Lars Meyer

Join our team! We're looking for a Research Assistant to support OPM-MEG research on reading in children and adults at the Oxford Centre for Human Activity in the Neuronal Oscillations group (www.neuosc.com). Deadline 22nd July. For details see lnkd.in/e2qvCP9b

We have a *permanent* position available for a research engineer (ingénieur de recherche) to work in our new MEG-OPM facility. A strong scientific focus is possible. Speaking French is required. If you're interested, please let me know!

*https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1749678
**https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.2004176

Fancy a PhD project at the interface of (psycho)linguistics and systems neuroscience with the fabulous Mathias Scharinger & Alfred Lameli? Suprasegmental rhythm, reduction syllables, and neural oscillations?! APPLY NOW HERE: www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb09/igs/...

Interested in a PhD investigating Language Acquisition with Eye-Tracking methods under knowledgeable, professional, and kind supervision, have a look at this opening by Christina Kauschke at Marburg / Lahn—https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/cf1e4989a7665a5b7aebd7babd3a9a56410035990

Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...

Nice to see this PLoSBio paper out, by @ycabral.bsky.social and Molly Henry!

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project:

"Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models"
(funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de)

📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years
🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen
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New manuscript! Together with Junqing Huang & @straubeb.bsky.social, we used an innovative paradigm & DDM to show that gesture's processing hierarchy from a behavioral perspective!

Gestures are visual—but they’re also layered, structured, and unfold like language. 🧠🖐️

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osf.io/r5nb9_v1

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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Portrait of the chimpanzee “Wazak” (©James Mollison) & Nerve fibres in the chimpanzee brain (©MPI CBS) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59254-8

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️

For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains.

New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Neuroscience #LanguageEvolution #Chimpanzees
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still a couple of days left to apply!

Speech-motor induced artifacts from M/EEG recordings can be reliably removed by relating ICA decomposed activity to muscle activity in the face. 🗣️ 🧠

We used a similar technique in our production & EEG papers in 2021 and 2022 (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... and doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...).

Special Seminar: Lars Meyer | Cognitive Science How Brain Electrophysiology Shapes Language Abstract: The current cognitive neuroscience of language puts a strong focus on the role of periodic electrophysiological activity—so-called neural oscillat...

cogsci.jhu.edu/event/specia...

Wie schön, dass hier so viele über den Sprachgebrauch im Deutschen nachdenken. Wäre es nicht auch gut, wenn man sich dazu einmal vor Ort treffen könnte? Einen solchen Ort wird es geben - in Mannheim. Mehr Infos dazu unter forumdeutschesprache.de See you!😀
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TODAY

Andrew Dimitrijević, University of Toronto, gives a talk on 9 April 3 PM CEST on The Effects of Neural Plasticity on Outcomes in Cochlear Implant Users. Spread the word & join at Wilhelm Wundt Raum, MPI CBS or online at eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/69116348377.

Andrew Dimitrijević, University of Toronto, gives a talk on 9 April 3 PM CEST on The Effects of Neural Plasticity on Outcomes in Cochlear Implant Users. Spread the word & join at Wilhelm Wundt Raum, MPI CBS or online at eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/69116348377.

Metacognition in the listening brain How do you know you have heard right? Metacognition, the ability to assess and monitor one’s own cognitive state, is key to understanding human communication in complex environments. However, the foun...

I hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.

Phase of firing does not reflect temporal order in sequence memory of humans and recurrent neural networks - Nature Neuroscience The temporal order of events in working memory is thought to be reflected by ordered neuronal firing at different phases. Here the authors show that this is not the case and that phase order is linked...

Science Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory.
nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7

Two new papers led by amazing students (some positivity in These Dark Times)...

YouTube video by Abralin Falk Huettig

Learning to read changes the brain’s visual processing, repurposing neural pathways originally used for object and face recognition. 🧠📖 In this #AbralinTalk, @falkhuettig.bsky.social explains how literacy affects cognition.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Wp...
#langsky #linguistics

Whale song shows language-like statistical structure Humpback whale song is a culturally transmitted behavior. Human language, which is also culturally transmitted, has statistically coherent parts whose frequency distribution follows a power law. These...

"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪

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WILD 2025

It’s WILD how quickly February 10th is approaching!! Don’t forget to submit your abstract for WILD2025 to join us in San Sebastián @bcbl.bsky.social this June

www.bcbl.eu/events/wild/...

Thank you very much!!!

Chunk Duration Limits the Learning of Multiword Chunks: Behavioral and Electroencephalography Evidence from Statistical Learning Abstract. Language comprehension involves the grouping of words into larger multiword chunks. This is required to recode information into sparser representations to mitigate memory limitations and cou...

According to this research by Lena Henke, periodic electrophysiological activity sets a temporal limit on the learning of multi-syllabic chunks in an articial grammar: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

The Conscious Side of ‘Subliminal’ Linguistic Priming: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis and Reliability Analysis of Visibility Measures | Journal of Cognition The Journal of Cognition, the official journal of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, publishes reviews, empirical articles (including registered reports), data reports, stimulus developmen...

New publication in @jcgntn.bsky.social! with M.Sorrel, D.Shanks @mavadillo.bsky.social

Our in-depth examination of awareness measures in the masked syntactic priming literature reveals that methodological limitations account for the 'subliminal' effects.

journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

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Does sound symbolism need sound?: The role of articulatory movement in detecting iconicity between sound and meaning Ever since de Saussure [Course in General Lingustics (Columbia University Press, 1916)], theorists of language have assumed that the relation between form and m

For thos who are interested in sound symbolism, acoustics and articulation, this new paper might be interesting
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...