David Poeppel
@davidpoeppel
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• NYU • Max Planck Society Married to writer @amypoeppel Kids @alexpoeppel @andrewpoeppel @lukepoeppel
Joined March 2009
“Ancestral Iconicity: the Dance Language of Bees Revisited”, a new collective paper. https://t.co/xfUQjlt7QZ The waggle dance of bees is recognized as a remarkable communication system, but it is usually thought to have properties that are wholly distinct from human language.
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Puffery at cabinet meetings is part of the deal, but these stunts where they sit around and verbally fellate him one after the next are the kind of thing our grandkids will watch in school and wonder how that could ever happen - if we're lucky.
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
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Cosimo and I wrote a paper on how to “do things with syntax” in neuroscience https://t.co/ajjQ1WuMGN Just out now. If you are properly interested in language and neuroscience, have a look.
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The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer.
link.springer.com
Behavior Research Methods - This paper presents the UCI Phonotactic Calculator (UCIPC), a new online tool for quantifying the occurrence of segments and segment sequences in a corpus. This tool has...
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Climatologist Michael Mann says the world can expect more extreme heat waves in the coming years as long as humans "continue to burn fossil fuels and warm up the planet." https://t.co/gR6KcDe5jX
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MIT on Haj Ross, a great, great linguist who died in May 2025: https://t.co/9vwrCcGpIj
whamit.mit.edu
Sad and momentous news has reached us of the passing of alum and former faculty member John R. Ross (PhD 1967) at the age of 87. Known to one and all as "Haj Ross", his dissertation and subsequent...
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Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
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My immediate thoughts on the most monstrous, immoral piece of legislation I’ve ever voted on in the Senate. But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.
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Curious about the visual human brain, computation, and pursuing a PhD in a vibrant and collaborative lab located in the heart of Europe? My lab is offering a 3-year PhD position! More details:
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Auditory enthusiasts: see this https://t.co/qJBk8tG8Sb New work from Yue Sun, Oded Ghitza & @Michalareas_G
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The human brain tracks temporal regularities in acoustic signals faithfully. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown complex modulations of synchronized neural activities to the shape of stimulus...
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Join us in congratulating our Award Recipients: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, David Poeppel, and Jacob Momsen! 👏 #SNL2025 Learn more here: https://t.co/iy7pq7MzlF
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Congrats to @amypoeppel whose new novel was just released! It has some mathematics (lite), some Vermeer (unexpected), some Mars biosphere simulation (quirky), and is just plain fun. While I generate nerdy, niche papers, Amy writes engaging & cool family novels. I recommend :-)
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this conversation will be on repeat for many academics as they visit family this summer
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Very cool!
🧠🗞️🗣️Finally out! Paper with a way-too-long name for social media. How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9 https://t.co/ufiNYEIWOw in @CommsPsychol
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I’m excited to share one of two papers accepted to #Interspeech2025! @ISCAInterspeech “Spectrotemporal Modulation: Efficient & Interpretable Feature Representation for Classifying Speech, Music & Environmental Sounds” 📄 Paper: https://t.co/uNavqnjtux
#NeuroInspiredML #AudioAI
arxiv.org
Audio DNNs have demonstrated impressive performance on various machine listening tasks; however, most of their representations are computationally costly and uninterpretable, leaving room for...
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Please RT: Postdoctoral opening in my lab thanks to @ERC_Research SyG Chronology in collab. w/ wonderful @Bathellier99546 @ostojic_srdjan @mjaz_jazlab Interested in characterizing temporal cognitive maps in the human brain?👇 https://t.co/ZSAhTIjMtE
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Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵
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The arrest and prosecution of elected officials like Mayor Ras Baraka and Judge Hannah Dugan portend a frightening escalation in Trump’s drive to authoritarianism.
democracynow.org
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Newark has a long history of resistance to oppression, as President Trump and his enablers are about to find out.
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It's cool that on his 25th birthday, @LukePoeppel got this lovely recognition of his conducting work by the Sir Georg Solti Foundation! #proudfather and also... Music is one antidote to what is otherwise a less-than-sane time. https://t.co/blRQtBmo6p
soltifoundation.us
The conductors hold positions throughout the United States, in Austria, France, and Germany, as well as enjoying guest engagements around the globe.
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The Cogan Lab is looking for a new clinical research specialist/research assistant! If you are interested in speech, language, and BCI and want to work with patients with implanted with intracranial electrodes, reach out! https://t.co/ubQEqvTZyz
coganlab.org
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