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samnorman-haignere.bsky.social @samnorman-haignere.bsky.social · 19d

Human auditory cortex integrates information in speech across absolute time (e.g., 200 ms), not phonemes, syllables, words, or any other time-varying speech structure: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Jul 21

Big news, and more to come, from our lab.

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Une nouvelle page s’écrit pour la recherche au CHUM! | CHUM - Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal

Une nouvelle page s’écrit pour la recherche au CHUM! Nous avons le grand plaisir d’annoncer la nomination de M. Sylvain Baillet, Ph.D., à titre de directeur de la recherche et de l’innovation du CHU...

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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 28d

Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
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Andrea Brovelli @brovelli.bsky.social · Sep 5

⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info
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Postdoc in computational cognitive neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

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Julien Lefevre @julien-lefevre.bsky.social · May 7

15-17 octobre 2025
🧠Neurosciences de demain à + 2°
🌏 Quelles neurosciences à l'ère de l'Anthropocène ?
Lieux : Palais du Pharo et Campus Timone, Marseille

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Neurosciences de demain à plus de 2 degrés - Sciencesconf.org

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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · Jun 13

Do girls and boys really differ in their mathematical skills? A recent @nature.com paper by @standehaene.bsky.social et al shows that French boys and girls enter school with similar abilities, but after just four months, boys pull ahead 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · May 20

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · May 9

Register now for our interdisciplinary summer school on “Language, Communication, and the Brain” — featuring outstanding teachers, a blend of theoretical and methodological courses, and plenty of fun!

ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚀 #ILCB #SummerSchool 2025 – Apply Now! 🌞🧠

Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!

🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats

📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/

Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢

The 8th edition of the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB) Summer School 2025 | ILCB

Monday, September 1st – Friday, September 5th, 2025

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 15

Permanent link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 15

hmmm, sorry about that (the temporary free link has expired)...
Here's a permanent link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 9

funded by: @agencerecherche.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@insermpacacorse.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 9

Want to dive deeper into how rhythmic movement and speech production can facilitate speech perception in noise?
Check out our full paper in Proc. R. Soc. B!
➡️ royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/ZWRPM...

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 9

These findings highlight the functional role of our motor system in processing the temporal dynamics of naturalistic speech in noisy situations. 👂

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 9

But that's not all: We also discovered that overtly vocalizing words (regardless of their meaning) during the priming period also enhances the efficiency of later speech-in-noise processing. 🗣️

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 9

Interestingly, this benefit wasn't just about following an external beat. Whether the rhythmic movement was self-generated or triggered by an auditory cue, the positive impact on speech perception remained.

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our study found that rhythmic finger tapping at the lexical rate (~1.8 Hz) prior to speech-in-noise perception significantly improves subsequent speech processing in noise.
Importantly, tapping at syllabic or phrasal rate had no such effect.

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Apr 9

📢 New publication alert! 📢
👂Ever struggled to understand natural speech in a noisy environment? 🤔
Our new research shows that moving rhythmically can actually help you hear better!

royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/ZWRPM...

with: @strijkers.bsky.social & Noémie teRietmolen

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 26

Congrats to Anna Lorenz and the d-cap iEEG team @INS @univ-amu.fr @insermpacacorse.bsky.social !

Supported by @ilcb.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @agencerecherche.bsky.social and Fondation pour l'audition.

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 26

Importantly, the neural response to simple perceptual repetition of the same excerpt of speech and music was different from the modulation observed during self-production. This indicates that the production effects are not simply due to familiarity or repetition.

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 26

Our results also challenges the idea of a uniform suppression of auditory cortex activity during self-production: we instead show widespread low-frequency (4-8 Hz) suppression and mid-frequency (8-80 Hz) enhancement.

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 26

Self-production of both speech and music is also accompanied by a decreased encoding of acoustic features in the auditory cortex, compared to perception.

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 26

Self-producing sounds elicit a complex modulation of auditory cortex activity that varies across frequencies and locations, but is consistent across speech and music.
This suggests a domain-general nature of corollary discharge signals from motor to auditory systems.

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 26

New paper! 🚨
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kqF72VHYF...
"Corollary discharge signals during production are domain general:
an intracerebral EEG case study with a professional musician."
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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

🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks.

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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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