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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · 7d

"I'm as sure of it as I'm sure my voice is annoying" - Marvin Monroe

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Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · 14d

New chapter on sentence production in "Speaking: The Free Book" bookdown.org/v_piai_resea... beautifully written by @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social Go check, very useful resource for free (!) for teaching & initiating folks on topic of language production (usually missing from textbooks on "language"!)

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · 22d

Very happy to see Angelique's paper on semantic processing and the ATL with @vipiai.bsky.social, @profkatie.bsky.social out now in Cortex : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are the ventral anterior temporal lobes involved in accessing conceptual knowledge during spoken word production? fMRI evidence from auditory naming

There is ongoing debate about the role of ventral anterior temporal lobe (vATL) regions in the initial stages of production, particularly in accessing…

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Linguistic structure as a guiding principle for human neuroscience. New paper by @annamai.bsky.social & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106322

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hoping to see him finish in the top 3

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you’re attending #AMLaP2025 in Prague, please go see Gustavo’s talk on form typically of French nouns and verbs! New work with @jarciuli.bsky.social

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Sep 2

Incredibly proud of @vtolkacheva.bsky.social who has been awarded her PhD for her research on the neurobiology of speech perception and misperception!

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Aug 26

a cartoon character says uh-oh in front of a purple background

ALT: a cartoon character says uh-oh in front of a purple background

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ratnado? I can see a movie franchise

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Jun 25

Looking forward to this morning’s session on Language: Anatomy, Networks and Pathology! #OHBM2025

Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yep. It’s “extremity of valence” btw, my bad.

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Jun 19

I think you might be after “extremity of emotion” or “emotionality” that’s usually derived by subtracting the midpoint of the valence scale and removing the polarity. We used it in our papers on valence form typicality

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Apr 13

Just a reminder that our annual PhD scholarship round is open now, and we're recruiting! If you have undergraduate and Masters degrees in psychology/cognitive science/linguistics we'd love to hear from you!
www.qut.edu.au/research/stu...

QUT - Applying for a research scholarship

Each year we accept applications for our research scholarship rounds. If you're an aspiring research student, make sure you apply.

www.qut.edu.au

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · May 22

Yep. I’m going to a conference in Barcelona and taking leave, so the system can’t cope with that split…

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · May 2

Ditto here. Mid-career folk might be interested in the Australian Research Council's Future Fellowship round, which should be announced in July

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Apr 13

Just a reminder that our annual PhD scholarship round is open now, and we're recruiting! If you have undergraduate and Masters degrees in psychology/cognitive science/linguistics we'd love to hear from you!
www.qut.edu.au/research/stu...

QUT - Applying for a research scholarship

Each year we accept applications for our research scholarship rounds. If you're an aspiring research student, make sure you apply.

www.qut.edu.au

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Apr 9

New preprint by PhD student @vtolkacheva.bsky.social reporting results from 7 (!) experiments investigating the role of phonotactics in perceiving degraded speech:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · Apr 8

Very happy to see this paper on the phonological structure of polysemous words now in press and open access: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

APA PsycNet

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · Mar 6

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Brielle Stark, PhD {she} @briellestark.bsky.social · Mar 2

We are recruiting persons with #aphasia for a study taking place (in person!) at University of Tech #Sydney! Please spread to your network. It's all about user experience; no tech expertise required! #SLPeeps #SLP