How does the human brain process the speech signal? Does it employ a naive strategy 👼 or does it proactively predict upcoming information🏃‍♀️? Check out Suhail Matar ‘s new pre-print!!

New pre-print w/ Alec Marantz

The brain processes speech’s building blocks: sounds, syllables, words.

But does it process sub-word meaningful units, i.e. morphemes (‘bake’+‘-ing’=‘baking’)? How?

TL;DR: Yes, predictively, proactively

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biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Taking over Hamilton Hall as done in 1968, Columbia students unfurl a banner that reads 'Hind's Hall,' in reference to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces.
Hundreds of students cheer as the banner is revealed, erupting into chants to 'Free Palestine.'

Long live the students ❤️

Fellowships and scholarships are being announced in support of scholars and students from Gaza (and elsewhere in Palestine.) They are mainly in Europe. Below are two with deadlines soon. Here is a link to a list of others: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I'm urgently looking for a candidate for a 4-year PhD position at the BCBL, San Sebsastián, Spain. If you're interested in developing a Neurofeedback protocol using EEG signals to validate an intervention for children with dyslexia, do get in touch!

A must read for academics. And if a comprehensive investigation of how Israeli unis have been complicit in genocide doesn't move you then think about the fact that all unis in Gaza have been destroyed. That profs & students have been murdered. That books and archives are gone.

A must read!

The essay, “The Ongoing Nakba,” would have been the first from a Palestinian scholar published by the Harvard Law Review. The decision to pull it from publication is “unprecedented”.. my latest The Intercept theintercept.com/2023/11/21/har…

you cry a million times before sunrise. you think your pain is unprecedented, then you are reminded, with a photograph or a headline, that your agony doesn’t compare to that of those who are marching, limbless and orphaned, under the rain and rockets. shame is too soft of a word.

I just got this message from Dr. Nidal Abuhadrous, head of neurosurgery at Shifa Hospital: “Dear colleagues
The situation in Shifa now is extremely dangerous.
We as medical staff want to leave, but we can not!
We might not survive till morning.
Cont’d…

el pueblo unido jamás será vencido❤️

Washington DC

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 🤞🏻

As of today, the number of bombs dropped on Gaza and their impact is equivalent to that of Hiroshima in Japan. So It's the size of throwing an atomic bomb at 2.2 million Palestinians of mostly children and minors.

San Sebastián Donostia hoy!

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!

This. Also, by being silent you are letting your students and post-docs bear the brunt of the insane wrath your institutions are unleashing against any member who dares express solidarity with Palestinians, while the same institutions casually back genocide.

Use your privilege.

Hospital staffers in Gaza are drinking IV bags.

washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/…