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Zipf’s law of abbreviation explained by a simple cultural evolutionary model: - no pressure for efficiency - general pressure for brevity applying to all words - explains the weak correlation between frequency and brevity - explains heteroskedasticity osf.io/preprints/psya…

Thank you for the kind words, everyone! 🙏😊 Here is the PDF, for those who have asked: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Registration for #SANS2025 is now open! Join us in Chicago, April 23-26, for a fantastic program of social and affective neuroscience! Register by March 15 for our early bird rate, and don't forget to renew your membership first too! socialaffectiveneuro.org/registration/

1/4 Together with colleagues in Italy, we show that Integral #meditation (IM) induces changes in #psychological (e.g., #interoceptive sensibility, #attention regulation) and #neurophysiological (#brain alpha power) variables. Individual alpha power predicts intervention efficacy

For those with the luxury of time (and interest) this is a lovely 1 hour conversation I had about the evolution of neuroaesthetics and where we in my center Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics are in our thinking. buzzsprout.com/2282727/episod…

Happy to share our new preprint on Age of Acquisition (AoA) for print vocabulary leveraging AI! Co-authored with the amazing Marc Brysbaert, Anthony Kong and Kathleen Keogh. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

*Meaning in language, machines and humans* is the theme of the Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) Symposium 2025, 2-3 October, Tampere · Abstract submission deadline: April 22, 2025 · events.tuni.fi/skysymposium20…

Recruiting phd/postdocs to mentor Undergrad Awardees!! This program brings UGs from across the 🌎 considering a career in neuro research Duties: meet students on 1st day, take them to a poster session, help them feel welcome. Apply: (very short!) form forms.gle/9hCniCA29ky59x…

Intracranial substrates of meditation-induced neuromodulation in the amygdala and hippocampus pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New paper (to appear in Journal of Linguistics) with Felicia Bisnath, Hannah Lutzenberger, Marah Jaraisy & Rehana Omardeen: 'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages' Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw

Frontoparietal theta stimulation causally links working memory with impulsive decision making sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

People display consistent recency and primacy effects in behavior and neural activity across perceptual and value-based judgments link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Characterizing age-related change in learning the value of cognitive effort psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-97…

Individual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication nature.com/articles/s4146…

Unlike its root language of Vulgar Latin, Ladin is alive and thriving across five Dolomite valleys. Here's everything you need to know about the secret language of the Dolomites: bit.ly/3EIHCJg

EEG Functional Connectivity as a Marker of Evolution from Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome to Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Brice Ozenne, Melanie Ganz, et al: A sensitivity analysis of preprocessing pipelines: Toward a solution for multiverse analyses doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

👀Brainstem atlas animation 👀 Using high-quality NIH Human Connectome Project data, we previously built a probabilistic map of 23 major brainstem fiber bundles—overcoming distortion issues that plagued past studies. It's publicly available for all: bit.ly/44kQFuy 🧠🔬

You want to start tomography? Solve structures inside cells? Reach Nyquist😳? We have a website for you! tomoguide.github.io You'll find a tutorial on how to reconstruct tomograms, pick particles and do subtomo averaging, using different software! Hope it will be useful !

🧵Ketamine and Dissociation - What’s the Mechanism? 🚨1/7 A real-world 2025 EEG study in bipolar depression patients reveals a cascade of changes across brain rhythms, complexity, and excitation-inhibition (E/I) balance. Let’s break it down: 👇1/7