Delighted to share our new preprint! with Alec Marantz, @DavidPoeppel and Jean-Rémi King:
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

'Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain'
Summary below 👇

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New lyrics from Taylor Swift’s ‘THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT’ have been unveiled:

🚨 New paper alert!

🧠 Our own Swarnendu Moitra and linnaea stockall is ..., with their collaborator DAC, present this MEG study of word length in Bangla

🔗 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Swarnendu Moitra, Linnaea Stockall's and my first official, no-foolin' neurolinguistics publication is finally published and officially out! I'm fairly certain that this is the first MEG study published about Bengali too

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Sorry, I don’t do “speech acts.” Language is for describing the world

A comprehensive examination of prediction‐based error as a mechanism for syntactic development: Evidence from syntactic priming. New paper by Seamus Donnelly & al. - Dr Caro Rowland , Evan Kidd-
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.1…

A phone in a basket looks very different from a knife in a cup. Would you ever confuse them? In a new paper @ Open Mind, Chaz Firestone Mick Bonner Barbara Landau and I show that you would — with implications for the relation between language & vision. osf.io/preprints/psya…

📢 I'm recruiting a postdoc at UMD
🗓️ Starting in 2024
🖥️🙋 Topics related to human-AI interaction
🔜 Apply by May 31, but earlier if possible!
🤑 $75-$80k+benefits, unencumbered (ie not 'big project') funding

Link to full post and form for applications in thread.

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JOB ALERT!

My lab is hiring a full-time research assistant. If you know of a motivated junior scientist interested in brains and language(s) send them my way!

Details below.

The Special Issue (SI) of Neurobiology of Language (the OA flagship journal of the Neurobiology of Language Society @MITPress) on cognitive computational neuroscience of language🧠🤖 is finally out: shorturl.at/hsDFQ Co-edited with AlessandroLopopolo MilenaRabovsky Roger Levy🧵1/n

How is Sign Language?

If you missed Professor Adam Schembri's (Adam Schembri) Inaugural lecture last month - it's now available to watch!

Discover the Uni of Birmingham lecture here:👉🏼youtu.be/Bb5JfwziYMM

I have been studying Bengali for 19 years and I still cannot read Bengali handwriting. Like. At all.

Graphemic representations are really abstract and linguists should really think about how to model these and teach these things!

The US should be rolling out the red carpet for our talented scientists from the global south, and instead we make their life hell, restricting their ability to go to conferences, visit family, and receive a paycheck. It is heart breaking. Unacceptable. Thank you Mayank Chugh.

had too much caffeine, ran out of melatonin, wrote 2/3 of a paper last night

Cross-linguistic differences matter in how we think about Alzheimer's: led by the brilliant Dr. Neguine Rezaii

As Fodor famously argued, the brain is *literally* a computer and your teeth are the keyboard

We have a postdoc position open, on a project about QUD processing. Starting date July 1 2024 or after. Drop me an email if you are interested! ([email protected])