New preprint: NPI and depth charge illusions in Pythia LLMs of different sizes and at different training checkpoints. NPI illusion goes away but depth charge illusion stays or even gets stronger. Amazingly for me, I come out in favor of... construction grammar? arxiv.org/abs/2603.27855

Deadline 15 April: Professor (W3), Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU Munich job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...

Is there some open source spreadsheet that enforces and supports all these recommendations? I'd love to read in a methods section: "We entered and managed all data using OpenSheet with Broman-Woo guardrails."

New preprint with Sebastian Padó: Transformers do not reliably explain human morphosyntactic processing. Testing 11 models on agreement attraction shows they match human data for prepositional modifiers but fail on object-extracted relative clauses. arxiv.org/abs/2603.16574

Sie war zuletzt eine der lautesten Kritikerinnen des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems. Jetzt gab Amrei Bahr, seit 2021 als Mitinitiatorin der Kampagne #IchbinHanna bekannt, die wissenschaftliche Forschung selbst aufzugeben. Via @amreibahr.bsky.social

📢 CFA: 4th Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension Held in Koblenz on June 18/19/20. Abstracts of up to 350 words can be submitted until April 1st. Please share. uni-ko.de/UTq3s

We compared the TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker against the EyeLink 1000 Plus. Across 8 tasks, accuracy was similar. One key difference: TPx3 aggressively smooths sample data, which may affect sub-fixation phenomena and fixation onsets. Check the paper for the full results. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint on spatial bias in visual attention and how to counter it. In a two-alternative forced choice task, we show a 300% increase in statistical power when left-bias is neutralized. More is possible. Implications for visual world paradigm and perhaps the maze task. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Something like the CRediT taxonomy for contributor roles but for AI. Does it exist? credit.niso.org

Can we please stop holding important conference in the US?One of my students is affected by the full travel ban and for others it just doesn't seem sufficiently safe. I love my US colleagues and would have enjoyed attending HSP and ACL/CoNNL but it's simply not an option at this point.

Does anyone have or know of a version of Veronica Boyce's software for A-Maze stimuli that works with German?

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration. tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...

Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics: tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_... Application deadline is August 15.

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

Poster at #AMLaP2025 in Prag. Sebastian Padó and I report a larger-scale evaluation of transformers as cognitive models of morphosyntax processing. Who else is going?

Weiterhin beschreibt Dieter #Lenzen in einem Gastbeitrag für die FAZ heute, was man als Hochschulleitung tun muss, um in der #ExStra Erfolg zu haben - nämlich: "negative Einflüsse von Gremien zu neutralisieren". Ich denke mir das nicht aus. #ExitExzellenz @amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social

Die @deutschebahn.com informiert mich 2 Tage vorher, dass mein Zug ausfällt. Warum bekomme ich nicht automatisch das Geld für die Reservierung zurück? Warum ist es unmöglich die Reservierung zu stornieren?

What's better for reading research? EyeLink 1000+ or Portable Duo? I know the EyeLink well, but didn't have the chance to work with the Duo.

New paper! We show that eye movements during normal reading (no extra task) are effective at predicting reading comprehension as measured by recall. Both early and late eye-movement measures are key. This research was led by the amazing Diane Mézière. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

3rd Workshop on Eye Movements & the Assessment of Reading Comprehension 👁️📖 The full program with abstracts is now online! 🔗 tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...

Will LLM/transformer-based AI ever be able to respond: "Sorry, but I don't know the answer to your question." If not, what's missing?

Hard-earned writing tip: If your paper’s General Discussion is tough to write, it’s often because the Introduction isn’t setting the stage well. Don’t waste your time trying to fix the discussion, work on the intro until the discussion practically writes itself.

Diane Mézière's article "Using eye-tracking measures to predict reading comprehension" is among the top-10 most-cited in Reading Research Quarterly. Congratulations Diane! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A couple of new features in my tool for surprisal experiments with transformer models: 1. Interactive mode for quick ad-hoc experiments. 2. Uses GPU if available. 3. More models supported out of the box 4. Much easier to install and use thanks to uv. github.com/tmalsburg/ll...