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Hot off the press: cell.com/current-biolog…. Really enjoyed writing this Dispatch with @SimonWTownsend for @CurrentBiology, on the recent paper by Boros et al. on canine statistical learning of speech segmentation cues @NCCR_Language @ZNZNeuroscience @UZH_en

@SimonWTownsend @PLOSBiology @NCCR_Language @UZH_Science Delighted to see our thoughts in print!

How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? In our new @PLOSBiology paper @NeuroSLAMlab and I suggest the uterine environment might represent a small but significant piece of the language evolution puzzle! @NCCR_Language @UZH_Science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Neurolinguistics at the University of Zurich is hiring! Looking for talented and passionate post-docs with solid MEG experience. One for a cross-linguistic project on combinatorial processing, a second with a more flexible remit. 3-4 years, flexible starting dates. Get in touch!

Non-#WEIRD science is essential to help adjust the scientific record by probing whether canonical results are truly generalisable. culturalcogsci.org

These results highlight importance of considering the role of writing in brain changes linked to the development of literacy as well as the potential impact of the script itself.

Literacy promotes the development of a functional link between handwriting and phonological processing. Paper out now #JNeurosci @SfNJournals invites us to consider the role of learning to write in tuning speech processing. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.… w/@falk_huettig @DrUttambrainlab

#JNeurosci: Hervais-Adelman et al. @UZH_ch found literate individuals, not illiterate individuals, exhibit a functional link between speech sound processing & handwriting, showing learning to write may influence how literate brains represent speech sounds. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

Great work from @SGruninger, defending the future of human research in CH #TMVI #TVI #abst22 #chvote #AMA #Tierversuche #Menschenversuche #Tierversuchsverbot #Forschungsverbot #Medizinverbot #Humanforschung #Wissenschaft #Forschung #SciComm #Tierversuchsinitiative #TVINein

#abst22 #chvote #vot22 Switzerland votes on a proposal to ban all human and animal experimentation. Proud to contribute to @reat_ch campaign against a measure that prevents vital research to help support individuals living with hearing impairment #EnSavoirPlus #TMWI #AMA #SciComm

🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 We show that the perceptual report of syllables arises in higher-order non-auditory cortical areas. w/ Lars Riecke @NeuroSLAMlab Thread ⬇️1/6

How does an infant develop an accent in utero? Thanks to an @snsf_ch project grant @Neuroslamlab, @UZH_en will be using in utero neuroimaging to look into this over the next three years, in collaboration with @AndrasJakabMD, @VolkerDellwo and Prof. Kathleen Wermke

Such a pleasure to be a part of this research!

How does literacy affect brain responses to speech? Being able to read Devanagari does not result in enhanced auditory cortical responses to speech. Time to reconsider conclusions drawn on the basis of alphabetic literacy? with @falk_huettig et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does literacy affect speech processing? Not by enhancing cortical responses to speech, but by promoting connectivity of acoustic-phonetic and graphomotor cortices. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does your brain keep your ears in synch? Answers in a new brain-stimulation fMRI paper by @BasilPreisig @anne_kosem @benjamin_kop et al. @NeuroSLAMlab @UZH_en out in PNAS today: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Collaboration with @MPI_NL @DondersInst #CRNL @snsf_ch