Richard J. Binney
Associate Professor, Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Semantic Memory and Language Processing,
Bangor University, Wales.
Associate Editor, Cortex
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- Really delighted to see this nice work by Emiko Muraki published in HBM, and excited to get feedback from the community.
- 🚨 New paper out in Human Brain Mapping! 🚨 with @pennypexman.bsky.social and @rjbinney.bsky.social 🧠 We show that the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) semantic hub supports abstract verb processing—with distinct activity patterns for: • Emotional verbs • Mental verbs • Non-embodied verbs
- The Friday feeling when 2 papers are accepted in one day! Looking forward to sharing the news in full.
- Latest pub from the fab @veronicadiveica.bsky.social, in collab with @pennypexman.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki, and me.
- 🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 We show that concrete (e.g., FLAG) and abstract (e.g., DEMOCRACY) concepts differ not just in the info they contain (e.g., sensorimotor, affective, social, linguistic) but in how these conceptual dimensions interrelate. 🔗 Link: rdcu.be/eb53b
- Hosted by @psychbangor.bsky.social and the Worth Wales Centre for Human Anatomy. This summer school is an unrivalled opportunity to hold and dissect a human brain. Visit : www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/othe...
- The world's best functional neuroanatomy and dissection course is now accepting applications for Autumn 2025. Visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/othe...
- Neuroscience/Neuropsychology of Language community: I look forward to your manuscript submissions at Cortex, and am committed to providing a quality author experience. See the link for an editorial about the future of the journal from our new editor-in-chief and new-look board.
- Just a few more days to submit your abstract!
- The BNS is delighted to present this first look at the 🧠 SPRING MEETING 🧠 2025 programme, and announce we've an 🚨 EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE (Feb 17th)! 🚨 All this great science for just a £15 registration fee. Or for free if your a BNS member. Visit www.the-BNS.org. #neuroskyence #psychscisky
- I’ll see some of you there!
- The BNS is delighted to present this first look at the 🧠 SPRING MEETING 🧠 2025 programme, and announce we've an 🚨 EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE (Feb 17th)! 🚨 All this great science for just a £15 registration fee. Or for free if your a BNS member. Visit www.the-BNS.org. #neuroskyence #psychscisky
- What an opportunity!
- The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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- 🚨 Preprint Friday! 🚨Pleased to share this novel and exciting work led by Irina Giurgea in collaboration with Penny Pexman. "An unprecedented, large-scale word ratings study of associations with motivation." Mini -🧵 below... Link to Preprint:
- Reward as a Facet of Word Meaning: Ratings of Motivation for 8601 English Words: osf.io/h9m8u/
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View full threadMoreover, in a series of regression analyses, we show for the first time that the motivation associated with a word's meaning explains unique variance in participant performance on lexical, semantic, and recognition memory tasks. (6/7)
- The study was preregistered and data are openly available at OSF. (7/7) Link to Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Existing ratings of affect may capture part of the reward construct, but preliminary investigations revealed a need to understand aspects of word meaning related to motivation. Therefore, we report data from a large-scale word ratings study of associations with motivation.(4/7)
- We describe original analyses that show that our definition of motivation and the associated ratings capture a reliable dimension of word meaning that is distinct from other related dimensions like concreteness and valence. (5/7)
- Across neurophysiological and cognitive literature, reward is considered an essential aspect of human experience, comprising affective and motivation-related processes. The pursuit and receipt of reward greatly influences the types and frequency of experiences we engage in. (2/7)
- Therefore, reward could shape the way in which we learn the meaning of things. Despite all of this, the contribution of reward processing to the representation of concepts has received little attention. (3/7)
- When someone says neuropsychology but mean cognitive psychology/neuroscience
- A statement but far from a solution to anything.
- Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
- On my way to #BNSAutumn24. @britishneuropsych.bsky.social
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- Seems there’s another surge in new users - welcome! Here’s my UK Psychology starter pack go.bsky.app/JUgQGsPat://did:plc:wkr2mklfrbmhj6rpluz3xo6r/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2rfarvslc2n
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- My toddler daughter is a fan of our traditional collections in the library at Bangor University.
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- So good to hear. Some meetings are a chore (the bad), some are necessary but wholly unsatisfying (the ugly) but there are those which (often surprise you and) drive you on (the good). Despite the unpredictability and mounting challenges, I love my job too. 🙂
- These 5 bright psychology undergraduate students are learning to use magnetic resonance imaging to research brain function at Bangor University. I’m proud we can offer this student experience via our world class imaging facility in the College of Medicine and Health.
- Looking forward to welcoming you as BNS program secretary for the penultimate time.
- One week until #BNSAutumn24! 🥂🧠🎉. You can join us in London or online, for one or both days (one low price). Inc, talks from Cathy Price, Brenda Rapp, Chris Frith, Peter Hagoort, and many more! See the Day One programme below and visit www.the-BNS.org to register by 25/11.
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- A project about abstract verb representation.
- New Preprint!🚨A really fun project because it (i) had cool design and interesting results, and (ii) involved working with Emiko Muraki and Penny Pexman! Emiko led this work and was funded by Mitacs Canada to scan in our world class imaging centre at Bangor University. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- New Preprint!🚨A really fun project because it (i) had cool design and interesting results, and (ii) involved working with Emiko Muraki and Penny Pexman! Emiko led this work and was funded by Mitacs Canada to scan in our world class imaging centre at Bangor University. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Great time at the Seeing and Acting Workshop at Coimbra University, Portugal, a few weeks ago. PhD student Irina Giurgea and I took posters to showcase new work on conceptual knowledge representation, socialness and reward processing (collaborations with Penny Pexman and Veronica Diveica).
- Check out this new Registered-Reports start-up grant from the British Neuropsychological Society! 🧠💸 One award is available per year (max £1,000). The call for applications is now open and the winner is announced at the Spring 2025 meeting. Visit our website for further details: the-bns.org
- Two weeks to go…not too late to register! 🧠🧠🧠
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- 🧠British Neuropsych Society 🧠 Spring Meeting 2024. 🚨Just weeks away! 🚨For the full programme, and to register for just 🌟£15🌟, please visit www.the-bns.org/meetings
- Just under 2 months to go.... BNS Spring Meeting 2024. For the full programme, please visit www.the-bns.org/meetings
- In this new opinion piece led by Matt Rouse, we review predictions of the #SocialSemantics framework (Binney &Ramsey, 2020; Lambon Ralph et al.,2017) and it’s potential to account for social impairment in #FTD. Out now in @Brain1878 academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
- The British Neuropsychological Society is celebrating its 35 year anniversary this year! 🎂🎈🥳 Celebrate with us at our Spring Meeting on 24th & 25th April in London. We have an excellent programme for you lined up already. Abstracts by 1st Feb! www.The-BNS.org
- Christmas time Tucson-style. Happy holidays, friends and colleagues!
- 🚨New preprint🚨led by Veronica Diveica in collaboration with myself, Emiko Muraki and Penny Pexman. An intriguing set of findings arising from factor analysis and network modelling of sensorimotor, affective, and socialness ratings, and distributional and lexical properties of words.
- Mapping Semantic Space: Exploring the Higher-order Structure of Word Meaning: osf.io/dxcqn/
- Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome @laramaister.bsky.social and @pgmm.bsky.social (Paul Mullins) to #neuroskyence
- If you or someone you know would like to do a fully funded PhD on semantics, social knowledge, brain connectivity, or object recognition, please get in touch via my institutional email. Proposal deadline 12th January.
- That’s a wrap on Day One of the 2023 Autumn meeting of the British Neuropsychological Society. Highlights included a prize lecture by the inspirational Prof. @KhademF and a vibrant panel discussion (pictured here) featuring some brilliant early, mid and advanced career researchers
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- 3 words: pancetta, garlic, yolk 🙂
