Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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I am Ted Gibson and I run a language lab at MIT. I tweet about psycholinguistics, cognitive science, language research, linguistics, and words.
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2013
Announcements for Open Mind, an MIT Press Open Access journal for Cognitive Science. 1. We are now “Diamond” access for the foreseeable future (at least 2 years at this point): this means there are NO CHARGES for publication (or submission, or anything).
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RT @thomashikaru: 1/7 If you're at CogSci 2025, I'd love to see you at my talk on Friday 1pm PDT in Nob Hill A! I'll be talking about our w….
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RT @MoshePoliak: (1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡.Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency str….
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RT @SashaBoguraev: A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advan….
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RT @AlisonGopnik: I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today!.
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WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original...
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RT @theNASciences: Accepting the first of two 2025 Troland Research Awards is Evelina Fedorenko of @mitbrainandcog, for groundbreaking cont….
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RT @HelenTager: Social Media Post:.Today, the newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists issued our first statement to push back again Rob….
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The newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists (160 members and counting) today issued a statement in response to remarks and actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Departm...
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RT @mcgovernmit: As a child growing up in the former Soviet Union, @ev_fedorenko studied English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish. Toda….
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MIT associate professor Evelina Fedorenko studies the brain’s language processing regions: how they arise, how they’re affected by different kinds of input, and how each contributes to language...
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RT @MIT_Picower: Congratulations to Gloria Choi! The Samsung Ho-Am honor recognizes her research on connections between the immune and cent….
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Honor recognizes Choi’s research on connections between the immune and central nervous systems and their relevance to autism and other disorders
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RT @ev_fedorenko: Super excited about Cory's @coryshain work showing that you can recover the language network via func connectivity method….
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RT @mcgovernmit: A @PNASNews study by @ev_fedorenko @saima_mm finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s….
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RT @MIT: MIT researchers found that legal language is intentionally complex, not for clarity, but to create a false sense of authority. Eve….
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An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write...
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RT @MIT_Picower: A decade of studies from labs around the world provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain’s ga….
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A decade of studies from labs around the world provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain’s gamma rhythms could help fight Alzheimer’s, and perhaps other, neurological...
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RT @stanfordnlp: Congratulations to @stanfordnlp founder @chrmanning for being elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE, @theNA….
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RT @doristsao: I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply….
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RT @raryskin: 🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: We (w/ @LanguageMIT, @AphasiaLab) explore how individuals w….
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - Individuals with “agrammatic” receptive aphasia have long been known to rely on semantic plausibility rather than syntactic cues when interpreting...
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RT @ev_fedorenko: Our language neuroscience lab ( is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Ap….
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Our research aims to understand how the language system works and how it fits into the broader landscape of the human mind and brain.
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RT @GretaTuckute: We investigate how the brain processes diverse languages using an LLM-brain encoding framework (led by @devarda_a)!.Encod….
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RT @devarda_a: New preprint! 🧠🤖. Brain encoding in 21 languages!. w/ @saima_mm, @GretaTuckute, and @ev_fedorenko (….
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At the heart of language neuroscience lies a fundamental question: How does the human brain process the rich variety of languages? Recent developments in Natural Language Processing, particularly in...
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RT @ev_fedorenko: Exciting work by an incoming postdoc Andrea deVarda (@devarda_a). Multilingual neural net LMs have enough of a shared int….
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RT @PsyHongbo: 🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member….
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Abstract. Is everyone equally justified in blaming another’s moral transgression? Across five studies (four pre-registered; total N = 1,316 American participants), we investigated the perception of...
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