Debra Titone

Thanks to the amazing CRBLM too!

Dr. Ellen Bialystok stands at a podium next to a screen displaying a slideshow and gives a talk to a room of 60 seated researchers and trainees.

Honoured to have welcomed Dr. Ellen Bialystok to the CRBLM yesterday for a fantastic talk and rich exchange of ideas in a packed house. Thanks to co-organizers and hosts @gigiluk.bsky.social and @dtitone.bsky.social of the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative

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An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Breaking new ground (and other expressions): Unearthing presuppositional strength of idioms If you like idioms, you’ll be… head over heels… for this research. Allow me to… break the ice… without… beating around the bush. A new study on idioms by Nicholas Griffen and Ira Noveck is… the bee…

Cool idiom study!

#language
#cognition

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Wondering if anyone can point me to a guide or set of resources on "how to create compelling/accessible data figure plots" for #psychology or #linguistics students.

Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables".

Thank you.

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century.

#philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

New review paper on theory of mind/mentalizing and spontaneous speech/language. Led by Chaimaa El Mouslih, and co-authored with @vegashodgins.bsky.social and @lenapl.bsky.social

www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

It’s @nphillipsca.bsky.social !

Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies WASHINGTON—A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual cris...

A formulaic crisis on Canada Day..

theonion.com/idiom-shorta...

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology New Content graphic. Text at the top and bottom, CJEP logo on the right side.

A failure of the interocular suppression paradigm to assess sexual preferences in two studies
- Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp

New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

buff.ly/gPaKkvj

@apajournals.bsky.social‬

We might! I forwarded to my students.

This looks useful!

We recently got an AI generated review.

Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others?

Authors and Editors, beware..

Being a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in science Being in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ...

New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia:
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So did everyone watch #conclave last night or was it just me?

preaching to the choir here but language choices can reinforce bias, misinformation, etc for all sorts of folks.. eg, this piece led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social RE schizophrenia..

doi:10.1017/S0142716422000340

Saw another nytimes article on empathy this weekend that dovetails..

Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak (Gift Article) A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.

Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients.

Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...

New paper on L2/L1 irony processing in Memory & Cognition led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social. This was a team effort, including @antonioiniesta.bsky.social and others, notably Mehrgol Tiv who collected the data several years back.

rdcu.be/ekaeh

#language
#cognition
#irony
#multilingualism

Letter to a Young Systems Thinker Don’t search for the answers.

I've fallen into lurker mode with this site lately but I'm still here... and this week I wrote this thing that seemed to resonate with a bunch of folks, maybe if you're into #SystemsThinking or #Complexity you'll dig it too:

Special Issue of @cjep.bsky.social on #Network Science in Experimental #Psychology is out today.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.

Just delivered my last psych of #bilingualism class of the semester.. Interacting with smart undergraduates about an important topic that I love is such a privilege..

#grateful

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…

EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.

A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).

Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44.
Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed.
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

Are you a 🇨🇦 ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in Cognitive Science looking for a small grant to support a new collaborative research project? Apply for the @wicscanada.bsky.social Small Grant for Jr Scientists:
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Know someone who is a fantastic mentor to 🇨🇦 women in cognitive science? Nominate them for the @wicscanada.bsky.social 2025 Mentorship Award:
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Our Special Issue 'Network Science in Experimental Psychology' is out now! We will be featuring articles all week
@dtitone.bsky.social

Check out the table of contents here:
psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects - Cognitive, Affective, & Be... The N400 ERP component has been characterized as a response reflecting binding of semantic memory states to create a “multimodal conceptual representation” (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011). An assumption of...

📢 out now in CABN: Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Check out our paper on @cjep.bsky.social 📄 Questionnaire-based Language Entropy aligns well with social network-based Entropy across different sociolinguistic realities, and contexts, validating Language Entropy as a useful tool for quantifying language diversity. 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Introduction is free to read: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...