We are just about to start #2023SPR with 3 pre-conference workshops. There's still time to join us for one if you haven't yet registered. Check out the topics here bit.ly/2023spr-precon. See you soon!

🆕📰New joint #meta-#science paper by current (or past) FriedericiLab (MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften) members out in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: "Cleaning up the Brickyard: How Theory and Methodology Shape Experiments in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language" Read/Download (open access): doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a…

Here, in full directly on Twitter, is "A Hackers' Guide to Language Models". This 90 minute tutorial is designed to be the one place I point coders at when they ask "hey, tell me everything I need to know about LLMs!" It covers both OpenAI models and open source ones in depth.

Today we welcome Mete Atatüre (Mete Atature) as the new Head of the Cavendish Laboratory. Read more about his journey and his vision for the Department : phy.cam.ac.uk/news/welcoming…

📣 We're excited to announce the virtual component of our CogSci2023 workshop on LLMs! We'll be hosting a live panel with our speakers in an interactive town-hall on Zoom. 📅 Date: Friday, Oct 13 12-1:30 EST 👉 Register here: forms.gle/9Te7k3tYgg8jPu… 👇 Talk recordings below

👋I boost a lot of job opportunities on here and now it's time to boost my own! I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. 🧵👇

New infographic - right ear advantage! Did you know we are quicker to recognize words if we hear them in our right ear? It's because of contralateral organization. Sounds in our right ear are processed in left auditory cortex--right next door to where we access word meanings!

Michael Eisen is apparently being ousted from his role as eLife - the journal Editor-in-Chief due to his tweet referencing a satirical article conveying the tragedy of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Concerned about this form of censure? Sign this open letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold. Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI

My new book has just arrived! “Seeing the mind” is a journey through the history of cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging and neuronal recordings. It features one hundred of the most beautiful images of the brain and a short text explaining why they matter and what they mean.

Today in Nature, we show how a standard neural net, optimized for compositional skills, can mimic human systematic generalization (SG) in a head-to-head comparison. This is the capstone of a 5 year effort with Marco Baroni to make progress on SG. (1/8) nature.com/articles/s4158…

American nurse who got out of Gaza describes the desperation she saw youtu.be/gk7iWgCk14U?si…

It was fun. I got to talk about both human- and AI-related work on language and cognition in (hopefully) simple words

Meet the winners of the 2023 CogSci #MindChallenge 🥇Ilina Bhaya-Grossman and Deborah Levy, from ChangLabUCSF at UC San Francisco 🥈 John Hollander, from University of Memphis 🥉 Alex Carstensen, from Arizona State University, and anjie cao | 曹安洁 & Sarah Wu, from Stanford University 🌟 Qi Guo, from UC Berkeley Check out their videos!👇

really happy to share our extensive MEG naturalistic listening dataset! official publication now out: nature.com/articles/s4159… delighted to see research teams already using the data to answer really interesting and varied questions! 🧠👂🗣️

Time for Enes AVCU and I to resurrect our modeling career

26 Ocak Cuma günü, Türkiye saatiyle saat 18:00 ile 20:00 arasında çevrimiçi olarak Prof. Edward Gibson’dan “A Cognitive Approach to Syntax: Dependency Grammar” dinleyeceğiz. Hepiniz davetlisiniz!

We (maclab.sites.tamu.edu) are hiring a lab manager! This is an ideal position for someone who wants to apply to graduate school. Minimum 2-year commitment. Please repost!