@nicolaml.bsky.social
PI of the Brain Rhythms and Cognition group https://www.bcbl.eu/en/research/research-groups/brain-rhythms-cognition
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
@nicolaml.bsky.socialWe’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
@licataae.bsky.socialReposted by @nicolaml.bsky.socialAt #SNL2026 this week with 2 posters tomorrow (work from my DocMobility @ BCBL with @nicolaml.bsky.social + ongoing PhD work with @vborghesani.bsky.social :D). I was also grateful to co-organize and host the SNL satellite event for @smallworldofwords.bsky.social with Simon De Deyne on Tuesday 🧵
@elliot-murphy.bsky.socialReposted by @nicolaml.bsky.socialNew work out today!
The result of a 15 year project to offer genuine linking hypotheses between linguistics and neuroscience: a revised research program, and its first result - a novel neural binding operation ('Meld') capturing core properties of natural language syntax 🧵
@nicolaml.bsky.socialThe way we speak to babies matters for how their brains process speech. 👶🧠
Our new study shows that infants at 4 and 9 months track infant-directed speech more efficiently—and that the benefit extends beyond prosody to richer acoustic detail.
@nicolaml.bsky.socialReposted by @nicolaml.bsky.social🔊 New preprint. Speech timing is never regular — syllables stretch, phonemes arrive early or late. That variability is usually averaged away as noise. We asked whether the brain treats it as information instead.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@nicolaml.bsky.social4/ This opens a line of work rather than closing one. Open questions: how the levels talk to each other, whether the architecture holds across languages and across listeners who process speech differently. With @neuronautica.bsky.social .
@nicolaml.bsky.social3/ At the phoneme level the response is signed — early and late are encoded differently, not just "off."
@nicolaml.bsky.social2/ Across three timescales, cortical responses track how far timing departs from what was expected: the rhythm the listener has adapted to, when the next phoneme should start, how long it should last.
@nicolaml.bsky.social🔊 New preprint. Speech timing is never regular — syllables stretch, phonemes arrive early or late. That variability is usually averaged away as noise. We asked whether the brain treats it as information instead.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
