Evolang 2020 website is up: brussels.evolang.org 🥳

Live streaming of #CUNY2019 talks will be available here colorado.edu/event/cuny2019… for those who cannot be here in person. Please visit this page to register and download Zoom.us if you haven't already.

It took a decade, but "the case of the missing heritability" is solved! Rare variants save the day in this cool whole genome sequencing study of >21,000 people from Peter Visscher & co. Read the bioRxiv here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Brain data of language processing available to everyone | Brain researchers have provided access to a collection of brain data of more than 200 test subjects, who were processing language during measurements. mpi.nl/brain-data-of-…

We know so much about cognitive processes underlying skilled reading in literate people & how children learn to read. Why is educational policy/practice plagued by debates over how to teach this? Essential article by Anne Castles - moved to @annecastles.bsky.social Kathy Rastle Kate Nation: tes.com/magazine/artic…

cedric boeckx cheekybabbler Dr. Julia Uddén 共創言語進化 Language and Music in Cognition Evolinguistics 2019 Workshop ''Hierarchy, intention sharing, and language evolution: Beyond interdisciplinary conceptual barriers'' on May 25th and 26th in Tokyo, Japan! Abstract submission deadline is April 26th, 2019! Don't miss it!!!

Must read: Multimodal Language Processing in Human Communication, by Judith Holler & Levinson cell.com/trends/cogniti…

Our new paper offers a theoretical foundation and corresponding literature review, for further empirical work on (neural) hierarchical processing. With Mauricio JD Martins, MD PhD @wzuidema Tecumseh Fitch

On my way to #snlmtg19 in Helsinki 👋🏻 🇫🇮 Will be taking the overnight ferry on the way back. Small steps 🌱 with climate in mind.

Brennans approach is really promising and the RNNG has interesting features such as both stack and buffer. Thank you and congrats! #snlmtg19

All the interaction we love at the #snlmtg19 needs to weighed against the carbon footprint 🐾 of the meeting. Great idea to form a climate comittee! 🌲 I’m willing to join. ✋🏻

Do domain-general executive resources support core linguistic computations, like inhibiting irrelevant meanings or parses, keeping representations active in working memory, or predicting upcoming elements? It seems NO is the answer: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 1/3

Our work showing robust non-replication of an often cited prior finding in neuroimaging genetics is finally 'in press'. Will appear in same journal that published the original study. Thanks to wonderful colleagues Dr. Julia Uddén Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Annika Hulten et al. Watch this space.

Our paper finally out: the ability to generate hierarchies in vision shares neural and cognitive resources with language, and posterior middle temporal cortex seems central for this ability. academic.oup.com/brain/article/…

Important paper by Simon Fisher Dr. Julia Uddén Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 P. Hagoort et al.: “Towards robust functional neuroimaging genetics of cognition” jneurosci.org/content/early/…

How do blind individuals learn about the visual appearance of animals? Sighted people’s descriptions of animals are an obvious source. In a new PNAS letter however, Ostarek, JP & Montero-Melis show that such descriptions can be quite misleading. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1…

Super proud to be part of this important study together with ⁦Dr. Julia Uddén⁩ ⁦Simon Fisher⁩ ⁦Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦⁩ ⁦Het Talige Brein⁩ et al! Let’s keep it real folks!! #neuroimaging #genetics jneurosci.org/content/39/44/…

Our cautionary tale about functional neuroimaging genetics of language is a featured article in this week's Journal of Neuroscience SfN Journals. Here's a thread that breaks down the story. 1/9 jneurosci.org/content/39/44/…

I'm planning a tweetorial on why you should be wary of reports associating candidate genes with neuroimaging measures in modest samples. In the meantime, reupping this cautionary tale from our recent work on common DNA variants of FOXP2: jneurosci.org/content/39/44/…

Open fully funded 4 year PhD-position in a joint project with the Royal Institute of Technology: kth.se/en/om/work-at-…