David Poeppel
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12d
This from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is just amazingly good. Turns out you can be wildly successful at politics while still being smart, thoughtful, and aware of history. I hope politicians all over will use this as a role model.
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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 12d
Cuomo could never.
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Sep 4
Very interesting and helpful data/paper on slower speech modulations by @ayeletlandau.bsky.social lab, with Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman.

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A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS
Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 30
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing.
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If you like music, music theory, cognitive science, and new ideas, this merits a look

@omriraccah.bsky.social, Michael Seltenreich, Claire Pelofi, plus Fred Lerdahl & me
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 29
This 2021 paper by @benjamingagl.bsky.social and colleagues is full of important findings and ideas about the temporal structure of reading and speech. I keep coming back to these data.

Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production
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Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production - Nature Human Behaviour
Speech is produced and perceived at a rate of 4–5 Hz. Gagl et al. show that the temporal structure of our eye movements during reading is similar (3.9–5.2 Hz), suggesting a temporal link between readi...
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 24
Will there be midterm elections? Mayoral elections in big blue cities? Will "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER" fuck with all elections? Are we just gonna watch??

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Opinion | Would You Trust This Man With Your Elections?
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 23
Yikes!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23
Cash crunch + repressive federal government = Chicago crashing out of the top tier of schools for a while. Not great days for my alma mater.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 23
The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 22
Just revisiting this paper that itself revisited *ooold* papers of mine (2001, 2003). This reanalysis and review shows clearly what remains right / plausible and what is unclear / dodgy about the AST hypothesis. Thanks, coauthors, for making me take a new look.
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Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives
Auditory and speech signals are undisputedly processed in both left and right hemispheres, but this bilateral allocation is likely unequal. The Asymme…
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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · Aug 20
We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · Aug 15
Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · Jul 8
a seemingly general electrophysiological phenomenon: once you have to process stimuli, low-frequency rhythms disappear, spectrum becomes flatter & sometimes an increase in broadband gamma activity.
we also found this for visual memory encoding in #iEEG data: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2404-24.2025
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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 19
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Aug 14
Happy Birthday Gary Larson, 75 years old today. A perfect excuse to celebrate his tireless efforts documenting major breakthroughs in science, including this pivotal moment for language research:
Single-panel cartoon drawn by Gary Larson. Standing in the street is a bearded man with glasses, white coat and a clipboard. He is wearing a helmet with flashing coloured buttons and multiple different types of antennae. In the street there are also several dogs, including one rearing up at a fence and another chasing a car. Speech bubbles show the dogs are saying "Hey! Hey! Hey!", "Heyyyyyyy", and "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!". Caption underneath: Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 20
Uh oh.
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Aug 19
It has been "known" that musical experience improves auditory coding in the brainstem. But...a new multilab study concludes

"Our findings provide no evidence for associations between early auditory neural responses and either musical training or musical ability."

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Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding - Nature Communications
Widely cited studies have claimed that musical training is associated with enhanced neural encoding for sound at early stages of the auditory system. Results from this large-scale multisite study do n...
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 19
Just looked through this paper again - and I still think these results are cool (and less obvious than one might think) :-)

"Syllables and their beginnings have a special role in the mental lexicon" Yue Sun providing a nice perspective on phonology and the lexicon.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Aug 18
Just saw a terrific Tosca and Sunday in the Park w George at the excellent Glimmerglass Festival @ggfestival.bsky.social

In addition to the first-rate music, I appreciated the important reminders about our responsibility and citizenship given the dangerous direction the US is taking.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jul 20
Five under the radar things Trump snuck into his "Big Beautiful Bill":
- Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil
- Defunds Planned Parenthood
- Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway)
- Hikes monthly student loan payments
- Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jul 9
🍾🙌 Congrats to Cas Coopmans for winning the Otto Hahn medal for his terrific PhD thesis (2023)! Clever experiments, very thoughtful ideas, analyses & discussions - and important topics. Congratulations to Cas (next to Peter Hagoort). (And I am happy to work with Cas as a postdoc now 👍)
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jul 8
Good list for new students in neurobiology of language by @wmatchin.bsky.social
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Neurobiology of language: the top 15 most influential papers (to me)
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jul 8
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions
A summary and perspective by Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, with Marc Pell & me.
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jul 8
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The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind | Robert Reich
Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jul 3
Terrific lab - with excellent research facilities. Rosanne is a great supervisor.
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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Jul 1
Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
PhD position — Rademaker lab
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jun 21
Three *really* different and just terrific books I'm reading. Congrats M Chirimuuta, @jpeelle.bsky.social & @amypoeppel.bsky.social
A philosophical analysis, a textbook, and a novel - all super entertaining and enriching.
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jun 20
For auditory processing aficionados: new from Y Sun, O Ghitza & G Michalareas
tracking rate of periodicity is achievable without sharp acoustic edges or consistent phase alignment to envelope. consistent with assuming distinct processes for phase and rate tracking
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Complex Impact of Stimulus Envelope on Motor Synchronization to Sound
The human brain tracks temporal regularities in acoustic signals faithfully. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown complex modulations of synchronized neural activities to the shape of stimulus envel...
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