Preprint alert 📢
with Dan Levenstein, Matt Krause, Bradley Voytek, Richard Gao

In this work, we evaluate the theoretical status of neural oscillations and local field potentials generally. A thread... 🧵

osf.io/preprints/psya…

Very excited for this session, and that we managed to secure IS interpreters! MOSAIC is very informal and student-friendly btw, and I'm stoked we can make this session even more accessible - feel free to advertise to your students and colleagues too (especially signers!).

Our next MOSAIC meeting on 'Communicative Efficiency' will feature Anita Slonimska, PhD Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco & Natalia Levshina @[email protected]. We are thrilled that this session will have International Sign interpreting! 🤟All welcome!
Thur, 25 April, 2pm-3.30pm UK time (contact Jonas Nölle @[email protected] for Zoom link)

We have a new commentary out (w/ Elizabeth Qing Zhang) in Comparative Cognition and Behavioral Reviews (@CCBRjournal) : 'Toward Interdisciplinary Integration in the Study of Comparative Cognition: Insights from Studying the Evolution of Multimodal Communication'
…ve-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/vol19_Zhang_Pl…

How do learners figure out what a word is in their language? In this paper with Jennifer Culbertson & I, Elizabeth Pankratz looks at internal immutability and free mobility as cues and finds that both conspire to make word discovery possible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IA5WGGNN…

New article 'Language development beyond the here-and-now: Iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication' with Pamela Perniss Yasamin Motamedi Language&Cognition and others.

Time to register for my fav conference ever! I started going to Evolang's exactly a decade ago in 2014 (Vienna) and have enjoyed every single installment of the series. Also, if you're a student in the US🇺🇸, go! (Usually it's in🇪🇺, great chance!) #language #evolution #linguistics

It's claimed perceptual language reflects a biologically grounded hierarchy of the senses. Using a stratified global sample of 100 languages, a new study led by Elisabeth Norcliffe finds domain-general constraints explain lexicalization patterns instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article…

Our next MOSAIC meeting on 'Experimental Semiotics' will feature presentations by Rui Liu | 刘睿 and Jonas Nölle @[email protected] and feature special guests Bruno Galantucci and Ivan Toni as discussants.
Thur, 28 March, 2pm-3.30pm UK time on Zoom (contact Jonas Nölle @[email protected] for link).

Schedule is now up! evolang2024.github.io

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…

Out now & open access Cambridge Elements: Michael Pleyer and I explore the intersection of #CognitiveLinguistics and #LanguageEvolution research cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Really enjoyed this talk by Chen-Wei Yu, Claudia Haase etc al on semantic similarity in couples' convos predicting emotional experience
fediscience.org/@jn/1120326486…

#SAS2024 #AffectScience2024

Summary of Pablo Arias Sarah's amazing talk presenting DuckSoup, a platform to manipulate and study social interactions in real-time online. fediscience.org/@jn/1120325225…
#SAS2024 #AffectScience2024

I’m studying to be a sommelier and the concept of bouba and kiki has been surprisingly relevant. a lot of the job is basically asking restaurant guests if they would like their wine to be bouba or kiki

I've summarised the two talks from today's Society for Affective Science plenary debate between Ajay Satpute and Philip Kragel below (fediscience links)
Satpute: fediscience.org/@jn/1120230488…

Kragel:
fediscience.org/@jn/1120231461…

#AffectiveScience2024 #SAS2024