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

Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind. New book by @falkhuettig.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/9781....

Finally settling a critical debate?!

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

LLM finds it FAR easier to distinguish b/w DO & PO constructions when the lexical & info structure of instances conform more closely w/ the respective constructions (left 👇). Where's pure syntax? LLM seems to say "🤷‍♀️" (right) @SRakshit adele.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

Evaluating scientific theories as predictive models in language neuroscience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669958v1

Join our team! We're looking for a Research Assistant to support OPM-MEG research on reading in children and adults at the Oxford Centre for Human Activity in the Neuronal Oscillations group (www.neuosc.com). Deadline 22nd July. For details see lnkd.in/e2qvCP9b

We have a *permanent* position available for a research engineer (ingénieur de recherche) to work in our new MEG-OPM facility. A strong scientific focus is possible. Speaking French is required. If you're interested, please let me know!

*https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1749678 **https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.2004176

Fancy a PhD project at the interface of (psycho)linguistics and systems neuroscience with the fabulous Mathias Scharinger & Alfred Lameli? Suprasegmental rhythm, reduction syllables, and neural oscillations?! APPLY NOW HERE: www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb09/igs/...

Interested in a PhD investigating Language Acquisition with Eye-Tracking methods under knowledgeable, professional, and kind supervision, have a look at this opening by Christina Kauschke at Marburg / Lahn—https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/cf1e4989a7665a5b7aebd7babd3a9a56410035990

Nice to see this PLoSBio paper out, by @ycabral.bsky.social and Molly Henry! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen 🔄 Thanks for sharing!

New manuscript! Together with Junqing Huang & @straubeb.bsky.social, we used an innovative paradigm & DDM to show that gesture's processing hierarchy from a behavioral perspective! Gestures are visual—but they’re also layered, structured, and unfold like language. 🧠🖐️ 👇👇👇 osf.io/r5nb9_v1

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)

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #LanguageEvolution #Chimpanzees 1/n 🧵👇

still a couple of days left to apply!

Speech-motor induced artifacts from M/EEG recordings can be reliably removed by relating ICA decomposed activity to muscle activity in the face. 🗣️ 🧠 We used a similar technique in our production & EEG papers in 2021 and 2022 (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... and doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...).

Wie schön, dass hier so viele über den Sprachgebrauch im Deutschen nachdenken. Wäre es nicht auch gut, wenn man sich dazu einmal vor Ort treffen könnte? Einen solchen Ort wird es geben - in Mannheim. Mehr Infos dazu unter forumdeutschesprache.de See you!😀 www.facebook.com/reel/1000442...

TODAY

Andrew Dimitrijević, University of Toronto, gives a talk on 9 April 3 PM CEST on The Effects of Neural Plasticity on Outcomes in Cochlear Implant Users. Spread the word & join at Wilhelm Wundt Raum, MPI CBS or online at eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/69116348377.

Andrew Dimitrijević, University of Toronto, gives a talk on 9 April 3 PM CEST on The Effects of Neural Plasticity on Outcomes in Cochlear Implant Users. Spread the word & join at Wilhelm Wundt Raum, MPI CBS or online at eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/69116348377.

I hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.

Science Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory. nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7

Two new papers led by amazing students (some positivity in These Dark Times)...

Learning to read changes the brain’s visual processing, repurposing neural pathways originally used for object and face recognition. 🧠📖 In this #AbralinTalk, @falkhuettig.bsky.social explains how literacy affects cognition. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Wp... #langsky #linguistics

"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪

Advance your research career through the Neuroscience Scholars Program. Receive dedicated funding, professional development support, and access to a network of leading scientists committed to advancing neuroscience trainees. Submit your application by Wednesday, February 19. ▶️ bit.ly/3Wg33qT

It’s WILD how quickly February 10th is approaching!! Don’t forget to submit your abstract for WILD2025 to join us in San Sebastián @bcbl.bsky.social this June www.bcbl.eu/events/wild/...

According to this research by Lena Henke, periodic electrophysiological activity sets a temporal limit on the learning of multi-syllabic chunks in an articial grammar: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

New publication in @jcgntn.bsky.social! with M.Sorrel, D.Shanks @mavadillo.bsky.social Our in-depth examination of awareness measures in the masked syntactic priming literature reveals that methodological limitations account for the 'subliminal' effects. journalofcognition.org/articles/10.... 1⬇️

For thos who are interested in sound symbolism, acoustics and articulation, this new paper might be interesting pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

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

Great job opportunity: Important Head of IT leadership position at our @mpicbs.bsky.social is open.

With great honor, humbleness, and thankfulness, I report that I shall be serving a 3-year term as Associate Editor of the Journal of Neuroscience—@sfnjournals.bsky.social—, the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience—@sfn.org. I am looking forward to working with the authors & editors!

I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production

What an honor to have the opportunity to reflect on my all-time heroine's talk today. And what a rock of a Nijmegen Lecture 2025! Thank you, @fernandaedi.bsky.social and @mpi-nl.bsky.social!

First 2025 collab w/ Zatorre lab @theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca, led by Oscar Bedford, shows auditory-motor networks have stronger default coupling than visuomotor. Also confirms motor top-down influence on auditory cortex in beta band, key for syncing sound & movement. doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

Merry Xmas to all my co-authors! Excited to share our work in Science Advances: "The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux." www.science.org/doi/full/10....

If you're looking for a great #linguistics and #neuroscience read before the break, look no further! In our new paper, we show that the prosodic hierarchy (a pillar of theory in #phonology and #phonetics) is actually neurally implemented during the comprehension of speech. 🧵 doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

What a better way to kick off here than the release of a new, critical chapter for "Speaking: The free book (chapter)" bookdown.org/v_piai_resea... "Form to Articulation" by the amazing @juliachauvet.bsky.social 💥 bringing together the psycholinguistics and motor control literatures, no small feat!!

Kicking of DoReCo's Bluesky presence with a bang: DoReCo 2.0 was published today, featuring open-access, time-aligned spoken corpora on, by now, 53 language, ca. 7,000 words each, with morpheme glosses for 38 of them. Check it out at doreco.huma-num.fr

HO! HO! HO! Join us today, 3 PM CET, for *The Language Circle Christmas Edition* with Elana Zion Golumbic! LIVE in the Wilhelm Wundt Raum of @mpicbs.bsky.social and ONLINE at zoom.us/j/94686183586. More information at languagecycles.com/language-cir.... See you this afternoon!

Excited to inaugurate my bluesky presence with this exciting preprint! Lead by the one and only Maya Inbar and together w Eitan Grossman we investigated temporal structure of prosodic units in over forty languages. Check out what we found! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy, happy, happy to announce that my project ‘Language in the Dyad’ (‘LaDy’) got awarded the #ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG by the @ERC_Research! Busy, but exciting 5y to come! #CNRS_dr12 @cnrs.bsky.social #LPL_lab_Aix #ILCB #AMU

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...

🚨📝New preprint‼️ In this fMRI study (N=37) we compare the production and comprehension of words, and observe that the same phoneme-specific sensorimotor networks are activated when speaking and listening to language! A short 🧵: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...