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Extracting multiple levels of information from continuous speech on-line: Yaqing Su et al. suggests in PLOS Biology a more interpretable, brain-centered approach to modelling #speech comprehension than what neural-net #language models like #GPT-2 do 👉journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

A great cultural/ling evo workshop day organized by Piera Filippi with invited speakers Anne Kandler and Dan Dediu for NCCR Evolving Language 😎

What a treat this symposium will be! See you in a few weeks!

New paper in Nature Communications 6 years in the making and led by the amazing @Mael_Lx Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees University of Zurich Swiss National Science Foundation ISLE NCCR Evolving Language nature.com/articles/s4146…

Tune in on June 1st on the SRF TV station to see the new episode of SRF 's Einstein about the past, present and future of language!

It was a great honour to be awarded the Silver "Young Talent" prize from the Swiss Academy of Humanities & Social Sciences (SAGW) yesterday, alongside my wonderful friends and co-authors Piera Filippi and Luca Gasparri 🧵 sagw.ch/sagw/aktuell/n…

Stuart K Watson, Piera Filippi (tous deux de Universität Zürich et NCCR Evolving Language ) et Luca Gasparri (Université de Lille , CNRS 🌍) remportent le #Prix de la Relève Argent pour leur #recherche fondamentale interdisciplinaire sur l’#évolution de l’arbitraire linguistique.➡️ tinyurl.com/dvytktk6

Our new paper "The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry" is out! A first thread to show you the results (in Spanish!) from @ArangoEpifania , who did a fantastic job for her PhD chapter 🤩 Brava Epi! 👏

🙌HUGE CONGRATS to department member Stuart Watson Stuart K Watson, Piera Filippi and Luca Gasparri for winning the prize of the Swiss Academy of Humanities & Social Sciences SAGW !!! So well deserved! 🙌 NCCR Evolving Language

Last week Piera Filippi, Luca Gasparri and I won an award from SAGW for our work exploring the evolutionary origins of linguistic arbitrariness. You can watch our brief interview about the work here: youtu.be/KBhbbRK2nvg

Our 'frog pants' on CNN! Although it's more of a 'panties' than 'pants.' Or, as my French colleagues call it: 'le string télémetrique.' Either way, it helps us track frogs in the rainforest! Thanks to RN Nouragues Station de recherche des Nouragues - LEEISA - CNRS FundaciónJocotoco Centro Jambatu for hosting our research!

Killer whales can teach us a thing or two about communication complexity... but only if we rise up to the challenge! #killerwhales Experiment We are crowdfunding in order to support the participation of motivated students in our expedition 🙏 --> experiment.com/projects/can-w…

Just off the press 🚨 we published a new eye tracking study in PNAS Nexus w/ Zanna Clay, Mariska Kret and Yena Kim investigating cross-modal perception of facial and bodily emotion expressions in chimpanzees and humans 1/4 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Our first ManyManys paper is out! 🤩 Very grateful to the whole team, and especially the leads Nicolás Alessandroni & Laurent Prétôt 🐡🐠🦈 for this nice collaboration! ✨️

Around 50 NCCR researchers, from all fields of research and career levels participated in the event, and could exchange about the meaning of "meaning" in their discipline as well as discuss about interdisciplinary projects.