Olga Kepinska
multilingualism, language acquisition & neurolinguistics. researcher @cnrs.fr @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social; previously postdoc @brainlanglab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, UCSF/UConn brainLENSlab, LUCL Leiden & LIBC Leiden. https://olgakepinska
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaThe extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaAwake infant fMRI offers a rare window into early brain and cognitive development. In a new paper out now in Infancy, we leverage data from hundreds of infant scans from the Saxe and Turk-Browne Labs to reveal what factors drive scanning success — and how future studies can maximize data retention!
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaAn abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaThis is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaNew issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬 An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain! 🧠 Immersive feature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🧠 Perspective: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- I'm more than happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu for my project on fetal language acquisition. In DiverseSounds, we'll focus on prenatal language environment and its effects on neural plasticity and language development post-birth. Exciting times ahead!
- Reposted by Olga Kepinska“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaExperimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaOut now at Nat. Neuro. "Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development" Huge congrats to Josh Roffman team on this herculean effort. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaAlert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaChildren are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
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- 🚨🚨🚨Big, BIG news!!! 🎉 In Fall 2025, I'm starting as a CNRS Researcher at LPL @univ-amu.fr in Aix-en-Provence, South of France. Thrilled to join the amazing @ilcb.bsky.social community and launch my research on fetal language acquisition & brain development in multilingual contexts. 🫄🗣️🧠 Stay tuned!
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaDo caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaSind Sie deutschsprachig mit wenigen Französischkenntnisse? Dann nehmen Sie an einer wissenschaftlichen Online-Studie über Sprache von @nocelab.bsky.social teil und helfen Sie dabei, den Einfluss der Sprache auf die Kognition zu verstehen.
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaThanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
- Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaExcellent tutorial on fitting voxel-wise encoding models to #fMRI data by Dupré La Tour & @gallantlab.org! Check out their step by step walk through! Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Viktor Pfaffenrot, David G. Norris, et al: Characterizing BOLD activation patterns in the human hippocampus with laminar fMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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- Hey, that's us! @brainlanglab.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaA year ago our faculty commissioned & adopted guidance on GenAI and research integrity. Preamble below, pdf at osf.io/preprints/os..., text also at ideophone.org/generative-a... Key to these guidelines is a values-first rather than a technology-first approach, based on NL code of research conduct
- Reposted by Olga KepinskaI'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
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- Delighted to have the Version of Record of our work published by @elife.bsky.social. Please take a look at how we answered the question of whether the auditory cortex accommodates multilingual phonological experience (spoiler: it does, and very interestingly so!) 🗣️👂🧠
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- Reposted by Olga KepinskaI am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
