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2023, paper Aalok Sathe 9/20/24 2023, paper Aalok Sathe 9/20/24

Quantifying the redundancy between prosody and text

Wolf, L., Pimentel, T., Fedorenko, E., Cotterell, R., Warstadt, A., Wilcox, E., & Regev, T. 2023. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 9765-9784. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.606.
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Large language models implicitly learn to straighten neural sentence trajectories to construct a predictive representation of natural language

Hosseini, E., & Fedorenko, E. 2023. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36, 43918–43930. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.04930.
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WhisBERT: Multimodal text-audio language modeling on 100M words

Wolf, L., Tuckute, G., Kotar, K., Hosseini, E., Regev, T., Wilcox, E., & Warstadt, A. 2023. Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2 (BabyLM Challenge), 253-258.
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Let’s move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision

DiCarlo, J.J., Yamins, D.L., Ferguson, M.E., Fedorenko, E., Bethge, M., Bonnen, T., & Schrimpf, M. 2023. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e390. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23001607. PMID: 38054303.
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Event knowledge in large language models: The gap between the impossible and the unlikely

Kauf, C.*, Ivanova, A. A.*, Rambelli, J., Chersoni, E., She, J. S., Chowdhury, Z., Fedorenko, E. & Lenci, A. 2023. Cognitive Science, 47(11), p.e13386. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13386. PMID: 38009752.
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The language network is not engaged in object categorization

Benn, Y.*, Ivanova, A. A.*, Clark, O., Mineroff, Z., Seikus, C., Silva, J. S., Varley, R.^ & Fedorenko, E.^ 2023. Cerebral Cortex, 33(19), 10380–10400. 10.1093/cercor/bhad289. PMID: 37557910. PMC10545444.
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Grammatical cues to subjecthood are redundant in a majority of simple clauses across languages

Mahowald, K.*, Diachek, E.*, Gibson, E., Fedorenko, E.^, & Futrell, R.^ 2023. Cognition, 241, 105543. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105543. PMID: 37713956.
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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

Kauf, C.*, Tuckute, G.*, Levy, R., Andreas, J., & Fedorenko E. 2023. Neurobiology of Language, 5(1), 7-42. DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00116. PMID: 38645614. PMC11025651.
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Non-literal language processing is jointly supported by the language and Theory of Mind networks: Evidence from a novel meta-analytic fMRI approach

Hauptman, M., Blank, I.^, & Fedorenko, E.^ 2023. Cortex, 162, 96-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.01.013. PMID: 37023480. PMC10210011.
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The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in “Broca’s area”, does not support music perception

Chen, X., Affourtit, J., Ryskin, R., Regev, T. I., Norman-Haignere, S., Jouravlev, O., Malik-Moraleda, S., Kean, H., Varley, R.^ & Fedorenko, E.^ 2023. Cerebral Cortex, 33(12), 7904-7929. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad087. PMID: 37005063. PMC10505454.
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No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network

Shain, C.*, Paunov, A.*, Chen, X.*, Lipkin, B., & Fedorenko, E. 2023. Cerebral Cortex, 33(10) 6299-6319. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac505. PMID: 36585774. PMC10183748.
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A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models

Hu, J., Floyd, S., Jouravlev, O., Fedorenko, E., & Gibson, E. 2023. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1 (Long Papers), 4194-4213. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.230. 
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Mahowald Fedorenko (2016) Online Supplement: Large-scale fMRI datasets of functional ‘localizers’ for the language and Multiple Demand networks extend the evidence for reliable individual …

Lipkin, B., Affourtit, J., Small, H., Mineroff, Z., Nieto-Castañón & Fedorenko, E. 2023. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22183564.

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Lipkin et al. (2022) Online Supplement: Probabilistic atlases for the multiple demand (MD) and theory of mind (ToM) networks based on large-scale precision localizers

Lipkin, B., Blank, I. & Fedorenko, E. 2023. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22306348.

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Agrammatic output in non-fluent, including Broca’s, aphasia as a rational behavior

Fedorenko, E., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E. 2023. Aphasiology, 37(12), 1981-2000. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2022.2143233. PMID: 38213953. PMC10782888.
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