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Using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) to Probe the Neural Interaction Between Representations of Speech Planning and Comprehension Abstract. Interlocutors often use the semantics of comprehended speech to inform the semantics of planned speech. Do representations of the comprehension and planning stimuli interact? In this EEG stu...

Using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) to probe the neural interaction between representations of speech planning and comprehension. New paper by Cecília Hustá, Antje Meyer & @lindadrijvers.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00171

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry - Nature Human Behaviour A genome-wide association study of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants found 11 significant loci. Age at onset of walking showed SNP heritability of 24%, a reliable polygenic score and gene...

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry. Final version by Anna Gui & al. with @bstpourcain.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02145-1

The organization for human brain mapping time machine: A freely accessible archive of annual meeting talks on YouTube. New paper by Alfie Wearn & al. with @stephforkel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.52294/001c.138647

Exciting grant news from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: researcher Esam Ghaleb has been awarded a NWO grant for his groundbreaking project 'Grounded Gesture Generation in Context: Object- and Interaction-Aware Generative AI Models of Language Use'. www.mpi.nl/news/esam-gh...

Further read: www.mpi.nl/news/peter-h...

We're proud to share that Peter Hagoort, emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy - honouring his pioneering work in language neuroscience and leadership in interdisciplinary research.
#BritishAcademy #LanguageScience

The influence of familiarisation and item repetition on the name agreement effect in picture naming. Final version by Ruth E. Corps & Antje S Meyer
doi.org/10.1177/17470218241274661

How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia) Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus mus...

How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087

Congrats to @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social (@mpi-nl.bsky.social and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) on his NWO Veni grant. In his research he will process intonation: not just what we say, but how.
#intonation #linguistics #research #MaxPlanck

Effects of subliminal emotional facial expressions on language comprehension as revealed by event-related brain potentials - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Effects of subliminal emotional facial expressions on language comprehension as revealed by event-related brain potentials

Effects of subliminal emotional facial expressions on language comprehension as revealed by event-related brain potentials. New paper by Miguel Rubianes & al. with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06037-2

To predict or not to predict: The role of context constraint and truth-value in negation processing. New paper by Maria Spychalska, Viviana Haase & Markus Werning
doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109167

<em>Language Learning</em> | Language Learning Research Club Journal | Wiley Online Library A one-page Accessible Summary of this article in nontechnical language is freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://oasis-database.org

Simulating the relationship between nonword repetition performance and vocabulary growth in 2-Year-olds: Evidence from the language 0–5 project. Final version by @carorowland.bsky.social & al.
doi.org/10.1111/lang.12671

Nonlinear Dendritic Integration Supports Up–Down States in Single Neurons Changes in the activity profile of cortical neurons are due to effects at the scale of local and long-range networks. Accordingly, abrupt transitions in the state of cortical neurons—a phenomenon know...

Nonlinear dendritic integration supports Up-Down states in single neurons. Paper by @bluedebris.bsky.social & al. With Hartmut Fitz, Peter Hagoort
doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1701-24.2025
Paper: tinyurl.com/34pptvv5

Direct and indirect genetic effects on early neurodevelopmental traits. Final version by Laura Hegemann & al. with @bstpourcain.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14122

Typing as a window into chunking in language: top-down effects from multiword units - Reading and Writing Top-down effects of larger-grained linguistic chunks on their smaller-grained constituent parts have been established in both reading and speaking. However, typing as a domain of language production h...

Typing as a window into chunking in language: Top-down effects from multiword units. New paper by Alice Blumenthal-Dramé & @kylamcconnell.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s11145-025-10663-7

Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics Speech is inherently variable, requiring listeners to apply adaptation mechanisms to deal with the variability. A proposed perceptual adaptation mechanism is recalibration, whereby listeners learn to ...

Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception. Final version by Ronny Bujok,
@davidpeeters.bsky.social , Antje S. Meyer & Hans Rutger Bosker
doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03088-5

When is a ranana a banana? Disentangling the mechanisms of error repair and word learning When faced with an ambiguous novel word such as ‘ranana’, how do listeners decide whether they heard a mispronunciation of a familiar target (‘banana’) or a label for an unfamiliar novel item? We e...

When is a ranana a banana? Disentangling the mechanisms of error repair and word learning. Final version by @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social , Nora Kennis & @chbergma.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2463082

Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world Prediction in language is often about objects in the language users’ visual surroundings. Previous research suggests that linguistic working memory limitations in such task environments constrain l...

Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world. New paper by Christopher Allison & al. @falkhuettig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2522272

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Constructing language: A framework for explaining acquisition. New paper published by @carorowland.bsky.social‬ et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti....

The Association Between Frequency of Social Media Use, Wellbeing, and Depressive Symptoms: Disentangling Genetic and Environmental Factors - Behavior Genetics Meta-analyses report small to moderate effect sizes or inconsistent associations (usually around r = -0.10) between wellbeing (WB) and social media use (SMU) and between anxious-depressive symptoms (A...

The association between frequency of social media use, wellbeing, and depressive symptoms: Disentangling genetic and environmental factors. New paper by @selimsametoglu.bsky.social , Dirk H. M. Pelt & Meike Bartels
doi.org/10.1007/s10519-025-10224-2

NYAS Publications Human music is often characterized by accelerando—the progressive speeding up of notes—but quantitative investigations of accelerando in other species are lacking. We used a suite of rhythm analyses ....

Accelerando and crescendo in African penguin ecstatic display songs. New paper by Taylor A. Hersh & al. with Yannick Jadoul, @andrearavignani.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15383

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint is to advocate for increased study of common ground and audience design processes in multiparty communicat...

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication. New publication by Kekes-Szabo, @shariceclough.bsky.social, Brown-Schmidt & Duff. doi.org/10.1044/2025....

Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum

Multiple repetitions lead to the long-term elimination of the word frequency effect. Recently published paper by Ruth E. Corps & Antje S. Meyer
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001486
Paper: tinyurl.com/2u3vyras

Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity - npj Science of Learning npj Science of Learning - Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity

Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity. New paper by @luciadehoyos.bsky.social & al. with Ellen Verhoef, @profsimonfisher.bsky.social , @bstpourcain.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00329-y

Revisiting the logic in language: The scope of each and every universal quantifier is alike after all. New paper by @miekeslim.bsky.social , Peter Lauwers & Robert J. Hartsuiker
doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104661

Parent and child gender effects in the relationship between attachment and both internalizing and externalizing problems of children between 2 and 5 years old: A dyadic perspective Acknowledging that the parent–child attachment is a dyadic relationship, we investigated differences between pairs of parents and preschool children based on gender configurations in the association ...

Parent and child gender effects in the relationship between attachment and both internalizing and externalizing problems of children between 2 and 5 years old: A dyadic perspective. Final version by Magda Matetovici & al.
doi.org/10.1002/imhj.70002

Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children Children's ability to share attention with another social partner (joint attention) plays an important role in language development. However, our understanding of the role of joint attention comes ma....

Caregivers use joint attention to support sign language acquisition in deaf children. New paper by @jennisander.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social & Amy M. Lieberman.
doi.org/10.1111/desc.70034

Comparing syntactic and discourse accounts of islands and parasitic gaps: experimental evidence from acceptability judgments This study evaluates a recent account of islands and parasitic gaps, which proposes that island violations are unacceptable in part because they contain a referring argument in the predicate that cont...

Comparing syntactic and discourse accounts of islands and parasitic gaps: experimental evidence from acceptability judgments. New paper by Cas W. Coopmans & al.
doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2025-2005