Neurobiology of Language

📣 Call for papers 📣 for our Special Issue on the Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience of Language Disorders: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Primary Progressive Aphasias

Guest editors: Zachary Miller, Marilu Gorno-Tempini & Bruce Miller

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Can the Mismatch Negativity Really Be Elicited by Abstract Linguistic Contrasts? Abstract. The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event-related potential component that reflects pre-attentive change detection in the brain. As an electrophysiological index of processing that responds ...

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If you're not listening to @smwilson.bsky.social's Language Neuroscience Podcast, you should be! The latest episode langneurosci.org/podcast/#ep33 explores a paper in @jneurolang.bsky.social from Steve Politzer-Ahles and Bernard Jap, and their (positive!) experience with our Registered Report format

Excellent paper from @judithholler.bsky.social et al 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Wow! "An Agent-First Preference in a Patient-First Language During Sentence Comprehension", in which we report the first-ever language processing #EEG study on an Austronesian language, is among the 10 most-cited articles in Cognitive Science in 2023! 🧵1/

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JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
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Did you know that @jneurolang allows you to submit your manuscript your way? We only require journal specific formatting once your manuscript is accepted. Put your figures in the text and keep reviewers happy 😃 direct.mit.edu/nol/pages/su...

Does your research investigate how the brain communicates using language? Consider the Neurobiology of Language journal for your next submission. We are fully open access with reasonable APCs. Check out our latest papers direct.mit.edu/nol

New Call for Papers for a Special Issue: The Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience of Language Disorders: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Primary Progressive Aphasias direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...

Announcing the @jneurolang.bsky.social award for Best Paper of 2023! 👏

Information-Restricted Neural Language Models Reveal Different Brain Regions' Sensitivity to Semantics, Syntax and Context | https://buff.ly/4a6N9VD | by Alexandre Pasquiou, Yair Lakretz, Bertrand Thirion & Christophe Pallier

Our editorial team congratulate the recipients of Honorable Mention for Best Paper 2023!

Understanding the effects of constraint and predictability in ERP | https://buff.ly/41RGBrP | by @stonekatem.bsky.social @bruno-nicenboim.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy @shravanvasishth.bsky.social & Frank Rösler

Neurobiology of Language is an #openaccess journal that provides articles across a range of disciplines addressing the neurobiological basis of speech & language. A new issue is out now: https://direct.mit.edu/nol/issue/5/4

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New episode!! 🧠🎙️

A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.

How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?

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Dissociable Neural Mechanisms for Human Inference Processing Predicted by Static and Contextual Language Models | https://buff.ly/4fpz5Hu | by Takahisa Uchida, Nicolas Lair, Hiroshi Ishiguro & Peter Ford Dominey

Last days to submit for the multimodal language workshop in Catania!!https://multimodallanguage.wixsite.com/workshop

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...

looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

Activity in Occipito-Temporal Cortex Is Involved in Tool-Use Planning and Contributes to Tool-Related Semantic Neural Representations | doi.org/10.1162/nol_... | by @sthibault.bsky.social, Eric Koun, Romeo Salemme, Alice C. Roy, Véronique Boulenger & Claudio Brozzoli

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Nominations are open for the Index of Inspiring Black Scientists! We're building a global resource to celebrate and connect inspiring Black scholars in STEM at all career stages. Nominate someone today! Details: forms.gle/7nq5s2xBENUF...

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Assistant Prof job in Behavioral Neuroscience at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02011

The NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship by an NINDS Investigator Excellent mentorship and training are critical to the development of exceptional future scientists. To recognize the contributions and importance of outstanding mentors, the National Institute of Neur...

Trainees, do you have an amazing mentor (funded by NINDS)? Please nominate them for the Landis award!

Your PIs also like positive feedback and nice gestures from their mentees 😊

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Neurobiological Causal Models of Language Processing | doi.org/10.1162/nol_... | by Hartmut Fitz, Peter Hagoort & Karl Magnus Petersson

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🚨 Reminder! 🚨 Submissions are due December 31 🗓️ to our special issue on the white matter connectome supporting speech & language, by Guest Editors @anthonystevend.bsky.social and Pascale Tremblay. Submit your manuscript before the end of the year!

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