Congratulations to Anna Persson (www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-p...) and Maria Lialiou
@marialialiou.bsky.social on their outstanding theses, now awarded the 2025 PhD Thesis Award of the International Phonetic Association. Well deserved!
Now out in @elife.bsky.social: exogenous attentional gains in the fovea are modulated by spatial frequency, similar to extra-foveal gains elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... This collab w/ Yue Guzhang & Martina Poletti @aplabur.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social was extra fun. I learned a ton!
OSF with all stimuli, data, & code as well as detailed supplementary information: osf.io/2asgw/overview. Linked Github repo: github.com/hlplab/Causa...
On top of the analyses reported in the paper, we conducted fully Bayesian analyses of trial-level behavior using a multilevel psychometric model to combine the data from all subjects (using @paulbuerkner.com 's R library brms). Ping me if interested in the code! I think this approach is the future.
Congrats to @brainnotonyet.bsky.social alumni Shawn Cummings, @gekagrob.bsky.social & Menghan Yan. Out in JEP:LMC @apajournals.bsky.social: listeners compensate perception of spectral (acoustic) cues based on visually-evident consequences of a pen in mouth of the speaker! dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
Very cool new accent-relatedness visualization, examples, and some insightful observations accent-explorer.boldvoice.com
Looking for researchers in computational neuroscience and cognition (incl. language, learning, development, decision-making) to join our faculty!
Review starts 11/1: Asst. prof. (tenure track), human cognition, Brain and CogSci, U Rochester www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac...
New R library STM github.com/santiagobarr... by Santiago Barreda that implements Nearey & Assmann's PST model of vowel perception, and a fully Bayesian extension (the BSTM). Easy to use and to apply to your data. It's also what we used in our recent paper www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...