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Welcome to the official account of the #GermanWordNerdNetwork! Connecting language researchers around the globe. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gewonn/home Posts by @leungyianna.bsky.social & @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social
Tomorrow Morning! Join us it will be fun!
We're excited to announce March's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Prof. Katharina von Kriegstein, will talk about "The role of sensory thalami and cortico-thalamic connections in developmental dyslexia"
6-3-2026, 11-12 am (CET)
Register here for the Zoom link👇
tinyurl.com/vk4r2eba
Happy New Year! 🥳 We're excited to announce January's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Dr Kurt Winsler, will talk about "Experience-Dependent Changes in Visual Processing of Letters".
Date: 21-1-2026, 9-10 am (CET)
Register here for the Zoom link 👇
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Join us tomorrow and discuss error prevention in psychological research with our guest speaker, @juliafstrand.bsky.social!
Sign up for the next virtual #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting!
We are thrilled to have @juliafstrand.bsky.social give us a guest talk on error prevention in psychological research!
Linguists, psychologists, and language researchers are all welcome! 😊
Register here: forms.gle/YoZpPxrRxXcG...
TODAY! In case you are interested ;)
Join our virtual Journal Club discussion in two days!
🚨Now out in *Open Mind* 🚨
"Can we utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers"
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
with
@jobschepens.bsky.social @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social @nicolekmarx.bsky.social
Special thanks to the organising committee
@teap2026.bsky.social , and we're looking forward to meeting everyone in Tuebingen!
Visit our GEWONN website below for more information about our network: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...
"Neuro-cognitive advances in visual word recognition research.” Speakers: @ahaugg.bsky.social (University of Zurich), Sabrina Turker (University of Vienna), @janahasenacker.bsky.social (University of Erfurt), @benjamingagl.bsky.social (University of Cologne), Harald Baayen (University of Tuebingen)
"When and why instruction works: Mechanisms and boundary conditions of interventions in the science of learning" Speakers: @troembke.bsky.social (RWTH Aachen University), David Shanks (UCL), @olikli.bsky.social (U. of Regensburg), Simone Malejka (U. of Cologne), Bernhard Pastötter (U. of Trier)
"New directions in the study of bilingual language control" Speakers: Aaron Vandendaele (VUB Brussels University), Luigi Falanga (RWTH Aachen University), Andrea Philipp (RWTH Aachen University), Alex Titus (Radboud University/MPI for Psycholinguistics), L. Maria Sanchez (VUB Brussels University)
"Language Models as Tools for Psycholinguistics” Speakers: Fritz Günther (HU Berlin), Cosimo Iaia (Goethe University Frankfurt), Elif Ecem Çalışkan (LMU München), @jobschepens.bsky.social (University of Cologne), and @mariakna.bsky.social (Royal Holloway London)
"Symbolic representations in the visual pathway: From numbers and letters to words and semantics" Speakers: @jnpauli.bsky.social (U. of Cologne), @jacketaylor.bsky.social (Goethe U. Frankfurt), @sandervanbree.bsky.social (U. Giessen), Roman Janssen (Université Paris Cité), and Jiaxin You (Aalto U.)
Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2026 Conference!
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Coming up next in our November's Journal Club meeting: We have happy to have Dr. Cosimo Iaia talk about the concreteness effect in representational alignment between human and language models. All are welcome to join us! Please share 😊
Registration link: forms.gle/8W6Xu9VK31df...
Great talk and discussion with @cyhsieh.bsky.social today, where we learnt about the impact of Chinese characters' semantic consistency on learning compound characters!
Join our journal club next Monday! We're happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social to discuss "What Chinese Compounds Tell Us About Reading"! Scan the QR code to register or click here: forms.gle/JV5cp1RHHaH2...
Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers!
Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker:
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More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!
Great journal club meeting on @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition", moderated by @ksenijamisic.bsky.social. Lots of discussions on the utility and the future of cognitive models!
Stay tuned for our next meeting announcement. DM or email us to join!
We're happy to share a new preprint by our members, @jnpauli.bsky.social & @benjamingagl.bsky.social: "Understanding the Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms of Orthographic Learning in Humans and Baboons: A Comparative Study Using Domain-Specific Mechanistic and Domain-General Connectionist Models"!
Welcome to join our journal club discussion tomorrow! 😄
This summer semester I'm very excited to teach a brand-new seminar on "Open Science practices in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition" @UniKoeln! ☀️
Some 20 B.A. and M.A. students studying #linguistics or a Romance language (+ one post-doc) […]
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Join our next journal club meeting on May 22 (Thur), 11am-12pm (CEST)! We'll discuss: @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s (2024) "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition"!
😊 Moderator: @ksenijamisic.bsky.social
👇 See link for more info. DM or email us for the Zoom link!
Join our lecture on #standardisation in research this afternoon in Cologne or remotely! Registration still available - More info here: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...
Three more days for registration! 😊
Hasenäcker, J., Wettmann, J. & Domahs, F.(2025).Kann leichte Sprache zu leicht sein? Eine zielgruppenorientierte Studie zur Wirksamkeit der Genitivvermeidung. Linguistische Berichte,281,39-59. Die Publikation ist aus dem Abschlussprojekt von Juliane Wettmann hervorgegangen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
🚀 My first PhD paper is out! 🚀
"How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping?" was published in Memory & Cognition!
Big thanks to my supervisors and co-authors (Iring Koch & @troembke.bsky.social).
Curious? Read it here: rdcu.be/eeY9o
#CognitivePsychology #WordLearning #Bilingualism
Organised by @benjamingagl.bsky.social, @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @troembke.bsky.social, @janahasenacker.bsky.social
Event supported by: @gewonnofficial.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @unicologne.bsky.social & Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education, Self Learning Systems Lab.