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Lexical-Semantic Content, Not Syntactic Structure, Is the Main Contributor to ANN-Brain Similarity of fMRI Responses in the Language Network | doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… | by Carina Kauf, Greta Tuckute, Roger Levy, Jacob Andreas & Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦

We are more than halfway through the Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference 2024! But not to worry tomorrow will bring talks from Prof Kate Watkins, Stephanie Forkel, Sofie Valk and more, followed by an afternoon in honor of Peter Hagoort. #hils2024 Donders Institute LanguageinInteraction

Artificial Neural Network Language Models Predict Human Brain Responses to Language Even After a Developmentally Realistic Amount of Training | doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… | by Eghbal Hosseini, Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 & colleagues

Four days and nearly forty speakers🌐 Last week the Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference 2024 took place at the Grotius building of Radboud University. Thanks to the organisers and the conference team for all their work. LanguageinInteraction Donders Institute #hils2024

Predictive Coding or Just Feature Discovery? An Alternative Account of Why Language Models Fit Brain Data | doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… | by Richard Antonello & Alexander Huth

Happy Birthday Dr Milner! 🥳 pouring with rain here in UKnon St Swithan’s Day, which does not bode well for our summer ☔️

So this happened yesterday. Thrilled and honoured to be elected a fellow of The British Academy Congratulations to all the other fellows, including the wonderful Eve Clark Stanford University and Catherine Snow Harvard University! Oxford ExpPsychology St Hugh's College

Computational Language Modeling and the Promise of In Silico Experimentation | doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… | by Shailee Jain, Vy Vo, Leila Wehbe & Alexander Huth

Strong Prediction: Language Model Surprisal Explains Multiple N400 Effects | doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… | by James Michaelov, Megan D. Bardolph, Cyma K. Van Petten, Benjamin K. Bergen & Seana Coulson

Tracking Lexical and Semantic Prediction Error Underlying the N400 Using Artificial Neural Network Models of Sentence Processing | doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… | by Alessandro Lopopolo and Milena Rabovsky

New paper: Word formation patterns in the perception domain: A typological study of cross-modal semantic associations Elisabeth Norcliffe #OA degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Surprisal From Language Models Can Predict ERPs in Processing Predicate-Argument Structures Only if Enriched by an Agent Preference Principle | doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… | by Eva Huber, @BalthasarBickel & colleagues

Check out our latest issue, it's a special one! 🌟 Specifically, a Special Issue on the Role of the Cerebellum in Language Guest editors Drs. Fiez & Stoodley reflect on the term in "Small but Mighty: Ten Myths and Misunderstandings About the Cerebellum" doi.org/10.1162/nol_e_…

Can totally recommend! 5 or 10 months in Marseille and opportunity to interact, collaborate with and learn from such an impressive number of researchers focussed on Language Communication and Brain in Aix and Marseille.

Calling software engineers! Exciting opportunity to work with a fantastic team in Oxford to deliver real world clinical tools for brain imaging

Happy science fact of the day: It's a year since the first Imaging Neuroscience paper was published, with 280 papers since then. Hence in just the first year, over half a million dollars has stayed within academia, rather than going to Elsevier [shareholders etc].

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Thank you for all the great questions posed to our team this afternoon. It was a lot of fun.

Congratulations Asifa! 🍾