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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 22

LLRX republished the blogpost www.llrx.com/2025/08/ai-s...

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds - Fonds National Suisse @snf-fns.ch · Aug 5

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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · Jun 5

How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it?
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.

Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior

Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...

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Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social · May 20

‼️ PhD opportunity: join a vibrant community working on language evolution @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social please spread widely www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...

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NeuroTMA Lab @neurotma.bsky.social · Apr 29

❗Job Alert❗Open positions in the Petrovici lab @unibe.ch
to develop an accelerator for the simulation of cortical models of processing and learning!
PhD offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS...
Postdoc offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS...
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Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚨Job alert🚨
We’re recruiting for another PhD position at MaCSBio @macsbio.bsky.social, focused on computational neuroscience. Come work on brain, sound, and computational models, co-supervised by myself and Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply by 18 May
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PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Apr 9

Paola Cerrito, who is starting her own Hominin Evolution Group at the University of Zürich, has just opened a great PhD position. Fantastic opportunity for someone interested in human life history evolution. I am lucky to collaborate with Paola. She is a terrific scholar
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social

Department of Evolutionary Anthropology | Department of Evolutionary Anthropology | UZH

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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Apr 3

what do you have in mind? something like this? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31067965/ I could send you the code if you wish.

Hemispheric specializations affect interhemispheric speech sound integration during duplex perception - PubMed

The present study investigated whether speech-related spectral information benefits from initially predominant right or left hemisphere processing. Normal hearing individuals categorized speech sounds...

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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thoughtful and generative piece on lateralization by @basilpreisig.bsky.social and Martin Meyer. An important perspective on issues that remain complex. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing

Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…

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Emma Holmes @emmaholmes90.bsky.social · Mar 31

New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]

Divisional Vacancies

Job Vacancies in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

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Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social · Mar 26

Fantastic job opportunity: Join our community of researchers spanning the natural, social, and cognitive sciences in studying the evolution of language in all its dimensions!

NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Mar 25

📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!

More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Data Science Consultant (specialized in statistics)

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Mar 25

📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!

More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Data Science Consultant (specialized in statistics)

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...

jobs.uzh.ch

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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 25

Or listen to the AI-generated podcast based on the article:
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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · Mar 22

Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... right-lateralized spectral >left-lateralized temporal; Stronger lateralization for speech; top-down processes drive/amplify lateralized speech processing

Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing

Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 21

POST-DOC CALL!
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

Many thanks to @bnmorillon.bsky.social and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments and suggestions, and to the @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social for funding.
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

We illustrate that these top-down processes rely on left-lateralized sensorimotor networks und we ask what differentiates sensorimotor networks in the left from those in the right hemisphere
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

In this article, we review studies suggesting that predictive speech processing and dimension-selective attention enhance lateralization.
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

We believe that pronounced lateralization in speech processing arises because interpreting speech sounds engages a more complex, interconnected network than processing simple sounds—one that uses top-down mechanisms to actively shape input.
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

Interestingly, when training leads us to interpret an acoustic signal as speech—like in studies with sine wave speech—brain response patterns become more lateralized.

See for example Meyer et al. (2005):
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Spectro-temporal processing during speech perception... : NeuroReport

l results revealed a difference in the processing mode; spectro-temporal integration occurred during speech perception, but not when stimuli were perceived as nonspeech. In terms of neuroimaging, we o...

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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

In fact, Coull & Nobre (1998) showed that spatial attention activates a right-lateralized frontoparietal network, while temporal attention—possibly more relevant for speech—engages a left-lateralized network.

🔗 www.jneurosci.org/content/18/1...

Where and When to Pay Attention: The Neural Systems for Directing Attention to Spatial Locations and to Time Intervals as Revealed by Both PET and fMRI

Although attention is distributed across time as well as space, the temporal allocation of attention has been less well researched than its spatial counterpart. A temporal analog of the covert spatial...

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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

Still, it’s striking in neurorehabilitation clinics that left-hemisphere MCA strokes often lead to aphasia, while right-sided strokes lead to spatial hemineglect.

This made me wonder long ago whether there’s a link between attention functions and language processing in the left hemisphere.
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

McGettigan & Scott argued that lateralization relates more to linguistic processing, especially for speech(-like) stimuli.

Evidence for fast temporal lateralization is limited (see Oderbolz et al.)

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Cortical asymmetries in speech perception: what's wrong, what's right and what's left?

Over the past 30 years hemispheric asymmetries in speech perception have been construed within a domain-general framework, according to which preferen…

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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

Therefore, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social (2003) and Zatorre & Belin (2001) proposed that the hemispheres are differently specialized:

🧠 Right processes slow temporal & fine spectral cues,
🧠 Left handles faster temporal info.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔗 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as ‘asymmetric sampling in time’

The ‘asymmetric sampling in time’ (AST) hypothesis developed here provides a framework for understanding a range of psychophysical and neuropsychologi…

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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · Mar 21

The lateralization of speech and language is a hallmark of functional brain specialization.

However, thanks to imaging techniques, we now know that auditory speech processing occurs in both hemispheres.

🔗 See Binder et al. (2000): doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
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Human Temporal Lobe Activation by Speech and Nonspeech Sounds

Abstract. Functional organization of the lateral temporal cortex in humans is not well understood. We recorded blood oxygenation signals from the temporal

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