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Gareth Gaskell

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Professor of psychology at the University of York. Interested in language, sleep, memory, learning. https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/mgg5/

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Nov 13

I think the last single author publication I had was my thesis, but in any case, here's another. An integrated framework for the learning, recognition and interpretation of words. 100% Gaskell, for better or for worse: doi.org/10.1177/1747...

Dual pathway cog/neuro account of word learning, repetition and integration

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Sep 5

Boom. Eat your heart out, Partridge.

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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Killing 'delve': We analysed 4,800+ student-authored reports across a decade to uncover how ChatGPT is shaping undergrad writing—style, sentiment, and quality. 📉📈
GenAI isn't just a tool. It's a co-author.
📝 #Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Style, Sentiment, and Quality of Undergraduate Writing in the AI Era: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis of 4,820 Authentic Empirical Reports

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes widespread in education, its influence on students’ academic practice raises concern. We conducted pre-registered analyses of 4,820 empirical repo...

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john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to present our new work reading minds!

Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Aug 25

One last shout for these jobs - still plenty of time to apply!

Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Jul 31

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Jul 31

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

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Dr Julian Grenier CBE @juliangrenier.bsky.social · Aug 7

What happens when a whole city commits to giving every child a better start to life?

🚀 Early Talk for York is transforming early years education—boosting speech & language skills, tackling inequality

Full article by CarolineVollans in NurseryWorld -

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Early Talk for York: an accessible and effective programme to support communication - Nursery World

An early speech, language and communication programme in York is improving the skills of children in need. Caroline Vollans reports.

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6

After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper:
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 5

***🚨 New Paper 🚨***

Both #sleep and eyes-closed waking rest improve memory. But sleep also increases FALSE recall in some paradigms.

Q: Does eyes-closed rest similarly increase false recall?

A: No.

Free access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYgb3qNaA...

#sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Jul 31

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

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Anna á V. Guttesen @annaavali.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social

Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?"

📢 New paper from: Anna Guttesen (annaavali.bsky.social), Marcus Harrington (@harrington-mo.bsky.social), Gareth Gaskell (mggaskell.bsky.social), & Scott Cairney (sacairney.bsky.social)

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Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?

Sleep supports memory consolidation and next-day learning. The Active Systems model of consolidation proposes that sleep facilitates a shift in the me…

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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Jobs - The University of York

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Anne Castles @annecastles.bsky.social · Jun 23

Glad to be joining @bsky.app. Follow me to read about research we are doing in #reading #dyslexia #learning and #language

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Michelle St Clair @michellestclair.bsky.social · May 13

New post for an SLT/SLP Research Associate/Assistant to work on an @edldproject.bsky.social project to validate a screening tool to identify #DevLangDis in adults! Please RT widely! @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

ED12650 Research Assistant/Associate - Jobs at Bath

Research Associate

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Apr 3

A typically brilliant talk from @jennirodd.bsky.social for her @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Mid-career Award

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SUNRAY @sunray-york.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hello world! 👋 We are the School & University Network for Research Across Yorkshire. We provide opportunities for schools and researchers to work together on understanding child development. Please do say hello, and find out more about joining the network here sunray.york.ac.uk

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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · Feb 26

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Feb 24

Congratulations Matthew, this is a lovely study! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · Feb 24

Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.

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Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h

Recent experience with a word significantly influences its subsequent interpretation. For instance, encountering bank in a river-related context biase…

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 21

Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

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Lewis Ball @lewis-ball.bsky.social · Feb 19

Very happy to share our new preprint revealing no evidence for a targeted memory reactivation (TMR) effect on word-meaning priming (1/8): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · Jan 31

For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · Jan 22

Should the Medical Research Council end sustained funding for its internationally renowned scientific units? 600 scientists don't think so.The UK needs sustained investment in basic science and challenge-led investments. #Neuroskyence @mrccbu.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...

Nobelists urge rethink on MRC unit funding changes

Nobel laureates back calls to pause new system of Medical Research Council funding which threatens future of well-established research units

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jan 10

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory

Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory.

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