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End of an era! Celebrating the NBL Grand Finale 🎉🎆🍾✨❣️

New open PhD position in my lab at the Donders Institute ! We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in the computational underpinnings of body augmentation and embodiment. Deadline: 14 February, 2024 Link: ru.nl/en/working-at/…

Can gestures be used for prediction? Check out our paper (with @marlijnterbekke + Judith Holler) below - and excited that more work is on the way soon! :)

Now out in Cognitive Science (w/ @marlijnterbekke and Judith Holler): hand gestures have predictive potential, and typically start before their lexical affiliates! Read it here below!

Gestures speed up responses to questions. New paper by @marlijnterbekke , lindadrijvers.bskyapp.social & Judith Holler doi.org/10.1080/232737…

Another great paper led by @marlijnterbekke! Gestures speed up responses to questions 🫴🤌👌, check it out here!

New paper together with Miguel Rubianes et al on the effect of subliminal processing of facial information on syntactic processing! And more coming soon! 😁

New preprint w/ Cecilia Husta and Antje Meyer: we used RIFT to study the attentional distribution between speech planning and comprehension. Read the exciting results here! Communicative Brain lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Come do a paid internship with us - apply below!

How do the #autistic and neurotypical brains 🧠 integrate audio and visual speech information? 📢Check out our new preprints: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… (autism) doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… (paradigm validation) W/ Multisensory Research Group (MRG) Mireia Torralba Sotaro Kita #autism #multisensory #preprint

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When Abstract Becomes Concrete: Naturalistic Encoding of Concepts in the Brain 🎞️👀💬🧠: Yet more reasons to consider context, dynamics, & the whole brain in our understanding of the neurobiology of language. Amazing & beautiful work Viktor Kewenig. 👏🥂 elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Come work with us! ru.nl/en/working-at/…

I can only recommend working with Judith! Apply to this interesting post-doc below!

Autistic individuals benefit from gestures during degraded speech comprehension. Recently published paper by Sara Mazzini , Noor Seijdel & lindadrijvers.bskyapp.social doi.org/10.1177/136236…

More positions with Judith, don't miss this great opportunity!

🗣️Language is widely distributed throughout the brain🧠 In a recent correspondence in Nature Rev Neurosci, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. nature.com/articles/s4158…

An example is depicted in this simulation. 👇 Dynamic 'language region' activity (brains🔴) and connectivity (circle graphs🔴) between regions and with 'peripheral' brain regions (🔵,🟢), at different times. These are averaged and thresholded. Behold, 'the language network'.🪄🎩

This is is a concern not just for language, but for much of cognitive neuroscience. And this is not the only issue that lindadrijvers.bskyapp.social, Steven Small: @slsmall.bsky.social, and I have with claiming that 'the language network' is a 'natural kind'. 🖱️to find more qualms: nature.com/articles/s4158…