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@vborghesani.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:50 AM

A nobel prize winner, basic neuroscience, latin, and poetry: we are really starting #SNL2026 with a bang!

@jsamelink.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:15 AM

In 1979 he and Nadel proposed that the left hippocampus in humans contains a cognitive map for semantic information #SNL2026. As opposed to the right hippocampus which was primarily visuospatially focused, the left one provides a semantic map, that could also aid cognition

@dankleinman.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:10 AM

#snl2026 keynote speaker John O'Keefe: "Philosophers love to ask questions like 'What is it like to be a bat?' And we actually know quite a bit now what it's like to be a bat."

@jsamelink.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:09 AM

I will also try to tweet my way through the #SNL2026 conference, see how that goes.

@jsamelink.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:06 AM

Excited for #SNL2026, and what a conference room! I will be presenting my poster at A26 on population-scale connectopic mapping of brain language hubs. Looking forward to chat!

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@mdhk.net Sep 30, 2026, 7:01 AM

I’m presenting this today at #SNL2026 in Geneva! See you at poster A5 in the morning session 🎉

@rutvikdesai.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 11:16 PM

Will miss SNL this year, but check these out. All in session B. #SNL2026 #SNL26

@snlmtg.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 8:02 PM

Two satellite events (smallworldofwords.github.io/geneva2026/ & CSHL Genetics & Neurobiology of Language Alumni reunion), two educational courses (2026.neurolang.org/welcome-rece...), and a...cheesy welcome reception: #SNL2026 has officially started! Thanks @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social!

@cdliu-speech.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 7:52 PM

Hi, this is my first post 😍 My colleagues and I will be at #SNL2026 this year.
My colleagues will present posters about timing precision, rate normalization, stress and intonation, social pragmatic communication, and semantics. Please check out their amazing works!

@snlmtg.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 7:35 PM

And Geneva is happy to welcome all #SNL2026 attendees! 🎉

@dankleinman.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 7:28 PM

In a Geneva park before #snl2026, I talked to a man who, upon finding out what I do, immediately began discussing Benjamin Libet’s studies of consciousness and free will. I asked if he was a philosopher: “Only in the way that all curious people are philosophical.” Not like that, they’re not!

@strijkers.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

Come check out our posters at #SNL2026 #SNL26
@cnrs.fr @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @ilcb.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr

@enddbcbl.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 9:54 AM

Jealous of our colleagues attending #SNL2026 in Geneva this week! ⛰️
Don't miss their poster presentations 📊✨🧠 @bcbl.bsky.social
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@liinapy.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 5:39 PM

NeLLab #SNL2026 menu! See you soon @snlmtg.bsky.social!

@cheslieklein.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 4:59 PM

On my way to #SNL2026 in Geneva! I am excited to present on how the maturation of the #language network at 1 year predicts language abilities one year later (slide session on Wednesday at 10 am).

@jamichaelov.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 3:31 PM

Looking forward to #SNL2026! I’ll be presenting the work published in our recent JML paper about language model scaling and the N400. Find me (or email/message) if you want to chat about predictive coding and NLP in the study of human language comprehension! Paper link: doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

Title: Better language models better model the N400, but not reading time

Abstract: The probability of a word in context, as captured by large language models, is predictive of both behavioral and neural measures of human language processing. Intuitively, language models that are better at next-word prediction might better model predictability effects in human language comprehension. Yet recent work suggests that language models can become too good at next-word prediction to model reading time, implying that the aspects of human comprehension indexed by reading time do not track perfectly with predictability from language statistics alone. However, it is unknown whether this decoupling is true of reading time only, or whether it is intrinsic to online measures of comprehension more generally. To address this question, we turn to another robust and well-studied measure of online processing, the N400 component of the event-related brain potential. We compare how a language model’s size, number of training tokens, and performance on natural language benchmarks correlate with its ability to predict both reading time and N400 amplitude. Based on an analysis of 4 reading time datasets and 9 N400 datasets, we replicate past results for reading time, but find that larger language models, models that are trained on more data, and models that perform better at next-word prediction and other more complex natural language tasks are better able to predict N400 amplitude. We interpret this difference between the N400 and reading time measures as potentially revealing the comparative importance of semantic prediction in the neurocognitive processes indexed by the N400.

@kriesjill.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 2:10 PM

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!

@gweindel.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 6:59 AM

For those at #SNL2026 in Geneva I'll be presenting that and other things as a poster this Wednesday September 30, between 4:30 - 6:30 pm

@snlmtg.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 7:24 PM

Reminder: On Tuesday, before & during the welcome reception, we’re offering 20-min tours of the Campus Biotech human neuroimaging facilities! 🧠 #SNL2026

⏰ 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, & 6:30 PM
⚠️ Limited to 30 people per tour.
Sign up before spots run out: forms.gle/b74NzwmwY7ch...

@flatenerica.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 4:02 PM

Really looking forward to my first #SNL2026 next week! Anyone interested in #DevSci #neural-tracking, #rhythm-perception, and/or early #word #learning should come to my poster (poster session B lnkd.in/gwr_W6iN) 🧠👶🎵💬
2026.neurolang.org/presentation...