Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK): A Cognition-Inspired Framework for EvaluatingBasic World Knowledge in Language Models
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An Efficient Multifunction fMRI Localizer for High-Level Visual, Auditory, and Cognitive Regions in Humans
Marvi, A., Hutchinson, S., Fedorenko, E., Saxe, R., Kamps, F., Regev, T. I., Chen, E., & Kanwisher, N. 2025. Imaging Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1162/IMAG.a.905.
Intrinsically memorable words have unique associations with their meanings.
Tuckute, G.*, Mahowald, K.*, Isola, P., Oliva, A., Gibson, E., & Fedorenko, E. 2025. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(8), 2059-2075. DOI: 10.1037/xge0001742. PMID: 40167531.
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The time scale of redundancy between prosody and linguistic context.
Regev, T.I., Ohams C., Xie S., Wolf, L., Fedorenko, E., Warstadt, A.*, Wilcox, E.G.* Pimentel T.* 2025. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1, 30476–30488. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1471.
Intuitive physical reasoning is not mediated by linguistic nor exclusively domain-general abstract representations.
Kean, H., Fung, A., Pramod, RT., Chomik-Morales, J., Kanwisher, N. & Fedorenko, E. 2025. Neuropsychologia, 213, 109-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109125. PMID: 40112908.
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Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages.
Malik-Moraleda, S., Taliaferro, M., Shannon, S., Jhingan, N., Swords, S., Peterson, D. J., Frommer, P., Okrand, M., Sams, J., Cardwell, R., Freeman, C. & Fedorenko, E. 2023. PNAS, 122(12). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313473122.
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How to optimize neuroscience data utilization and experiment design for advancing primate visual and linguistic brain models?
Tuckute, G., Finzi, D., Margalit, E., Yates, J., Zylberberg, J., Fyshe, A., Chung, S., Fedorenko, E., Kriegeskorte, N., Grill-Spector, K. and Kar, K. 2025. Neurons, Behavior, Data Analysis, and Theory. DOI: 10.51628/001c.127807.
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