The USC Brain Health Network just opened its first clinic in Sumter, SC positioning it to achieve its goal of early detection and streamlined care for South Carolinians diagnosed with #alzheimers , #dementia and other cognitive issues.

🧠 uof.sc/4btkmdm

New Horizons in Language Science: Large Language Models, Language Structure, and the Cognitive & Neural Basis of Language has started! Theme 1's speakers will present starting NOW. Ben Bergen, Leila Webhe, Ariel Goldstein, David Bau (@ ICLR)! Tune in on Zoom via newhorizonsinlanguagescience.github.io

Could have not asked for a better ribbon cutting ceremony. Or for a better team! University of South Carolina Brain Health Network Clinic - Prisma Health Sumter, SC. #USCBrainHealth University of South CarolinaSOMC USC Research

Julius Fridriksson, University of South Carolina VP for Research, expressed his deep gratitude to state leaders who made the Brain Health Network possible, including schousespeaker Murrell Smith and Senator Katrina Shealy Katrina Shealy, both on hand for today’s celebration. #USCBrainHealth

I agree with nonlexicalists that the 'word' notion is not a good basis for general grammar (even though I do not share many of DM's assumptions, and I generally prefer a 'Parallel Architecture' view):
dlc.hypotheses.org/3414

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If only there were a forum dedicated for scientific discussion, moderated to ensure everything is kept within the pale…

JoCNForum will be launching soon! postlelab

Are you excited for #SNL2024 in Brisbane? It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to see down under. Don't let this opportunity slip by!

Save the Date! Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2024 Annual Meeting, October 24-26, 2024, Brisbane, AU! bit.ly/3Kd1T9j

Talk titles and abstracts are up now for the May 13–14 #NSF -hosted workshop New Horizons in Language Science: Large Language Models, Language Structure, and the Cognitive and Neural Basis of Language! Learn more and register for the Zoom webinar at newhorizonsinlanguagescience.github.io 1/

How do network hubs influence seizure outcomes after epilepsy surgery? Does hubness depend on EEG, imaging or both? Here, Zeke Gleichgerrcht, MD, PhD and our multicenter group indicated the importance of multimodal hubs in surgical outcomes. Cover of Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Verbal WM load deficits associated with damage to dorsal stream, segregating from syntactic comprehension, implicating ventral stream. on bioRxiv, w/ Zeinab Khoshhal Mollasaraei, Leonardo Bonilha, Chris Rorden, Gregory Hickok, Dirk den Ouden, Julius Fridriksson

I believe the data for this project were originally collected circa 2009 ;) Now up on biorxiv.

We attempt to use fMRI to bear on the linguistic analysis of subject island effects. w/ Diogo Almeida, Gregory Hickok, and Jon Sprouse.

Karl Marx was born on this day 206 years ago. He is the subject of much myth-making and distortion, by those who have supposedly read him and those who haven't. Coming this fall, an accessible philosophical introduction:
amazon.com/Marx-Routledge…

NSF workshop on large language models and human language May 13-14. Join virtually - it’s going to be a timely and important discussion.

newhorizonsinlanguagescience.github.io

“It’s tempting to think science gives a God’s-eye view of reality. But we forget the place of human experience at our peril.”

aeon.co/essays/the-bli…

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Looks to be an interesting and timely discussion

Who's excited for the Society for the Neurobiology of Language #SNL2024 Annual Meeting in Brisbane, Australia this year?!

SAVE THE DATE #SNL2024 October 24-26, Brisbane, Australia

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“Where is the Palestinian Ghandi?” In the NYT Magazine.

I can personally attest to the fierce and principled character of Issa during his visit to UMD in 2015.

Love this work. I would just add: lexical semantics obscures lexical syntax. Words > pseudo words does not necessarily mean word meanings are driving the effect.

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…