Our PhD students Priscila Borges and @viktoriagroiss.bsky.social had a great time at #ICON2025 🧠 in Porto last week, presenting their latest work on inner speech 💭 and reconnecting with friends! 🌅

📣 New paper alert!
"Communicative mentalization might be human-specific—an ability that humans use spontaneously, in novel contexts, from early on with their conspecifics." In his letter to Townrow & Krupenye, Tibor Tauzin argues for the importance of task novelty in testing mentalization skills 👇🐒

Join us at Osnabrück University for "Inner Speech: Philosophical and Psychological Questions", 28-30 May!
Our PI Jutta Mueller will give a keynote, and you will have a chance to meet our PhD students Priscila Borges and
@viktoriagroiss.bsky.social

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We talked to Anja-Xiaoxing Cui's about her latest project: "Music for Memory: Exploring Music-Based Interventions for Alzheimer's Disease."

cogsci.univie.ac.at/research/mem...

Babies learn best from those who respond to their babbling! 👶✨ @juliaavenditti.bsky.social, @mikehgoldstein.bsky.social et al. (2025): infants form stronger social expectations when their babbling gets a timely response—even from a robot car! 🤖🚗 #infancypapers #EarlyYears doi.org/10.1111/infa...

New paper in Physics of Life Reviews by Kreiner & Eviatar on importance of prosody—not just in speech and listening, but even in silent self-talk. Intriguing idea, though we are not fully convinced it is as crucial as argued. Read Jutta Mueller’s commentary 💭➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We had great fun and discussion presenting our newest research on infants' understanding of referential pointing with Tibor Tauzin and @tizianasrdoc.bsky.social at BCCCD25 🎉👶💬 #BCCCD #CogDevCeu

Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Read our comment in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social
It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
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Reposting on 🦋 Using an artificial grammar-based approach, a recent study by our PI Jutta Mueller and an international team reveals the neurodevelopmental origins of non-adjacent dependency learning in infants! 🧠👶

Open Access in @plosbiology.org

Bereits 18 Monate alte Kinder passen ihre Gesten gezielt an, um ihre Kommunikationspartner besser zu informieren – eine beeindruckende Fähigkeit, die unser Postdoktorand Tibor Tauzin in einer Studie erforscht hat. Auch der Kurier berichtet darüber. 🧐

Reposting for our new Bluesky followers! 🦋

Check out this fascinating paper by our lab member Tibor Tauzin 👶👇

Open Access in @openmindjournal.bsky.social:

Infants Produce Optimally Informative Points to Satisfy the Epistemic Needs of Their Communicative Partner
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Several PhD scholarships are available for joining the IDEALAB, an int. Grad School. Projects are carried out at 2 sites, e.g. Potsdam and Groningen or Sydney. Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Language Acquisition and Clinical Linguistics. phd-idealab.com/application/...

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Für alle Neuankömmlinge, die über das Wochenende zu uns gestoßen sind, hier nochmals eine dringende Folgeempfehlung für unsere zahlreichen Wissenschafter:innen hier im Himmel! ☝ ⤵
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Next up in our Interdisciplinary Future Thinking Lecture Series: Jutta Mueller (Babelfisch lab, @univie.ac.at) on "Chatbot Thinking"!

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 19, 18:30
📍 Hörsaal 1, Main Building of the University of Vienna

Upcoming talks and recordings: cogsci.univie.ac.at/futurethinki...

Immer auf dem aktuellsten Stand der Forschung sein? 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬Hier findest du alle Wissenschafter:innen der Universität Wien die auf Bluesky aktiv sind! 👀 ⤵
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We study cognitive and neurophysiological processes in language acquisition, processing, and related cognitive functions, using EEG, eye-tracking, fNIRS, computer simulations and behavioural analyses. 🧠👶

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