Podcast appearances and mentions of evelina fedorenko

La firma de María Blasco, directora del CNIO, el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, habla hoy sobre un estudio recién publicado en la revista Nature, firmado por un grupo de neurocientíficos capitaneado por la doctora Evelina Fedorenko, que ha llegado a una conclusión sorprendente: no necesitamos el lenguaje para pensar.Escuchar audio

For centuries, philosophers have debated the purpose of language, with Plato positing it as crucial for thinking. Guest: Dr. Evelina Fedorenko, Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seg 1: Do we need language to think? For centuries, philosophers have debated the purpose of language, with Plato positing it as crucial for thinking. Guest: Dr. Evelina Fedorenko, Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seg 2: Scott's Thoughts: Get out of the Bus Lane! BC Transit police are cracking down on unauthorized vehicles and pedestrians in Bus lanes around the city and we ask the question should EV's be allowed to use the HOV lanes regardless of passenger numbers? Guest: Scott Shantz, CKNW Contributor Seg 3: View From Victoria: John Rustad is speaking to the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce in an effort to try and win over the business community. We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Rob Shaw, Political Correspondent for CHEK News. Seg 4: Should cities regulate apartment temperatures? A new coalition in Toronto is advocating for a bylaw to set a maximum apartment temperature of 26°C, similar to mandatory heating requirements. Such a bylaw, unprecedented in Canada, would require building owners to provide and maintain cooling systems. Guest: Jacqueline Wilson, Counsel for the Canadian Environmental Law Association Seg 5: Are you ready for the Summer Sickness Season? As temperatures are warming up around the province, people will be getting out, getting together and getting sick! How can you best protect yourself from getting the summer sicknesses? Guest: Dr. Bill Sullivan, Infectious Disease Expert at Indiana University Seg 6: Have overdose-related brain injuries become an epidemic in Canada? Canada's toxic drug crisis, the country's longest-standing public health emergency, hides an underlying brain injury epidemic. During Brain Injury Awareness Month in June, researchers are highlighting the under-recognized consequence of drug toxicity. Guest: Dr. Mauricio Garcia-Barrera, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria Seg 7: Is North Vancouver on board with the Wastewater Treatment Plant? The Mayor of North Vancouver has come out with a statement taking shots at major infrastructure projects that she says are getting too big, too expensive and consisting of funding models that are unsustainable for the region's taxpayers. Guest: Linda Buchanan, Mayor of North Vancouver Seg 8: How will the end of open-net salmon farming impact First Nations? The Coalition of First Nations for Finfish Stewardship recognizes the federal government's announcement of a 5-year re-issuance of salmon aquaculture licenses in their traditional territories. While the announcement does not fully meet their expectations, it allows for continued innovation and modernization of the sector, aiming to reduce interactions between wild and farmed salmon. Guest: Dallas Smith, Spokesperson for the Coalition of First Nations for Finfish Stewardship and Member of the Tlowitsis Nation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Satya Nitta is the CEO and co-founder of Merlyn Mind, a deep tech generative AI company working on natural language interfaces and voice computing. He was previously the global head of AI solutions for learning at IBM Research and led teams in the development of conversational systems, speech recognition, and natural language understanding. Dr. Nitta received his PhD in Chemical Engineering and holds over 100 US patents, as well as having published over 40 publications and received over 5,000 citations of his technical work. He was named as the IEEE Ace "Innovator of the Year" as well as one of the “top 50 movers and shakers of Education” by WISE and has received several technology awards for his work.Recommended Resources:Dissociating Language and Thought in Large Language Models: A Cognitive Perspective by Kyle Mahowald, Anna A. Ivanova, Idan A. Blank, Nancy Kanwisher, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Evelina Fedorenko

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Check out my short video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience. Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Large language models, often now called "foundation models", are the model de jour in AI, based on the transformer architecture. In this episode, I bring together Evelina Fedorenko and Emily M. Bender to discuss how language models stack up to our own language processing and generation (models and brains both excel at next-word prediction), whether language evolved in humans for complex thoughts or for communication (communication, says Ev), whether language models grasp the meaning of the text they produce (Emily says no), and much more. Evelina Fedorenko is a cognitive scientist who runs the EvLab at MIT. She studies the neural basis of language. Her lab has amassed a large amount of data suggesting language did not evolve to help us think complex thoughts, as Noam Chomsky has argued, but rather for efficient communication. She has also recently been comparing the activity in language models to activity in our brain's language network, finding commonality in the ability to predict upcoming words. Emily M. Bender is a computational linguist at University of Washington. Recently she has been considering questions about whether language models understand the meaning of the language they produce (no), whether we should be scaling language models as is the current practice (not really), how linguistics can inform language models, and more. EvLab.Emily's website.Twitter: @ev_fedorenko; @emilymbender.Related papersLanguage and thought are not the same thing: Evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients. (Fedorenko)The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing. (Fedorenko)On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (Bender)Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (Bender) 0:00 - Intro 4:35 - Language and cognition 15:38 - Grasping for meaning 21:32 - Are large language models producing language? 23:09 - Next-word prediction in brains and models 32:09 - Interface between language and thought 35:18 - Studying language in nonhuman animals 41:54 - Do we understand language enough? 45:51 - What do language models need? 51:45 - Are LLMs teaching us about language? 54:56 - Is meaning necessary, and does it matter how we learn language? 1:00:04 - Is our biology important for language? 1:04:59 - Future outlook

Your brain is where language - and all of your other thinking - happens. In order to figure out how language fits in among all of the other things you do with your brain, we can put people in fancy brain scanning machines and then create very controlled setups where exactly one thing is different. For example, comparing looking at words versus nonwords (of the same length, on the same background) or listening to audio clips of a language you do speak vs a language you don't speak. In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch talks with Dr Evelina Fedorenko, an associate professor of neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA about figuring out which parts of the brain do language things! We talk about how we can use brain scans to compare language with other things your brain can do, such as solving visual puzzles, math problems, music, and inferring things about other people's mental states, as well as comparing how the brains of multilingual people process their various languages. We also talk about the results of the fMRI language experiments that Gretchen got to be a participant in: which side is doing most of her language processing and how active her brain is for French compared to English. For links to things mentioned in this episode, including an image of Gretchen's brain:

For those of us who speak only one language, the idea of learning twenty or thirty sounds impossible. But there are “hyperpolyglots” who have managed this remarkable feat. Evelina Fedorenko, PhD, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses what sets polyglots apart and what scientists might learn from studying them. She also discusses how language is processed in the brain, why it's so much easier for kids to learn languages than adults, the relationship between language and thought and how we can think without language, and more. Links Ev Fedorenko, PhD Speaking of Psychology Home Page Sponsor Newport Health

Dr. Evelina Fedorenko is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the human language system. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 2002, and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007. She was then awarded a K99R00 career development award from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. In 2014, she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and in 2019 she returned to MIT where she is currently the Frederick A. (1971) and Carole J. Middleton Career Development Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Dr. Fedorenko uses fMRI, intracranial recordings and stimulation, EEG/ERPs, MEG, as well as computational modeling, to study adults and children, including those with developmental and acquired brain disorders. FIND EVELINA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook | Twitter ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Dr. Evelina Fedorenko is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the human language system. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 2002, and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007. She was then awarded a K99R00 career development award from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. In 2014, she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and in 2019 she returned to MIT where she is currently the Frederick A. (1971) and Carole J. Middleton Career Development Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Dr. Fedorenko uses fMRI, intracranial recordings and stimulation, EEG/ERPs, MEG, as well as computational modeling, to study adults and children, including those with developmental and acquired brain disorders.FIND EVELINA ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook | Twitter================================PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://www.uhnwidata.com/podcastApple podcast: https://apple.co/3kqOA7QSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2UOtE1AGoogle podcast: https://bit.ly/3jmA7ulSUPPORT & CONNECT:Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrichTwitter: https://www.instagram.com/denofrich/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denofrich/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich

Shane talks with cognitive neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko about how minds and brains create language. Charity Of The Week - Environmental Defense Club https://www.edf.org/ Please visit our sponsors: The Great Courses www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare  Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks with cognitive neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko about how minds and brains create language. Charity Of The Week - Environmental Defense Club https://www.edf.org/ Please visit our sponsors: The Great Courses www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare  Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/10/18 Evelina Fedorenko, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School & MIT. How does the brain process multiple languages? And how does the bilingual brain process very different types of languages? And what about those rare individuals who learn dozens of languages?

This summer, Jeanne Gallée '16 worked as a full-time research assistant in MGH professor Evelina Fedorenko's neurolinguistics laboratory at MIT. She participated in a brand-new project that has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the language center of the brain. In an effort to combat the issues that different experiments, subjects, MRI scanners, and data analyses of different laboratories pose, the EvLab’s “ALICE" project will undertake the creation of a universal language localizer by implementing an auditory listening and response task across at least 100 languages in a fMRI study on native speakers. Additionally, Jeanne was given the opportunity to lead her own project on adaptive neural responses to syntactic structures.

This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of evidence. One source, which is discussed in these three talks, concerns neuroscientific investigations of functional specialization for language in the human brain and its dependence on the linguistic input the language learner gets during cognitive development. Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts General Hospital) begins with an examination of Specialization for Language in the Human Brain, followed by Rachel Mayberry (UC San Diego) on How the Environment Shapes Language in the Brain, and Edward Chang (UC San Francisco) on Neuroscience of Speech Perception and Speech Production. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 29395]

This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of evidence. One source, which is discussed in these three talks, concerns neuroscientific investigations of functional specialization for language in the human brain and its dependence on the linguistic input the language learner gets during cognitive development. Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts General Hospital) begins with an examination of Specialization for Language in the Human Brain, followed by Rachel Mayberry (UC San Diego) on How the Environment Shapes Language in the Brain, and Edward Chang (UC San Francisco) on Neuroscience of Speech Perception and Speech Production. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 29395]

Using data from brain imaging investigations and studies of patients with brain damage, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Evelina Fedorenko argues that a set of brain regions in the adult human brain – in the frontal and temporal lobes of the left hemisphere -- are specialized for high-level language processing. She further argues that this fronto-temporal network develops as we acquire language knowledge. In the adult brain, this system stores our linguistic knowledge representations and uses these representations to interpret and generate new utterances. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 29403]

Using data from brain imaging investigations and studies of patients with brain damage, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Evelina Fedorenko argues that a set of brain regions in the adult human brain – in the frontal and temporal lobes of the left hemisphere -- are specialized for high-level language processing. She further argues that this fronto-temporal network develops as we acquire language knowledge. In the adult brain, this system stores our linguistic knowledge representations and uses these representations to interpret and generate new utterances. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 29403]