Lars Meyer
@languagecycles.bsky.social
Investigating and teaching neurobiology of language @ JGU Mainz, MPI Leipzig, & UK Münster; PI, ERC CoG BALANG & DFG 529614204 & 546844207 & G-BA 01VSF24036; Editor, "The Rhythms of Speech and Language" (CUP); Associate Editor, The Journal of Neuroscience
Go work with Benedikt, his research is legit!
If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions.
More details here:
benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd
More details here:
benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd
January 28, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Go work with Benedikt, his research is legit!
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.
Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess
I have a few predictions...
1/n
Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess
I have a few predictions...
1/n
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.
Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess
I have a few predictions...
1/n
Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess
I have a few predictions...
1/n
Reposted by Lars Meyer
🧠 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...
Redirecting
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 6:18 PM
🧠 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...
Reposted by Lars Meyer
If I could do a second PhD, this would be it. Join John!
I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply
evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...
evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...
Studying the Evolution of Abstract Thought - NCCR Evolving Language
In the new ERC-funded project, “Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought” (CONCEVO), Mansfield will lead a team of researchers to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of...
evolvinglanguage.ch
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
If I could do a second PhD, this would be it. Join John!
Reposted by Lars Meyer
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...
www.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
Reposted by Lars Meyer
🏹 Job alert: Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
ellis.eu
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
Reposted by Lars Meyer
#wearehiring
We have vacancies @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social:
* Stabmitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab 80 - 100%
* Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab (2 Stellen) 80 - 100%
* Mitarbeit bei der z-proso-Studie (20–50%)
Visit: www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
We have vacancies @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social:
* Stabmitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab 80 - 100%
* Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab (2 Stellen) 80 - 100%
* Mitarbeit bei der z-proso-Studie (20–50%)
Visit: www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
Vacancies
www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#wearehiring
We have vacancies @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social:
* Stabmitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab 80 - 100%
* Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab (2 Stellen) 80 - 100%
* Mitarbeit bei der z-proso-Studie (20–50%)
Visit: www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
We have vacancies @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social:
* Stabmitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab 80 - 100%
* Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab (2 Stellen) 80 - 100%
* Mitarbeit bei der z-proso-Studie (20–50%)
Visit: www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Happy to share the advent of the new *Journal of Experimental Pragmatics*!
- Diamond Open Access
- innovative, transparent bottom-up reviewing process
Go community! Let's make it a success story!
@irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social
- Diamond Open Access
- innovative, transparent bottom-up reviewing process
Go community! Let's make it a success story!
@irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Happy to share the advent of the new *Journal of Experimental Pragmatics*!
- Diamond Open Access
- innovative, transparent bottom-up reviewing process
Go community! Let's make it a success story!
@irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social
- Diamond Open Access
- innovative, transparent bottom-up reviewing process
Go community! Let's make it a success story!
@irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Very cool stuff! I am very much enjoying the Neon trackers and its wonderful they show overlap with stationary trackers.
New work from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mobile eye-tracking glasses assess listening effort through pupil size and eye movements as good as a stationary eye tracker. But mobile glasses also show that people reduce their head movements when listening becomes more effortful.
Mobile eye-tracking glasses assess listening effort through pupil size and eye movements as good as a stationary eye tracker. But mobile glasses also show that people reduce their head movements when listening becomes more effortful.
Mobile Eye-Tracking Glasses Capture Ocular and Head Markers of Listening Effort
To extend the assessment of listening effort beyond a sound booth, we validated mobile eye-tracking glasses (Pupil Labs Neon) by comparing them to a stationary system (Eyelink DUO) in a controlled env...
www.biorxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Very cool stuff! I am very much enjoying the Neon trackers and its wonderful they show overlap with stationary trackers.
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Job announcement!
Research Fellow (65% TV-L 13), to work on co-singing gesture in beatboxing, based at the University of Cologne. Application deadline: 12 January, 2026
Feel free to contact me with any questions about the position.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
Research Fellow (65% TV-L 13), to work on co-singing gesture in beatboxing, based at the University of Cologne. Application deadline: 12 January, 2026
Feel free to contact me with any questions about the position.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Job announcement!
Research Fellow (65% TV-L 13), to work on co-singing gesture in beatboxing, based at the University of Cologne. Application deadline: 12 January, 2026
Feel free to contact me with any questions about the position.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
Research Fellow (65% TV-L 13), to work on co-singing gesture in beatboxing, based at the University of Cologne. Application deadline: 12 January, 2026
Feel free to contact me with any questions about the position.
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Come work with us!!
Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Substitute Professorship in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, W3, 100%)
uni-tuebingen.de
December 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Come work with us!!
Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Lars Meyer receives #ERC Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu 🥳
For his project "Language in Balance: an Imprint of Brain Electrophysiology? (BALANG)”, Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social receives funding of up to 2 million euros over the next 5 years. Huge congratulations! tinyurl.com/4a5y78nz
For his project "Language in Balance: an Imprint of Brain Electrophysiology? (BALANG)”, Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social receives funding of up to 2 million euros over the next 5 years. Huge congratulations! tinyurl.com/4a5y78nz
Lars Meyer receives ERC Consolidator Grant from the EU
Lars Meyer receives ERC Consolidator Grant from the EU
www.cbs.mpg.de
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Lars Meyer receives #ERC Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu 🥳
For his project "Language in Balance: an Imprint of Brain Electrophysiology? (BALANG)”, Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social receives funding of up to 2 million euros over the next 5 years. Huge congratulations! tinyurl.com/4a5y78nz
For his project "Language in Balance: an Imprint of Brain Electrophysiology? (BALANG)”, Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social receives funding of up to 2 million euros over the next 5 years. Huge congratulations! tinyurl.com/4a5y78nz
Reposted by Lars Meyer
New @jocnforum.bsky.social post by Dariusz Asanowicz, replying to @bradpostle.bsky.social and Chunyue Teng: “Behavioral and Neural Effects of Proactive Control Adjustments on a Trial-by-Trial Basis”
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Behavioral and Neural Effects of Proactive Control Adjustments on a Trial-by-Trial Basis
doi.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
New @jocnforum.bsky.social post by Dariusz Asanowicz, replying to @bradpostle.bsky.social and Chunyue Teng: “Behavioral and Neural Effects of Proactive Control Adjustments on a Trial-by-Trial Basis”
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Here is your chance to weigh in on what the psycholinguistic and machine learning community needs regarding preprocessing pipelines, software tools, and data sharing standards for eye-tracking research: An anonymous survey that lasts just 10-15 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/
Questionnaire | page 1
www.soscisurvey.de
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here is your chance to weigh in on what the psycholinguistic and machine learning community needs regarding preprocessing pipelines, software tools, and data sharing standards for eye-tracking research: An anonymous survey that lasts just 10-15 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/
Reposted by Lars Meyer
People, mark your Kalender *now* to be well prepared for a Language Circle Deluxe Edition with @andrearavignani.bsky.social—18 November, 1:30 PM CET, live at @mpicbs.bsky.social or online at zoom.us/j/94686183586. Let everyone else know, too!
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
People, mark your Kalender *now* to be well prepared for a Language Circle Deluxe Edition with @andrearavignani.bsky.social—18 November, 1:30 PM CET, live at @mpicbs.bsky.social or online at zoom.us/j/94686183586. Let everyone else know, too!
Reposted by Lars Meyer
New paper together with Elin Runnqvist and Friedemann Pulvermüller (accepted right before his passing 😔).
Must be the first time I am sad to announce a publication, though I am glad Friedemann still got to see this cool collaborative work published.
A short 🧵 /1
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Must be the first time I am sad to announce a publication, though I am glad Friedemann still got to see this cool collaborative work published.
A short 🧵 /1
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Shared phonological networks in frontal and temporal cortex for language production and comprehension
Abstract. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated whether language production and understanding recruit similar phoneme-specif
academic.oup.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
New paper together with Elin Runnqvist and Friedemann Pulvermüller (accepted right before his passing 😔).
Must be the first time I am sad to announce a publication, though I am glad Friedemann still got to see this cool collaborative work published.
A short 🧵 /1
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Must be the first time I am sad to announce a publication, though I am glad Friedemann still got to see this cool collaborative work published.
A short 🧵 /1
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Reposted by Lars Meyer
happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding
We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....
OSF
osf.io
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....
Reposted by Lars Meyer
👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
Neural correlates of consciousness in an auditory no-report fMRI study
Dellert et al. use functional magnetic resonance imaging and inattentional deafness
to identify the neural basis of conscious auditory perception in humans. Their results
reveal a dominant role of sti...
www.cell.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
Yes, DJ Brain is now streaming his set online for the kids: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Meet the Brain’s DJs: Brain Rhythms Help us Understand Language
The human brain is made of many cells called neurons, responsible for processing information. Neurons work in rhythms, setting the pace for language. Like a DJ playing music to set the pace for dancin...
kids.frontiersin.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Yes, DJ Brain is now streaming his set online for the kids: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
People, mark your Kalender *now* to be well prepared for a Language Circle Deluxe Edition with @andrearavignani.bsky.social—18 November, 1:30 PM CET, live at @mpicbs.bsky.social or online at zoom.us/j/94686183586. Let everyone else know, too!
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
People, mark your Kalender *now* to be well prepared for a Language Circle Deluxe Edition with @andrearavignani.bsky.social—18 November, 1:30 PM CET, live at @mpicbs.bsky.social or online at zoom.us/j/94686183586. Let everyone else know, too!
Reposted by Lars Meyer
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
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci
IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2026 | Max Planck Institute
www.mpi.nl
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci
Reposted by Lars Meyer
Open assistant professor position in noninvasive brain stimulation in cognition at Maastricht University: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3557...
Assistant Professor in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Cognition
Welcome to the Brain Stimulation and Cognition lab at Maastricht University! Our goal: The Brain Stimulation and Cognition group at Maastricht University aims to unravel the psychological and neural m...
www.academictransfer.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Open assistant professor position in noninvasive brain stimulation in cognition at Maastricht University: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3557...