🎓✨ So proud of my PhD student for brilliantly defending her thesis today! Years of hard work, resilience, and curiosity have paid off — welcome, Dr. Fernández-Merino! 👩‍🎓👏

Gave my talk at #ICON2025 today 🎤✨ Great discussions about music and speech and lots of inspiring science all around. Feeling energized by this community!

... and delivered. Thanks to @manuruz.bsky.social - @eegmanylabs.bsky.social, @alinakoppold.bsky.social - @igor-dgps.bsky.social, Elena Cesnaite - @eegmanypipes.bsky.social and @lauraklatt.bsky.social - @scone-neuro.bsky.social for holding a mirror to cog #neuroskyence #ICON2025 🙌

New paper out: available online the "Tracking Umbrella": ⛱️ Get some shade in the late summer time 😎 doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain) Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI. 📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain) Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI. 📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

Still playing the waiting game with the publication process 🤐😪😑 … but in the meantime, here’s some fresh evidence showing that cognitive conflict might actually feel rewarding. Who knew it could be fun? osf.io/c75tj @mlapietra.bsky.social @MarcLluisVives @nicolaml.bsky.social

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz

To all those who believe in democracy: be ready to fight.

✍️ #BCBLpaper in #HumanBrainMapping |Temporal structure of #music improves the cortical encoding of #speech Fernández-Merino, L. (@laufdezlaura.bsky.social), Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N. (@nicolaml.bsky.social#BCBLpaper#HumanBrainMapping#music#speechd Kalashnikova, M.  +info ⬇️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.70199

Happy to share my very first first-author paper! In this study, we show that rhythms can shape how our brains track speech (in very simple words). Work with Marina Kalashnikova, @nicolaml.bsky.social and Mikel Lizarazu. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) are open! 📆Preregistration deadline: March 26th Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit... #neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master

Adivinanza. Íbamos cuatro personas en bici. Se nos ha juntado un desconocido. Subiendo un puerto, el desconocido le ha dicho a una de las cuatro personas: "Qué bien subes, ¿no?". ¿A quién se lo ha dicho, a qué persona con qué rasgo distinto de las otras tres?

Extremely positive news about my #MSCA application. Can't wait to start my project FlexyRhythm at @bcbl.bsky.social with @nicolaml.bsky.social (and secondment at @dondersinst.bsky.social with @vipiai.bsky.social). So happy to have the chance to work with such wonderful people!

Two new studies from our team we're particularly happy about: Study 1: ai.meta.com/research/pub... Study 2: ai.meta.com/research/pub... Blog 3: ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...

En 2024 Bolonia (Italia) introdujo el límite de 30km/h para los coches. Consecuencias: 1. reducción del 13,1% de accidentes; 2. No ha muerto ningún peatón (por primera vez en 33 años); 3. En algunos puntos, aumento del 10% de flujos de bicicletas; 4. Reducción del 5% de coches en días laborables.

Just a Christmas tree 💚

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

Now in Italian.... www.roars.it/perche-mi-so...

😊 Spent a few pleasant days in Lisbon discussing cognition, the brain, and protein structures. Wondering if there’s potential to connect these neuro-related fields. 🧐

The revised version of our commentary and re-analysis is online: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Hope this can be of use to researchers working on alignment and to ECRs interested in Open Science approaches. #psycholinguistics #alignment #openscience #commentary #reanalysis

Just published with Hugo Weissbart! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how the structure and statistics of language work together to shape neural responses during naturalistic language comprehension! Thread below [1/7]

📢Two calls for the prestigious INPhINIT PhD fellowships are now open: ▪️Retaining (applicants based in Spain) ▪️Incoming (international applicants) lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... The BCBL is an eligible host for both calls and the Spoken Language Group welcomes applications‼️