Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵
By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...
www.nature.com
Philip Sulewski
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcm4...
Excited to share our work on linguistic composition x LLM-brain alignment!
Syntax, compositional semantics, and associative semantics differentially modulate alignment on surprisal-matched materials, revealing shared and distinct mechanisms in LLMs and the brain
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
check out our latest preprint led by the one and only @mdhk.net !!
using intracranial EEG, we find that distinct neural populations within the temporal lobe encode preceding context, and future context, during naturalistic speech comprehension!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
What (if anything) can LLMs tell us about human language processing?
I discuss this question and how psycholinguistics is moving forward with @colinphillips.bsky.social , to appear in BBS as a commentary on Futrell & Mahowald's article about LLMs & linguistics.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.09466
Next week I'll be at University of Göttingen, Campus Institute Data Science. Come say hi !
On Thursday I'll give a talk in the CIDAS lecture series: on the integration of interpretability theory and experiment across AI and the cognitive sciences.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/690135.html
Very important work 🧠 👀
Spurious alignment between large language models and brains can emerge from non-robust methods and overlooked confounds
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social!
The best part? We are hiring at all levels!
Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :)
#NeuroSky
Prosody versus syntax, or prosody and syntax? Evaluating accounts of delta-band tracking. New publication by Cas Coopmans & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781009295888.021
