Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There wiringthebrain.com/2014/10/autism… - I wrote this ten years ago and it is, depressingly, as relevant as ever...

PhD opportunity!
Méadhbh Brosnan and I are seeking candidates for a project exploring mechanisms by which environmental factors support resilience to cognitive decline in ageing.
Get your application in by May 17th!
ucd.ie/psychology/new…

Excited to share our paper on prior-dependent face representations! 🙂🧠Many congratulations agarlichs! rdcu.be/dFraQ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Daniel Dennett (28th March 1942 - 19th April 2024)

RIP

Dennett on how to criticise wisely

Massimo The original Brahmi numeral system, evolved into the Hindu numerals, & that was later copied to form Arabic numeral system, which got carried over to Europe.

Hindu numerals are a set of 10 symbols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 — that represent numbers in decimal number system.

1/2 We are beginning to organise CNSP2025! Please contact us at cnspworkshop at gmail dot com if you would like to join the organisation commitee. We are looking especially for young scientists in our research domain

Janika did it again: Congratulations to paper #2! Pupil diameter as an indicator of sound pair familiarity after statistically structured auditory sequence in Scientific Reports rdcu.be/dER8o doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

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Q: Why do you move your eyes when you listen to a story?

Really?

Yes we all do, but mostly when we are paying attention.

A: Well … story time …
cell.com/cell-reports/f…

A bike with wheels shaped like a Reuleaux triangle, the simplest and best known curve of constant width other than the circle

[📹 The Q]

There's more to the world of art than Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso.

So here are 11 brilliant, beautiful, & bizarre painters you've (probably) never heard of:

We're seeking three postdocs and two PhDs in infant neuroimaging and medical imaging methods. Join us at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Dublin, Ireland!
cusacklab.org/vacancies.html

Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs cell.com/current-biolog…
1: EEG semantic violation paradigm with 18 dogs (27 tested) 2: Mismatch evoked an N400(-like) ERP response 3: Conclusion: Evidence for object word-elicited mental representations in dogs

This AVSP Visionaries interview is with Emeritus Professor Denis Burnham
youtube.com/@AVSPVisionari…
Denis was an early pioneer of AV speech perception research.

We learned a lot doing this interview.
Please view this one - as we need view numbers for the go ahead on the others!

The lineup for The Language Circle 2024 is online at cbs.mpg.de/language-circl…, including the link to our video stream and online collection of recorded talks. Spread the word and see you soon!