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Brian Wong

@brianwwl.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ University of Iowa. Interested in language processing, especially speech perception.

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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Editing is hard, and editors shape how peer review works. Reviewer Zero is recruiting the 4th cohort of our Editor Learning Community: five 1-hour meetings with editors working to make review better. Interested in 2026 or later? forms.gle/Cu6aJs3kGvYo... Please share with your networks!
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Editor Learning Community with Reviewer Zero
Join Reviewer Zero for a learning community to support editors who are interested in improving psychology and neuroscience by including a broader range of people, topics, and methods. Our goal is to c...
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm extremely excited that @brianwwl.bsky.social has started his postdoctoral researcher position in my lab. Dr. Wong will bring his expertise to our behavioral and EEG experiments. After some challenging two years (and feeling like the squirrel below), I'm grateful for my community.
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Do you work with production data? We have some updates for you. My students and I developed a tool that was accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods. The tool is called: TAPA (Toolkit for Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis). Yes, the name is influenced by the tapas tradition. #speechscience
Illustration of a tapas table set with small plates of food, one labeled /tapa/. The image is created by Adriana Ojeda. Text reads: TAPA, Toolkit for Acoustic Phonetic Analysis. Runs on your local machine. Open source, free.
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🎓 We have two new PhDs in #BCBL! Jiaqi Mao and Wai Leung Wong have successfully defended their PhD thesis. Congratulations! 🤩
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If you're in Lisbon for @eurosla.bsky.social go see @brianwwl.bsky.social 's poster tomorrow morning: 490 - Beyond Frequency: Age-Dependent Sensitivity to Neighbourhood Density and Phonological Distinctiveness in L2 Vocabulary Learning and Lexical Access
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Brian Wong @brianwwl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📣 New paper in Scientific Reports Does speech perception consistency help us process spoken words more efficiently? With @effiekapnoula.bsky.social and Arthur Samuel, we found that consistency facilitates early lexical activation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Speech perception consistency facilitates initial lexical activation, but not speech perception flexibility - Scientific Reports
Speech perception consistency refers to the similarity between a listener’s responses to repeated presentations of the same speech sound (e.g., along a /ba/–/pa/ continuum). Although research has demo...
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Brian Wong @brianwwl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
📢 New paper in Neuropsychologia Do children with dyslexia show differences in neural adaptation or MMN? In an EEG roving paradigm, we found no clear differences between children with and without dyslexia. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Brian Wong @brianwwl.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢 New paper in JEP:HPP Speech perception gradiency (sensitivity to fine-grained phonetic detail) has been shown to enhance speech perception flexibility (recovery from misleading information) in L1 English. But does it play the same role in L2? doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... @bcbl.bsky.social
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Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders (ENDD) @enddbcbl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📖5th #iWORDD this October: 2 days of reading & dyslexia research, 1 on real-world impact! Join our outstanding keynote line-up + share your work here by April 15: shorturl.at/lSlBI @jyeatman.bsky.social @gaablab.bsky.social @drmluciano.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social @cassandrapw.bsky.social
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Olaf Dimigen @olaf.dimigen.de · 17/11/2025
Happy to be a collaborator on this new work by first-author Xin Huang from Urs Maurer's lab. In two combined eye-tracking/EEG experiments, we asked whether rapidly processed magnocellular (M-pathway) information in parafoveal vision plays a special role for word recognition in natural reading. (1/2)
The figure shows exemplary stimuli in experiments 1 and 2, that were biased for M- vs. P-pathway processing by spatial filtering (exp 1) or by isoluminance (exp 2).
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Brian Wong @brianwwl.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’m at #Psychonomics in Denver! Come by my poster (I-102) on distributional learning effects in bilingual speech perception! #psynom25
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent
A critical aspect of spoken language development is learning to categorize the sounds of the child's language(s). This process was thought to develop early during infancy to set the stage for the la...
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions: 👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis) 👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze 👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6 Please share ☺️
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SPONSORSHIP FOR JUAN DE LA CIERVA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - SPOKEN LANGUAGE GROUP (E.K)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢PhD fellowships The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships Potential PhD projects can be related to: 🗣️Speech perception 🧠Language learning ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3 📆Deadline: October 30
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SPONSORPSHIP for INPHINIT PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - SPOKEN LANGUAGE GROUP
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
[2/2] They will present their scientific work in the oral session programme of the biennial conference organised by @escop.bsky.social .  Do not miss the full programme here 👇 www.escop2025.com/_files/ugd/0a7b35…
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
[1/2] 🔜 #BCBL researchers @brianwwl.bsky.social , Silvia Yang, @effiekapnoula.bsky.social  and Hadeel Ershaid have a prominent presence this week at #ESCOP2025 in #Sheffield.
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In this study, we found that images provide a more salient modality (compared to orthography) for L2 learning - e.g., testing vocabulary in a different modality than that used in training led to a disadvantage, but not when trained with images! Such a great project and such a fun collaboration! 😀
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
📢PhD fellowships in the Basque Country (Spain) The Spoken Language group at BCBL (Spain) aims to sponsor a Basque Govt. predoctoral fellow in the upcoming call Info about the group: www.bcbl.eu/en/research/... Info about the position and application process: shorturl.at/i3lhi
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Phonetic Variability Leads to Gradient Speech Perception: osf.io/486gm
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Please share with your networks that the 2nd ROLE Symposium will be held online on May 19th. More information is coming soon www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r... You can submit your abstracts by April 14th through this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children
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