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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

📢 Postdoc advert closes in 2 weeks! Get in touch with me if you have any questions about the position or the application. Deadline Aug 16. Please RT!

The program for the Experimental Pragmatics in Italy 2024 conference (xPrag 2024) is out: sites.google.com/view/xpragit20… lots of exciting talks! Also, you can listen to me on turn-taking, Yngwie Nielsen on linguistic alignment and Line Kruse on deictics.

Questions to ask yourself before giving up (by Kaitlyn Boulding) Are you hydrated? When did you last glut your thirst with a handful of spring? Have you eaten anything besides emails or your fingernails in the last three hours? Have you pulled the protein out of an oak

Why concepts are (probably) vectors (cell.com/trends/cogniti…)

Our new study is out today in the New England Journal of Medicine! We demonstrate a speech neuroprosthesis that decodes the attempted speech of a man with ALS into text with 97.5% accuracy, enabling him to communicate with his family, friends, and colleagues in his own home. 1/9

Are you a researcher? Feel like having time to pursue your ideas in an international, interdisciplinary environment? Fancy exploring life and society in one the the most vibrant cities in Northern Europe? Then check out our new call for fellows Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. Details below!

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_…

🧠 Exciting news for #neuroscience! Launching deepmriprep: Voxel-based Morphometry (VBM) preprocessing via neural networks in ~10 seconds per #brain image 🚀 🔗 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10656 🔗 GitHub: github.com/wwu-mmll/deepm… Install via "pip install deepmriprep"

Plz RT My excellent colleague Mikkel Wallentin and I are recruiting 2 PhD students for a project on the neural correlates of spatial communication and mental body map in typical and atypical ageing. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/ope… Start date: Feb 1 ‘25 Appl deadline: Oct 1 ‘24

Working with Andreas Højlund is wonderful. If you want to do a PhD and can live with me, then read this:

PhDs at Aarhus University on spatial communication, ageing and the brain. Pass the word: phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/ope…

V happy that this study is now published in eLife - the journal with nice reviews and a wonderful editorial assessment. Quantifying multimodal context (of spoken language) in naturalistic stimuli is not an easy task, but we hope this can provide some inspiration. 🧵elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Folks in 🇩🇰 & beyond! On Oct 1st, we are hosting (Interacting Minds) a workshop exploring research at the intersection of NLP x social sciences, cognition, & humanities, with 3 awesome keynotes by @dirk_hovy, Maria Antoniak & Sandro Pezzelle. Register here: interactingminds.au.dk/events/single-…

Science faces an explainability crisis: ML models can predict many natural phenomena but can't explain them We tackle this issue in language neuroscience by using LLMs to generate *and validate* explanations with targeted follow-up experiments arxiv.org/abs/2410.00812 1/2

A quick simulation to demonstrate the wild variability of p-values statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/08/a-q…

1/10 Very excited to announce that my thesis project is now a preprint! We present the first detailed study of mental imagery in human ventral temporal cortex, bringing together the interests of Doris Tsao and Ueli Rutishauser. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Academic ironies

Multimodal data from 98 individuals: neuroimaging, genetics, dendritic spine morphometry, proteomics, and gene expression; identifies 100s of proteins that explain individual differences in MRI measures | Nature Neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4159…