New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape reading The language you learn as a child becomes the lens through which you understand the world. A team of researchers from over 30 countries has found it also affects how you read in your second language.

New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape reading

Are you passionate about generative AI, multimodal communication, and human-computer interaction? We are seeking a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join us for a NWO funded project: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Graphic for the CogSci Mind Challenge 2025. Text reads: “How do different minds learn language, if at all? Create an engaging video addressing this question for a chance to win $1,000.” Below the text is a large green button that says: “Visit the website to learn more.” On the right side, there is a hexagon-shaped logo with the words “CogSci Mind Challenge 2025” and an illustration of a brain. Graphic for the CogSci Mind Challenge 2025. Text reads: “How do different minds learn language, if at all? Create an engaging video addressing this question for a chance to win $1,000.” Below the text is a large green button that says: “Visit the website to learn more.” On the right side, there is a hexagon-shaped logo with the words “CogSci Mind Challenge 2025” and an illustration of a brain.

The CogSci Society invites you to compete in this year's #CogSciMindChallenge

🎬 Your Mission: create a captivating 5-minute video that answers the question:
"How do different minds learn language, if at all?”

Deadline for submission: October 17 📅

cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...

What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions New research shows that even the sound of a name can influence how job candidates are judged.

A Conversation piece @pennypexman.bsky.social and I wrote about how the sounds of names might affect hiring decisions.

theconversation.com/whats-in-a-n...

📢 Upcoming Seminar!

A computational approach to morphological productivity using the Discriminative Lexicon Model
Professor Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen, Germany)

🗓️ September 8, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
📍 UniMiB, Room U6-01C, Milan
🔗 Join remotely: meet.google.com/dkj-kzmw-vzt

Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳

Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

🚨 New tool alert! Fokin and co created the Polish Vocabulary Size Test (PVST) — a fast, validated, and adaptive way to measure Polish vocab for natives & learners. Try it here 👉 myvocab.info/pl #Psycholinguistics #LanguageScience buff.ly/lFaPqCE

Postdoc (80%) in the Cognition Lab at University of Zurich, Switzerland

We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on the capacity limits of cognition (working memory, attention, long-term memory, ...).

Application deadline: 10 September 2025

Google Scholar’s 2025 Scholar Metrics on publications in the last five years list MECO papers in several highly ranked journals!

Learn more: meco-read.com/meco-papers-...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Attending ACL 2025? Looking for a new multimodal modeling challenge? Interested in cognitive modeling and NLP for science? Excited about human centered applications of NLP?
Join our tutorial on Eye Tracking and NLP!!
🗓️ Sunday July 27, 2025, 09:00 - 12:30, Hall M.
#ACL2025 #NLP #EyeTracking

Join us on August 22nd in collaboration with CSBBCS and SPARK Society for a free online webinar on finding postdoc opportunities!
Visit the following link to register for the event: shorturl.at/BVPtC
We hope to see you there!!
Please note that the meeting will be held exclusively in English.

📣 We are hiring! 📣

#BCBL has new PhD positions available for you!

🔸 1 PhD – #Neurolinguistics and #Aphasia Group
🔸 1 PhD – #PerceptualInference Group
🔸 1 PhD – #BrainRhythms and #Cognition Group

The application deadline is soon!

+info 👇

www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

It's time! Registration and hotel reservations for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society are officially open!

Register by Aug 31 to get the largest discount. Don't wait— secure your spot and stay for #psynom25 today! bit.ly/4103RSU bit.ly/4lZJxJx

Meet Yaqian Borogjoon Bao, MECO collaborator from Inner Mongolia Growing up in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, Yaqian Borogjoon Bao first learned to read and write in the Traditional Mongolian script, a vertical writing system that is read from top to bottom. …

Meet Yaqian Borogjoon Bao, MECO collaborator from Inner Mongolia: meco-read.com/meet-yaqian-... @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @mcmasterhum.bsky.social

✨ New OASIS Summary! ✨

▶️Wave 2 of the multilingual eye movement corpus (MECO): Reading in English as a second language .

www.oasis-database.org/details/4x1e...