Dr Chiara Gambi

More exciting work by Elin Runnqvist together with Christian Kell:

In this theory paper they propose a unified framework showing how abstract language monitoring and concrete speech motor control are intertwined.

@cnrs.fr @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social LPL

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Poster for this event: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/beatology

At this workshop today about where hand gestures get their rhythm from - participants can join online.

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Key finding 1: Cold spots have emerged in the North, South West and East of England, as well as parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Key finding 1: Cold spots have emerged in the North, South West and East of England, as well as parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Key finding 2: The biggest loss of provision is at lower-tariff levels. This is concerning given strong links between attainment and socioeconomic disadvantage. Key finding 3: Languages, Linguistics, Anthropology, Classics and Theology are among the hardest hit. If trends continue, English, History, Drama and Celtic studies – including Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh – could follow.

As we await the post-16 White Paper, we’re calling for: - An urgent review of higher education funding - Regulators to monitor provision with an ‘at-risk’ regional register and subject premium - Government to help universities collaborate effectively with clearer guidance about competition law

In case you missed it: our latest report explores a growing crisis in universities.

In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
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🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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Submit your 5-min video for the CogSci Mind Challenge by Oct 17 📅

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Resources for Research This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…

Cohen’s & Fleiss’ kappa assume each subject has one category. @filipmoons Filip Moons & Ellen Vandervieren introduce a generalized Fleiss’ kappa that handles multiple categories per subject, supports hierarchies & weights, and works with missing data.

@emmagrigorian.bsky.social

Such cool work!

From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation. New paper by Imme Lammertink & al. with @carorowland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106358

Repetition leads to short-term reduction of word frequency and name agreement effects: Evidence from a Dutch two-session picture naming experiment - Caitlin Decuyper, Ruth E Corps, Antje S Meyer, 2025 Word frequency (WF) and name agreement (NA) affect a word’s accessibility during speech production. Speakers are faster to name pictures with high-frequency (e....

Repetition leads to short-term reduction of word frequency and name agreement effects: Evidence from a Dutch two-session picture naming experiment. New paper by Caitlin Decuyper , Ruth E Corps and Antje S Meyer.
doi.org/10.1177/17470218251365517

The Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) is looking for people who'd like to share their experience with the discovery of Open Science - how this changed your way of doing science, or seeing science, what kind of challenges you had to face and overcome, etc.

Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Computational Neuroscience and Cognition, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester apply.interfolio.com/173951

Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition

The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.

Funded PhD Candidate positions at the BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language is offering funded 5 PhD positions to work on various projects.
Application deadline: 1 November 2025

From movements to words: action monitoring in the medial frontal cortex along a caudal to rostral prediction error gradient Speech error monitoring recruits the medial frontal cortex (MFC) region in the human brain. Error monitoring-related activity in the MFC has been inte…

New exciting work from Elin Runnqvist’s group 📝:

Demonstrating that the brain’s medial frontal cortex monitors actions along a caudal-to-rostral gradient: simple movements at the back and complex speech errors at the front.

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Contribution of Episodic Memory to Lexical Processing Strong evidence suggests that the linguistic context in which a familiar word appears influences its subsequent interpretation—a phenomenon collective…

Excited to share that a book chapter I co-authored with my supervisors has just been published! 📖✨
@matthewmakpsy.bsky.social
@gambichiara.bsky.social

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Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
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The deadline for the Trust’s Visiting Professorship scheme has been extended to 9 October 2025. Dates for the next rounds have also been updated, please visit the scheme page for further details: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...

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The Trust would like to give applicants and reviewers as much notice as possible of several changes to the Research Project Grant scheme as we move to a new system in 2026. Read now: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/importa...

Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Researchers have generally assumed that listeners perceive speech compositionally, based on the combined processing of local acoustic–phonetic cues associated with individual linguistic units. Yet, th...

Officially out! "Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech" S.E Kim, B. R. Chernyak, @keshet.bsky.social, me, & A. Bradlow link.springer.com/article/10.3.... BONUS: free online similarity calculator so you can join in the fun! 1/

Killing 'delve': We analysed 4,800+ student-authored reports across a decade to uncover how ChatGPT is shaping undergrad writing—style, sentiment, and quality. 📉📈
GenAI isn't just a tool. It's a co-author.
📝 #Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

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Open to senior researchers who have retired or partially retired from an academic post, the Trust's Emeritus Fellowships support academics to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication. Here are some of our recently funded Emeritus Fellows 👇

Why Are Kids So Funny? The emergence of humor so early in life suggests something important about human nature.

Is humour serious enough for science? Fabulous @newyorker.com article on the insights gained from research by Elena Hoicka & orhers on the development of humour 👶🧪 #cogsci #psychscisky #devpsysky #earlyyears #infantstudies
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ESCoP 2025 starts tomorrow with Pre-Conference Satellite Events and Workshops.
See you there 🙂
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GCSE Results Day 2025: Spanish surpasses French in popularity among students in historic first for language studies New GCSE data shows that Spanish has overtaken French for the first time as the most popular language choice among students, following a sustained rise in entries of nearly 25% since 2020.

It’s GCSE results day: new data shows Spanish has overtaken French in popularity for the first time in history, while German uptake continues to decline.

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A bivariate change model with structured residuals

A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
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Today I had the idea to test LLMs on problems from the UK show Only Connect. Ofc, it turned out another group had already done it (@babaktaati.bsky.social‬)!

tl;dr: LLMs were pretty shit at the Connecting Wall and were often fooled by red herring distractors.
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