Our paper has been released recently: Humphries, T., Mathur, G., Napoli, D.J. et al. An approach designed to fail deaf children and their parents and how to change it. Harm Reduct J 21, 132 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s12954…

New paper on the neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf native signers - reading in an L2 (Polish) requires greater cognitive effort compared to hearing L1 readers sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper by Peter Thierfelder shows early activation of sign phonology for deaf Chinese readers sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper with Meghan McGarry! We investigated TYPE of iconicity (perceptual vs. motoric) in an ERP picture naming study. There were larger effects for perceptually-iconic signs, attributed to the greater structural alignment b/n picture and sign doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

Thrilled to have a new paper out with Dr. Julia Hecht in The Lancet - one of the oldest and most respected medical journals. "Primary health care practices for deaf children should include early incorporation of a signed language" thelancet.com/journals/lance… Main points below 1/7

#SNL2024 HAVE YOU REGISTERED YET? Standard Registration Rate Deadline is September 29th! Register Early and Save! Learn more: neurolang.org/2024/meeting-r…

Why not say "Language can be written, spoken, or signed?" Why link sign to "other gestures"? This infographic misleads people by suggesting that signed languages are like gestures and are not equivalent to spoken languages.

I'm glad to share Language Neuroscience Podcast #30. I talk with Maaike Vandermosten Maaike Vandermosten about the neural basis of developmental dyslexia, and neuroplasticity in recovery from aphasia (especially her very cool new preprint on this topic!). langneurosci.org/podcast/ep30

New work with my collaborator Anna Banaszkiewicz on bimodal bilinguals of Polish Sign Language (PJM) and Polish. What is up with the parietal lobe? Get a free copy (until 27th October) here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjp1_fKKpPMy

New paper by @AnneliesKusters discusses the role of International Sign as a lingua franca and the debate on its classification annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Syntax and semantics must both be *significantly* extended to account for the interaction between grammar and iconicity in sign and speech: NYU's press release about 2 recent articles ("Iconic Syntax", "Iconological Semantics", Linguistics & Philosophy). nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

RIT researchers are studying how deaf and hearing children explore museum spaces. Families with 2 to 6 year old children are invited to participate in a research study about child exploration at the The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York. To learn more: rit.edu/ntid/museum-st….

New paper with @Verbal_Fixation - deaf signers are more efficient readers than their hearing peers. Another example of deaf gain! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-33…

Such fun and cool news!! Amy Poeppel novel will be made into a movie. CONGRATS, Amy ❤️🪻🍾 deadline.com/2024/10/jennif… (Fingers crossed for your other novels - they are all so movie-worthy!)

🔛 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! 🥳

#SNL2024 Distinguished Career Award Lecture by Manuel Carreiras, Saturday, October 26, 2024, 4:45- 5:45pm, Great Hall 1. Find out more: neurolang.org/2024/distingui… Sponsored by Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

On the Language Neuroscience Podcast #31, I talk with Masud Husain, EIC Brain about his editorial "A mountain of small things". Is the mountain of small things a bigger threat to science than the reproducibility crisis? Listen and see what you think! langneurosci.org/podcast/ep31

The temporal structure of perceptual experience has so many fascinating wrinkles, at different timescales. Here two contributions from our team on expectancy in time on the second scale MatthiasGrabenhorst Michalareas G nature.com/articles/s4146… pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… Ernst Strüngmann Institute

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Dr. Pamela Perniss on the #ERC Synergy Grant 👏 Together with partners from Norway, the USA and France, the Cologne linguist is investigating the relationship between language and thought in different cultures.🧠 🌍 👇 uni.koeln/CYRFM