Macaque claustrum, pulvinar & putative dorsolateral amygdala support cross-modal association of social AV stimuli based on meaning onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej… Proposes dorsolateral amygdala,claustrum & pulvinar part of multisensory network processing visual socioemotional information

I seem to have broken llama3 - anyone had anything similar?

Nice to see work (esp. x-lang) being done on the P-centre Prof Tamara Rathcke (tamarathcke.bsky.social) et al - Testing an acoustic model of the P-center in English and Japanese pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic… Does it reflect perceptual anticipation of a vowel onset?

Iconicity mediates semantic networks of sound symbolism pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic… Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, English speakers rated unfamiliar jewel names on size, brightness, hardness. Results showed language-specific & cross-linguistically shared pluripotential sound symbolism

A survey of experimental stimulus presentation code sharing in major areas of psychology link.springer.com/article/10.375… Stimulus presentation code has been increasingly shared over time. However the level remains low..worth taking steps to promote a culture in which sharing it is valued

Is vision necessary for the timely acquisition of language-specific patterns in co-speech gesture.. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de… Findings highlight gesture as a robust & integral aspect of the language acquisition process & insight when language does/does not have an effect on gesture

Speechreading, Phonological Skills, and Word Reading Ability in Children pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20… Presents converging evidence that speechreading and phonological skills are positively related in typically developing children

What happens when you have finally finished work (which was enjoyable - talking with students) and have had a very pleasant pasta meal - with a few glasses of a fruity New Zealand Cab Sav - and then realise that wizardlm2 has download - this...

Infant-directed communication: Examining the many dimensions of everyday caregiver-infant interactions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de… Most work 1 or 2 communicative signals -speech alone or speech + gesture -> Here a richness of communicative signals speech/action/gesture/emotion/touch.

Subtitled speech: the neural mechanisms of ticker-tape synaesthesia academic.oup.com/brain/advance-… examined the little-studied but highly informative ticker-tape synesthesia -> speech perception triggers vivid irrepressible perception of words in their written form in the mind's eye

Perception of vocoded speech in domestic dogs link.springer.com/article/10.100… Tested dogs’ recognition of familiar words produced in 16-channel vocoded speech. Also Gary Larson store.gocomics.com/product/the-fa…

Contributions of the left and right thalami to language: A meta-analytic approach link.springer.com/article/10.100… Word of the day 'thalami'. Here large-scale functional connectivity of the thalamus during language tasks is mapped - cortico-subcortical-cerebellar-cortical loops fine-tune

AV Moments in Time journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Presents Audiovisual Moments in Time, a large-scale dataset of audiovisual action events. In an extensive annotation task 11 participants labelled a subset of 3-second audiovisual videos from the Moments in Time dataset

Bidirectional brain-body interactions during natural story listening dlvr.it/T5FWDQ

The Feel of Speech: Multisystem and Polymodal Somatosensation in Speech Production pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20… Review was conducted to summarize the system-wide somatosensory information available for speech production - A speech somatoscape is proposed ....

nfluence of autistic traits and communication role on eye contact behavior during face-to-face interaction nature.com/articles/s4159… Used a novel setup to look at how eye gaze & mutual eye contact relate to autistic traits in a cooperative referential communication task

voice to a name), and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which in real-time can represent the value of an entity. The value of a slice of pizza changes over the course of a meal. The value of a relationship can change over the course of a evening out.

OFC:sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Three key questions to move towards a theoretical framework of visuospatial perspective taking sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Visuospatial perspective taking is a key component of social cognition, self-other distinction, communication & navigation - here a consensus on 3 big questions