Political scientist @carolinaplescia.bsky.social explains the alarming results of the #Democracy Report 2026, especially the rapid #democratic backsliding of the US. With stronger electoral institutions, societal protests and most importantly, early action, there is hope for re-democratisation. 🏛️
At the OEGP conference in Salzburg presenting our consensus based guidelines for reading research and the progress of the german lexicon project that applies the guidelines. Nice to be back at my Alma mater!
We're excited to announce today's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Daria Kostanian, will talk about "Development of coarse- and orientation-tuning for native letters in children" (Paper link: tinyurl.com/28fb4z89)
TODAY!! 24-3-2026, 11-12 am (CET)
Zoom link👇
tinyurl.com/3m9rfuyx
Political scientist Carolina Plescia at the University of Vienna explains the alarming results of the Democracy Report 2026, especially the rapid democratic backsliding of the United States. With stro...
To examine the processes contributing to reading, we investigated neurophysiological letter coding in typically developing children (3.6–9.3 years) us…
Beautiful example showing that (neuro)-cognitive models can work super well simulating behavior, better than computer vision models, and at the same time allow understanding the underlying mechanisms. Great work by Janos, PhD student in my Lab.
Universität Wien / University of Vienna
Benjamin Gagl
German Word Nerd Network
Such a mess …
We recently posted an extensive update to the *Differences in orthographic processing across species identified by a transparent computational model* preprint with more pigeon data. Also, more extensive analysis and simulation work.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Awesome overview of open-access resources for anyone looking to create beautiful scientific figures and illustrations! 👇
Benjamin Gagl
Happy to share that my recent paper with @benjamingagl.bsky.social "Understanding the Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms of Orthographic Learning in Humans and Baboons" is now published in Springer Nature: Computational Brain and Behavior (link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
📖 🔎 Teilnehmer:innen für eine Lese-Trainingsstudie gesucht !
In der Abteilung für Selbstlernende Systeme der Universität zu Köln führen wir aktuell eine Trainingsstudie durch, mit dem Ziel, die Lesef...
Happy to share that my recent paper with @benjamingagl.bsky.social "Understanding the Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms of Orthographic Learning in Humans and Baboons" is now published in Springer Nature: Computational Brain and Behavior (link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
Benjamin Gagl
Computational Brain & Behavior - Script is a fundamental cultural technology for preserving and communicating thought. Mastering literacy is thus essential for accessing these thoughts and...
🚨 New Preprint Alert 🚨Non-Human Recognition of Orthography: How is it implemented and how does it differ from Human orthographic processing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Combining behavioral data from Humans/Baboons/Pigeons with a computational model for neuro-cognitive phenotyping.
Computational Brain & Behavior - Script is a fundamental cultural technology for preserving and communicating thought. Mastering literacy is thus essential for accessing these thoughts and...
First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5
Sadly, not an April Fool & also not surprising. “An analysis conducted by @nature.com in collaboration with Grounded AI suggests that at least tens of thousands of 2025 publications, including journal papers, books, & conference proceedings, probably contain invalid references generated by AI.” 🧪
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Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
