Exploring the past, present, and future of language 💬|🐵|🧠|📱 @unige_en @uzh_en @UniNeuchatel. Funded by @snsf_ch.
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Dear network,
This is our last post on the Twitter/X platform. To stay connected, you can find us on Linkedin (NCCR Evolving Language), Bluesky (nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Instagram (nccr_language)!
We hope to see you there and thank you for your support over the years! 💬🐵🧠
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New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @unige_en Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details: job offer below
📣#Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at @UZH_en is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!
More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/da…
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Discussion with Prof. Bickel, Director @NCCR_Language Prof. Stoll, Dr. Jung and Sonja on language acquisition and evolution in relation to newly started research on Gurung language acquisition. @UZH_en @snsf_ch
youtu.be/9bWIEXsFBfo
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🐉 Jeudi 3 avril, apprenez-en plus sur l'histoire des #chimères, ces créatures hybrides imaginaires, lors d'une table ronde organisée par le @NCCR_Language
🐈 Vendredi 4 avril, le prof. Eric Baratay parlera de nos amis les #chats
Les chats, devenus compagnons privilégiés en Occident, ont traversé une histoire mouvementée, s'adaptant aux changements d'attitudes humaines, au point de devenir aujourd’hui des «chatchiens».
📅 Du 31 mars au 6 avril
Programme complet👉histoire-cite.ch/
📍 Retrouvez le PRN Evolving Language et ses expert-es "sur les traces des chimères" au Festival Histoire et Cité @HistoireCite, entre le 31 mars et le 6 avril !
Programme : histoire-cite.ch/programme/
Vous êtes francophone et avez une bonne connaissance de l'allemand ? Participez à une étude scientifique en ligne sur le langage par @NoCeLab et aidez-les à comprendre l'influence du langage sur la cognition.
tinyurl.com/4rvdmvdy
Sind Sie deutschsprachig mit wenigen Französischkenntnisse? Dann nehmen Sie an einer wissenschaftlichen Online-Studie über Sprache von @NoCeLab teil und helfen Sie dabei, den Einfluss der Sprache auf die Kognition zu verstehen.
tinyurl.com/4rvdmvdy
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New paper @RSocPublishing investigating the representations underlying bonobo food and alarm calls w/Nicole Lahiff @zannaclay Amanda Epping, Jared Taglialatela and Katie Slocombe. @snsf_ch @UZH_Science @NCCR_Language
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Check out this nice teaser of one of the @NCCR_Language work packages we're involved in. Would like to know more? Reach out!
🎞️How are words organised inside our head? The WP Information Integration studies the #networks of #words, and how they evolve during our lives. Dive into their #research in this video!
youtube.com/watch?v=7JWb4-cG…
🎞️How are words organised inside our head? The WP Information Integration studies the #networks of #words, and how they evolve during our lives. Dive into their #research in this video!
youtube.com/watch?v=7JWb4-cG…
📢This summer, Sapir Professor Balthasar Bickel and Professor Sabine Stoll will teach a course at the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute on "Language in Use" hosted by the Uni. of Oregon Dep. of Linguistics.
Registrations are now open: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
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@pierafilippi, the @NCCR_Language and I would like to ask the big questions: why do we even have language and how did it came about?
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What do we need, in good as in bad times? A community. Today is as good a day as any to:
✨renew your @SNLmtg membership
✨submit an abstract or symposium to #SNL2025
✨ register for one of the many member-initiated virtual activities 2025.neurolang.org/virtual-a…
#SNL2025 Now Accepting Symposium Proposals
for the SNL 2025 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. See: 2025.neurolang.org/symposium…
Submitting a symposium proposal or speaking in a symposium does not preclude you from submitting an abstract for a slide or poster presentation at SNL.
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📣 IMAGINED SPEECH-BCI PAPER OUT! 📣
We trained healthy volunteers to control a Brain-Computer Interface by imagining pronouncing one of two syllables over 5 consecutive days. We found :
🧠 People indeed learn to control the system
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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I consider this part of my job duties, but to be honest it is among the aspect of the trade that I adore! Also, a lovely mention to @PenneAmiche which keeps my science dissemination efforts & stereotypes fights alive and well all through the school year since 2018 💙
📰🔬Professors @PaolaMerlo20 and @vborghesani, and NCCR Outreach Officer Coralie Debracque, visited primary school classes of Geneva. The aim: present their daily lives as researchers - and as women scientists.
@CERN @unige_en
evolvinglanguage.ch/female-r…
📰🔬Professors @PaolaMerlo20 and @vborghesani, and NCCR Outreach Officer Coralie Debracque, visited primary school classes of Geneva. The aim: present their daily lives as researchers - and as women scientists.
@CERN @unige_en
evolvinglanguage.ch/female-r…
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(bragging rights earned) The upcoming talks of the Neuro-connect seminar series @FCBG_Neuro are absolutely ✨terrific✨! A real dive into #BrainScience and #Neuroscience thanks to @unige_en, @NCCR_Language, @CISA_UNIGE, @CIBM_ch, @Neuro_X_EPFL, @hug_ge, @Wysscenter. DM for info
ALT Names of the upcoming speakers: Jason Yeatman Gabriella Vigliocco Thanh Dang-Vu Pascal Belin John O'Doherty Gesa Hartwigsen Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini Anna Ivanova Laura Harsan