It was a great experience to be able to present my work with Idan Blank on syntactic penetrability in LLMs at #CogSci2024. Thanks to everyone who attended the session and for the interesting discussions! CogSci Society

Accounts of learning typically focus on learning from external observations. But sometimes we learn without external input - we "learn by thinking". In this review, out today in TiCS, I consider learning by thinking across natural and artificial minds...

My colleague Idan Blank (not on X these days) asked me to spread the word about the ***2025 LSA Summer Institute*** :) He's teaching "Language and Thought" and "Language in Intelligent Machines". Reg opens later but you can check out the courses now center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/