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SNSF Ambizione Reseach Group Leader @ISLE @University of Zurich Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Neuromodulation & Speech, Attention & Hearing, Aphasia & Gestures www.isle.uzh.ch/en/ENL/ambizione-pr…

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Neural Dynamics Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich @ndlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our review on language networks and neuromodulation is finally out! 🎉 We propose the Interacting Language Network (ILN), arguing that neuromodulation for language disorders should target distributed networks rather than isolated regions. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Jonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
11/ This study was pre-registered on osf.io/d7wgm/overview (@cos.io) before data collection and analysis
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
10/ This work was conducted at the Linguistic Research Infrastructure @isle-uzh.bsky.social and was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation @snsf.ch. data.snf.ch/grants/grant...
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Exploiting the potential of neural attentional control to overcome hearing impairment
Hearing loss and associated conditions such as tinnitus are the fourth highest cause of disability worldwide (Cunningham & Tucci, 2017; World Healt...
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
9/ These findings challenge the idea that parieto-occipital alpha lateralization is a universal crossmodal spatial gate, and raise questions about the functional specificity of alpha-based neurofeedback. 🔬
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
8/ Instead, neurofeedback responders showed systematic shifts in gaze behavior in the direction of training. 👀
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
7/ However, we found neither an online nor an offline effect of alpha lateralization changes on spatial auditory attention.
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
6/ The majority of participants successfully shifted their alpha activity in the trained direction. ✅
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
5/ During training, we probed auditory attention using evoked responses to tones from different directions. Before and after training, we assessed task-based and resting-state alpha lateralization.
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
4/ We used neurofeedback to train participants to shift their alpha lateralization toward either hemisphere. A spaceship accelerated when participants shifted alpha in the trained direction — giving real-time feedback on their brain state. 🚀
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
3/ Alpha lateralization shifts during spatial attention have been reported across modalities — but its functional importance has mainly been established in the visual domain. see work by @gregorthut.bsky.social or Yasaman Bagherzadeh
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
2/ @olejensen.bsky.social & Mazaheri (2010) proposed that alpha oscillations act as gating mechanisms, suppressing task-irrelevant regions to direct information flow toward task-relevant areas. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Frontiers | Shaping Functional Architecture by Oscillatory Alpha Activity: Gating by Inhibition
In order to understand the working brain as a network, it is essential to identify the mechanisms by which information is gated between regions. We here prop...
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
1/ Does parieto-occipital alpha lateralization play a functional role in auditory attention? In our new neurofeedback study, led by @felixstockar.bsky.social together with @neuromeditate.bsky.social , we investigated exactly this. 🧠🧵
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
LLRX republished the blogpost www.llrx.com/2025/08/ai-s...
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge – LLRX
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds - Fonds National Suisse @snf-fns.ch · 05/08/2025
Ausschreibung Ambizione: Unterstützt Nachwuchsforschende, die selbstständig ein Projekt durchführen und leiten möchten. Eingabefrist: 04.11.2025. Sie möchten mehr erfahren? Nehmen Sie an unserer Online-Infoveranstaltung vom 14.08.2025 teil! ➡️ buff.ly/JjOJSXk
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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it? In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
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Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...
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Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
‼️ PhD opportunity: join a vibrant community working on language evolution @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social please spread widely www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...
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NeuroTMA Lab @neurotma.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
❗Job Alert❗Open positions in the Petrovici lab @unibe.ch to develop an accelerator for the simulation of cortical models of processing and learning! PhD offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS... Postdoc offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS... Please repost & share widely! 🧠💻🤖
View of the city of Bern and the bernese Alps, Switzerland
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Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🚨Job alert🚨 We’re recruiting for another PhD position at MaCSBio @macsbio.bsky.social, focused on computational neuroscience. Come work on brain, sound, and computational models, co-supervised by myself and Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 18 May 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdhtwuzs
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PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Paola Cerrito, who is starting her own Hominin Evolution Group at the University of Zürich, has just opened a great PhD position. Fantastic opportunity for someone interested in human life history evolution. I am lucky to collaborate with Paola. She is a terrific scholar @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
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Department of Evolutionary Anthropology | Department of Evolutionary Anthropology | UZH
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
what do you have in mind? something like this? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31067965/ I could send you the code if you wish.
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Hemispheric specializations affect interhemispheric speech sound integration during duplex perception - PubMed
The present study investigated whether speech-related spectral information benefits from initially predominant right or left hemisphere processing. Normal hearing individuals categorized speech sounds...
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thoughtful and generative piece on lateralization by @basilpreisig.bsky.social and Martin Meyer. An important perspective on issues that remain complex. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
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Emma Holmes @emmaholmes90.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]
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Divisional Vacancies
Job Vacancies in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
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Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Fantastic job opportunity: Join our community of researchers spanning the natural, social, and cognitive sciences in studying the evolution of language in all its dimensions!
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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language! More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: Data Science Consultant (specialized in statistics)
Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Or listen to the AI-generated podcast based on the article: 🎧 notebooklm.google.com/notebook/c48... /13
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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... right-lateralized spectral >left-lateralized temporal; Stronger lateralization for speech; top-down processes drive/amplify lateralized speech processing
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
POST-DOC CALL! 2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain. Deadline May, 20, 2025 www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Many thanks to @bnmorillon.bsky.social and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments and suggestions, and to the @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social for funding. 12/12
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We illustrate that these top-down processes rely on left-lateralized sensorimotor networks und we ask what differentiates sensorimotor networks in the left from those in the right hemisphere 11/12
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In this article, we review studies suggesting that predictive speech processing and dimension-selective attention enhance lateralization. 10/12
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We believe that pronounced lateralization in speech processing arises because interpreting speech sounds engages a more complex, interconnected network than processing simple sounds—one that uses top-down mechanisms to actively shape input. 9/12
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Interestingly, when training leads us to interpret an acoustic signal as speech—like in studies with sine wave speech—brain response patterns become more lateralized. See for example Meyer et al. (2005): 🔗 journals.lww.com/neuroreport/... 8/12
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Spectro-temporal processing during speech perception... : NeuroReport
l results revealed a difference in the processing mode; spectro-temporal integration occurred during speech perception, but not when stimuli were perceived as nonspeech. In terms of neuroimaging, we o...
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In fact, Coull & Nobre (1998) showed that spatial attention activates a right-lateralized frontoparietal network, while temporal attention—possibly more relevant for speech—engages a left-lateralized network. 🔗 www.jneurosci.org/content/18/1...
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Where and When to Pay Attention: The Neural Systems for Directing Attention to Spatial Locations and to Time Intervals as Revealed by Both PET and fMRI
Although attention is distributed across time as well as space, the temporal allocation of attention has been less well researched than its spatial counterpart. A temporal analog of the covert spatial...
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Still, it’s striking in neurorehabilitation clinics that left-hemisphere MCA strokes often lead to aphasia, while right-sided strokes lead to spatial hemineglect. This made me wonder long ago whether there’s a link between attention functions and language processing in the left hemisphere. 6/12
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
McGettigan & Scott argued that lateralization relates more to linguistic processing, especially for speech(-like) stimuli. Evidence for fast temporal lateralization is limited (see Oderbolz et al.) 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cortical asymmetries in speech perception: what's wrong, what's right and what's left?
Over the past 30 years hemispheric asymmetries in speech perception have been construed within a domain-general framework, according to which preferen…
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Therefore, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social (2003) and Zatorre & Belin (2001) proposed that the hemispheres are differently specialized: 🧠 Right processes slow temporal & fine spectral cues, 🧠 Left handles faster temporal info. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔗 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
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The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as ‘asymmetric sampling in time’
The ‘asymmetric sampling in time’ (AST) hypothesis developed here provides a framework for understanding a range of psychophysical and neuropsychologi…
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The lateralization of speech and language is a hallmark of functional brain specialization. However, thanks to imaging techniques, we now know that auditory speech processing occurs in both hemispheres. 🔗 See Binder et al. (2000): doi.org/10.1093/cerc... 3/12
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Human Temporal Lobe Activation by Speech and Nonspeech Sounds
Abstract. Functional organization of the lateral temporal cortex in humans is not well understood. We recorded blood oxygenation signals from the temporal
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Did you know the Dax family, not Broca, first provided evidence for language lateralization? Max & Gustave Dax found aphasia occurred mostly in patients with right-sided hemiplegia. 🔗 More (see Level, 2013): pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... 2/12
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread 🧵 1/12
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
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Philippe Domenech @philippedomenech.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Tenured-research position opened here in Paris : A great opportunity to leverage the full potential of the new 11.7T MRI scanner at Neurospin @inserm.fr @cea.fr @unicog.bsky.social 🧠🟦 / 🧠🤖 / 🧠🩺 #AcademicSky
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Moritz M. Daum @moritzdaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🦄 #BRAINFAIR! Diskussionsforum zum Thema „Sprachen lernen“ mit @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social, @Silvia Brem und mir. 📅 Mittwoch, 12. März 2025 ⏰ 18:30 – 20:00 Uhr 📍 Grosser Hörsaal NORD 1, D 304 (Universitätsspital Zürich, Frauenklinikstrasse 10) Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Rubina Meixger.
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Team @devcogneuroscience.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚀 PhD Position Opportunity in Child Brain Development Research 🧠 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join the exciting ChildBrainCircuits+ project, part of the URPP Adaptive Brain Circuits in Development and Learning (AdaBD) at the University of Zurich. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
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UZH: PhD-Stelle im Universitären Forschungsschwerpunkt «Adaptive Brain Circuits during Learning and Development: AdaBD»
Zu vergeben ist eine Doktorand*innenstelle als Teil des Projektes ChildBrainCircuits+ (CBC+) des universitären Forschungsschwerpunktes (UFSP) AdaBD. Das Projekt wird unter der Leitung von Prof. S. Bre...
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Volker Dellwo @volkerdellwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We have to PhD positions in Voice Communication Sciences (VoCS) vailble right now. Deadline for applications is mid March. Contact me if you want to discuss your application.
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TNM-Lab @tnm-lab.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
📢 Stellenausschreibung im TNM-Lab: Qualifizierungsstelle (65%) mit Promotionsziel im SFB/TRR 393 an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Forschung zu affektiven Störungen mit modernster Ausstattung (MRT, EEG). Bewerbungsfrist: 02.02.2025. stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/f...
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Qualifizierungsstelle mit dem Ziel der Promotion
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Basil Preisig @basilpreisig.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Dear cognitive neuroscientists of speech and language, do you know a recent book chaptre in English or German that you would recommend that includes the very basics about the state-of-the-art in our field as basis literature for a 2h lecture for bachelor students in psychology?
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Brielle Stark, PhD {she} @briellestark.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
It's growing! go.bsky.app/PW5JHmQ
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thank you to Prof Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social for taking this important stand 👇 “Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Reposting here ICYMI on X. Just published (OA). My "coordination conjecture" proposal for why humans can move to a beat. Spoiler: it's a by-product of the computational demands for coordinating speech. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The “coordination conjecture” as an alternative to Patel’s fortuitous enhancement hypothesis for the relation between vocal learning and beat-based dancing - BMC Neuroscience
Patel proposes a viable hypothesis regarding the relation between vocal learning and beat-based dancing but it is not without problems. I highlight these problems and propose a solution, the “coordina...
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