I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles.
Ev Fedorenko
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Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!
Martin Hebart
Knowing the anatomical connections in the human🧠 has long been a critical missing piece in building accurate theories of brain function. esfMRI is a critical advance for uncovering these connections. Go Rui @ruix_mit and team! I could not be more excited to play a small part in this effort.
So honored to receive the Glushko prize, and just grateful that @cogscisociety.bsky.social is willing to recognize whatever I’m doing as the study of the “mind” :)
Ev Fedorenko
So why build toward a brain-encoding foundation model?
→ Simulate fMRI responses to sensory stimuli
→ Insights about the brain
→ Path toward clinical applications
MIRAGE is our first step. 🧠
More on the project site: mirage-brain.epfl.ch
w/ @akgokce.bsky.social & @mschrimpf.bsky.social
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.)
yalereview.org/article/mela...
This is one of the most exciting pieces of science I have had the privilege to be involved in, led by @rui-xu.bsky.social, Bob Desimone, and Mark Richardson: the discovery of actual long-range monosynaptic connections in the human brain! For example the FFA connects to the rTPJ, how cool is that?
New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n
🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖
Children & neural networks can learn syntax from linear strings of words. How do they do it?
Our hypothesis: Word co-occurrence statistics provide cues to syntax!
(I.e., a new type of bootstrapping to consider!)
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.20529
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Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests.
Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N
The leadership and clarity of @MIT President Sally Kornbluth
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/26/o...
Badr AlKhamissi
New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n
New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n
🧠 When you watch a movie, your brain blends sight, sound, and speech into a single experience.
Should models of the brain blend them too, or keep the senses separate until the very end?
We built MIRAGE to find out. It sets a new SOTA for predicting whole-brain fMRI from movies. 🧵
Melanie Mitchell
Rui Xu
At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed.
SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social) has received a 2026 Glushko Dissertation Prize from the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation.
The prize recognizes recent Ph.D. dissertations for groundbreaking work in cognitive science.
