We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in Nature Communications shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s4146…

Ok, it's finally here 😍🥰 "Phonological processing and the L2 mental lexicon: Looking back and moving forward" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"An good way to learn German is to try reading children's books to familiarise yourself with basic grammar and vocabulary" German children's book:

Kids who learned a second language in school showed improved creative thinking, producing more ideas (and more diverse ideas) compared to a control group cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Statistical learning of foreign language words in younger and older adults bit.ly/4fhoWwz

Meta-analysis of 39 studies (N=4,917) confirms the bilingual creativity advantage, finding bilinguals are modestly more creative than monolinguals (r=.18) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jo…

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Where do #color categories come from? It's a very old question. Color is a continuous parameter, yet we categorize it. Since ancient times, there have been 4 consensus "basic" color categories: red, yellow, green, & blue. Are these hard-wired in our brains? 1/

"We aim to provide an easy-to-reference guideline that can help new researchers with their entrée into eye-tracking-while-reading research" Schotter & Dillon (in press). A beginner’s guide to eye tracking for psycholinguistic studies of reading doi.org/10.3758/s13428…

Presented some recent work on individual differences in L3 processing at #ISCOP this week! A lovely few days in beautiful Akko, with some of the top minds in cognition research 🧠

Congratulations to the 55 authors of the article that won the Outstanding Article of the Year award in Language Learning (Language Learning)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/page/1… Paper: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

Our new article with Jason Geller, Julia Drouin & Sarah Colby on webcam eye tracking is out now! 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lJ~99sT3hxG… ⭐️All materials are open access, and you’ll get code to analyze your Gorilla Experiment Builder eye tracking data in no time! (Free full-text for 50 days!)