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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 7d

Last lab pic taken a couple of days ago. Soon many of us will be gradually leaving for new destinations. After 3 years as a PhD student and 5 as a postdoc, I have now left the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization at the University of Padova and will soon begin a new adventure...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you! Glad it was of interest, hopefully also across subfields, and hope it may spark new ideas to investigate 😊

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 22d

@matteomaran.bsky.social @giorgiopiazza.bsky.social @antocris.bsky.social Irene Arrieta Sagredo Andria Pelentritou

Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 22d

Super happy to have had the chance of organizing this symposium for the 15th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience in Porto together with these amazing scientists but most importantly amazing people #ICON25

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Adam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com

Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics

Communications Psychology - Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Happy to have been selected among the winners of the @gorillapsych.bsky.social Language & Linguistics Research Grant! I will implement an online study on predictive speech comprehension/production and adverse listening conditions in deaf people with cochlear implant 🦻🗣️

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · May 27

Yesterday I presented EEG time-frequency and ERP data on predictive processing during audiovisual speech comprehension in deaf cochlear implant users at the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics in Barcelona

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · May 25

The lab is in Barcelona for the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP)! 🎉 @giuliacalignano.bsky.social @annalorenzoni.bsky.social @giorgiopiazza.bsky.social

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Mar 28

Next week I'll talk @Psicostat about our recent experience in publishing a commentary as early career researchers. Aim: foster a collective discussion on how best to approach this by ensuring fair albeit solid criticism of published science
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Psicostat @psicostat.bsky.social · Mar 28

We’re excited to share our April meeting! 🎉 Join us on April 4th for a talk with Simone Gastaldon on "Reanalyzing Published Science: The Power and Perils of Commentary Articles as an Early Career Researcher". 👥📢 Don’t miss our next meetings and subscribe to the mailing list!

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Giulia Calignano @giuliacalignano.bsky.social · Mar 1

Data without discussion is dead data 🧐 @simonegastaldon.bsky.social & I think #LinguisticAlignment needs #OpenScience & #multiverse debate!

🔥 Our re-analysis goes beyond the #pvalue to #collectively build solid #theory & valid #measurement in #cognitive #sciences

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 28

Further analyses revealed that the Category alignment effect emerged primarily in a subset of stimuli and in specific semantic categories, highlighting the limited generalizability of the effect originally reported.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 28

The commentary shows that aligning in the Category condition is associated with longer RTs and greater variability compared to using basic labels in the Basic condition, suggesting an effortful and strategic rather than an automatic mechanism.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 28

In the original paper, the authors provide evidence for automatic conceptual alignment, i.e., early alignment of participants’ behavior with the naming choices of the robot (using category labels instead of basic ones in the Category condition).

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 28

The paper provides theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of linguistic alignment in a joint picture naming with a social robot, by analyzing response times of an openly available dataset (Cirillo et al., 2022).

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 28

This commentary provides: 1) complementary multiverse analyses improving data interpretation, 2) practical suggestions for future experiments, 3) reflections on the importance of Open Science practices, especially for early career researchers.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 28

New paper w/ @giuliacalignano.bsky.social ! Access here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1khE02Hx2-...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 17

The speakers are: Irene Arrieta-Sagredo (Uni Paris Cité, France), Antonio Criscuolo (Maastricht Uni, The Netherlands), Matteo Maran (Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud Uni, The Netherlands), Andria Pelentritou (Uni of Lausanne, Switzerland) & Giorgio Piazza (Uni of Padova, Italy).

Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 17

The symposium will bring together early career researchers to discuss how external (others') and internal (one's own) body signals may modulate speech and auditory processing, trying to foster an integrated perspective.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 17

My symposium proposal titled "The Body Whispering To The Ear: How Self And Others' Bodily Signals Affect Auditory And Speech Processing" has been accepted for the XV International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON 2025), to be held in Porto in September!

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Feb 11

Extremely positive news about my #MSCA application. Can't wait to start my project FlexyRhythm at @bcbl.bsky.social with @nicolaml.bsky.social (and secondment at @dondersinst.bsky.social with @vipiai.bsky.social). So happy to have the chance to work with such wonderful people!

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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · Nov 28

🚨📝New preprint‼️

In this fMRI study (N=37) we compare the production and comprehension of words, and observe that the same phoneme-specific sensorimotor networks are activated when speaking and listening to language!

A short 🧵:

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

Congruent brain signatures specific to phonology in fronto-temporal cortex during language production and understanding.

In this fMRI study we investigated whether language production and understanding recruit the same phoneme-specific networks. We did so by comparing the brain responses to different phoneme categories ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Nov 20

For those who missed it (had posted on X): new paper with @nicolaml.bsky.social, Mikel Lizarazu and Pierpaolo Busan on cortical tracking of speech in adults who stutter in JSLHR pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · Nov 18

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