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Jill Kries

@kriesjill.bsky.social
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Cognitive computational neuroscientist. Postdoc at Stanford University working with @lauragwilliams.bsky.social on speech comprehension. Passionate about music! She/her jillkries.com

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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’re hiring! Join my group at BCBL in San Sebastián for a funded 4-year PhD on how the brain learns and processes an additional language. MEG · speech modelling · Python · LLMs Deadline: 8 November 2026 www.bcbl.eu/eu/phd-posit...
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PhD position - PRO-LISTEN (N.M.)
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 Co...
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested in precise spatial and temporal substrates of language in the developing brain? 🧏🧠➡️👶🧒👩‍🦱 Come check out my poster at #snl2026 @snlmtg.bsky.social, on Thursday Poster session C at 10:45am, poster C24!
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 29/08/2026
*Sharing for our department’s trainees* 🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology? ✨ Apply by Sep 21st to Stanford Psychology's 10th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! 📝 Application: forms.gle/4nujgDd3W2tx...
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Paths to a Psychology Ph.D.: An Information Session and Workshop
Join Stanford Psychology graduate students, research assistants, and faculty for a free one-day virtual information session and workshop on applying to research positions and Ph.D. programs in psychol...
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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 30/06/2026
Let’s study learning trajectories in self-supervised speech models! 🔊 Do they reflect the hierarchical organization of spoken language? We have analyzed a lot of training checkpoints to find out 🌠 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.02043 ⬇️
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
check out our latest preprint led by the one and only @mdhk.net !! using intracranial EEG, we find that distinct neural populations within the temporal lobe encode preceding context, and future context, during naturalistic speech comprehension! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Corentin Puffay @corentinpuffay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 Using intracranial recordings in a multi-talker task and LLM representations, we show that the brain tracks linguistic context in both attended and unattended speech, with reduced context-length encoding for unattended streams. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Large language models reveal the neural tracking of linguistic context in attended and unattended multi-talker speech
Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) capture long-range contextual structure in natural language and have recently been shown to align with the human brain’s contextualized linguistic encoding. This...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 27/04/2026
Our lab (w/ @patrickgbissett) is hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, dense fMRI, computational modeling, and human-AI interaction. Designed for post-bacs looking to start a Ph. D in ~2 years. Please repost. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDNLbWAG
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Social Science Research Coordinator (Hybrid Opportunity) in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
Professor Russ Poldrack’s lab is seeking a new full-time Research Coordinator. The RC will work closely with and report directly to Dr. Patrick...
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏
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Irmak Ergin @irmakergin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Our novel measure: ❗Overcomes the constraints of traditional static measurements ❗Can be effectively integrated with neuroimaging techniques like EEG and MEG, offering a tool for research on dynamic processes during naturalistic listening 🗣️🧠 11/11
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Irmak Ergin @irmakergin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
➡️ A TRF model fit to the slider time course revealed individual differences in response delays, showing that the slider can be used to model individual trajectories of comprehension. 10/11
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So exciting to see “the slider project” finally published🤩 go check it out⬇️
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Anna (Anya) Ivanova @neuranna.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Language, Intelligence & Thought lab is looking for a lab manager! This is a 2-year postbac position that will allow you to gain experience in human neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research prior to applying to PhD programs. Express interest here: forms.gle/npXEGUjGUbp5...
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stanfordbrain.bsky.social @stanfordbrain.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In stroke patients with aphasia, the brain spends too little time processing ambiguous sounds, suggesting new targets for precision therapies. (@lauragwilliams.bsky.social, @kriesjill.bsky.social) Read the story by @stellamayerhoff.bsky.social here: neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/why-bra...
Laura Gwilliams (left), Jill Kries (second from left) and other members of the Gwilliams lab discuss the neuroscience of language. In the lab's latest paper, Kries, Gwilliams, and  KU Leuven's Maaike Vandermosten investigated the underlying mechanisms of post-stroke aphasia. Image by Jess Alvarenga.
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
thanks @shaileejain.bsky.social 😃
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Excited to share our new publication “The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Phoneme Encoding in Aging and Aphasia”, published in JNeurosci 🧠 ➡️ www.jneurosci.org/content/46/4... with @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @mvandermosten.bsky.social 🤝 Check out @stanfordbrain.bsky.social ’s summary of it ⬇️
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The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Phoneme Encoding in Aging and Aphasia
During successful language comprehension, speech sounds (phonemes) are encoded within a series of neural patterns that evolve over time. Here we tested whether these neural dynamics of speech encoding...
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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"Lesioned Language Models Reproduce Symptoms of Human Aphasias" - Nathan Roll + @kriesjill.bsky.social + @lauragwilliams.bsky.social (Sunday talk) 3/5
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thanks for featuring my research on Science.lu @fnr.lu Luxembourg National Research Fund! The article is available in German🇩🇪 and French🇫🇷 ➡️ science.lu/de/outstandi...
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
thanks to everyone involved in my PhD research, current research, the award ceremony, video making, friends and family! It wouldn’t have been possible without you!! special thanks to my PhD supervisor @mvandermosten.bsky.social !!
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I am so honored to have received an Outstanding PhD Thesis award from the Luxembourg National Research Fund @fnr.lu! 🏆 My PhD research was about how language is processed in the brain, with a focus on patients with a language disorder called aphasia 🧠 Find out more➡️ youtu.be/E-Zww-B1jFQ?...
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FNR Awards 2025: Outstanding PhD Thesis - Jill Kries
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social Summary 👇 1/8
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Will Turner @renrutmailliw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#CCN2025
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
with collaborators @brianervin.bsky.social Jason Buroker @gregoryhickok.bsky.social Ravindra Arya & @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 🤝
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In August I had the pleasure to present a poster at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference in Amsterdam. My poster was about 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 🧒➡️🧑 🧠
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
#CCN2025 happy to chat with you about the developmental trajectory and neuroanatomical correlates of speech comprehension at poster session A on Tuesday 👉A41 🧒➡️👩🧠
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
check linktr.ee/baylanguagep... for all information💡
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Find all information about our upcoming meeting at UC Davis here
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Looking forward to this edition of the Bayli meeting in Davis!
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@mvandermosten.bsky.social
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
co-authored by myself, Ramtin Mehraram, Jonas Vanthornhout, Tom Francart and Maaike Vandermosten🤝
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
out in @braincomms.bsky.social 🙌
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🗣️ How strongly speech amplitude fluctuations are encoded in brain activity of people with aphasia holds promise as biomarker! 🧠 🔗 academic.oup.com/braincomms/a... 👉Check out our new paper led by Pieter De Clercq
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Neural tracking of natural speech: an effective marker for post-stroke aphasia
The study examined brain responses to natural speech, i.e. neural tracking, in post-stroke aphasia. Individuals with aphasia exhibited reduced neural track
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Shailee Jain @shaileejain.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If you are interested and missed it, here’s a recording: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hk9L...
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Interpreting LLMs to Interpret the Brain
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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Please come and work with us and the amazing @lauragwilliams.bsky.social ! Really special project using E/MEG to look at receptive language in non speakers. Please repost!
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
grateful to work in a lab with such cool research and a stellar advisor @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 🙏✨
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Interested in a continuous behavioral measure of speech comprehension? Check out our new preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... led by @irmakergin.bsky.social 👏 @lauragwilliams.bsky.social
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Holiday party time!! 🤩 @rdhawkins.bsky.social @coryshain.bsky.social
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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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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
such a nice first year & a bit in the ✨GLYSN✨ lab☺️ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 🙏
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
excited for this menu of GLySN Lab research at the neurobiology of language conference! 🧠
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
#CCN2024
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Ann Marie Finley, PhD @annmfin.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Preprint alert: SPOKEN vs. WRITTEN English word frequencies --> After a favorable R&R from Behavior Research Methods in summer 2023, for *reasons* I did not have the capacity to complete this project before I finished my PhD...still deciding on a resubmission but for now: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
We’re excited about our first paper looking at speech encoding in single neurons across the depth of human cortex. Out today in @nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]
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Large-scale single-neuron speech sound encoding across the depth of human cortex - Nature
High-density single-neuron recordings show diverse tuning for acoustic and phonetic features across layers in human auditory speech cortex.
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Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU @swathikiran.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Audience engaged in #cortical #tracking of speech errors in #aphasia #AOA2023 by Jill Kries
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Hit me up if you have questions, want to discuss something or if you just want to say hi 😊 multiple ways of contacting me can be found on linktr.ee/jillkries 5/5
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
3. A poster at AoA about the link between discourse measures of spontaneous speech in aphasia and their working memory performance. Worked together with Ann Marie Finley, Celia Litovsky and Rachel Ostrand on this one:)
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
2. A poster at SNL about data-driven and neurobiologically informed clustering of individuals with aphasia, poster available under linktr.ee/jillkries 3/5
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
1. A talk at AoA about neural tracking of speech in #aphasia, that is my PhD work www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... an update to the biorxiv version is coming very soon! 2/5
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Jill Kries @kriesjill.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Had an amazing time at #AoA2023 and #SNL2023 last week 🧠(even though I struggled with the jetlag🥱). So nice to meet everyone (again) 🤝 Here’s a summary of my contributions to the conferences: 1/5
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