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📢 Congrats to Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦, winner of a 2025 National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award for her groundbreaking contributions and insights into the language network in the human brain! 🤩#NASaward mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/01/23/eve… MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Science

Congratulations to Nicholas Turk-Browne of Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University, winner of a 2025 Troland Research Award for pioneering contributions advancing our understanding of learning and memory in the human brain! Read about his contributions: nasonline.org/award/troland-… #NASaward

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae and in collaboration with Fan Yang explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

New preprint! 🧠🤖 Brain encoding in 21 languages! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ Saima Malik-Moraleda, Greta Tuckute, and Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 (1/)

Exciting work by an incoming postdoc Andrea deVarda (Andrea de Varda). Multilingual neural net LMs have enough of a shared inter-language component so that you can train an LM-to-brain mapping model using, say, English+Tamil and then predict brain responses to Italian. Pretty wild,eh?

We investigate how the brain processes diverse languages using an LLM-brain encoding framework (led by Andrea de Varda)! Encoding models fitted on brain responses in one language transfer to a new, unseen language--demonstrating a shared representational space across languages.

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: link.springer.com/article/10.375… We (w/ Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT, Center for Brain Recovery) explore how individuals with aphasia interpret sentences & whether their comprehension difficulties stem from increased expectations of noise in language input. 🧵👇

I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver

Congratulations to Stanford NLP Group founder Christopher Manning for being elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE, National Academies) Class of 2025 for the development and dissemination of natural language processing methods.

A decade of studies from labs around the world provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain’s gamma rhythms could help fight #Alzheimers, and perhaps other, neurological diseases. picower.mit.edu/news/review-ev… #neuroscience MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences

MIT researchers found that legal language is intentionally complex, not for clarity, but to create a false sense of authority. Even lawyers prefer plain English. mitsha.re/iMCm50ValLB

A PNASNews study by Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Saima Malik-Moraleda finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network. mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/18/to-…

Super excited about Cory's Cory Shain work showing that you can recover the language network via func connectivity methods from ~any fMRI data. A massive effort using all the data ever collected in my lab from neurotypical participants! Go, Cory!

As a child growing up in the former Soviet Union, Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 studied English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish. Today she is is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain’s language-processing machinery. news.mit.edu/2025/evelina-f…

Congratulations to Gloria Choi! The Samsung Ho-Am honor recognizes her research on connections between the immune and central nervous systems and their relevance to #autism and other disorders picower.mit.edu/news/gloria-ch…

Social Media Post: Today, the newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists issued our first statement to push back again Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Stand with us as we demand respect for real science and the autism community. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

Accepting the first of two 2025 Troland Research Awards is Evelina Fedorenko of MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, for groundbreaking contributions and insights into the language network in the human brain. 🧠 #NASaward #NAS162 Watch now: ow.ly/R6gP50VIsih

I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…