Reposted by Clara FridmanBrandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Back on my bullsh 15893982131
Reposted by Clara FridmanAnna Gát @annagat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026"The truth is the more unique and personalized the books you read, the more original a thinker you will become." My new piece: The Sovereign Reader american-innocence.com/p/the-sovere...american-innocence.comThe Sovereign ReaderBuilding your "personal culture" in America, one book at a time. 063
Reposted by Clara Fridmanlanguagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...tedlab.mit.edu 212541
Reposted by Clara FridmanJamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 22/12/2025Paper alert! (1/2) We examined brain activation for each content word in a podcast relative to incrementally larger ngrams (1-word, 5-words, 10-words) that precede each word with a focus on semantic distance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comMeasuring brain sensitivity to semantic distance in spoken narrative comprehensionDiscourse comprehension requires simultaneous integration of local and global constituents. When hearing a narrative, for example, listeners must link… 33611
Reposted by Clara FridmanYevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025A short survey on research practices with eye-tracking data, especially in reading studies, as part of the OpenEye Project soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/ Deadline for participation: December 20soscisurvey.deQuestionnaire | page 1 011
Reposted by Clara FridmanSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu... 28804313
Reposted by Clara FridmanArturo Hernandez @draehernandez.bsky.social · 07/12/2025My new Psychology Today piece, “The Bilingual Brain: Translation as Adaptation,” was selected as an Essential Read. Grateful for the recognition — and for the chance to keep developing this idea of translation as a core human adaptation. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...psychologytoday.comThe Bilingual Brain: Translation as AdaptationBilingual brains reveal something fundamental about human intelligence. It's not about language. It's about domain translation, the cognitive capacity AI cannot replicate. 041
Reposted by Clara FridmanMatias Fernandez-Duque @matiasfduque.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Our chapter "Language-Dependent Memory in Bilingualism" is now published in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics! Excited to contribute to such a comprehensive collection of topics. doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20345 Full text here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 021
Reposted by Clara FridmanQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 05/12/2025In brain scans of around 1,400 people, the cognitive scientist Ev Fedorenko has identified a sort of digestive system for language. Fedorenko spoke with Quanta about the system’s workings and how they might be compared to an LLM or the digestive system. www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...quantamagazine.orgThe Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta MagazineIs language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LL... 04312
Reposted by Clara FridmanCenter for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025New #Eyetracking study: German morphological case in L1 speakers in Germany vs L1 speakers residing abroad #realtimeprocessing #L1attrition #multilingualism #bilingualism #langsky 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S014...doi.orgThe real-time processing of morphological case by German L1 speakers in Norway: A case of attrition? | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge CoreThe real-time processing of morphological case by German L1 speakers in Norway: A case of attrition? - Volume 46 021
Reposted by Clara FridmanDebra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Excited that this paper on biscriptality in L2 reading is out, which leverages ENRO data (meco-read.com/about-enro/). Led by doctoral student Naima Mansuri and co-authored w/ great trainees (@estehr.bsky.social, @antonioiniesta.bsky.social, and others not here). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgHow does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO) | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge CoreHow does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO) - Volume 46 053
Reposted by Clara FridmanTomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025New preprint! "Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction" (by Li, Hammond, & me) link: doi.org/10.31234/osf... -- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary 56522
Reposted by Clara FridmanDebra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Cool idiom study! #language #cognition featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/breaking-new...featuredcontent.psychonomic.orgBreaking new ground (and other expressions): Unearthing presuppositional strength of idiomsIf you like idioms, you’ll be… head over heels… for this research. Allow me to… break the ice… without… beating around the bush. A new study on idioms by Nicholas Griffen and Ira Noveck is… the bee… 041
Reposted by Clara FridmanMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 21/07/2025How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087doi.orgHow Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia)Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus mus... 03717
Reposted by Clara FridmanRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/07/2025How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...elevanth.orgWhich Kind of Science ReformWhat hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices. 15284136
Reposted by Clara FridmanKathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? We analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: www.rastlelab.com/post/what-ca...rastlelab.comWhat can children learn about morphology from reading for fun?A key part of becoming a skilled reader is understanding how words are built — that is, how small parts of words that carry meaning come together to form words. For example, the word unhappy is made u... 0136
Reposted by Clara FridmanBoston University Conference on Language Development @bucld.bsky.social · 03/04/2025 #BUCLD50 Call for submissions is now open. We look forward to receiving your 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters. We also encourage submissions to the BUCLD 50 Special Symposium. Submission guidelines here: www.bu.edu/bucld/calls/... 11210
Clara Fridman @clartoshka.bsky.social · 18/03/2025It's finally out! The last and most ambitious study from my PhD, highlighting trilingual co-activation in heritage speakers using eye-tracking, was published today! Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgDynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge CoreDynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study 140
Clara Fridman @clartoshka.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Last week @onurunki.bsky.social, Kateryna Iefremenko, & I co-organized the workshop "Heritage Speakers Learning Languages: Looking beyond the societal language" in Mainz, Germany. After a last minute schedule change, I had the opportunity to share my latest project! Thank you to everyone who joined! 030
Reposted by Clara FridmanOnur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 07/03/2025@clartoshka.bsky.social, Kateryna Iefremenko, and I just wrapped up hosting our workshop at #DGfS2025! Huge thanks to all participants for making our AG 13 'Heritage speakers learning languages' a success! 😊 And stay tuned—we’re working on a special issue featuring contributions from the workshop! 181
Clara Fridman @clartoshka.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Presented some recent work on individual differences in L3 processing at #ISCOP this week! A lovely few days in beautiful Akko, with some of the top minds in cognition research 🧠 030
Reposted by Clara FridmanAlan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 27/02/20252020. Simple rules for concise scientific writing aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSimple rules for concise scientific writingClick on the article title to read more. 1185
Reposted by Clara FridmanMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun. 7944611456
Reposted by Clara FridmanBrian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3...link.springer.com 45317
Reposted by Clara FridmanOnur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 20/01/20251/ Thrilled to share our new paper, authored by @clartoshka.bsky.social and me! 🎉 We conducted the largest assessment of heritage language (HL) research, analyzing over 1,000 articles & 80 expert surveys. Dive in with us as we explore key shifts in the field. 👇 1151
Reposted by Clara FridmanBogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · 18/01/2025💬🙇🏼♀️💬🙇🏼♀️💬🙇🏼♀️ The advantage of spaced studying is well documented for explicit learning, but is there such an advantage for incidental #StatisticalLearning of novel #Language? Jasper de Waard from @jthee.bsky.social’s lab tested it! Find out what we found here : 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...doi.orgTaking time: Auditory statistical learning benefits from distributed exposure - Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewIn an auditory statistical learning paradigm, listeners learn to partition a continuous stream of syllables by discovering the repeating syllable patterns that constitute the speech stream. Here, we a... 144
Clara Fridman @clartoshka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Super excited to share a brand new publication with @onurunki.bsky.social - Sentiments towards heritage languages and their speakers! We surveyed 80 HL researchers and conducted a sentiment analysis on 1000+ HL paper abstracts to investigate... brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 130
