Another wonderful lab dinner in the books and a big welcome to our new graduate student Laura!

Yesterday we had the honor to join Molina Healthcare in celebrating expecting mothers!

Thank you to EnvisionBOX (@wimpouw.bsky.social, @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, and @sarkadava.bsky.social) for hosting an excellent summer school in Amsterdam on computer vision and advanced multimodal techniques. We learned a lot and had a great time!

Lab Happy Hour in downtown Houston!

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Beautiful blog post from @psychologytoday.com on our recent @pnas.org paper!

Researchers tracked babies’ heart rates and found a decelerating heart rate was associated with the production of words, showing that the autonomic nervous system, which regulates heart rate, interacts with speech production. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

MSN spotlight on our new @pnas.org article!

These findings link fluctuations in autonomic nervous system activity with language production. We hope they provide new avenues for understanding the extended systems supporting language development and help us to find possible markers for early intervention in at-risk infants.

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Amazingly, vocalizations produced just before the trough, while heart rate is decelerating, were more likely to be recognized as a word by naive listeners!

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Infants were most likely to produce a vocalization when their heart rate fluctuations reached a peak (local maximum) or trough (local minimum). Vocalizations produced at the peak were longer than expected by chance.

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First paper from the lab is officially published in PNAS!

We demonstrate ongoing fluctuations in heart rate coincide with vocal production and word formation in 24-mo-old infants.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Accepting applications for PhD students to join the lab through the University of Houston’s Integrative Program in Developmental, Cognitive, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Applications due Dec 15!

uh.edu/class/psycho...

Hello Blue Sky! We’re the Developing Systems Lab at the University of Houston!

Check out our cool work at www.borjonlab.com and keep your eyes peeled on this page for updates! 👀

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