Dr. Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado

We are pleased to welcome the following keynote speakers to WoProc 2026 in Lisbon:

– Davide Crepaldi (University of Pavia, Italy) @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social

– Jana Reifegerste (Georgetown University, USA)

www.woproc2026.com
Abstract submission by 14 Feb, final deadline 📢

We will also hold ...

Eye movements are guided by morphological complexity in traditional Mongolian reading - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Current research on eye movements in reading has reached a commonly accepted consensus that eye guidance—specifically, the locations of fixations within words—is determined exclusively by low-level vi...

Cool study with the Mongolian language (traditional Mongolian script): link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Yan, M., Min, A., Bao, Y. B., & Kuperman, V. (2026). Eye movements are guided by morphological complexity in traditional Mongolian reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33(1), 4.

Stages in lexical decision: frequency attenuation in masked repetition priming is insensitive to prime duration This study investigates the controversial Frequency Attenuation Effect (FAE), examining whether masked repetition priming is sensitive to word frequency. Early findings suggesting no interaction ha...

📢 NEW PAPER OUT! We show that the masked frequency attenuation effect is real, but its magnitude is insensitive to prime duration. This strongly supports a two-stage model of word recognition.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Psycholinguistics #CognitiveScience #WordRecognition #NYU #NYUAD

Brilliant eye-tracking study on statistics/structure 👀

"We conclude that linguistic knowledge guides moment-by-moment reading in two dissociable ways: Forward reading is driven by the word’s surprisal, and backward reading reflects syntactic structure building operations."

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Predictions of generative grammar for neuroscience It is a common, and very reasonable question to ask what the predictions of the Minimalist Program would be concerning what would happen if the core language system (in the brain) was disabled (see…

A brief blog about what kind of predictions for neuroscience are possible (in principle) to be provided by theoretical linguistics.

elliot-murphy.com/2025/11/27/p...

🚨New preprint with @kathyrastle.bsky.social

We quantified how linguistically and typologically diverse the morphological processing and learning literature is. We also discussed how the heavy focus on English morphology limits theoretical progress.

Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Join us for our next seminar! We're excited to host Hsieh Cheng-Yu (University of London)

He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency

🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw

Our first #appliedlinguistics lunchtime seminar @education.ox.ac.uk is on 21st Oct, 1-2pm, with @dkcayado.bsky.social talking to us about morphology in Tagalog. Join us in person or online! Details ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...

I will be giving a talk at Oxford (@education.ox.ac.uk) on the 21st of October! Very excited! Drop by if you’re in the area.

www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Our paper is finally out online! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#linguistics

I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

YouTube video by Mbs Vector Space Lab The Computational Approach to Morphological Productivity | Harald Baayen at Bicocca

For those who couldn't attend, the recording of Prof. Harald Baayen's seminar on morphological productivity and the Discriminative Lexicon Model is now available on our YouTube channel.

Watch the full presentation here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7G...

The portals for the next EPS scientific meeting (University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026) are now open!

The portals for this meeting opened on Monday 8th September at 10am (UK time) and will remain open for at least 24 hours.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

eps.ac.uk/submit-an-ab...

At-a-glance processing of syntactic dependencies in minimal DANISH two-word sentences by @simonekrogh.bsky.social!
Sentence-superiority and dependency effects emerge in fronto-temporal cortex from ~230ms.

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: University College London. 7th – 9th January 2026. This meeting will include the 54th EPS Bartlett Prize Lecture by Matthew Botvinick (with an accompanying symposium organised by Patri…

The next EPS scientific meeting will be held at University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026.

The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)!

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Breaking down prefixed words is unaffected by morphological boundary opacity: Evidence from behavioral and MEG experiments - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Previous experiments support an initial stage of early, form-based visual word recognition, where morphologically complex words like adorable are segmented into morphemes {adore}+{-able}, despite an o...

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New paper out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (open access)!

Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀

Link ⬇️

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

WoProc 2026 | 13th International Word Processing Conference Join WoProc 2026, the 13th International Word Processing Conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, from 6–8 July 2026.

SAVE THE DATE! Join us in Lisbon next year for the International Word Processing Conference (6–8 July 2026)!

WoProc continues the legacy of MoProc―a conference that, since 1999, has brought together researchers working on morphological processing.
www.woproc2026.com

Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...

Thank you!

My 2nd MEG paper just got accepted for publication at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🕺🏻

Using Tagalog as a test-case, we show that the brain can break down complex words into morphemes, despite obscured/opaque morphological boundaries.

Can’t wait to share this paper.

Congratulations, Dr. Lai! @marcochlai.bsky.social

New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social

The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠

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Had an amazing time talking about my work on visual word recognition and Tagalog morphology @exppsychsoc.bsky.social! 🧠🔤🔡 Thanks to everyone who attended my talk. 🫶🏻

How single-neuron computation matters for cognitive neuroscience

Lau, E. (2025). How single-neuron computation matters for cognitive neuroscience. JoCN Forum. jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/vhhe4nh9

Latest updates on the neural basis of invariant letter position coding in the brain

But we can do something! If you also work on language processing or first language acquisition focussing on cross-linguistic variation, then submit an abstract to *Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025* #X_PPL2025!

Call for abstracts: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/X...