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Efthymia Kapnoula

@effiekapnoula.bsky.social
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Group Leader @BCBL and Research Fellow @Ikerbasque studying speech and language. Passionate about basic research. Mom and feminist. www.bcbl.eu/en/conocenos/equipo/eft… effiekapnoula.github.io

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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
When you hear a new word do you think of how it's written? We know that listeners construct orthographic representations ("orthographic skeletons") of novel words they've only heard - even in opaque languages like French (see Jevtović, Antzaka, & Martin, 2023). However, is this process automatic?
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Way to go Dr. Brian Wong @brianwwl.bsky.social!! 😊👏 I can't wait to see all that you'll accomplish in the years to come!
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Congratulations, Daphne!! ☺️👏 So proud of you!😉
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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Finally out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. Everything I think I know about word meanings. Particular focus on words that are unfamiliar or ambiguous. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social
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JOB OFFER RESEARCH ASSISTANT - CONSCIOUSNESS Research group (D.S.)
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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We're offering free "Peer Review 101" virtual workshops for undergrad/grad seminars, tailored to Psych, Neuro, and related fields. Visit our website to learn more tinyurl.com/2ra56w72
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Reviewer Zero Guest Lectures
🌱Reviewer Zero Guest Lectures🌱 Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We are now offering free Zoom guest lectures tailo...
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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Do you speak Norwegian? If yes, come join us as a doctoral student or postdoctoral researcher, to work on randomized controlled trials of math and writing interventions for upper elementary school children. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (predoc) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (postdoc)
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Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders (ENDD) @enddbcbl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
⏰ Deadline Extended! We've pushed back the submission deadline for #iWORDD26 to May 3rd, 2026. Don't miss your chance to present your work and enjoy this great conference! 👉 www.bcbl.eu/events/iword... #reading #dyslexia #conference
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New paper out on speech perception consistency by @brianwwl.bsky.social! 👏
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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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Julia Schwarz @juliaschwarz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Come to beautiful Donostia, have some pinchos, and learn about advances in dyslexia and reading!
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Congrats, @brianwwl.bsky.social! ☺️ Very happy to see this work out!
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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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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Research Assistant/PhD Candidate (f/m/d) Cognitive psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany The title od the project is “Bilingual flexibility: The impact of dispositional and situational language balance on bilinguals’ word learning of a third language”. Application deadline: 20 March 2026
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Research Assistant/Associate (f/m/d) Cognitive psychology | RWTH Aachen University | EN
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) are now open! Preregistration deadline: March 27th Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit...
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Master's in cognitive neuroscience of language
Cognitive Neuroscience arises from the concentration of efforts from such diverse areas such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and clinical neuropsychology, among others, as well as f...
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
[1/2] 🧠 Did you know that #BCBL offers a master’s degree in #CognitiveNeuroscience of #Language? The full program is in English and it is aimed at graduates in #psychology, #neuroscience and #linguistics.
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-…
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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠 Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL. More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n
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JOB OFFER PhD RESEARCHER - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - BRAIN RHYTHMS AND COGNITION RESEARCH GROUP
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country,...
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) will be open from March 2nd until March 27th! Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit... #neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master
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Master's in cognitive neuroscience of language
Cognitive Neuroscience arises from the concentration of efforts from such diverse areas such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and clinical neuropsychology, among others, as well as f...
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Do adults with DLD continue to exhibit differences in the dynamics of spoken word recognition observed in childhood or do they resolve by adulthood? This #JSLHR study aims to address a gap in research on real-time language processing. on.asha.org/3MtGgpM #DevLangDis
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Real-Time Spoken Word Recognition in Adults With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Early Language Skills
Purpose: This study aims to address the critical gap in research on real-time language processing in adults with developmental language disorder ...
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📣 The call for individual papers for the #StatLearnBCBL is open! 📣 The conference will discuss statistical learning and its underlying mechanisms from behaviour to neuroscience, across various domains. 📆 June 10-12, 2026 ✍🏼 Submission deadline: 01/03/2026 +info ⬇️ www.bcbl.eu/events/stati...
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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 01/02/2026
2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data
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Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🗣️ We have invited Hans Rutger Bosker, head from the SPEAC lab at the Donders Institute of Radboud University, to speak about how the timing of simple gestures guides word recognition, vowel perception, and speech segmentation. Discover more about it here👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/noticias/...
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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!! This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay! elifesciences.org/articles/99931
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A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation
A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.
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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language
Essentialist categorizations of language users, such as native speaker, are widely used but lack empirical validity and reinforce social inequities. T…
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 12/01/2026
#Speech comprehension relies on prediction, but does the #brain prioritize expected or unexpected info? @fabianschneider.bsky.social & @helenblank.bsky.social show that sharpening of #SensoryRepresentations & #PredictionError processes co-exist at different levels @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/49kkNs0
Paradigm and behaviour. Left: Stimuli. Sixty word pairs were created (e.g., sea-tea) where words within a pair sounded similar and could each be associated with one of six semantic contexts (e.g., sea-tea corresponding to nature-food). To decrease clarity and to induce ambiguity, words were slightly degraded to sound like a whisper and morphed into an intermediate acoustic signal between two words from two different contexts. Morphs were validated in a separate validation experiment (see Stimulus creation). Right: EEG part one with morphed words. Trials began with a fixation cross, followed by a visual speaker cue. Morphs were presented binaurally. Participants then indicated the word they had heard by button press. Finally, feedback was given in a speaker-specific manner such that each speaker could be associated with one specific semantic context. Faces were generated using FaceGen.
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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Psychology folks! I'm trying to identify broad principles of Psychology that describe phenomena in multiple subdisciplines. For example "Psychological phenomena have physiological correlates" or "Information processing is optimized for the training data." Would be delighted for suggestions!
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The #SpokenLanguage group @bcbl.bsky.social is at #psynom25! If you're around, come to Brian's poster today!
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Amanda Van Horne @telllab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am looking for a downloadable list of English transitive verbs. Anyone know of a good resource? #childLanguage #languagedisorders #languagetherapy
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding
We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …
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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference 2026 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain 10-12 June 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2026
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Statistical Learning 2026
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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 · 20/10/2025
Interested in doing a #PhD in #SpeechPerception and/or #LanguageLearning in a top research center? @bcbl.bsky.social If yes, there's still time to send me your materials!
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The #SpokenLanguage group is one of the research groups offering sponsorship for this call! If you're interested, get in touch 😉
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Manuela Ruzzoli @manuruz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A newborn group at the @bcbl.bsky.social is looking for PhD candidates! www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...
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SPONSORSHIP for INPHINIT PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - ATTENTION, COGNITIVE CONTROL AND AFFECTS GROUP
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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Chenzi Xu @chenzi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We presented our #ManyTones project at the 2025 #BigTeamScience Conference. We talked about project background, pilot study, and challenges. The slides are available at chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/pr.... Feel free to check them out 👀
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Perception of F0 Perturbations across Many Languages | ManyTones
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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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Giulio Severijnen @giulioseverijnen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨New paper out on rate-dependent perception in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review!
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Falk Huettig @falkhuettig.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
In a new paper, Mike Tanenhaus and I articulate the rationale behind different experimental tasks in the visual world paradigm and give recommendations for future studies. “Rethinking task importance in the Visual World Paradigm“ (Brain Research, in press). pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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Gari Lerma-Usabiaga @garilerma.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
PhD opportunity at BCBL (San Sebastián, Spain)! We’re looking for a PhD student to work on spatiotemporal pRFs and reading networks using advanced neuroimaging methods. Apply here 👉 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...
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PhD CANDIDATE POSITION - FPI Plan Nacional - TEMPREAD
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 · 12/09/2025
📣 Would you like to work at BCBL? You are still on time 📣 There is a new PhD candidate position available at #BCBL for the ‘Cortical Rhythms’ ERC Advanced Grant project. 📆 Deadline for application: 15/09/2025 +info www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...
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Miquel Llompart @mllompart.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's out!! 🕺💃 Link below: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Revisiting the link between second-language sound identification and word recognition with an eye on methodological similarity | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core
Revisiting the link between second-language sound identification and word recognition with an eye on methodological similarity
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📢New paper The presence of similar sounding words in the mental lexicon affects how new words are learned and how familiar words are recognized. But (how) do these lexical dynamics differ across languages? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Title: Phonological neighbourhood density effects on Spanish spoken word recognition and word learning
Abstract: Phonological neighborhood density (ND) is negatively linked to word recognition speed in English, but the opposite is found in Spanish. Additionally, while ND is facilitatory for English word learning, ND effects on Spanish word learning remain unclear. The current study sought to test the claim that ND works differently across languages. We examined the possibility that word recognition differences between languages stem from differences in stimuli, not language per se. Native Spanish-speaking participants completed a lexical decision task where words orthogonally varied across ND and length. We found slower recognition for high-ND words regardless of length, in line with English findings. ND effects on word learning also paralleled those in English, with better learning for high-ND words. These findings challenge previously reported differences between English and Spanish and indicate that the interactive dynamics of neighborhood activation, and their effects on word processing and learning, are similar across the two languages.
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
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sepex.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
2 Positions open at the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain) Os reenviamos información sobre 2 ofertas para PhD en el BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) en San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain). La Junta Directiva de la…
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2 Positions open at the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain)
Os reenviamos información sobre 2 ofertas para PhD en el BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) en San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ The BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language), located in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain), offers the following PhD positions: …
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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain) Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI. 📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
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PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (Second Language Learning)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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