Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Congratulations to Anna Persson (www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-p...) and Maria Lialiou @marialialiou.bsky.social on their outstanding theses, now awarded the 2025 PhD Thesis Award of the International Phonetic Association. Well deserved! 021
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Now out in @elife.bsky.social: exogenous attentional gains in the fovea are modulated by spatial frequency, similar to extra-foveal gains elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... This collab w/ Yue Guzhang & Martina Poletti @aplabur.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social was extra fun. I learned a ton!elifesciences.orgFrequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention 111
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Congrats to @brainnotonyet.bsky.social alumni Shawn Cummings, @gekagrob.bsky.social & Menghan Yan. Out in JEP:LMC @apajournals.bsky.social: listeners compensate perception of spectral (acoustic) cues based on visually-evident consequences of a pen in mouth of the speaker! dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...dx.doi.orgAPA PsycNet 221
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Very cool new accent-relatedness visualization, examples, and some insightful observations accent-explorer.boldvoice.comaccent-explorer.boldvoice.comHow AI Hears Accents 010
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Looking for researchers in computational neuroscience and cognition (incl. language, learning, development, decision-making) to join our faculty! 010
Reposted by Human Language Processing LabMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2024Review starts 11/1: Asst. prof. (tenure track), human cognition, Brain and CogSci, U Rochester www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac... 033
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025New R library STM github.com/santiagobarr... by Santiago Barreda that implements Nearey & Assmann's PST model of vowel perception, and a fully Bayesian extension (the BSTM). Easy to use and to apply to your data. It's also what we used in our recent paper www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...github.comGitHub - santiagobarreda/STM: The 'STM' (Sliding Template Model) R PackageThe 'STM' (Sliding Template Model) R Package. Contribute to santiagobarreda/STM development by creating an account on GitHub. 010
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025New work w/ Santiago Barreda: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... .We reintroduce Nearey & Assmann's seminal probabilistic sliding template model (PSTM), visualize its workings, & find that it predicts human vowel perception with high accuracy, far outperforming other normalization models 1/3degruyterbrill.comReintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perceptionNormalization of the speech signal onto comparatively invariant phonetic representations is critical to speech perception. Assumptions about this process also play a central role in phonetics and phon... 200
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Very excited about this: putting distributional learning (DL) models of adaptive speech perception to a strong, informative test sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Maryann Tan. We use Bayesian ideal observers & adapters to assess whether DL predicts rapid changes in speech perception 1/2 110
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Excited to see this out in JASA @asa-news.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1121/10.0.... provides a large-scale evaluation of formant normalization accounts as a model of vowel perception. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.socialresearchgate.netAnna PERSSON | Lecturer | Doctor of Philosophy | Stockholm University, Stockholm | SU | Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism | Research profileLecturer in Swedish as second language at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University. 220
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Now out: exciting work w/ Klinton Bicknell, @wbushong.bsky.social, & Mike Tanenhaus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... It's a massive tour-de-force, revisiting several misunderstood 'limitations' of information maintenance during spoken language understanding. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.socialsciencedirect.comMaintenance of subcategorical information during speech perception: Revisiting misunderstood limitationsAccurate word recognition is facilitated by context. Some relevant context, however, occurs after the word. Rational use of such “right context” would… 420
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New work by @wbushong.bsky.social out in JEP:LMC: listeners might strategically moderate maintenance of perceptual information during spoken language understanding based on the expected informativity of subsequent context. 1/2 100
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024SFB-funded Collaborative Research Centre “Prominence in Language” at U Cologne, Germany offers junior & senior research fellowships for 1-6 months between 04-12/2025 (1800-2500 Euro/month) sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/ (20 projects in prosody, morphosyntax & semantics, text & discourse structure)sfb1252.uni-koeln.deCRC Prominence in Language 000
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Join Andriy Myachykov in Macau =): U Macau invites applications for research assistant professor & postdoctoral fellows under UM Talent Programme aiming to attract high-calibre talents---including in neuroscience & cognitive science at UM Center for Cognitive & Brain Sciences (ccbs.ici.um.edu.mo).ccbs.ici.um.edu.moHomeRecent News and Events Research Highlight 100
Reposted by Human Language Processing LabCoraline Rinn Iordan @coralineiordan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgSculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNASLearning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a... 815663
Human Language Processing Lab @hlplab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Congratulations to Anna Persson (www.su.se/english/prof...) on defending her thesis at @stockholmuni.bsky.social! Fantastic work, thorough & insightful, a must-read for anyone interested in the auditory mechanisms supporting robust speech perception across talkers. www.linkedin.com/posts/floria...linkedin.comFlorian Jaeger on LinkedIn: Congratulations to Anna Persson on a great thesis! It has been a lot of…Congratulations to Anna Persson on a great thesis! It has been a lot of fun to be part of this project over the last five years, I learned a lot, and it was… 510
