HOLY FUCKING HELL FINALLYYYYYYY WOUTJE VAN AERT 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

New preprint! 🧠

We show that neural synchronization to abstract linguistic structures is independent from acoustic processing, even with stimuli mirroring natural speech!

w/ the dream team @diliberg.bsky.social @nicolaml.bsky.social @languagecycles.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202...

📖5th #iWORDD this October: 2 days of reading & dyslexia research, 1 on real-world impact!

Join our outstanding keynote line-up + share your work here by April 15: shorturl.at/lSlBI

@jyeatman.bsky.social @gaablab.bsky.social @drmluciano.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social @cassandrapw.bsky.social

REMINDER

trying to stay calm and do work in a fascist world is itself a radical action

a world that wants to destroy independent knowledge, universities, education, still contains people who want to gently think and teach without dehumanisation and destruction

The BCBL would be an amazing place to work. Great colleagues in a gorgeous location with some of the finest food in the world.

📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠
Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL.

More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n

❗ New preprint from the Brain and Cognition lab spearheaded by @irenetxeberria.bsky.social, Sage Boettcher, Kia Nobre and crafted together with friends from the Brain, Speech, and Language lab,
@birtandemirel.bsky.social and @kateewatkins.bsky.social 🫂
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Always nice working with Bojana & @simomancini.bsky.social 😊

(PDF) Number maintenance in subject-verb agreement: evidence from Basque PDF | In this paper, we investigate whether number is actively maintained as part of matrix subject-verb dependency establishment, and whether it is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences

Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Dyslexia: a window into the cortical mechanisms of adaptive speech analysis Atypical phonological processing is at the core of developmental dyslexia and is linked to aberrant tracking and analysis of auditory information in t…

"these findings suggest a causal compensatory pathway in #dyslexia, supported by a rebalanced and more bilaterally connected #language network that can be actively trained (for instance, through musical experience or #bilingual exposure"

#brain #research

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Alex Pretti, wearing a green sweater with his VA badge on.

This is Alex Pretti.

This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.

Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.

#ScientistsAgainstICE

So happy to see this nice collaborative work out now!
@nicolaml.bsky.social @anaklimovichgray.bsky.social @mirjanabozic.bsky.social
#Dyslexia #TINS

Speech processing is adaptive, shaped by development and experience. Studying speech processing in dyslexia gives us a unique window into the neural mechanisms of this flexibility.
@nicolaml.bsky.social @marielallierbcbl.bsky.social
@mirjanabozic.bsky.social
#Neuroscience #Language #Dyslexia #TINs

📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences

Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

This story is full of gems. Read the whole thing. Here's just one:

🧠 How strong is speech decoding from MEG signals? Much stronger during speech production (73% accuracy) than comprehension (~51%) (& Delta & Theta bands carry most relevant information). More discussion in our recent decoding study: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

Christmas dinner with an amazing research team 🎄✨ So thankful for the people behind the work—and excited for what the new year will bring!

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social -
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

Solo nel ricordo il tempo smette di fuggire e diventa nostro

🎓✨ So proud of my PhD student for brilliantly defending her thesis today! Years of hard work, resilience, and curiosity have paid off — welcome, Dr. Fernández-Merino! 👩‍🎓👏

Gave my talk at #ICON2025 today 🎤✨ Great discussions about music and speech and lots of inspiring science all around. Feeling energized by this community!

... and delivered. Thanks to @manuruz.bsky.social - @eegmanylabs.bsky.social, @alinakoppold.bsky.social - @igor-dgps.bsky.social, Elena Cesnaite - @eegmanypipes.bsky.social and @lauraklatt.bsky.social - @scone-neuro.bsky.social for holding a mirror to cog #neuroskyence #ICON2025 🙌

NYAS Publications This paper critically examines neural tracking from both theoretical and methodological perspectives, highlighting how its interpretation varies across studies. A central debate concerns whether neur...

New paper out: available online the "Tracking Umbrella": ⛱️ Get some shade in the late summer time 😎 doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

Still playing the waiting game with the publication process 🤐😪😑 … but in the meantime, here’s some fresh evidence showing that cognitive conflict might actually feel rewarding. Who knew it could be fun? osf.io/c75tj
@mlapietra.bsky.social @MarcLluisVives @nicolaml.bsky.social

(PDF) The Tracking Umbrella: Diverse Interpretations Under a Common Neural Term PDF | Neural tracking, the alignment of brain activity with the temporal dynamics of sensory input, is a crucial mechanism underlying perception,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz

(PDF) The Tracking Umbrella: Diverse Interpretations Under a Common Neural Term PDF | Neural tracking, the alignment of brain activity with the temporal dynamics of sensory input, is a crucial mechanism underlying perception,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz