
Halie Olson
@halieolson
Postdoc @mit studying toddlers, brains, and language.
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17-01-2019 20:41:00
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If you have a toddler and would be interested in getting a picture of their brain, consider participating in my study Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) w/ Rebecca Saxe and help us learn how toddlers’ brains process language! 🧠 Sign up link: bit.ly/mitkidsbrains MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences and McGovern Institute


The Saxe Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (PI: Rebecca Saxe) is hiring for ✨2✨ post-bac positions: a lab manager and a lab tech! I have been the lab manager for two years and it has been a wonderful experience (see why in 🧵). * Apply at: bit.ly/saxelabmanager & bit.ly/saxelabtechnic…!

6 yrs ago Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Sam Norman-Haignere & I decided to study early cortical responses to music & speech. I am excited to announce that our paper, “Preliminary evidence for selective cortical responses to music in one-month-old infants” has been published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Pumped to post our preprint w/ co-first authors Halie Olson & Kristy Johnson, 5+ years in the making 🎉 We find that personal interest significantly affects the response to language stimuli in the brain, in both neurotypical and autistic children! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/2)









So fun to chat about this project that I worked on with the fabulous Anila D'Mello Kristy Johnson and John Gabrieli 🧠 Thanks so much for having me, Adani!


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


So excited this paper is finally out! 🎉 A wonderful collaborative effort (started in my 1st year of grad school) with Anila D'Mello Kristy Johnson and John Gabrieli to study how kids' brains respond to stories about their interests: doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

Thrilled that this wonderful paper is finally out - a journey we started pre-pandemic in 2018 with Halie Olson and Kristy Johnson. Although seemingly intuitive, the results of this paper were a surprise to us authors in many ways. 🧵below:



Check out our new preprint on incorporating special interests into neuroimaging in autism! With incredible collaborators Halie Olson Kristy Johnson and John Gabrieli! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Quick 🧵