Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour
Radboud University
Erasmusplein 1 ⟡ Room 6.01 (Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays)
6525HT Nijmegen ⟡ The Netherlands
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⟡ Kars Ligtenberg will give a talk at the IndiREAD workshop in Saarbrücken in November, about using eye-tracking data to quantify second-language reading proficiency
⟡ Michelle Suijkerbijk will give a talk at the workshop More Than Just Noise: Detecting Patterns in Acceptability Judgment Data in Trier in February, about the causal relations between acceptability, grammaticality, and reading time
⟡ Three posters accepted for AMLaP in Prague this September: by Michelle Suijkerbuijk about LSTMs learning island constraints in Dutch and English, by Iza Škrjanec about homograph and cognate processing in bilingual neural language models, and by Yung Han Khoe about the effect of code switching on cross-linguistic priming in Spanish-English bilingual people and models. I will be presenting Yung's paper myself.
⟡ This is somewhat old news I neglected to mention before: next month I'll be presenting the Language Leak project at the Colloquium Neerlandicum in Brussels
⟡ More old news: the BLiMP-NL paper by Michelle and many others appeared in Computational Linguistics
⟡ Not-so-new preprint: Connectionist models of second language acquisition and processing with Naomi Shapiro
⟡ New paper came out in Glossa Psycholinguistics: Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies, with Himanshu Yadav, Richard Futrell, and Husain Samar
⟡ I'll be giving a keynote talk at the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting in Utrecht, December 2025
⟡ Great news: Irene Winther will join the Language Leak project as a postdoc starting February 1st!
⟡ Naomi is, sadly, leaving our project. This means I am hiring a new postdoc! You can find more details and apply (deadline is October 1st) here
⟡ Two new preprints by Michelle Suijkerbuijk (and many others): The need for human data when analysing the human-likeness of syntactic representations in neural language models: The case of English wh-island constraints and BLiMP-NL: A corpus of Dutch minimal pairs and acceptability judgements for language model evaluation
⟡ I will present Stephan Verwijmeren's paper "Simulating event-related potentials in bilingual sentence comprehension: syntactic violations and syntactic transfer" at MathPsych/ICMM.
⟡ "Neural language model gradients predict event-related brain potentials" (preprint) was accepted for the the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
⟡ In July, I'll present the result from the SCiL paper (above), plus some new findings, at a MathPsych/ICMM symposium and in Shravan Vasishth's lab colloquium.
⟡ This preprint of "Communicative efficiency in multimodal language" with Beata Grzyb and Gabriella Vigliocco has been up for a while, but it has finally been accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
⟡ I'm looking forward to a brief visit to INRIA Bordeaux late April, where I'll take part in a PhD defense and give a talk.
⟡ New preprint: Neural language model gradients predict event-related brain potentials.
⟡ Naomi Shapiro joined the Language Leak project as a postdoc. Welcome!
⟡ Here's a new preprint by Yung Han Khoe about The Bilingual Dual-path model: Simulating bilingual production, comprehension, and development
⟡ We're organizing a one-day workshop on Using computational models to bridge between neurobiology, psychology, and linguistic theory.
The program can be found here.⟡ I quit Twitter for ever! You can find me on @stefanfrank.bsky.social and @stefanfrank@scholar.social
⟡ Our paper "An eye-tracking-with-EEG coregistration corpus of narrative sentences" (with Anna Aumeistere) was accepted for publication in Language Resources and Evaluation
⟡ Michelle Suijkerbuijk's paper about wh-island constraints in LSTMs is accepted for a poster at the SCiL conference.
⟡ Two conference talks about modelling N400/P600 effects in L2 comprehension: Stephan Verwijmeren will present this work at ICCM, and I will give a talk about it at AMLaP.
⟡ I will give an online talk about the Bilingual Dual-Path model at the International Symposium of Bilingualsm in June, and Stephan Verwijmeren will present an online poster about his model of N400/P600 effects in L2 comprehension.
⟡ Kars Ligtenberg started as a PhD student in my NWO-funded project The statistics of language as a novel window into the multilingual mind
⟡ We have a postdoc vacancy to work on models of bilingual sentence processing, application deadline is March 19.
⟡ I started this News section!