It has been so so fun to think with some of my favorite scientists about what it means to understand!
26.11.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 54 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐จ #EnvisionBOX alert ๐จ
We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond).
#multimodality
27.11.2025 10:09 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Multiple job alerts!
The @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social at the @uni-goettingen.de and @primatenzentrum.bsky.social has 10 openings for PhD students!
Join us now in Gรถttingen.
27.11.2025 15:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The title page
๐จNEW PUBLICATION ALERT!๐จ
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
25.11.2025 19:48 โ ๐ 90 ๐ 29 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2
A large annotated dataset of vocalizations by common marmosets
<div><p>Non-human primates, our closest relatives, use a wide range of complex vocal signals for communication within their species. Previous research on marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocalizations has been limited by sampling rates not covering the whole hearing range and insufficient labeling for advanced analyses using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Here, we provide a database of common marmoset vocalizations, which were continuously recorded with a sampling rate of 96 kHz from an animal holding facility housing simultaneously ~20 marmosets in three cages. The dataset comprises more than 800,000 files, amounting to 253 hours of data collected over 40 months. Each recording lasts a few seconds and captures the marmosets' social vocalizations, encompassing their entire known vocal repertoire during the experimental period. Around 215,000 calls are annotated with the vocalization type. We offer a trained classifier to assist future investigations. Finally, we validated our dataset by sampling 700 representative recordings and cross-examining them with four experts.</p></div>
๐ New #Research featuring several ILCB researchers!
A new annotated dataset of common marmoset vocalizations is now available, offering:
โข 253h of high-quality recordings
โข 800k+ audio files
โข 215k annotated calls
โข A trained classifier to support future research
๐Link: hal.science/hal-05073707v1
27.11.2025 09:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity
๐ฃ Very happy to announce a new BBS target article with Nick Chater in which we propose a new theory of cultural evolution, highlighting the importance of bottom-up social interaction in explaining the emergence of cultural complexity
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
28.11.2025 15:36 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) workshop will be co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca!๐ดStay tuned for more details!โจ
@byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social
01.12.2025 10:01 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
26.11.2025 11:38 โ ๐ 62 ๐ 54 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 4
A busy figure showing some time series and timing distributions movement versus speech
Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements".
with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht
www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...
26.11.2025 13:35 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
This is now out in Cerebral Cortex.
Open Access: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
@antoniahamilton.bsky.social @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Uzair Hakim @paola182.bsky.social Danny Thompkings @fdi55.bsky.social
02.12.2025 12:19 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
LinkedIn
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๐ง NLP & Cognition โ Next Meeting
The GDR TAL Working Group meets on Dec 12, 2025 at Campus Saint-Charles (Marseille).
Keynote by Yair Lakretz, panel + GT sessions in the afternoon.
๐ Frumam
๐ Registration: lnkd.in/eFCgZvjs
#NLP #Cognition #CognitiveScience #AI #Language #Linguistics
02.12.2025 14:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New work from the lab! A full multimodal picture of caregivers behaviours supporting learning in the early years answering the question: what do caregivers say and do to support their childrenโs word learning?
29.11.2025 09:38 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ข Announcing the First Workshop on Multilingual and Multicultural Evaluation (MME) at #EACL2026 ๐ฒ๐ฆ
MME focuses on resources, metrics & methodologies for evaluating multilingual systems! multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io
๐
Workshop Mar 24โ29, 2026
๐๏ธ Submit by Dec 19, 2025
20.10.2025 10:37 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐? ๐จ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ธ๐ช
Hereโs the proof! ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community ๐
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
14.10.2025 17:01 โ ๐ 42 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers ๐ฎ
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
31.10.2025 22:50 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
To model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhuman
When people listen to or read a sentence, they actively make predictions about upcoming words: words that are less predictable are generally read more slowly than predictable ones. The success of larg...
Another banger from @tallinzen.bsky.social .
Also fits with some of the criticisms of Centaur and my faculty-based approach generally; if you want LLMs to model human cognition, give them more architecture akin to human faculty psychology like long and short-term memory.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05141
15.10.2025 13:57 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Abstract painting of two people gesturing
"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language."
The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess
https://cup.org/4nusznG
#OA #Linguistics #LangSky ๐ฆ๐ฆ
01.10.2025 21:05 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Super proud of this work and very grateful for all the amazing people who provided valuable feedback along the way @remivantrijp.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @cedricboeckx.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ๐
09.09.2025 08:16 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
โจ #ILCB Summer School 2025 โ Just a few days to go! โจ
From September 1โ5, weโll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition.
Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!
29.08.2025 12:30 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐ Back from the summer break!
We kick off the new season with an exciting ILCB Talk by Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh):
๐๏ธ Sept 26, 2025 โ Marseille
๐๏ธ โCultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyondโ
๐ ilcb.fr/event/simon-kirby
#ILCB
28.08.2025 07:54 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The first live session for our poster #CogSci2025 is happening right now on Teams: CogSci V3-P-41 Europe and Asia
1 august 2025
12:00 - 13:00 (GMT)
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
01.08.2025 11:12 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Let me know if you don't have access via your institution and I can send you a copy personally โบ๏ธ
28.07.2025 13:16 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Just in time for the @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference and the Rumelhart 25th Anniversary Event, the 2023 Rumelhart Prize Issue Honoring Nick Chater is out in TopiCS in Cognitive Science, edited by Mike Oaksford and me:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17568765...
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28.07.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
OSF
How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time?
We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others.
It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
23.07.2025 10:30 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4
I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at โชโช@dondersinst.bsky.social:
๐ข Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI ๐ค) www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
๐ข Postdoc position (Virtual Reality ๐ฎ)
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)
14.07.2025 15:23 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below ๐
15.07.2025 08:51 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2
Postdoc at Utrecht University, previously PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam
Multimodal NLP, Vision and Language, Cognitively Inspired NLP
https://ecekt.github.io/
MRC-funded PhD student at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck. Combining EEG and machine learning to study autism and social development. (she/her)
Guest Researcher with the focus on #Autism Spectrum Disorders and #Biolinguistics at Universitรคt Potsdam
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Candice_Chi_Hang_Cheung
a natural language processor and โsensible linguistโ. PhD-ing LTI@CMU, previously BS-ing Ling+ECE@UTAustin
๐ค ๐ค๐ she/her
lindiatjuatja.github.io
Cognitive Psychologist at the Center for Language and Cognition,
U of Groningen (CLCG), NL | I study how we understand and produce language, especially idioms | ๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ๐งถ๐ ๐ธ
Dynamics and Physiopathology of Neural Networks, Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience, Neurology Department, School of Medicine - Pontificia Universidad Catรณlica de Chile.
The 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems
Postdoc Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience #speech #language #neuroimage #brain #multimodality
PhD in Psychology
Academy Research Fellow | Lecturer (on leave) | Dept of English, University of Turku @utu.fi | applied linguistics, second language learning, L2 speech, fluency, interaction, multimodality, mixed methods | #FlowLangGroup
โก๏ธ https://pauliinapeltonen.com
(she/her) Multimodal & Interactional Linguist. Compulsive cyclist ๐ด๐ฝโโ๏ธ Ultra-commuter. Immigrant. Argenta fuelled by ๐ง. Views my own.
#EMCA #Phonetics #Gesture #Multimodality #Cycling #TheGreatBritishCommute
Social Interaction, Action and Understanding, Body Behavior, Conversation Analysis, Mixed Methods, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Systems Thinking. Associate Professor at UCLA Sociology.
Associate Professor, UC Davis. PI, Cognitive Communication Science Lab. Associate Editor, Journal of Communication. Ski bum at heart. https://cogcommscience.com/
linguist, gesture researcher, prinicipal investigator, science communicator @University of Gรถttingen
https://silvaladewig.de/
31 yo, computational cognitive science ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ท @AarhusUni_int
| music producer ๐X2 ๐ฟ X1 | also ๐ถ๐ธ๐ง
Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Developing natural and accessible voice assistants
The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 25-27 August 2025. Avignon, France. #SIGDIAL2025
https://2025.sigdial.org/
PhD candidate studying perception of naturalistic facial expressions across lifespan | Former opera singer | Interested in multimodal communication (vocal/facial) & MSI, affective breathing, interoception ๐ซ๐ซ
Sentence processing modeling | Computational psycholinguistics | 1st year PhD student at LLF, CNRS, Universitรฉ Paris Citรฉ | Currently visiting COLT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
https://ninanusb.github.io/
Psycholinguist, author of MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRH). https://www.maryellenmacdonald.com/
PhD Candidate at UCL. Language development | Multimodal communication | Social neuroscience | fNIRS Hyperscanning
