Matt Davis

Hello followers! Today we have more information about the E-DLD event taking place on Friday 13th March, 10-11am with Professor Saloni Krishnan from UCL

Don’t miss out! Sign up for your free ticket today: e-dld.ticketbud.com/cognitive-an...

#DevLangDis #DLD #Event

Group photograph of faculty and participants of the very first Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2014, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.

Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
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No prayers needed, unless they can bring a second, identically sized frying pan. Place on top, and turn…

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Cutaneous alternating current stimulation can cause a phasic modulation of speech perception https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41617605/

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: Newcastle University. Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April 2026. This meeting will include the 24th EPS Mid-Career Prize lecture by Elizabeth Jefferies (and accompanying sympo…

Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped organise #EPSLondon 2026!

EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April.

Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time!

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Season's Greetings!
From all at the MRC CBU 🎄☃️🎅

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press.

This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

Modulating speech tracking through brain state-dependent changes in audio loudness https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41435423/

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York, York, UK

The Research Associate would be working on a project funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), examining multilingual language control and use in younger and older adults.
Application deadline: 31 August 2025.

The AI Con: In Conversation with Professor Emily M. Bender Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?

The AI Con: In Conversation with Prof. Emily M. Bender
Wednesday 16 July, 18:00–19:30
Computer Laboratory, Cambridge
Will new technology help make the world better, or is AI just another tech bubble that benefits the few?
Register now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ai-con...

Excited for CBU post-doc James Webb who will demonstrate eye-tracking methods for studying speech understanding at Science Night. Come and see webcam eye-tracking with WebGazer supported by @gorillapsych.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow (19 March from 6pm) at the MRC CBU for our 'Science Night' open evening. We have a fantastic line up of speakers talking on various topics of interest in cognition and neuroscience research! Event details: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/scien...

1 week to go! ‘Inside the Mind: Exploring the Human Brain’ on Wednesday 19 March from 6pm. Enjoy hands-on activities, tours of Unit facilities and excellent short talks
@mrccbu.bsky.social
Full details: mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/scien...
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky community, we’re new here!

Cambridge Language Sciences is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge.

Follow us to stay updated on all things language sciences – events, funding, research, news, and more.

Website: www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk

The International #CognitiveDevelopment Seminar Series continues in February with Dr Nadine Gaab (Harvard University) discussing "The Typical and Atypical Reading Brain." Don’t miss it—join us on 4th February! 🌟 Sign up: lnkd.in/eVERArbw details about the series: lnkd.in/ebQz_fXd

Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving Memory and the Brain explores the fascinating psychology and neuroscience of human memory. Written by a world expert in the field, John P. Aggleton, this book covers learning and memory from the very ...

Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to
@braintumourrsch.bsky.social
20% discount from Routledge in January.
routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …

The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Get well soon!

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux Human auditory cortex tracks specific acoustic features, providing a multiscale temporal template for subsequent speech parsing.

The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... iEEG.
1. syllabic & phonemic timescales both reflected in the acoustic spectral flux
2. cortex tracks syllabic timescale: theta range, phonemic via alpha-beta

Registration open for our Neuroimaging summer school in Cambridge in September 2025: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

FindAPhD : Funded studentships available with the CAM-Doctoral Training Partnership at University of Cambridge Apply for a PhD: Funded studentships available with the CAM-Doctoral Training Partnership at University of Cambridge

Interested in doing a PhD on how to help people learn a new language?

We have an ESRC-funded PhD studentship available, to work on the project ‘Individualised second language learning’ from Oct 2025. Application deadline is 3 Dec. More information at

www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

I’m still hiring! 🧠

Two weeks left to apply for this postdoc w/ me @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

You’ll use fMRI to study how metacognition, social cognition, prediction and learning connect. And you’ll join a collaborative team across Birkbeck, Oxford, Yale and the Institute of Philosophy.