Language and cognition research lab focussing on speakers of Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard & Dialect varieties. Based: @AbertayPsych, led by @DrNeilKirk.
Dundee, Scotland
Joined January 2018
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New research suggests that when a scammer uses AI to sound just like you, you are more likely to fall prey to the scam on.wsj.com/46i0pFI
MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
#RegisteredReport Bilingual Language Control During Sentence vs. Single Word Production doi.org/10.1525/collabra.162…
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As synthetic voices become indistinguishable from real ones, DIGIT spoke with psychologist Dr Neil Kirk about how our instinct to trust our own accents could make way for deepfakes targeting not just individuals, but entire regions.
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#tech #deepfakes #AIvoices #AyeRobot
MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
New preprint of my #AIVOICE work - I used the Voice Changer feature on @elevenlabs and showed that listeners weren’t all that great at distinguishing natural from AI-enhanced voices, but were more likely to believe the voice was human when it spoke a familiar regional dialect.
"Eh? Aye!": Categorisation bias for natural human vs AI-enhanced voices is influenced by dialect. osf.io/skcv2/
MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
An excellent start to #ICL2024 Francis Ameka in the first plenary flags a Western theoretical bias in linguistics and a crucial shift from Western standard languages to minority non-standardised languages. @DrNeilKirk you got a shoutout!
MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
We’re offering a 3.5 year fully-funded 🤑 #PhD studentship using @AbertayUni’s new #VR and #VirtualProduction facilities 🎥 to investigate language control 🧠 🗣️
#openscience #psychology
🚨 Deadline 11th August 🚨
More details and to apply👇🏻
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More info here👇
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Excited to offer a funded #PhD studentship at the intersection of Psychology & Games Tech, investigating cognitive processes in speakers of @MINDLanguages using state-of-the-art #VR & #VirtualProduction facilities in our ViPRE Studio. Deadline 11th Aug.
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MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
Excited to offer a funded #PhD studentship at the intersection of Psychology & Games Tech, investigating cognitive processes in speakers of @MINDLanguages using state-of-the-art #VR & #VirtualProduction facilities in our ViPRE Studio. Deadline 11th Aug.
abertay.ac.uk/about/working-…
MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
Looking for a fully-funded PhD investigating language control processes using some very fancy virtual production technology? Then come and work with me at @AbertayUni in Sunny Dundee! (RTs appreciated).
Excited to offer a funded #PhD studentship at the intersection of Psychology & Games Tech, investigating cognitive processes in speakers of @MINDLanguages using state-of-the-art #VR & #VirtualProduction facilities in our ViPRE Studio. Deadline 11th Aug.
abertay.ac.uk/about/working-…
MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
The Science of Speaking Scots: an overview of Scots
Watch the #ScotsEd23 presentation bi Dr Neil Kirk (@DrNeilKirk) o @AbertayUni:
➡️ youtu.be/HfK6-veoiD8
Ye kin watch the hale Scots in Education conference 2023 here:
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#Scots #ScotsLanguage
ALT Science of Speaking Scots - Dr Neil Kirk - Lecurer in Psychology, Abertay University
Excited to offer a funded #PhD studentship at the intersection of Psychology & Games Tech, investigating cognitive processes in speakers of @MINDLanguages using state-of-the-art #VR & #VirtualProduction facilities in our ViPRE Studio. Deadline 11th Aug.
abertay.ac.uk/about/working-…
Check out this thread showcasing one of our recent publications! We are really proud to have published this as a Registered Report and hope this will be the first of many, such is our commitment to #OpenScience 🧠
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 - @MatDeclerck and I are really delighted to have had a #RegisteredReport published in @PLOSONE investigating language control processes in speakers of Dundonian Scots and Scottish Standard English, funded by @CarnegieUni . 🧵👇
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…
Really enjoyed being part of this collaboration - see thread below for details! 👇🏻
🚨New preprint alert!🚨 I'm thrilled to share "Shared or separate: Control processes of cross- and within- language interference", summarising 3 experiments with Dutch-English, Arabic-English, and Chinese-English bilinguals investigating cognitive control. psyarxiv.com/f82wk/
Exciting times! Looking forward to getting started...
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Delighted to have been awarded £9920 from the @BritishAcademy_ /@LeverhulmeTrust small grants scheme with @MatDeclerck to improve ecological validity of language control research. Particularly pleased as we built in a submission to @PCI_RegReports as part of the proposal!
Did you know you can read about our work in...
Spanish:
blog.duolingo.com/es/diferen…
Portuguese:
blog.duolingo.com/pt/idiomas…
German:
blog.duolingo.com/de/verarbe…
as well as English:
blog.duolingo.com/languages-…
MIND Your Languages Lab retweeted
Interested in studying Psychology in Scotland's coolest city? Come and apply to study with us in 2023/24. Offer holder days will be held on 22 & 29th April.
Check the video for more about who we are and what we do...👇
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🚨New paper just published online in Applied Psycholinguistics by @DrNeilKirk :
MIND your language(s): Recognizing Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard(ized), and Dialect variety usage in “monolinguals” bit.ly/3V5pH1N
In this position piece, I outline the lack of diversity in the language varieties that are often studied in psycholinguistic research and how this can impact bilingual research by misclassifying some speakers as "monolingual" despite engaging cognitive mechanisms like bilinguals.