FriedericiLab

This is the former lab account of Director Emerita Angela D. Friederici (Department of Neuropsychology, @MPI_CBS). It remains online for archival purposes only.

[FriedericiLab @FriedericiLab]

Is language processing modality-independent? And what have we learned from research on sign languages? Join the discussion with our invited presenters by submitting your work to our workshop on "Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain": https://t.co/7ltGKldcLn

[Yannick Becker (@ybecker.bsky.social) @YannickBecker7]

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️

For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains.

New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒
📖 Read the full story: https://t.co/2uIYGgRdsX

1/n 🧵👇

[MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften @MPI_CBS]

#Language connection discovered in #chimpanzee brains 🐵 @YannickBecker7 @AlfredAnwander & @FriedericiLab , in collab with @MPI_EVA_Leipzig and @AWI_de, have identified a neuronal connection in🐒, evolved from an evolutionary older structure.@NatureComms https://t.co/eq9cA4lFzo

[Alfred Anwander @AlfredAnwander.bsky.social @AlfredAnwander]

#Evolution of #language revisited: Long arcuate fascicle was found in #chimpanzees using high-resolution diffusion MRI #tractography of animals that died naturally in the jungle.
Now in Nature Comm: https://t.co/hXfP84RsUd
@YannickBecker7 @FriedericiLab @TaiChimpProject @MPI_CBS

[Yannick Becker (@ybecker.bsky.social) @YannickBecker7]

Hey Arcuate freaks and geeks!

I first contacted Erin Hecht in 2019. At the time, I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections?

The article: https://t.co/A9N9vDOtBW

[MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften @MPI_CBS]

Core #language network separated from other networks during primate #evolution - @FriedericiLab & @YannickBecker7 argue in their recent correspondence article in Nature Reviews #Neuroscience: https://t.co/Bs5bfbI2v4

[Yannick Becker (@ybecker.bsky.social) @YannickBecker7]

Exciting!
@ev_fedorenko and coll. @NatRevNeurosci's piece functionally separated a core lang network from a percept.-motor network (+others);
and asked for an evo perspective!
Here we go: https://t.co/IdH6S2s8MW
with @FriedericiLab 🧵1/n

[SNL Annual Meeting @SNLmtg]

#SNL2024 Dissertation Award Lecture by Katharina Menn, How Early Electrophysiology Shapes First Language Acquisition: A Naturalistic Approach, Saturday, October 26, 2024, 4:00- 4:30 pm, Great Hall 1. Find out more: https://t.co/HGElhtdgy6

Sponsored by Brain and Language.

[Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog]

We are accepting applications again to our fantastic fully funded program with excellent faculty and interdisciplinary research opportunities! APPLY NOW!!! https://t.co/bC6lOvgHFJ #maxplanckschools #passionforscience 👌💪🏻🧠🍀

[Joëlle Schroën @Joelle_Schroen]

Submitted my #PhD dissertation yesterday! 🥳
Special thanks to Thomas Gunter, @num_ole @LeonKroczek @GesaHartwigsen @FriedericiLab for their support! #PhDone

[SNL Annual Meeting @SNLmtg]

Congratulations to Katharina Menn Recipient of the #SNL2024 Dissertation Award sponsored by Brain and Language.

Find out more: https://t.co/HGElhtcIIy

[JM @orangeppl]

@FriedericiLab @FriedericiLab: back then only senior scientists had access to computing systems during the day at @MPI_NL, and everyone else had to do it in the evening.

[JM @orangeppl]

@FriedericiLab and Peter go way back. Peter still had a full head of hair and an enviable beard.

[Taï Chimpanzee Project @TaiChimpProject]

Incredible work by team@MPI_CBS on high res white matter mapping in the chimpanzee brain. Thanks to @CornEichner, @AlfredAnwander, @FriedericiLab, @NikWeiskopf for all this beautiful work! Looking forward to the next steps!

[Alfred Anwander @AlfredAnwander.bsky.social @AlfredAnwander]

Mapping the white matter in chimpanzee now on the cover page of @naturemethods.
Amazing work by @CornEichner and the Evolution of Brain Connectivity (EBC) team including @MPI_CBS @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
@TaiChimpProject @NikWeiskopf & @FriedericiLab https://t.co/33yGG3QHvx

[Alfred Anwander @AlfredAnwander.bsky.social @AlfredAnwander]

Many thanks to @TaiChimpProject for initiating this project and all collaborators, in particular
@ConEichner, @PaquetteMic, @FriedericiLab, @NikWeiskopf, @MPI_CBS, @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, @AWI_Media
Press release:
https://t.co/HdKjzbh5x5

[Nature Methods @naturemethods]

Interested in primate brain evolution? Then check out this Resource presenting a high-resolution diffusion MRI dataset of a chimpanzee brain.
@CornEichner @AlfredAnwander @FriedericiLab @MPI_CBS

https://t.co/tziJ4zoJ5d

[MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften @MPI_CBS]

Researchers @CornEichner & @AlfredAnwander @FriedericiLab, with colleagues from @MPI_EVA_Leipzig and @AWI_de present in @naturemethods a freely accessible map of high-resolution #MRI data that shows the #brain structure of #chimpanzees for the first time: https://t.co/eB2OqMELQD

[FriedericiLab @FriedericiLab]

🆕📰 New paper by @GiorgioPapitto, Angela Friederici, & @e_zaccarella:

"Distinct neural mechanisms for action access and execution in the human brain: insights from an fMRI study"

Read/download here for free (#openaccess): https://t.co/WPxczyKHkX

[Latest Thinking @latest_thinking]

🧠Is language acquisition visible on a neuronal level? Tune in to Angela Friederici's (@FriedericiLab) #videopublication to find out more! 💭

@MPI_CBS

https://t.co/5aCcdaTJNq