David Poeppel
@davidpoeppel
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• NYU • Max Planck Society Married to writer @amypoeppel Kids @alexpoeppel @andrewpoeppel @lukepoeppel
Joined March 2009
I'm incredibly honored to receive the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring. This makes me very sentimental! I'm so proud of the wonderful, super sharp students and postdocs that I have had the privilege and pleasure to work with. ❤️ Thank you!!!
Congratulations to the 2025 SfN award & prize recipients! Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries. SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25. Learn more. 🔗 https://t.co/D409hHLqvy
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We are about a month away from the publication release date for my @mitpress book, Wired for Words - The Neural Architecture of Language. Here's a synopsis of each chapter. Chapter 1: What is Language? This chapter introduces the biological perspective on language,
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The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests.
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CogNeuroLanguage: new by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation https://t.co/9T8gIQuq7K
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Speech comprehension involves transforming an acoustic waveform into meaning. To do so, the human brain generates a hierarchy of features that conv...
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Congrats to Phoebe and Omri for making this study happen!
thrilled to share our new preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection! Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls paper: https://t.co/J7gtGrAySZ w/ @PhoebeHChen (co-first) @vvobot @davidpoeppel @todd_gureckis thread below 👇
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The book will be released @mitpress in late November. It's available for pre-order now.
amazon.com
The neural architecture of language has been a hotly debated topic in neurology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy since the early 1800s. Is language separable from intelligence? Is...
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My attempt to depict the neural architecture of language as motivated in my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Like colors represent functional connectivity. Main insight: linguistic levels are all organized with a sensorimotor-like architecture, the Linguistic Sensorimotor
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JOB ALERT: Postdoctoral Fellow (MEG/MRI) @ NYU https://t.co/NRMHJHrVMi Start date flexible Apply by Oct 15 Email me if you have questions: eb134@nyu.edu Full details below.
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“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.
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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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