Freshly appeared, new research on #discourse #TBI #communication #executive function #traumaticbraininjury, #fluency frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Come work with us! Université de Montréal is hiring a theoretical syntactician at the Assistant Professor level. Special interest in fieldworkers and/or specialists in Indigenous languages. Excellent French (C1 or equivalent) required. tinyurl.com/UmonSyn

Now out in Cortex! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… I.A.B Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦

New paper finally out, co-authored with Liina Pylkkanen! doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… Highlights in thread 🧵

We have a Dutch saying “dweilen met de kraan open”: moping the floor while water is running. If you offer Palestinians a mop to wipe up blood the Israeli government intentionally spills in tons, you are being utterly useless. Turn off the bloody faucet! Stop supporting genocide!

De aanval van Hamas op Israël is inmiddels drie weken geleden. Maar de geschiedenis van dit conflict gaat nog veel verder terug. En hoewel die geschiedenis zeer complex is, willen we toch een poging doen er dieper in te duiken. #avondshow youtu.be/qMqq-dWCAd0

"This is a text-book case of genocide." Read every word of this letter by a UN human rights official.

Resource for PsychoPy fans who do pupillometry and eye-tracking 👁️ I’ve created an EyeLink-compatible example experiment and walkthrough, shared via my website: sites.google.com/view/drewjmcla… (Eye-tracking version to come) Hoping this pays-it-forward by saving someone else time 🤞🏻

NYT INVESTIGATION: Israel ordered civilians to go to safe zones then dropped 2,000 pound “bunker-busters” that “turns earth to liquid [and] pancakes entire buildings” the bomb means “instant death” for anyone within 30 meters. Lethal fragmentation can extend for up to 365 meters:

✨ Do current neural speech models show human-like linguistic biases in speech perception? We took inspiration from classic phonetic categorization experiments to explore whether & where sensitivity to phonotactic context emerges in Wav2Vec2 models 🔍 📑 arxiv.org/abs/2407.03005

I will be presenting this work tomorrow (Thursday) at #INTERSPEECH2024, 10.00-10.40 in the Acesso room! Looking forward to discuss how we can learn from human speech science to interpret end-to-end neural speech models 💡 The paper is here: isca-archive.org/interspeech_20…

What makes humans uniquely cognitively adaptable? In our new paper, Yun-Fei Liu, Marina Bedny 🇺🇦, and I review neuroscience studies of sensory loss, language acquisition, and cultural skills (e.g., programming), and propose a 'flexible specialization' account: 1/

Our paper entitled "Neural specialization for 'visual' concepts emerges in the absence of vision" is now out at Cognition. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSe%7E2Hx2x…