Maxime Tulling
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@MaximeTulling
Assistant Professor Université de Montréal - psycho/neurolinguistics & first language acquisition
New study with @gellidog, Rashi Pant, and @mbedny1 on the neural basis of ‘visual’ concepts in congenitally blind individuals. Main takeaway: specialized neural responses to living things and light events emerge independent of vision. 1/ tinyurl.com/52htnzsb
Our new reveiw paper is published! Built to Adapt: Mechanisms of Cognitive Flexibility in the Human Brain annualreviews.org/content/journa… Great thanks to @mbedny1 for initiating this writing project, and @miriam_hauptman for major contribution to this article!
✨ Do current neural speech models show human-like linguistic biases in speech perception? We took inspiration from classic phonetic categorization experiments to explore whether & where sensitivity to phonotactic context emerges in Wav2Vec2 models 🔍 📑 arxiv.org/abs/2407.03005
The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.
Hamas terror is now bringing immense suffering to the Palestinian people. There is no contradiction in standing in solidarity with Israel and acting for the humanitarian needs of the Palestinians ↓ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Our new study on non-literal language comprehension (NLC) @ibandlank @ev_fedorenko. Which mechanisms does NLC rely on? A novel meta-analytic approach (74 fMRI studies) finds that linguistic & social cognition resources—not executive control—support NLC. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
