happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference 2026 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain 10-12 June 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2026

While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions: 👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis) 👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze 👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6 Please share ☺️

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

Interested in doing a #PhD in #SpeechPerception and/or #LanguageLearning in a top research center? @bcbl.bsky.social If yes, there's still time to send me your materials!

The #SpokenLanguage group is one of the research groups offering sponsorship for this call! If you're interested, get in touch 😉

A newborn group at the @bcbl.bsky.social is looking for PhD candidates! www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

We presented our #ManyTones project at the 2025 #BigTeamScience Conference. We talked about project background, pilot study, and challenges. The slides are available at chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/pr.... Feel free to check them out 👀

📢PhD fellowships The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships Potential PhD projects can be related to: 🗣️Speech perception 🧠Language learning ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3 📆Deadline: October 30

🚨New paper out on rate-dependent perception in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review!

In a new paper, Mike Tanenhaus and I articulate the rationale behind different experimental tasks in the visual world paradigm and give recommendations for future studies. “Rethinking task importance in the Visual World Paradigm“ (Brain Research, in press). pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

PhD opportunity at BCBL (San Sebastián, Spain)! We’re looking for a PhD student to work on spatiotemporal pRFs and reading networks using advanced neuroimaging methods. Apply here 👉 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

📣 Would you like to work at BCBL? You are still on time 📣 There is a new PhD candidate position available at #BCBL for the ‘Cortical Rhythms’ ERC Advanced Grant project. 📆 Deadline for application: 15/09/2025 +info www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

It's out!! 🕺💃 Link below: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New paper The presence of similar sounding words in the mental lexicon affects how new words are learned and how familiar words are recognized. But (how) do these lexical dynamics differ across languages? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

2 Positions open at the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain) Os reenviamos información sobre 2 ofertas para PhD en el BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) en San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain). La Junta Directiva de la…

📢 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

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding: www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...

🏅 💬 At the '22 edition of our conference, we launched the Early Career Talk, giving a platform to an outstanding early-career scientist. We are now seeking nominations for the Early Career Talk at the #IASL26 edition. The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2025. Instructions in the thread.

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!

Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.

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.

Congrats to both!!👏 Very proud of @brianwwl.bsky.social for yet another accomplishment!!

If you have a few minutes to spare, I would really appreciate it if you could take part in this standardisation task. The only requirement is being a native English speaker and should take no more than 10-15 minutes. #phdlife #psychology #linguistics nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📣¡Te estamos buscando! 📣 El grupo de investigación de “Lenguaje hablado” de #BCBL tiene abierta una oferta para trabajar como PhD. 📆 Fecha límite para candidaturas: 17/07/2025 +info👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

📣 ¡Buscamos voluntarios/as para un nuevo estudio! 📣 En #BCBL vamos a investigar cómo somos capaces de memorizar nuevas palabras durante el sueño y te necesitamos. ¡Inscríbete aquí! 👇 www.bcbl.eu/participa/

🧠 ¿Quieres ayudarnos a descubrir cómo funciona el #lenguaje en el #cerebro humano? En #BCBL siempre estamos en busca de voluntarios/as de todas las edades para desarrollar proyectos de investigación que aporten resultados valiosos a la sociedad. +info⬇️ www.bcbl.eu/es/participa...

📢PhD fellowships in the Basque Country (Spain) The Spoken Language group at BCBL (Spain) aims to sponsor a Basque Govt. predoctoral fellow in the upcoming call Info about the group: www.bcbl.eu/en/research/... Info about the position and application process: shorturl.at/i3lhi

In this study, we found that images provide a more salient modality (compared to orthography) for L2 learning - e.g., testing vocabulary in a different modality than that used in training led to a disadvantage, but not when trained with images! Such a great project and such a fun collaboration! 😀

📢La Fundación Tatiana Peréz de Gúzman el Bueno lanza la convocatoria de becas/contratos predoctorales en #neurociencia 2025. Los candidatos tienen que tener la nacionalidad española. 📆Fecha límite para presentar candidatura: 18/07/2025 +info 👇 www.fundaciontatiana.com/convocatoria...

✍️ #BCBLpaper in #BehaviorResearchMethods | Lettuce entertain you: Assessing Sandwich Builder as a measure of auditory short-term #memory. McLaughlin, D. and Samuel, A. +info ⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.3...

#ISB15 is just around the corner! 🌊☀️ Safe travels to all—and a quick reminder for everyone to bring sunscreen and (maybe) a raincoat. The Basque weather can surprise you 😉🌂🧴 #symposium #bilingualism

📣 We are hiring! 📣 At #BCBL we have new positions available for you! Four of the vacancies are for the #BIBALANCE project and the other one is for the #CorticalRhythms project. 📅 Deadline for application: 30/06/2025 +info👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

Does anyone know of open datasets where people have asked participants to explicitly define non words? We are pulling together an experiment now and hoping to r/o iconicity and wordlikeness as content drivers

Can bilingualism be a strength for children with dyslexia?? We're hiring! Help us explore how the brain navigates this fascinating combination🧠. #Dyslexia #Bilingualism #ERC_Research #Bibalance www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

Looking forward to presenting some new work on word learning at ISP in Barcelona next week!!

Listeners rapidly adapt to current conditions: "Good enough" adaptation in multi-talker speech perception: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9wh5y_v1

🔜🍻🧠 ¡Volvemos a los bares de #Donostia! 🧠🍻🔜 Del 19 al 21 de mayo #BCBL vuelve a participar en la décima edición de Pint of Science. ¡No te lo puedes perder! 👀👇 #pint25 #pint25ES #pint25DSS

🌟Workshops Available🌟 Register for the workshops we offer! Free for all registered participants. Check out the options on our website: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15... 👶 If you need childcare services, see the “Childcare" tab for info. Spots are limited—don't miss out!

Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

Any psychoacoustics folks out there who have experience with modelling psychometric functions for speech perception? We are looking for some analysis experts for our first @manylanguagesc.bsky.social big team science project. Give me a shout if interested

🧠 ¿Estás interesado/a en formar parte de los nuevos descubrimientos en la investigación neurocientífica? En #BCBL siempre estamos en busca de voluntarios/as de todas las edades para descubrir cómo funciona el #lenguaje en el #cerebro humano. +info 👀👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/participa...

Phonetic Variability Leads to Gradient Speech Perception: https://osf.io/486gm

The Gradual Development of Lateral Inhibition During Word Recognition in School-Age Children: https://osf.io/kfx52

There's still time to apply to the @bcbl.bsky.social[email protected] Master's program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language! We welcome students with different backgrounds including: Psychology Neuroscience Linguistics Education Speech Therapy Computer Science Mathematics Biology Engineering