Now out in Nature Neuroscience: nature.com/articles/s4159… Congrats Saima Malik-Moraleda and team! (And here is the link to the Research Briefing: nature.com/articles/s4159…)

New preprint! "No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network" with Alexander Paunov, Xuanyi (Jessica) Chen, Ben Lipkin, & Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… *Alex, Jessica and I contributed equally 1/

I am starting a search for a permanent research scientist in my lab. If you got your PhD in CS, cognitive science, or neuroscience and are interested in language+brains, but are not sure you want to run your own lab and would be happy to work under my guidance, drop me a line.

As promised, a🧵on language and thought. The relationship between language and thought has long been pondered and debated. It may be one of the deepest and most exciting questions in cognitive science. 1/n

Remember the thread (below, for reference) on a woman (EG) who grew up without her left temporal lobe? After Greta Tuckute's work on EG got covered by WIRED, a few others reached out. One of them, the amazing Helen Santoro, is sharing her story in NYT: nytimes.com/2022/09/04/sci…

Behold! The best paper about the rapid expansion and visual specialisation of learning and memory centres in Heliconiini butterflies that you’ll have ever read… 1/n

And on the very last day that this can be called Shain, Paunov, Chen et al *2022*, our article on language and theory of mind is out in Cerebral Cortex! academic.oup.com/cercor/advance… Alexander Paunov Xuanyi (Jessica) Chen Ben Lipkin Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Happy New Year everybody!

New preprint - We show that neurotypical auditory cortex organization emerges in the absence of the contralateral auditory cortex. Ben Lipkin (co-first) Dr. Dana Boebinger Alexander Paunov Hope Kean Sam Norman-Haignere Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Here’s a 🧵on our new open access paper at CogSci Society journal: Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… led by Zheng Zhang Zheng Zhang, Leon Bergen, Alexander Paunov Rachel Ryskin

Thrilled to share this tour de force co-led by SammyFloyd+Olessia Jouravlev! 8yrs in the making! "A tripartite structure of pragmatic language abilities: comprehension of social conventions,intonation processing,and causal reasoning". W/Zach Mineroff; co-supervised w/Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT 1/n

📢Can’t believe I am finally letting the world (well, twitter) know that I will start as a Junior PI in Paris this summer! If you also happen to be #cosyne24 #Cosyne2024 CosyneMeeting and are interested in what we do (👇or check bio), come say hi! Otherwise, please RT 🙏 1/

This is now published in iScience - cell.com/iscience/fullt… Just a small (n=2) but very unique evidence that a single, neurotypically organized, auditory cortex suffices for typical function. Ben Lipkin (co-first) Dr. Dana Boebinger Alexander Paunov Hope Kean Sam Norman-Haignere Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦