New paper that merits a read (Im totally unbiased...not). Simple, straightforward, impactful message. Prediction a la LLM is nice. Constituent-constrained prediction is nicer. @jiajiezou.bsky.social and Nai Ding show brain, behavioral, MEG, ECoG data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
Cool new data. Please check it out.
This conference is going to be so cool! Good science good people good location. Register ASAP! #neuroskyence
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This will be a terrific meeting in a lovely location!
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I played around with building a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. subscribe to: neuromethods.bsky.social and like the corresponding post to have a shiny methods label appear in your profile.
Group photograph of faculty and participants of the very first Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2014, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.
Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social
Great opportunity for important work and training! I hope to collaborate closely with Nina and Pierre on this innovative cog sci/ cog neuro project. #neuroskyence
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
Amazing work by star postdoc Francisco Garcia Rosales in collaboration with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social . Happy reading :)
For aficionados of timing, prediction, psychophysics-and anyone who wants to look at something other than the news to be distracted-a new study by Matthias Grabenhorst and Georgios Michalareas:
The anticipation of imminent events is time-scale invariant
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
#neuroskyence
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I hope not.
A friendly little back and forth with Rosas and colleagues to clarify some concepts about research strategies in neuroscience. Check out Rosas1 - then van Bree - then Rosas2. Maybe useful. Maybe. Hope springs eternal.
Why stop at 8?
Hopefully a useful short exchange, in any case.
My colleague, friend, former PhD/postdoc @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social and his colleagues argue for (yet) another interesting attribute of music listening.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Surprise visit in our seminar. We were discussing Reflections on Language (Chomsky 1975), and guess who stopped by?
Greg's new book. CONGRATS! Finally! A *must-read* for everyone interested in brain and language. Full of important (old/classical & new) stuff, exceptionally clear, integrative, provocative, carefully argued. This will stimulate lots of new experiments, models, ideas.
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
OMG don’t tell our deans and chairs!
A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language:
"Brain structural networks underlying language" by
Angela Friederici
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
I really like the cogsci thinking and music in this paper. Happy that it's finally out! Thanks @omriraccah.bsky.social and Michael Seltenreich
for leading this project.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
I'm incredibly honored to receive the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring. This makes me very sentimental! I'm so proud of the wonderful, super sharp students and postdocs that I have had the privilege and pleasure to work with. ❤️ Thank you!!!
The psychology program at NYU Abu Dhabi has open rank open area positions in cognition-perception-cogneuro. Wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure (incl MRI, MEG, EEG), close ties to NYU New York. Superfast growing part of the research world
apply.interfolio.com/175417
#neuroskyence
CogNeuroLanguage: new by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence
BREAKING
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Just a couple days ago, these two Swedish musicians—classical guitarist Emil Ernebro and harmonicist Filip Jers—released this cover of the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." It's jammin' and it's lovely. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmh...
This from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is just amazingly good. Turns out you can be wildly successful at politics while still being smart, thoughtful, and aware of history. I hope politicians all over will use this as a role model.
Very interesting and helpful data/paper on slower speech modulations by @ayeletlandau.bsky.social lab, with Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
If you like music, music theory, cognitive science, and new ideas, this merits a look
@omriraccah.bsky.social, Michael Seltenreich, Claire Pelofi, plus Fred Lerdahl & me
