Testing the involvement of low-level visual representations during spoken word processing with non-Western students and meditators practicing Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (in press, Brain Research), with Veeky Baths et al., M. Ostarek, A. Lewis pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…

'The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.'

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

Fancy working with us on the genetics/epigenetics of early language development and social abilities MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics?
We have an open 4-year, fully funded PhD position starting 1 October 2024:
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Happing from tomorrow

My latest paper with Benjamin Weissman showsthat the brain responds similarly when processing predictions that are fulfilled by emoji in sentences as it does for words sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Mitarbeiter von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio haben ein Manifest veröffentlicht, in dem sie Vielfalt fordern und sich gegen die Diffamierung von Andersdenkenden aussprechen. berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…

The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis. New paper by Falk Huettig & Jan Hulstijn
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In Topics in Cognitive Science, Jan Hulstijn and I present the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis: processing of written language leads to increased (language) knowledge as well as enhanced language and non-language (perceptual and cognitive) skills pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…

or maybe sometimes we just see the world

Heads up! The abstract submission for the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture closes on February 7th.

Come with us to explore the connections between language, culture, cognition and thought.

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Morphosyntactic predictive processing in adult heritage speakers: Effects of cue availability and spoken and written language experience. Final version by Figen Karaca & al. Falk Huettig
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It’s happening: SfN Journals #jneurosci #openscience

Almost a million children in the UK do not own a book theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

An update on my family:
My aunt, her husband and his caregiver, and my uncle, were murdered on October 7th.
8 family members, including the kids, were released.
My cousin's husband, a father of two young children who survived so much, is still captive in the hands of Hamas.

We are hiring!

A forthcoming 2-year postdoc position will be offered in Milano, starting early 2024. The project aims at investigating the impact of language experience on spatial and attentional processes.

Please RT!
More info here: marcomarelli.net/open-positions

Simulations of spoken word recognition show how lexical feedback & lateral inhibition cooperate to boost signal, providing speed & accuracy benefits as noise increases. Results provide evidence for top-down feedback in models of cognitive processes

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