG and pre-SMA, we find: ⚡ Specialization ▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control ▸ pre-SMA = executive functions 🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption! Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk

Thrilled to share our latest research with PhD student @zijianfeng.bsky.social and Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social! We investigated TMS-induced heart–brain coupling (HBC) as a potential biomarker for personalized stimulation targets in the left DLPFC: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social presented her research on aging effects on predictive processing in language at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference this week. Results show that as we age, we increasingly rely on our internal predictions, possibly as compensation for executive decline. 1/2

New press release by @unileipzig.bsky.social about our BRAIN paper on connectivity changes during post-stroke aphasia recovery: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1

Cool new work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social looking at the semantics-pragmatics continuum from both linguistic and neuroscientific angles:

🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics

More from our postdocs! This week @drsandramartin.bsky.social gave a presentation at @mpicbs.bsky.social, charting a new way forward to understand language processing in the aging brain 🍁

Finally published! 🥳 New TMS-fMRI study led by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social shows that temporoparietal stimulation can alleviate dyslexia. This was associated with changes in effective connectivity between left IFG and the visual word form area: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Lab meeting time! Last week, @robingerrits.bsky.social, who joined the lab at the end of last year, told us about his future projects, connecting his main research interest, brain laterality, to brain stimulation - fascinating combination! 🧩

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

informal announcement: we'll be doing a *cluster* hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/

🚨 New preprint!! Using condition-and-perturb TMS, we show that functional interaction between multimodal and modality-specific cortices is causally relevant for conceptual knowledge retrieval: ssrn.com/abstract=510...

Our lab is now also on BlueSky!

Hello world! We are the Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) lab @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Our lab combines neuroimaging methods (like fMRI) with non-invasive brain stimulation (like TMS) to investigate plasticity in cognitive brain networks.

THE BIG ONE! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Jurafsky & Martin (2024) Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition with Language Models. Online: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3 pdf of Aug 20, 2024 whole book web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl... 👏!

To mark the completion of my textbook, The Neuroscience of Language, I'll be posting some tidbits from my book over the coming months. Some will be languagey and some will be little rabbit holes that distracted me along the way. Enjoy! #neuroscienceoflanguage jonathanpeelle.net/the-neurosci...

Here's a starter pack for people interested in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. With all the new Bluesky arrivals, I'm sure I'm missing people—please let me know and I'll add! go.bsky.app/6iumPee

By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

Hi all, New Starter Pack: Task-based fMRI go.bsky.app/Ai1f67H Discussion of task design, analysis methods, sharing of results, interpretation, and publication sharing for task-based fMRI/cognitive neuroscience by: @twoodward.bsky.social Let me know if you'd like to join!

I'm creating a starter pack list of scientists, professionals, and students in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral science. Just started the list. Check it out below 👇🏿

I started a Multisensory People list so if you know anyone who does/likes multisensory research please let me know and I'll add them go.bsky.app/Gn1qnNp

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nahian I. Hasan, Luis J. Gomez, et al: Real-time computation of brain E-field for enhanced transcranial magnetic stimulation neuronavigation and optimization direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published. We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal. Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...

My inaugural lecture of last week "Visual Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the fuzzy boundary between seeing and thinking" is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6Q...

DCM is just a framework for estimating the statistical evidence for state-space models, which are fitted to time series data using Bayesian methods. Each model is a hypothesis. So the question is, what's the right data and models for your question. [1/5]