When you hear a new word do you think of how it's written? We know that listeners construct orthographic representations ("orthographic skeletons") of novel words they've only heard - even in opaque languages like French (see Jevtović, Antzaka, & Martin, 2023). However, is this process automatic?

Way to go Dr. Brian Wong @brianwwl.bsky.social!! 😊👏 I can't wait to see all that you'll accomplish in the years to come!

Congratulations, Daphne!! ☺️👏 So proud of you!😉

Finally out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. Everything I think I know about word meanings. Particular focus on words that are unfamiliar or ambiguous. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you're in Lisbon for @eurosla.bsky.social go see @brianwwl.bsky.social 's poster tomorrow morning: 490 - Beyond Frequency: Age-Dependent Sensitivity to Neighbourhood Density and Phonological Distinctiveness in L2 Vocabulary Learning and Lexical Access

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social

Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We're offering free "Peer Review 101" virtual workshops for undergrad/grad seminars, tailored to Psych, Neuro, and related fields. Visit our website to learn more tinyurl.com/2ra56w72

Do you speak Norwegian? If yes, come join us as a doctoral student or postdoctoral researcher, to work on randomized controlled trials of math and writing interventions for upper elementary school children. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (predoc) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (postdoc)

⏰ Deadline Extended! We've pushed back the submission deadline for #iWORDD26 to May 3rd, 2026. Don't miss your chance to present your work and enjoy this great conference! 👉 www.bcbl.eu/events/iword... #reading #dyslexia #conference

New paper out on speech perception consistency by @brianwwl.bsky.social! 👏

📢 New paper in Neuropsychologia Do children with dyslexia show differences in neural adaptation or MMN? In an EEG roving paradigm, we found no clear differences between children with and without dyslexia. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Come to beautiful Donostia, have some pinchos, and learn about advances in dyslexia and reading!

Congrats, @brianwwl.bsky.social! ☺️ Very happy to see this work out!

📖5th #iWORDD this October: 2 days of reading & dyslexia research, 1 on real-world impact! Join our outstanding keynote line-up + share your work here by April 15: shorturl.at/lSlBI @jyeatman.bsky.social @gaablab.bsky.social @drmluciano.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social @cassandrapw.bsky.social

Research Assistant/PhD Candidate (f/m/d) Cognitive psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany The title od the project is “Bilingual flexibility: The impact of dispositional and situational language balance on bilinguals’ word learning of a third language”. Application deadline: 20 March 2026

Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) are now open! Preregistration deadline: March 27th Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit...

[1/2] 🧠 Did you know that #BCBL offers a master’s degree in #CognitiveNeuroscience of #Language? The full program is in English and it is aimed at graduates in #psychology, #neuroscience and #linguistics.

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠 Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL. More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n

📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) will be open from March 2nd until March 27th! Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit... #neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master

Do adults with DLD continue to exhibit differences in the dynamics of spoken word recognition observed in childhood or do they resolve by adulthood? This #JSLHR study aims to address a gap in research on real-time language processing. https://on.asha.org/3MtGgpM #DevLangDis

📣 The call for individual papers for the #StatLearnBCBL is open! 📣 The conference will discuss statistical learning and its underlying mechanisms from behaviour to neuroscience, across various domains. 📆 June 10-12, 2026 ✍🏼 Submission deadline: 01/03/2026 +info ⬇️ www.bcbl.eu/events/stati...

📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

🗣️ We have invited Hans Rutger Bosker, head from the SPEAC lab at the Donders Institute of Radboud University, to speak about how the timing of simple gestures guides word recognition, vowel perception, and speech segmentation. Discover more about it here👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/noticias/...

Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!! This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay! elifesciences.org/articles/99931

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Speech comprehension relies on prediction, but does the #brain prioritize expected or unexpected info? @fabianschneider.bsky.social & @helenblank.bsky.social show that sharpening of #SensoryRepresentations & #PredictionError processes co-exist at different levels @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/49kkNs0

Psychology folks! I'm trying to identify broad principles of Psychology that describe phenomena in multiple subdisciplines. For example "Psychological phenomena have physiological correlates" or "Information processing is optimized for the training data." Would be delighted for suggestions!

The #SpokenLanguage group @bcbl.bsky.social is at #psynom25! If you're around, come to Brian's poster today!

I am looking for a downloadable list of English transitive verbs. Anyone know of a good resource? #childLanguage #languagedisorders #languagetherapy

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