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maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social
Psycholinguist, author of MORE THAN WORDS, out in June
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My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/

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Our paper from AI at Meta and @bcbl.bsky.social is out on arxiv 🔥 “From Thought to Action: How a Hierarchy of Neural Dynamics Supports Language Production” arxiv.org/abs/2502.07429 How does the brain transform a thought into a sequence of motor actions? Results summarized in 🧵1/8

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Psycholinguists! Send your students to the LSA summer Institute, where there are many psycholinguistics classes, including one taught by me. And of course wonderful linguistics classes, and talks, and so much interaction. I loved my LSA Summer Institute student experience back in the day!

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Have you ever struggled to quantify the benefit of federal funding for research on a local level? ☀️ Here's a great resource for that 👉 www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... Focuses on the NIH, & gives you state-level information about awards funded, economic activity & jobs supported!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you're interested in psycholinguistics, check out @fernandaedi.bsky.social's new book! An eBook version (not paperback) is now available & costs only $6.99 now (what a bargain)! It covers a wide range of topics, incl. some new/controversial topics (e.g., bilingual advantage, LLMs). Check it out!

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I'm giving a talk with Mark Seidenberg at Planet Word Museum on March 1. We haven't done a joint talk in over 30 years! My part aims to bring insights from psycholinguistic research to children's reading instruction. planetwordmuseum.org/events/eyes-...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful example of two language scientists having a conversation about language. Great for other language scientists, students just learning about the art and science of language, and your cousin who's always wondered what's this thing psycholinguistics that you do.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe someone needs this for their stats/logic fallacy of the day collection? Could it be on the opening slide for undergraduate lecture? Cheers!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Is this the snarkiest acknowledgements ever? Saw this in an article the other day.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta love a recipe that includes a grammar note: "tadka (which is a noun and a verb in Hindi)..." Comments, @shravanvasishth.bsky.social ? www.seriouseats.com/what-is-tadk...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring in Computational Approaches to Language! Full description is here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, all, I'm technically retired now, still working but w more of an emphasis on broadening the audience for psycholing. I'm giving a webinar this week for educators about the lexical/syntactic differences between speech & text & implications for kids' reading. Please pass on to educators, thanks!

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment