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Super excited about Cory's Cory Shain work showing that you can recover the language network via func connectivity methods from ~any fMRI data. A massive effort using all the data ever collected in my lab from neurotypical participants! Go, Cory!

Wow… such a beautiful paper! Real tour de force

🚨 I’m hosting a Student Researcher Google DeepMind! Join us on the Autonomous Assistants team (led by Edward Grefenstette ) to explore multi-agent communication—how agents learn to interact, coordinate, and solve tasks together. DM me for details!

As a child growing up in the former Soviet Union, Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 studied English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish. Today she is is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain’s language-processing machinery. news.mit.edu/2025/evelina-f…

Excited to share new work on the language system! Using a large fMRI dataset (n=772) we comprehensively search for language-selective regions across the brain. w/Aaron Wright, Ben Lipkin, and Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Link to the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread below!👇🧵

There are a number of permanent positions available in Glasgow, UK. This includes a professorship for 7T and layer-fMRI work. nature.com/naturecareers/… posted on behalf of Lars Muckli now at: larsmuckli.bsky.social

Accepting the first of two 2025 Troland Research Awards is Evelina Fedorenko of MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, for groundbreaking contributions and insights into the language network in the human brain. 🧠 #NASaward #NAS162 Watch now: ow.ly/R6gP50VIsih

Excited to announce I'll be starting as an assistant professor at TTIC for fall 2026! In the meantime, I'll be graduating and hanging around Ai2 in Seattle🏔️

Want to apply computational tools to the science of human language? But not ready to go into a PhD program? UC Irvine's post-bacc in computational language science bridges the gap. Fall 2025 applications are open!

5yo stayed home from school today. I'm thinking of writing a horror novela called "The buddy who wasn't really sick."

I’ve been fascinated lately by the question: what kinds of capabilities might base LLMs lose when they are aligned? i.e. where can alignment make models WORSE? I’ve been looking into this with Christopher Potts and here's one piece of the answer: randomness and creativity

What are the organizing dimensions of language processing? We show that voxel responses are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals.

These days I think a lot about "Henry's Awful Mistake", a book from my childhood in which the main character keeps trying to kill an ant with a hammer until his whole house is a waterlogged pile of rubble.

New study from the lab! Joshua Rozner (w/Leonie Weissweiler) shows that human-scale LMs still learn surprisingly sophisticated things about English syntax.