1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Cutaneous alternating current stimulation can cause a phasic modulation of speech perception https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41617605/

Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped organise #EPSLondon 2026! EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April. Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time! eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Season's Greetings! From all at the MRC CBU 🎄☃️🎅

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

Modulating speech tracking through brain state-dependent changes in audio loudness https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41435423/

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York, York, UK The Research Associate would be working on a project funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), examining multilingual language control and use in younger and older adults. Application deadline: 31 August 2025.

The AI Con: In Conversation with Prof. Emily M. Bender Wednesday 16 July, 18:00–19:30 Computer Laboratory, Cambridge Will new technology help make the world better, or is AI just another tech bubble that benefits the few? Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ai-con...

Excited for CBU post-doc James Webb who will demonstrate eye-tracking methods for studying speech understanding at Science Night. Come and see webcam eye-tracking with WebGazer supported by @gorillapsych.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow (19 March from 6pm) at the MRC CBU for our 'Science Night' open evening. We have a fantastic line up of speakers talking on various topics of interest in cognition and neuroscience research! Event details: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/scien...

1 week to go! ‘Inside the Mind: Exploring the Human Brain’ on Wednesday 19 March from 6pm. Enjoy hands-on activities, tours of Unit facilities and excellent short talks @mrccbu.bsky.social Full details: mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/scien... @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky community, we’re new here! Cambridge Language Sciences is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge. Follow us to stay updated on all things language sciences – events, funding, research, news, and more. Website: www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk

The International #CognitiveDevelopment Seminar Series continues in February with Dr Nadine Gaab (Harvard University) discussing "The Typical and Atypical Reading Brain." Don’t miss it—join us on 4th February! 🌟 Sign up: lnkd.in/eVERArbw details about the series: lnkd.in/ebQz_fXd

Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to @braintumourrsch.bsky.social 20% discount from Routledge in January. routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... iEEG. 1. syllabic & phonemic timescales both reflected in the acoustic spectral flux 2. cortex tracks syllabic timescale: theta range, phonemic via alpha-beta

Registration open for our Neuroimaging summer school in Cambridge in September 2025: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

Interested in doing a PhD on how to help people learn a new language? We have an ESRC-funded PhD studentship available, to work on the project ‘Individualised second language learning’ from Oct 2025. Application deadline is 3 Dec. More information at www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

I’m still hiring! 🧠 Two weeks left to apply for this postdoc w/ me @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll use fMRI to study how metacognition, social cognition, prediction and learning connect. And you’ll join a collaborative team across Birkbeck, Oxford, Yale and the Institute of Philosophy.