Language in minds, brains, and machines. Linguistics faculty @Stanford. He/him.
Oct 19, 2023 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
👋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. 🧵👇
1/6 LAB FLAVOR: I'll be a Linguistics professor () with courtesy affiliations in Symbolic Systems () and Bio-X (). My lab will live in the Clark Center ().linguistics.stanford.edu symsys.stanford.edu biox.stanford.edu biox.stanford.edu/about/clark-ce…
Jul 20, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
New preprint! "No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network" with @ampaunov, @Jessica_ChenXY, @ben_lipkin, & @ev_fedorenko.
*Alex, Jessica and I contributed equally
1/biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
There's a close relationship b/w (a) understanding language and (b) understanding others' states of mind, esp for inferring implicit meanings.
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Nov 13, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
New preprint!
"'Constituent length' effects in fMRI do not provide evidence for abstract syntactic processing"
With @HopeKean, @ben_lipkin, @AffourtitJosef, @MattSiegelman, @FrancisMollica, & @ev_fedorenko
1/biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This is an attempt to replicate Pallier et al (2011, PNAS; "PDD"), an influential study claiming that left inferior frontal and posterior temporal regions selectively represent abstract syntax, independently of lexical content.
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