Language and Memory Aging Lab

🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 osf.io/preprints/psya… The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!

It's clear that many do not understand what @NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on NIH-funded research—that’s all 210 drugs. But what the public sees is just the tip of the iceberg. Pharma takes credit for the final product, but beneath each drug developed, there are ~20 years of basic research, and 90% of the cost is from basic research funded by the NIH, which discovers drug targets, understands disease mechanisms, and creates life-saving treatments. Figuring out how cancer evades the immune system, how addiction rewires the brain, and how heart disease develops is the role of the NIH, creating the foundation for the breakthrough drugs that come 20 years later, and the NIH does all that with only 0.8% of the US budget. Without NIH, there would be no cancer immunotherapy, no anti-overdose medication, no anti-heart attack or stroke medication, no cutting-edge treatments. If NIH funding is cut, the iceberg will melt. That means fewer cures, more suffering, and more lives lost. The science beneath the surface keeps us afloat. Invest in NIH. Invest in life

Welcome to the U, Jenna! We are thrilled that you'll be joining the team!!

🚨Pre-print alert! 🚨 New paper lead by Sara LoTemplio & Jack Silcox -- We examine single-trial relationships between error-related brain and pupil responses and their prediction of post-error behavior via simultaneous EEG-pupillometry. authorea.com/users/869767/a…

@jgeller_phd Assuming lpc to semantic violations, some evidence they are separable from Leckey and Federmeier: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30802979/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36539059/ We have some data (in prep) showing lpc eliciting semantic violations show a strong pupil dilation response while not for syntax-p6

Are LPC and P600 the same? Give me your best references/evidence they are not.

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My lab (Language, Aging, and Knowledge Electrophysiology--LAKELab) @UNLVPsychology is accepting applications for PhD students for Fall 2025! Apps due Dec. 1. Students can email me with questions. #AcademicTwitter @cogsci_soc @Psychonomic_Soc @CogNeuroNews @TheRealSPR

If you're in NYC for pnom, come check out what the LaMA lab has been up to on Friday and Saturday!

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 New paper lead by @17copeal We use co-registration of EEG and eye movements to examine how context processing unfolds across multiple fixations in natural reading. Our first full co-registration reading study. Check it out!! doi.org/10.22541/au.17…

The vocabulary of systems neuroscience may appear daunting to many. Here's a short dictionary of common terms. BTW if you use them in your papers and grants you will have greater success

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student (maybe even two!) to work in my lab in the Psychology Department here at SUNY Albany! The application deadline for the Cognitive Psychology PhD program for Fall 2025 is January 15th. Read more here: albany.edu/psychology/pro…

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I will review PhD applications for Fall 2025 admission to the Cognition & Neural Science program in Psychology at the U of Utah. Great fit students will be interested in children's & adults' attention and memory as they apply to the legal system. psych.utah.edu/graduate/index…

We are hiring in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Utah! 1 Asst Prof & 1 open-rank. Specialization is open but we are particularly interested in folks in visual cognition. Asst: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/167740 Open rank: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/168161

@drewjmclaughlin We looked at pupil (+ ERP) and RT relationships in an oddball paradigm pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33347634/ Also we report error related pupil dilation and post error slowing in a flanker paradigm pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37496438/

Does anyone know of any pupillometry papers that *simultaneously* collected reaction time (for whatever the task is)? I’m working with a student who has converse pupil+RT findings and I’m curious if this has cropped up in any other work 👀

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Lead by Sarah Woods, we show evidence of separable effects of background noise on frontal aperiodic activity and posterior alpha power during speech perception tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

As the semester begins, we are increasingly alarmed at the ramifications of the wave of new campus restrictions on speech & peaceful protest. ➡️indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-studen…

Immortal quote from the amazing geneticist Gerry Fink… “Just because it’s in Nature… … doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong!”

New paper by Akira Miyake, Shannon McKnight and myself. Our field has lacked systematic studies of the measurement properties of the N400 and P600 ERPs. We hope our results will provide valuable guidance for designing stronger (adequately powered) studies and interpreting data.

@joyoladokun Pedro The Lion-- June 18, 1976