Laura Ciaccio

[Trends in Cognitive Sciences @TrendsCognSci]

Refining the multimodality of semantic representations

Spotlight by Laura Anna Ciaccio (@LauraCiac) & Luca Rinaldi (@Lucarinaldi86) on a recent @NatureHumBehav article by Qihui Xu and colleagues
https://t.co/CWA8s4Ic76

[Brain Language Lab @bll_berlin]

🥁 Open PhD position in our lab!

We are looking for a PhD student, for a teaching & research position in our department!

🗓️Deadline for applications: 29.05.
(knowledge of German required)

@FridayPrimes @ZASBerlin @ZAS_SP @XPragDe @DGfS_eV @DGKL_GCLA

[Brain Language Lab @bll_berlin]

Two open positions in our team 🥁
We are looking for 2 researchers (65%, TVL-13) for our #ERC project #MatCo: “Material Constraints Enabling Human Cognition”
Also suitable as PhD position ✅

Deadline: June 8th 🔽

https://t.co/hvmwSPm6eR

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

@catmoore_1 I’m afraid you tagged the wrong Laura Ciaccio 😅

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

📊Data, analyses scripts, materials, some supplementary materials, etc are on our OSF repo: https://t.co/Bhs1yqMHfT

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

So happy that this is finally out!✨

Inspired by much recent research on individual differences in🧠ERP responses to linguistic violations, we 1⃣aimed to extend evidence to morphological violations & 2⃣ tried to better understand the LAN/N400 distinction

https://t.co/dB1xadjsRS

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

... Which always makes me think that our job, involving continuous learning and so much joy in learning, is a true privilege.

[Brain Language Lab @bll_berlin]

Open position in our team 🥁

We are looking for a researcher (65%, TVL-13) for our projects on the dynamics of communication in the context of language therapy 🗣️

Also suitable as PhD position ✅

Deadline: March 27th🔽
https://t.co/Dbog5sqq5L

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

@VBambini @bll_berlin @tomasel9 @IsabellaBoux Looking forward to having you in Berlin and to your talk!!

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

Looking forward to Francesca Carota virtually visiting our lab today at 2pm (CEST)! 🤩
If you are interested in semantic representations in the brain, you can join us here:
https://t.co/7hc2SBkn8W

[Brain Language Lab @bll_berlin]

We are happy to announce another cool guest lecture!
This Friday Dr. Francesca Carota from @MPI_NL will speak about: "A brain's-eye view on semantic representations".
See you there!

📅20th Jan
⏲️2pm (CEST)
📍 Webex: https://t.co/CEzng89UOR

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

First time as a PhD examiner and it was such a pleasant and insightful experience! Thank you @SeverineCasalis, @AmelieNut, & Marc Brysbaert for inviting me in the committee, the warm welcome in beautiful Lille, the interesting discussion about the great work by Dr. @AmelieNut 🎉!

[Séverine Casalis @SeverineCasalis]

Congrats Amélie! Very proud of our PhD student @AmelieNut cosupervised with #Marc_brysbaert and so grateful to the jury members @CrepaldiDavide @LauraCiac #DurkTaslma #leah_roberts with special thanks to @Kathy_Rastle
À very nice scientific exchange 😄

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

@AmelieNut @SeverineCasalis @Kathy_Rastle @CrepaldiDavide Congrats once again Dr. Menut 🎉🎉 It was great to learn and discuss about your super interesting work!

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

We definitely need more of such multi-lab collaborations!

[Nicholas Coles, PhD @coles_nicholas_]

⚠️New paper at Nature Human Behaviour⚠️

Can posed smiles make people feel happier?

In a global adversarial collaboration, we found overwhelming support for this controversial hypothesis.

But we couldnt resolve one thing: concerns about a popular pen-in-mouth smiling task.

🧵

[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

@_joaoverissimo @Psychonomic_Soc In the supplementary materials, we provide an alternative way of analyzing effects on the mean and the standard deviation of a dependent variable using GAMMs.

All materials, data, scripts, models are available here: https://t.co/Frnwx8XvpW

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[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

So happy to see our work, co-first-authored with @_joaoverissimo, published in Psychonomic Bullettin & Review! @Psychonomic_Soc 🎉
"Investigating variability in morphological processing with Bayesian distributional models"
https://t.co/1zaIBqJfnU
(open access :)

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[Laura Ciaccio @LauraCiac]

@_joaoverissimo @Psychonomic_Soc Besides the relevance of our results for morphological processing models, we emphasize the importance of testing predictions on other parameters of the RT distribution rather than just its central tendency and of treating variability as a direct object of investigation.

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