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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 13d

Important fMRI/RSA study by @marcociapparelli.bsky.social et al. Compositional (multiplicative) representations of compounds/phrases in left IFG (BA45), mSTS, ATL; left AG encodes constituents, not their composition, weighing the right element more, vice versa IFG 🧠🧩
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Compositionality in the semantic network: a model-driven representational similarity analysis

Abstract. Semantic composition allows us to construct complex meanings (e.g., “dog house”, “house dog”) from simpler constituents (“dog”, “house”). Neuroim

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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 12d

👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human!

TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Diagram showing three ways to control brain activity with a visual prosthesis. The goal is to match a desired pattern of brain responses. One method uses a simple one-to-one mapping, another uses an inverse neural network, and a third uses gradient optimization. Each method produces a stimulation pattern, which is tested in both computer simulations and in the brain of a blind participant with an implant. The figure shows that the neural network and gradient methods reproduce the target brain activity more accurately than the simple mapping.

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Cheng-Yu Hsieh @cyhsieh.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for the invite. Looking forward to seeing many of you online!

German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers!

Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker:
forms.gle/TY6Cuxut87Ej...

More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Jul 18

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · Jul 18

📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸

Keynotes by
@jennysaffran.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social

More info to follow #IASL26

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Marco Ciapparelli @marcociapparelli.bsky.social · Jul 18

I'm sharing a Colab notebook on using large language models for cognitive science! GitHub repo: github.com/MarcoCiappar...

It's geared toward psychologists & linguists and covers extracting embeddings, predictability measures, comparing models across languages & modalities (vision). see examples 🧵

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · May 20

Updated our lab's psycholinguistic database page to include Kathy Rastle et al's new web interface for the Children and Young Peoples Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX). Check it out! Give me a holler if you want us to link to your dataset or know of others I've missed. www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · May 20

** New resource ** We analysed the characteristics of words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people. Properties of each word (frequencies, etc) are now available in an interactive website.
cyp-lex.rastlelab.com

CYP-LEX

Discover what words children and young people encounter when they read

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · May 20

What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? We analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: www.rastlelab.com/post/what-ca...

What can children learn about morphology from reading for fun?

A key part of becoming a skilled reader is understanding how words are built — that is, how small parts of words that carry meaning come together to form words. For example, the word unhappy is made u...

www.rastlelab.com

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Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee.bsky.social · Apr 30

A new preprint by myself!

I drafted a journal club article arguing that intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are responsible for more than just non-image-forming functions

osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Apr 21

Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...

Language

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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · Mar 22

3 hour open-science workshop I gave at Vin University Hanoi now online:
"Credible science, evaluating science, and the need for a science reform"

UG class level super basic research methods intro and my take on some of the main challenges we're facing.

Details 👇🧵

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Mar 18

Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice.

In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gorilla Experiment Builder @gorillapsych.bsky.social · Mar 14

Let your research do the talking!
We’re awarding 5 🦍 grants ($1,770 each)—could one be yours?

Submit a 500-word research proposal + overview on how one could support your next study for a chance to win!

If you're exploring #language, #linguistics or anything in between—apply now!
➡️ bit.ly/3FeV9rX

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Marco Ciapparelli @marcociapparelli.bsky.social · Mar 19

1/n Happy to share a new paper with Calogero Zarbo & Marco Marelli! How well do LLMs represent the implicit meaning of familiar and novel compounds? How do they compare with simpler distributional semantics models (DSMs; i.e., word embeddings)?
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Conceptual Combination in Large Language Models: Uncovering Implicit Relational Interpretations in Compound Words With Contextualized Word Embeddings

Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as candidate models of human semantics, and as such, they must be able to account for conceptual combination. This work explores the ability of two LLM...

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Sebastian Sauppe @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social · Mar 19

But we can do something! If you also work on language processing or first language acquisition focussing on cross-linguistic variation, then submit an abstract to *Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025* #X_PPL2025!

Call for abstracts: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/X...

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Olaf Borghi @olafborghi.com · Mar 19

In politics, people are not always truth seekers. Often, we reach conclusions because they fit with preferred political narratives: we are biased by ideological motivations. But are some people better equipped to overcome such bias than others? 🚨 Find out in the first pre-print from my PhD 🚨

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