Re-imagining our theories of language
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences professors Ev Fedorenko, Ted Gibson, and Roger Levy believe they have an answer to a fundamental question: What is the purpose of language?
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MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences professors Ev Fedorenko, Ted Gibson, and Roger Levy believe they have an answer to a fundamental question: What is the purpose of language?
The Interesting Brains project at MIT's McGovern Institute conducts brain imaging studies that highlight the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt and reorganize in the face of early damage.
Language-processing programs infer the meaning of words through statistics, and this computational approach can assign many kinds of information to a single word, just like the human brain, according to new MIT research. The study, published April 14, 2022, in the journal Nature Human Behavior, was co-led by Gabriel Grand, a graduate student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Idan Blank, an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and supervised by McGovern Investigator Ev Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist who studies how the hu...