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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📢 New preprint alert 📄 A Perspective on whether internal bodily rhythms, such as breathing and heartbeat, shape face-to-face communication. Not just the visible body in language, but the internal body that regulates how we listen, speak, and interact. Feedback welcome! 🔗 lnkd.in/exUQwdkt

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Last lab pic taken a couple of days ago. Soon many of us will be gradually leaving for new destinations. After 3 years as a PhD student and 5 as a postdoc, I have now left the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization at the University of Padova and will soon begin a new adventure...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Thank you! Glad it was of interest, hopefully also across subfields, and hope it may spark new ideas to investigate 😊

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Super happy to have had the chance of organizing this symposium for the 15th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience in Porto together with these amazing scientists but most importantly amazing people #ICON25

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Adam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9 rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com

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Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics

Communications Psychology - Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Happy to have been selected among the winners of the @gorillapsych.bsky.social Language & Linguistics Research Grant! I will implement an online study on predictive speech comprehension/production and adverse listening conditions in deaf people with cochlear implant 🦻🗣️

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Yesterday I presented EEG time-frequency and ERP data on predictive processing during audiovisual speech comprehension in deaf cochlear implant users at the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics in Barcelona

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The lab is in Barcelona for the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP)! 🎉 @giuliacalignano.bsky.social @annalorenzoni.bsky.social @giorgiopiazza.bsky.social

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Next week I'll talk @Psicostat about our recent experience in publishing a commentary as early career researchers. Aim: foster a collective discussion on how best to approach this by ensuring fair albeit solid criticism of published science 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.co... @giuliacalignano.bsky.social

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Giulia Calignano @giuliacalignano.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Data without discussion is dead data 🧐 @simonegastaldon.bsky.social & I think #LinguisticAlignment needs #OpenScience & #multiverse debate! 🔥 Our re-analysis goes beyond the #pvalue to #collectively build solid #theory & valid #measurement in #cognitive #sciences 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Further analyses revealed that the Category alignment effect emerged primarily in a subset of stimuli and in specific semantic categories, highlighting the limited generalizability of the effect originally reported.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The commentary shows that aligning in the Category condition is associated with longer RTs and greater variability compared to using basic labels in the Basic condition, suggesting an effortful and strategic rather than an automatic mechanism.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In the original paper, the authors provide evidence for automatic conceptual alignment, i.e., early alignment of participants’ behavior with the naming choices of the robot (using category labels instead of basic ones in the Category condition).

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The paper provides theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of linguistic alignment in a joint picture naming with a social robot, by analyzing response times of an openly available dataset (Cirillo et al., 2022).

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This commentary provides: 1) complementary multiverse analyses improving data interpretation, 2) practical suggestions for future experiments, 3) reflections on the importance of Open Science practices, especially for early career researchers.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New paper w/ @giuliacalignano.bsky.social ! Access here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1khE02Hx2-...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The speakers are: Irene Arrieta-Sagredo (Uni Paris Cité, France), Antonio Criscuolo (Maastricht Uni, The Netherlands), Matteo Maran (Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud Uni, The Netherlands), Andria Pelentritou (Uni of Lausanne, Switzerland) & Giorgio Piazza (Uni of Padova, Italy).

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The symposium will bring together early career researchers to discuss how external (others') and internal (one's own) body signals may modulate speech and auditory processing, trying to foster an integrated perspective.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My symposium proposal titled "The Body Whispering To The Ear: How Self And Others' Bodily Signals Affect Auditory And Speech Processing" has been accepted for the XV International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON 2025), to be held in Porto in September!

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Extremely positive news about my #MSCA application. Can't wait to start my project FlexyRhythm at @bcbl.bsky.social with @nicolaml.bsky.social (and secondment at @dondersinst.bsky.social with @vipiai.bsky.social). So happy to have the chance to work with such wonderful people!

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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

🚨📝New preprint‼️ In this fMRI study (N=37) we compare the production and comprehension of words, and observe that the same phoneme-specific sensorimotor networks are activated when speaking and listening to language! A short 🧵: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Congruent brain signatures specific to phonology in fronto-temporal cortex during language production and understanding.

In this fMRI study we investigated whether language production and understanding recruit the same phoneme-specific networks. We did so by comparing the brain responses to different phoneme categories ...

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

For those who missed it (had posted on X): new paper with @nicolaml.bsky.social, Mikel Lizarazu and Pierpaolo Busan on cortical tracking of speech in adults who stutter in JSLHR pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You asked for it...

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following:
Just what the hell is a word anyway?
See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language!
Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me.
A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar.
If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite?
We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol.
On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world.
Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it.
I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Simone Gastaldon @simonegastaldon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The revised version of our commentary and re-analysis is online: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Hope this can be of use to researchers working on alignment and to ECRs interested in Open Science approaches. #psycholinguistics #alignment #openscience #commentary #reanalysis

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