Efthymia Kapnoula

📖5th #iWORDD this October: 2 days of reading & dyslexia research, 1 on real-world impact!

Join our outstanding keynote line-up + share your work here by April 15: shorturl.at/lSlBI

@jyeatman.bsky.social @gaablab.bsky.social @drmluciano.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social @cassandrapw.bsky.social

Research Assistant/PhD Candidate (f/m/d) Cognitive psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

The title od the project is “Bilingual flexibility: The impact of dispositional and situational language balance on bilinguals’ word learning of a third language”.
Application deadline: 20 March 2026

Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) are now open!

Preregistration deadline: March 27th

Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit...

[1/2] 🧠 Did you know that #BCBL offers a master’s degree in #CognitiveNeuroscience of #Language?

The full program is in English and it is aimed at graduates in #psychology, #neuroscience and #linguistics.

Info in English here: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit...

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠
Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL.

More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n

📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) will be open from March 2nd until March 27th!

Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit...

#neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master

Real-Time Spoken Word Recognition in Adults With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Early Language Skills Purpose: This study aims to address the critical gap in research on real-time language processing in adults with developmental language disorder ...

Do adults with DLD continue to exhibit differences in the dynamics of spoken word recognition observed in childhood or do they resolve by adulthood? This #JSLHR study aims to address a gap in research on real-time language processing.

https://on.asha.org/3MtGgpM #DevLangDis

📣 The call for individual papers for the #StatLearnBCBL is open! 📣

The conference will discuss statistical learning and its underlying mechanisms from behaviour to neuroscience, across various domains.

📆 June 10-12, 2026
✍🏼 Submission deadline: 01/03/2026

+info ⬇️

www.bcbl.eu/events/stati...

📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences

Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

🗣️ We have invited Hans Rutger Bosker, head from the SPEAC lab at the Donders Institute of Radboud University, to speak about how the timing of simple gestures guides word recognition, vowel perception, and speech segmentation.

Discover more about it here👇

www.bcbl.eu/es/noticias/...

Congrats from here too!! We are thrilled to have you join the team, Giulio! 😊

A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.

Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!

This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!

elifesciences.org/articles/99931

Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language Essentialist categorizations of language users, such as native speaker, are widely used but lack empirical validity and reinforce social inequities. T…

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paradigm and behaviour. Left: Stimuli. Sixty word pairs were created (e.g., sea-tea) where words within a pair sounded similar and could each be associated with one of six semantic contexts (e.g., sea-tea corresponding to nature-food). To decrease clarity and to induce ambiguity, words were slightly degraded to sound like a whisper and morphed into an intermediate acoustic signal between two words from two different contexts. Morphs were validated in a separate validation experiment (see Stimulus creation). Right: EEG part one with morphed words. Trials began with a fixation cross, followed by a visual speaker cue. Morphs were presented binaurally. Participants then indicated the word they had heard by button press. Finally, feedback was given in a speaker-specific manner such that each speaker could be associated with one specific semantic context. Faces were generated using FaceGen.

#Speech comprehension relies on prediction, but does the #brain prioritize expected or unexpected info? @fabianschneider.bsky.social & @helenblank.bsky.social show that sharpening of #SensoryRepresentations & #PredictionError processes co-exist at different levels @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/49kkNs0

Psychology folks! I'm trying to identify broad principles of Psychology that describe phenomena in multiple subdisciplines.

For example "Psychological phenomena have physiological correlates" or "Information processing is optimized for the training data."

Would be delighted for suggestions!

The #SpokenLanguage group @bcbl.bsky.social is at #psynom25! If you're around, come to Brian's poster today!

I am looking for a downloadable list of English transitive verbs. Anyone know of a good resource? #childLanguage #languagedisorders #languagetherapy

Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …

happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Statistical Learning 2026

Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference 2026
Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
10-12 June 2026

Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2026

Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent A critical aspect of spoken language development is learning to categorize the sounds of the child's language(s). This process was thought to develop early during infancy to set the stage for the la...

While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions:

👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis)
👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze
👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6

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The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

Interested in doing a #PhD in #SpeechPerception and/or #LanguageLearning in a top research center? @bcbl.bsky.social

If yes, there's still time to send me your materials!

The #SpokenLanguage group is one of the research groups offering sponsorship for this call! If you're interested, get in touch 😉

A newborn group at the @bcbl.bsky.social is looking for PhD candidates!

www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

We presented our #ManyTones project at the 2025 #BigTeamScience Conference. We talked about project background, pilot study, and challenges. The slides are available at chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/pr.... Feel free to check them out 👀

Doctoral INPhINIT fellowships - "la Caixa" Foundation - Fundación "la Caixa"

ℹ️Info about the fellowships: lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...

✉️Informal queries are welcome☺️