David Poeppel
@davidpoeppel
• NYU • Max Planck Society Married to writer @amypoeppel Kids @alexpoeppel @andrewpoeppel @lukepoeppel
The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.375…
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." democracynow.org/2025/7/1/heat_…
MIT on Haj Ross, a great, great linguist who died in May 2025: whamit.mit.edu/2025/05/19/joh…
Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
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.
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: rademakerlab.com/job-add
Auditory enthusiasts: see this jneurosci.org/content/45/25/… New work from Yue Sun, Oded Ghitza & @Michalareas_G
Join us in congratulating our Award Recipients: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, David Poeppel, and Jacob Momsen! 👏 #SNL2025 Learn more here: 2025.neurolang.org/awards-informa…
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 :-)
this conversation will be on repeat for many academics as they visit family this summer
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 rdcu.be/epA1J in @CommsPsychol
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: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23509 #NeuroInspiredML #AudioAI
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?👇 brainthemind.com/wp-content/upl…
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🧵
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/2025/5/15/the_…
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. soltifoundation.us/press-releases…
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! coganlab.org/news
This important lecture provides a clear and compelling analysis - based on several truly depressing cases. Deserves to be watched and shared. We can and must do better. media.ccc.de/v/eh22-84-the-…
Humans think — AI, not so much. Science explains why our brains aren't just fancy computers salon.com/2025/04/25/hum…
My favorite innate complex behavior of the day
Did you know? When snails hatch, they eat the shells of their eggs. This gives them needed calcium for their own shells.