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Have laws gotten simpler over time? Analyzing all laws by congress 1951-2022, we (w/ Frank Mollica, Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT) find laws remain laden with complex structures vs baseline, suggesting efforts to simplify have largely failed Out now American Psychological Association JEP-General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-76… 1/

1/ Really excited to share: Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines w Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Annual Reviews We survey the insights that language models (LMs) provide on the question of how language is represented and processed in the human brain. rb.gy/8afztv

Join us online for the May 13–14 for a star-studded #NSF-sponsored workshop: New Horizons in Language Science: Large Language Models, Language Structure, and the Cognitive & Neural Basis of Language! Interdisciplinary talks & discussion on three themes: 1/ newhorizonsinlanguagescience.github.io

LLMs fundamentally differ from the human language system. One notable difference is that biological brains are spatially organized, while current LLMs are not. Excited about our work addressing this issue, led by Taha Binhuraib 🦉 and Nick Blauch, where we propose a topographic LLM!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 2-year full-time research coordinator. Help me get my new language-brain lab at Stanford University off the ground! fMRI and coding bg needed. Ideal for post-bacs interested in comp/cog/neuro/lang. Apply by May 31 for full consideration. Please RT! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-sc…

Here's a quick thread to explain a few ideas I am super excited about. There will be a longer (book-length) version of this and more in about a year. The basic question is: can we ever *know* that a given representation is right? In a brain, an LLM, … x.com/spiantado/stat…

Delighted to share our perspective piece “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought” now out in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… (with long-term collaborators (and friends) steven t. piantadosi and Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT) 1/n

The 2024 winners are: Mudafia Zafar, "The Role of Locality and Formulation Ease during Sentence Production" (with Samar Husain) Maayan Keshev, "A transient binding model of interference in sentence processing" (with Mandy Cartner, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Brian Dillon) Maayan Keshev

Are you a grad student who wants to give a talk at Princeton, expenses paid? Nominate yourself or a colleague here! forms.gle/WN2ybYMuZiW3re… Priority given to non-ivy schools and students from diverse backgrounds.

New paper with Alexander Fung, Pramod RT/ಪ್ರಮೋದ್ ರಾ ತಾ , Jessica Chomik , Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected], Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 on the representations that underlie our intuitive physical reasoning about the world. Thread 🧵about our new preprint 📄✨linked here: tinyurl.com/intphyslang 1/10

New paper!🧠**The cerebellar components of the human language network** with: Hannah Small Moshe Poliak Greta Tuckute Ben Lipkin agata wolna Anila D'Mello and Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n 🧵