Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT

@LanguageMIT

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

tedlab.mit.edu

Joined May 2013

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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT

@LanguageMIT

Jul 4, 2022

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) direct.mit.edu/opmi

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McGovern Institute

@mcgovernmit

Oct 1

Words and sentences that are highly dissimilar from anything we’ve seen before are more likely to be remembered accurately, according to research from @ev_fedorenko @GretaTuckute @bj_mdn @thomashikaru @LanguageMIT. mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/10/01/mit… @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT

mcgovernmit's tweet card. “You still had to prove yourself.” “Every cloud has a blue lining!” Which of those sentences are you most likely to remember a few minutes from now? If you guessed the second, you’re probably...

MIT cognitive scientists reveal why some sentences stand out from others - MIT McGovern Institute

Source: mcgovern.mit.edu

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Greta Tuckute

@GretaTuckute

Oct 1

Paper on word memorability, co-led with @kmahowald and with @phillip_isola @AudeOliva @LanguageMIT @ev_fedorenko: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40167531/ Paper on sentence memorability, co-led with @thomashikaru and with @bj_mdn @ev_fedorenko: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

GretaTuckute's tweet card. What makes a word memorable? An important claim from past work is that words are encoded by their meanings and not their forms. If true, then, following rational analysis, memorable words should...

Intrinsically memorable words have unique associations with their meanings - PubMed

Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Thomas Hikaru Clark

@thomashikaru

Jul 31

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 work towards an implemented computational model of noisy-channel comprehension (with @postylem, @LanguageMIT, and @roger_p_levy).

thomashikaru's tweet image. 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 work towards an implemented computational model of noisy-channel comprehension (with @postylem, @LanguageMIT, and @roger_p_levy).

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Moshe Poliak

@MoshePoliak

Aug 5

(1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡 Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures Work with Curtis Chen and @LanguageMIT Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website… In memory of Curtis Chen.

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Sasha Boguraev @ EMNLP

@SashaBoguraev

May 27

A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models. New work with @kmahowald and @ChrisGPotts! 🧵👇

SashaBoguraev's tweet image. A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models.

New work with @kmahowald and @ChrisGPotts!

🧵👇

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Alison Gopnik

@AlisonGopnik

Apr 29

I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

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National Academy of Sciences

@theNASciences

Apr 27

Accepting the first of two 2025 Troland Research Awards is Evelina Fedorenko of @mitbrainandcog, for groundbreaking contributions and insights into the language network in the human brain. 🧠 #NASaward #NAS162 Watch now: ow.ly/R6gP50VIsih

theNASciences's tweet image. Accepting the first of two 2025 Troland Research Awards is Evelina Fedorenko of @mitbrainandcog, for groundbreaking contributions and insights into the language network in the human brain. 🧠 #NASaward #NAS162

Watch now: ow.ly/R6gP50VIsih

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Helen Tager-Flusberg

@HelenTager

Apr 25

Social Media Post: Today, the newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists issued our first statement to push back again Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Stand with us as we demand respect for real science and the autism community. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

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Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research...

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...

Source: eurekalert.org

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McGovern Institute

@mcgovernmit

Apr 2

As a child growing up in the former Soviet Union, @ev_fedorenko studied English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish. Today she is is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain’s language-processing machinery. news.mit.edu/2025/evelina-f…

mcgovernmit's tweet card. 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...

Looking under the hood at the brain’s language system

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MIT Picower Institute

@MIT_Picower

Apr 2

Congratulations to Gloria Choi! The Samsung Ho-Am honor recognizes her research on connections between the immune and central nervous systems and their relevance to #autism and other disorders picower.mit.edu/news/gloria-ch…

MIT_Picower's tweet card. Honor recognizes Choi’s research on connections between the immune and central nervous systems and their relevance to autism and other disorders

Gloria Choi earns Samsung Ho-Am Prize for Medicine

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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦

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Mar 31

Super excited about Cory's @coryshain work showing that you can recover the language network via func connectivity methods from ~any fMRI data. A massive effort using all the data ever collected in my lab from neurotypical participants! Go, Cory!

Cory Shain

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Mar 31

New brain/language study w/ @ev_fedorenko! We applied task-agnostic individualized functional connectomics (iFC) to the entire history of fMRI in the Fedorenko lab, parcellating nearly 1200 brains into networks based on activity fluctuations alone. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… . 🧵

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McGovern Institute

@mcgovernmit

Mar 18

A @PNASNews study by @ev_fedorenko @saima_mm finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network. mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/18/to-…

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

@MIT

Mar 4

MIT researchers found that legal language is intentionally complex, not for clarity, but to create a false sense of authority. Even lawyers prefer plain English. mitsha.re/iMCm50ValLB

MIT's tweet card. 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...

MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

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MIT Picower Institute

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Mar 3

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 #Alzheimers, and perhaps other, neurological diseases. picower.mit.edu/news/review-ev… #neuroscience @ScienceMIT @mitbrainandcog

MIT_Picower's tweet card. 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...

Review: Evidence expanding that 40Hz gamma stimulation promotes brain health

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Stanford NLP Group

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Feb 14

Congratulations to @stanfordnlp founder @chrmanning for being elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE, @theNASEM) Class of 2025 for the development and dissemination of natural language processing methods.

stanfordnlp's tweet image. Congratulations to @stanfordnlp founder @chrmanning for being elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE, @theNASEM) Class of 2025 for the development and dissemination of natural language processing methods.

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Doris Tsao

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Feb 9

I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver…

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Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above…

NIH's tweet image. Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above…

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Rachel Ryskin

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Feb 7

🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: link.springer.com/article/10.375… We (w/ @LanguageMIT, @AphasiaLab) explore how individuals with aphasia interpret sentences & whether their comprehension difficulties stem from increased expectations of noise in language input. 🧵👇