🌟Grad students at #CNS2024 or upcoming #SOBP2024, I would love to meet you! I’m looking to hire a postdoc interested in cognition (attention, executive function, etc), brain networks, development, environment/experience, and/or mental health in the near future — let’s chat! 🌟

Great news! My new book, Mastery: How Learning Transforms our Brains, Minds and Bodies, was released for sale today. hernandezarturo.com/about-5

The Frontiers Award goes to Elke Weber for her research on environmental decision-making and the factors that motivate action against climate change frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/front…

Why do babies learn words better from their caregivers than from unfamiliar folks? In her Honors thesis, Anna Compton (w/Ellie Breitfeld) explored a novel idea: perhaps babies learn better from people whom they've previously observed as being engaging. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Today is Spain's National Day of the Sign Languages (and the 10th anniversary of this special day). 🙌 We join the signing community in celebrating our linguistic heritage and continuing to work towards full recognition and equality for sign languages.

🚀 Our new article is here to help you optimize the calculation of cortical tracking of speech! Don't miss it. 📊🔍 👉 Check it out: [sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)

🗞️#BCBLpaper in Cell Press | Early language experience modulates the tradeoff between acoustic-temporal and lexico-semantic cortical tracking of speech ✍️Pérez-Navarro, J., Klimovich-Gray, A., Lizarazu, M., Piazza, G., Molinaro, N. and Lallier, M. cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Marie Coppola is “extremely aware of the persisting injustices that people with disabilities experience,” and is using her experience to help shape policy in Washington D.C. today.uconn.edu/2024/07/profes…

New paper out in Developmental Science with @bergelsonlab! We asked whether the acoustic properties of language input for individual words also predict age of production. TLDR: Yes – variability in how words sound predicts when kids first say them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… (1/n)

🥳🔝 #BCBL’s scientific director, Manuel Carreiras, has received the latest Distinguished Career Award from the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL Annual Meeting). The award honors researchers who have made an enduring contribution to research in the neurobiology of language.

⬇️In this longitudinal study in children between 4 and 6.5 yo, we show the different influence of specific amounts of bilingual language exposure on the development of knowledge and spontaneous use of phonological, lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic abilities.

Union members, like me (@aaup), son of a career-long @ibew member, let the teamsters (@teamsters) know that this cowardice cannot stand! It is chilling that the teamsters’ leadership can’t recognize members’ interest and support @kamalaharris. Support @teamstersharris!

The 1st paper of my thesis out in Child Development, OA! 🎉 «Cognate beginnings to bilingual lexical acquisition» w/Daniela Avila-Varela, Ignacio Castillejo ϕ & Nuria Sebastian-Galles. @cbcUPF UPF Barcelona UAM Autónoma Madrid

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🔛 Our colleague Brendan Costello has joined @ikerbasque as #ResearchFellow. His work focuses on researching language processing in deaf people and the neurobiology of sign language. Congratulations! 🥳

This is with my computational group at BCBL. This project is going to be really interesting and a lot of fun.

Please join us at UConn for an amazing lineup of speakers on 'Variation and Diversity in Language Acquisition and Processing' on Nov. 14 & 15. Program: events.uconn.edu/live/files/108… Registration is free but required (by Nov. 1): events.uconn.edu/institute-for-…

Looking for a PhD student to join my Comp Neuro group at BCBL in Spain for a funded position investigating the bases of human statistical learning using neural networks, EEG, and MEG: bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job…

IBACS & BIRC speaker series is back !! Join us at UCONN Storrs campus or the livestream from wherever you are !!