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2 episodes with fedorenko
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3 episodes with fedorenko
Using language is a complex business. Let's say you want to understand a sentence. You first need to parse a sequence of sounds—if the sentence is spoken—or images—if it's signed or written. You need to figure out the meanings of the individual words and then you need to put those meanings together to form a bigger whole. Of course, you also need to think about the larger context—the conversation, the person you're talking to, the kind of situation you're in. So how does the brain do all of this? Is there just one neural system that deals with language or several? Do different parts of the brain care about different aspects of language? And, more basically: What scientific tools and techniques should we be using to try to figure this all out? My guest today is Dr. Ev Fedorenko. Ev is a cognitive neuroscientist at MIT, where she and her research group study how the brains supports language and complex thought. Ev and her colleagues recently wrote a detailed overview of their work on the language network—the specialized system in our brain that underlies our ability to use language. This network has some features you might have expected, and—as we'll see—other features you probably didn't. Here, Ev and I talk about the history of our effort to understand the neurobiology of language. We lay out the current understanding of the language network, and its relationship to the brain areas historically associated with language abilities—especially Broca's area and Wernicke's area. We talk about whether the language network can be partitioned according to the subfields of linguistics, such as syntax and semantics. We discuss the power and limitations of fMRI, and the advantages of the single-subject analyses that Ev and her lab primarily use. We consider how the language network interfaces with other major neural networks—for instance, the theory of mind network and the so-called default network. And we discuss what this all tells us about the longstanding controversial claim that language is primarily for thinking rather than communicating. Along the way, Ev and I touch on: some especially interesting brains; plasticity and redundancy; the puzzle of lateralization; polyglots; aphasia; the localizer method; the decline of certain Chomskyan perspectives; the idea that brain networks are "natural kinds"; the heart of the language network; and the question of what the brain may tell us—if anything—about how language evolved. Alright friends, this is a fun one. On to my conversation with Dr. Ev Fedorenko. Enjoy! A transcript of this episode will be available soon. Notes and links 3:00 – The article by a New York Times reporter who is missing a portion of her temporal lobe. The website for the Interesting Brains project. 5:30 – A recent paper from Dr. Fedorenko's lab on the brains of three siblings, two of whom were missing portions of their brains. 13:00 – Broca's original 1861 report. 18:00 – Many of Noam Chomsky's ideas about the innateness of language and the centrality of syntax are covered in his book Language and Mind, among other publications. 19:30 – For an influential critique of the tradition of localizing functions in the brain, see William R. Uttal's The New Phrenology. 23:00 – The new review paper by Dr. Fedorenko and colleagues on the language network. 26:00 – For more discussion of the different formats or modalities of language, see our earlier episode with Dr. Neil Cohn. 30:00 – A classic paper by Herbert Simon on the “architecture of complexity.” 31:00 – For one example of a naturalistic, “task-free” study that reveals the brain's language network, see here. 33:30 – See the recent paper arguing “against cortical reorganization.” 33:00 – For more on the concept of “natural kind” in philosophy, see here. 38:00 – On the “multiple-demand network,” see a recent study by Dr. Fedorenko and colleagues. 41:00 – For a study from Dr. Fedorenko's lab finding that syntax and semantics are distributed throughout the language network, see here. For an example of work in linguistics that does not make a tidy distinction between syntax and semantics, see here. 53:30 – See Dr. Fedorenko's recent article on the history of individual-subject analyses in neuroscience. 1:01:00 – For an in-depth treatment of one localizer used in Dr. Fedorenko's research, see here. 1:03:30 – A paper by Dr. Stephen Wilson and colleagues, describing recovery of language ability following stroke as a function of the location of the lesion within the language network. 1:04:20 – A paper from Dr. Fedorenko's lab on the small language networks of polyglots. 1:09:00 – For more on the Visual Word Form Area (or VWFA), see here. For discussion of Exner's Area, see here. 1:14:30 – For a discussion of the brain's so-called default network, see here. 1:17:00 – See here for Dr. Fedorenko and colleagues' recent paper on the function of language. For more on the question of what language is for, see our earlier episode with Dr. Nick Enfield. 1:19:00 – A paper by Dr. Fedorenko and Dr. Rosemary Varley arguing for intact thinking ability in patients with aphasia. 1:22:00 – A recent paper on individual differences in the experience of inner speech. Recommendations Dr. Ted Gibson's book on syntax (forthcoming with MIT press) Nancy Kanwisher, ‘Functional specificity in the human brain' Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, which is made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation to Indiana University. The show is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from Assistant Producer Urte Laukaityte and with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala. Subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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Send us a textAbout the guest: Ev Fedorenko is a neuroscientist at MIT. He lab studies the neural basis of language, speech, and thought in the human brain.Episode summary: Nick and Dr. Fedorenko discuss: the relationship between language and thought; the extent to which language is for thinking vs. communication; Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar theory; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; language acquisition & language learning; language networks in the brain; neuroanatomy & brain lateralization; large language models (LLMs) & machine intelligence; and more.Related episodes:M&M #141: Evolution, Language, Domestication, Symbolic Cognition, AI & Large Language ModelsM&M #20: Language, Symbolic Cognition, Evolution, Origins of the Human Mind | Terrence Deacon*This content is never meant to serve as medical advice.*Full episode available free on Substack & YouTube.Support the showAll episodes (audio & video), show notes, transcripts, and more at the M&M Substack Affiliates: MASA Chips—delicious tortilla chips made from organic corn and grass-fed beef tallow. No seed oils, artificial ingredients, etc. Use code MIND for 20% off. SiPhox Health—Affordable, at-home bloodwork w/ a comprehensive set of key health marker. Use code TRIKOMES for a 10% discount. Lumen device to optimize your metabolism for weight loss or athletic performance. Use code MIND for 10% off. Athletic Greens: Comprehensive & convenient daily nutrition. Free 1-year supply of vitamin D with purchase. Learn all the ways you can support my efforts
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There was a ton of gadgets that you can use to influence your drinking water, ideally after its gone through a proper filtration system. Infopathy is in its own category. It uses "digitized substances" that are uploaded into a database which can then be imprinted into water by forming coherent domains. In English this means that you can basically take any supplement you want by just drinking a glass of water throughout the day. My mother raised me with homeopathic medicine and I view Infopathy as a kind of homeopathic alien technology. If you ever experience what its like to drink imprinted water you'll feel like you're living Star Trek land. It looks and sounds like magic but it is based on solid science going back to Italian researchers Emilio Del Giudice and Giuliano Preparatta that pioneered quantum electrodynamic theory. Whenever I hear the word "quantum" I usually roll my eyes and walk the other way but this is something that you can tangibly experience with a blind taste test using shot glasses. In this episode Anton Fedorenko talks about how it works scientifically, where it parallels with homeopathy, his thoughts on non native electromagnetic fields, Royal Rife, tips on using the Infopathy IC pad, and the upgrades that their version 3 pad received. Order Infopathy: www.infopathy.com Use the discount code BLACKBURN to save My website: www.matt-blackburn.com Mitolife products: www.mitolife.co Music by George Henner: https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com
In episode 107 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Ted Gibson.Ted is a Professor of Cognitive Science at MIT. He leads the TedLab, which investigates why languages look the way they do; the relationship between culture and cognition, including language; and how people learn, represent, and process language.Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pubSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (02:13) Prof Gibson's background* (05:33) The computational linguistics community and NLP, engineering focus* (10:48) Models of brains* (12:03) Prof Gibson's focus on behavioral work* (12:53) How dependency distances impact language processing* (14:03) Dependency distances and the origin of the problem* (18:53) Dependency locality theory* (21:38) The structures languages tend to use* (24:58) Sentence parsing: structural integrations and memory costs* (36:53) Reading strategies vs. ordinary language processing* (40:23) Legalese* (46:18) Cross-dependencies* (50:11) Number as a cognitive technology* (54:48) Experiments* (1:03:53) Why counting is useful for Western societies* (1:05:53) The Whorf hypothesis* (1:13:05) Language as Communication* (1:13:28) The noisy channel perspective on language processing* (1:27:08) Fedorenko lab experiments—language for thought vs. communication and Chomsky's claims* (1:43:53) Thinking without language, inner voices, language processing vs. language as an aid for other mental processing* (1:53:01) Dependency grammars and a critique of Chomsky's grammar proposals, LLMs* (2:08:48) LLM behavior and internal representations* (2:12:53) OutroLinks:* Ted's lab page and Twitter* Re-imagining our theories of language* Research — linguistic complexity and dependency locality theory* Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies (1998)* The Dependency Locality Theory: A Distance-Based Theory of Linguistic Complexity (2000)* Consequences of the Serial Nature of Linguistic Input for Sentential Complexity (2005)* Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages (2015)* Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order (2020)* Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex (2022)* A resource-rational model of human processing of recursive linguistic structure (2022)* Research — language processing / communication and cross-linguistic universals* Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition (2008)* The communicative function of ambiguity in language (2012)* The rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation (2013)* Color naming across languages reflects color use (2017)* How Efficiency Shapes Human Language (2019) Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe
In episode 105 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Eric Jang.Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pubSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (01:25) Updates since Eric's last interview* (06:07) The problem space of humanoid robots* (08:42) Motivations for the book “AI is Good for You”* (12:20) Definitions of AGI* (14:35) ~ AGI timelines ~* (16:33) Do we have the ingredients for AGI?* (18:58) Rediscovering old ideas in AI and robotics* (22:13) Ingredients for AGI* (22:13) Artificial Life* (25:02) Selection at different levels of information—intelligence at different scales* (32:34) AGI as a collective intelligence* (34:53) Human in the loop learning* (37:38) From getting correct answers to doing things correctly* (40:20) Levels of abstraction for modeling decision-making — the neurobiological stack* (44:22) Implementing loneliness and other details for AGI* (47:31) Experience in AI systems* (48:46) Asking for Generalization* (49:25) Linguistic relativity* (52:17) Language vs. complex thought and Fedorenko experiments* (54:23) Efficiency in neural design* (57:20) Generality in the human brain and evolutionary hypotheses* (59:46) Embodiment and real-world robotics* (1:00:10) Moravec's Paradox and the importance of embodiment* (1:05:33) How embodiment fits into the picture—in verification vs. in learning* (1:10:45) Nonverbal information for training intelligent systems* (1:11:55) AGI and humanity* (1:12:20) The positive future with AGI* (1:14:55) The negative future — technology as a lever* (1:16:22) AI in the military* (1:20:30) How AI might contribute to art* (1:25:41) Eric's own work and a positive future for AI* (1:29:27) OutroLinks:* Eric's book* Eric's Twitter and homepage Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe
This week Taylor joins us from North Dakota (seriously, another person from North Dakota) to share his life and help ring in the new year.Donate and support the show!Sweat & Grime is a podcast created for the skilled trades, hosted by the skilled trades. Bryan is a freelance heavy equipment operator and content creator, Rick is an owner/operator of an excavation business, Matt is a general contractor, and Greg Johnson is a plumber.
Step into the captivating world of Dr. Ev Fedorenko, the maestro of neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. In this cerebral adventure, we explore language models, challenge the link between language and thought, and unravel the evolutionary tale that shaped the intricate language landscape of the human brain. Join us as we navigate the polyglot's maze, where emotions and stress leave their mark on the dance of linguistic cognition. Welcome to a brief, yet riveting, exploration of the science behind language, guided by the brilliance of Dr. Fedorenko. [00:49] - About Dr Ev Fedorenko Ev Fedorenko is a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in the study of language. Throughout her entire adult life, she has dedicated herself to understanding how the human brain supports the use of language. Currently serving as an associate professor in the Neuroscience and Brain and Cognitive Science department at MIT, she is also affiliated with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Her contributions extend to having a lab named after her, the EV lab, which is focused on unravelling the mysteries of how the brain creates language. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support
Denis is the Chief Business Development Office at Infinity Technologies. While Denis has various passions and quiet the story, this is a special conversation because Denis shares his experiences will being from the Ukraine. In this conversation Denis walks us through what's going on in his country and how things are. Knowing that Denis and his country are going through such turbulent times with the war is heart wrenching. This was an extremely powerful conversation. While this podcast focuses on passions, I also like to create spaces for folks to talk about their lives and what's going on. Denis is definitely passionate about his country and his idea that we can all get along and work together in this world. Thinking of you Denis and sending you, your loved ones, and the country our thoughts and prayers. In this episode I wanted to give Denis a space to talk about the Ukraine and Russia War. Connect with Denis! LinkedIn: Denis Fedorenko Connect with me! Personal: Instagram/Twitter/Facebook: @zachhose14 Email: zachhose14@gmail.com The Official Podcast: Instagram/Facebook: @zappodcastofficial If you want want to be a guest on the podcast, I'd love to have you! Feel free to reach out directly! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zappodcastofficial/message
When the homesteading gets heavy I defer Friday's show to a "Best Of" episode. This was one of my favorite conversations that i've had about water with Anton Fedorenko of Infopathy. There are so many different water structuring devices on the market but this one is in a league of its own. What I love about it is we are actually radiating the water with "non native" EMFs but actually improving its health qualities. This is why I don't like to look at anything in health in black and white anymore, ie iron bad, vitamin b6 bad, vitamin D3 bad... This is how it works: Every substance has specific electromagnetic emission that can be recorded and played back into water. This is called "imprinting" infoceuticals and is the basis for the Infopathy technology. Of course, the foundation should be clean drinking water free of all contaminants, acids and properly mineralized. After that, there is a lot you can do to water, one of the coolest things being Infopathy's glowing IC pad device. In this interview Anton Fedorenko shares the deep science behind it and gives practical advice to those that buy bottled water at the store to make it healthier. Infopathy: https://www.infopathy.com/en Use the discount code BLACKBURN to save 10% My website: https://www.matt-blackburn.com Order Mitolife products: https://www.mitolife.co Music by George Henner: https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com
In this episode, I take a deep dive into the world of infoceuticals with Anton Fedorenko, creator and founder of Infopathy. In this fascinating discussion, you will learn all about:How we have the ability to imprint electromagnetic signals (ICs) from substances into a simple glass of waterHow it is scientifically possible to reap benefits of therapeutic substances such as medicines, herbs, vitamins, supplements, etc. without needing the actual substance in hand, and without potential side effects of these substancesHow our body intelligently recognizes these signals/frequencies and uses them for its benefitHow PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) therapy can be used with an Infopathy deviceHow to use the Audible/listening frequencies for healing purposesHow imprinting water is based off of technology that isn't new, but it is more widely accessible and available due to key advancements How to use the different Infopathy devices offered as well as the Infopathy databasePersonal and real examples of how Infopathy has worked for othersYou will also hear me throw nearly all of the FAQs I could think at Anton during the second half of this episode. In truth, this has been something I've personally used for nearly a year now and really wanted to feature it on the show! I have seen it work in my own life and with my own body, and felt the call to highlight and share it.Please refer below for additional resources:Infopathy Website: https://www.infopathy.com/Help page: https://www.infopathy.com/helpInfopathy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infopathy/ LISTENER DISCOUNT CODE: VANESSA10 for 10% offShow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/well.with.vanessa/Vanessa Lopez on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegiftofgoods/Vanessa's Linktree (Discounts etc.): https://linktr.ee/thegiftofgoodsEmail: intentionallywellpodcast@gmail.comHelp Abused and Homeless Animals In Need CUDDLY helps give animals a healthy life and a loving home. Help Vanessa's charity of choice above.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThis episode is for informational purposes only. Please consult a trusted health practitioner for individual concerns.
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies. The term "flower of capitalism" is a clichéd metaphor for advertising in South Korea, bringing resolutely positive connotations, which downplay the commercial purposes of advertising and give prominence to its potential for public service. Historically, South Korean advertising was tasked to promote virtue with its messages, while allocation of advertising expenditures among the mass media was monitored and regulated to curb advertisers' influence in the name of public interest. Though this ideal was often sacrificed to situational considerations, South Korean advertising had been remarkably accountable to public scrutiny and popular demands. This beneficent role of advertising, however, came under attack as a neoliberal hegemony consolidated in South Korea in the twenty-first century. Flower of Capitalism examines the clash of advertising's old obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising practitioners, censors, audiences, and activists. It weaves together a rich multi-sited ethnography--at an advertising agency and at an advertising censorship board--with an in-depth exploration of advertising-related controversies--from provocative advertising campaigns to advertising boycotts. Advertising emerges as a contested social institution whose connections to business, mass media, and government are continuously tested and revised. Olga Fedorenko challenges the mainstream notions of advertising, which universalize the ways it developed in Transatlantic countries, and offers a glimpse of what advertising could look like if its public effects were taken as seriously as its marketing goals. A critical and innovative intervention into the studies of advertising, Flower of Capitalism breaks new ground in current debates on the intersection of media, culture, and politics. Dr. Fedorenko is an associate professor of anthropology at the Seoul National University. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and her BA in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has published a number of articles on advertising, popular culture, and the sharing economy in South Korea. You can find her on Research Gate here. To view the commercials mentioned in “Flower of Capitalism,” go here. Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer with an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. You can follow her on X at https://twitter.com/AJuseyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies. The term "flower of capitalism" is a clichéd metaphor for advertising in South Korea, bringing resolutely positive connotations, which downplay the commercial purposes of advertising and give prominence to its potential for public service. Historically, South Korean advertising was tasked to promote virtue with its messages, while allocation of advertising expenditures among the mass media was monitored and regulated to curb advertisers' influence in the name of public interest. Though this ideal was often sacrificed to situational considerations, South Korean advertising had been remarkably accountable to public scrutiny and popular demands. This beneficent role of advertising, however, came under attack as a neoliberal hegemony consolidated in South Korea in the twenty-first century. Flower of Capitalism examines the clash of advertising's old obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising practitioners, censors, audiences, and activists. It weaves together a rich multi-sited ethnography--at an advertising agency and at an advertising censorship board--with an in-depth exploration of advertising-related controversies--from provocative advertising campaigns to advertising boycotts. Advertising emerges as a contested social institution whose connections to business, mass media, and government are continuously tested and revised. Olga Fedorenko challenges the mainstream notions of advertising, which universalize the ways it developed in Transatlantic countries, and offers a glimpse of what advertising could look like if its public effects were taken as seriously as its marketing goals. A critical and innovative intervention into the studies of advertising, Flower of Capitalism breaks new ground in current debates on the intersection of media, culture, and politics. Dr. Fedorenko is an associate professor of anthropology at the Seoul National University. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and her BA in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has published a number of articles on advertising, popular culture, and the sharing economy in South Korea. You can find her on Research Gate here. To view the commercials mentioned in “Flower of Capitalism,” go here. Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer with an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. You can follow her on X at https://twitter.com/AJuseyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies. The term "flower of capitalism" is a clichéd metaphor for advertising in South Korea, bringing resolutely positive connotations, which downplay the commercial purposes of advertising and give prominence to its potential for public service. Historically, South Korean advertising was tasked to promote virtue with its messages, while allocation of advertising expenditures among the mass media was monitored and regulated to curb advertisers' influence in the name of public interest. Though this ideal was often sacrificed to situational considerations, South Korean advertising had been remarkably accountable to public scrutiny and popular demands. This beneficent role of advertising, however, came under attack as a neoliberal hegemony consolidated in South Korea in the twenty-first century. Flower of Capitalism examines the clash of advertising's old obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising practitioners, censors, audiences, and activists. It weaves together a rich multi-sited ethnography--at an advertising agency and at an advertising censorship board--with an in-depth exploration of advertising-related controversies--from provocative advertising campaigns to advertising boycotts. Advertising emerges as a contested social institution whose connections to business, mass media, and government are continuously tested and revised. Olga Fedorenko challenges the mainstream notions of advertising, which universalize the ways it developed in Transatlantic countries, and offers a glimpse of what advertising could look like if its public effects were taken as seriously as its marketing goals. A critical and innovative intervention into the studies of advertising, Flower of Capitalism breaks new ground in current debates on the intersection of media, culture, and politics. Dr. Fedorenko is an associate professor of anthropology at the Seoul National University. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and her BA in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has published a number of articles on advertising, popular culture, and the sharing economy in South Korea. You can find her on Research Gate here. To view the commercials mentioned in “Flower of Capitalism,” go here. Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer with an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. You can follow her on X at https://twitter.com/AJuseyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies. The term "flower of capitalism" is a clichéd metaphor for advertising in South Korea, bringing resolutely positive connotations, which downplay the commercial purposes of advertising and give prominence to its potential for public service. Historically, South Korean advertising was tasked to promote virtue with its messages, while allocation of advertising expenditures among the mass media was monitored and regulated to curb advertisers' influence in the name of public interest. Though this ideal was often sacrificed to situational considerations, South Korean advertising had been remarkably accountable to public scrutiny and popular demands. This beneficent role of advertising, however, came under attack as a neoliberal hegemony consolidated in South Korea in the twenty-first century. Flower of Capitalism examines the clash of advertising's old obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising practitioners, censors, audiences, and activists. It weaves together a rich multi-sited ethnography--at an advertising agency and at an advertising censorship board--with an in-depth exploration of advertising-related controversies--from provocative advertising campaigns to advertising boycotts. Advertising emerges as a contested social institution whose connections to business, mass media, and government are continuously tested and revised. Olga Fedorenko challenges the mainstream notions of advertising, which universalize the ways it developed in Transatlantic countries, and offers a glimpse of what advertising could look like if its public effects were taken as seriously as its marketing goals. A critical and innovative intervention into the studies of advertising, Flower of Capitalism breaks new ground in current debates on the intersection of media, culture, and politics. Dr. Fedorenko is an associate professor of anthropology at the Seoul National University. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and her BA in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has published a number of articles on advertising, popular culture, and the sharing economy in South Korea. You can find her on Research Gate here. To view the commercials mentioned in “Flower of Capitalism,” go here. Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer with an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. You can follow her on X at https://twitter.com/AJuseyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies. The term "flower of capitalism" is a clichéd metaphor for advertising in South Korea, bringing resolutely positive connotations, which downplay the commercial purposes of advertising and give prominence to its potential for public service. Historically, South Korean advertising was tasked to promote virtue with its messages, while allocation of advertising expenditures among the mass media was monitored and regulated to curb advertisers' influence in the name of public interest. Though this ideal was often sacrificed to situational considerations, South Korean advertising had been remarkably accountable to public scrutiny and popular demands. This beneficent role of advertising, however, came under attack as a neoliberal hegemony consolidated in South Korea in the twenty-first century. Flower of Capitalism examines the clash of advertising's old obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising practitioners, censors, audiences, and activists. It weaves together a rich multi-sited ethnography--at an advertising agency and at an advertising censorship board--with an in-depth exploration of advertising-related controversies--from provocative advertising campaigns to advertising boycotts. Advertising emerges as a contested social institution whose connections to business, mass media, and government are continuously tested and revised. Olga Fedorenko challenges the mainstream notions of advertising, which universalize the ways it developed in Transatlantic countries, and offers a glimpse of what advertising could look like if its public effects were taken as seriously as its marketing goals. A critical and innovative intervention into the studies of advertising, Flower of Capitalism breaks new ground in current debates on the intersection of media, culture, and politics. Dr. Fedorenko is an associate professor of anthropology at the Seoul National University. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and her BA in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has published a number of articles on advertising, popular culture, and the sharing economy in South Korea. You can find her on Research Gate here. To view the commercials mentioned in “Flower of Capitalism,” go here. Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer with an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. You can follow her on X at https://twitter.com/AJuseyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies. The term "flower of capitalism" is a clichéd metaphor for advertising in South Korea, bringing resolutely positive connotations, which downplay the commercial purposes of advertising and give prominence to its potential for public service. Historically, South Korean advertising was tasked to promote virtue with its messages, while allocation of advertising expenditures among the mass media was monitored and regulated to curb advertisers' influence in the name of public interest. Though this ideal was often sacrificed to situational considerations, South Korean advertising had been remarkably accountable to public scrutiny and popular demands. This beneficent role of advertising, however, came under attack as a neoliberal hegemony consolidated in South Korea in the twenty-first century. Flower of Capitalism examines the clash of advertising's old obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising practitioners, censors, audiences, and activists. It weaves together a rich multi-sited ethnography--at an advertising agency and at an advertising censorship board--with an in-depth exploration of advertising-related controversies--from provocative advertising campaigns to advertising boycotts. Advertising emerges as a contested social institution whose connections to business, mass media, and government are continuously tested and revised. Olga Fedorenko challenges the mainstream notions of advertising, which universalize the ways it developed in Transatlantic countries, and offers a glimpse of what advertising could look like if its public effects were taken as seriously as its marketing goals. A critical and innovative intervention into the studies of advertising, Flower of Capitalism breaks new ground in current debates on the intersection of media, culture, and politics. Dr. Fedorenko is an associate professor of anthropology at the Seoul National University. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and her BA in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has published a number of articles on advertising, popular culture, and the sharing economy in South Korea. You can find her on Research Gate here. To view the commercials mentioned in “Flower of Capitalism,” go here. Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer with an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. You can follow her on X at https://twitter.com/AJuseyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/korean-studies
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies. The term "flower of capitalism" is a clichéd metaphor for advertising in South Korea, bringing resolutely positive connotations, which downplay the commercial purposes of advertising and give prominence to its potential for public service. Historically, South Korean advertising was tasked to promote virtue with its messages, while allocation of advertising expenditures among the mass media was monitored and regulated to curb advertisers' influence in the name of public interest. Though this ideal was often sacrificed to situational considerations, South Korean advertising had been remarkably accountable to public scrutiny and popular demands. This beneficent role of advertising, however, came under attack as a neoliberal hegemony consolidated in South Korea in the twenty-first century. Flower of Capitalism examines the clash of advertising's old obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising practitioners, censors, audiences, and activists. It weaves together a rich multi-sited ethnography--at an advertising agency and at an advertising censorship board--with an in-depth exploration of advertising-related controversies--from provocative advertising campaigns to advertising boycotts. Advertising emerges as a contested social institution whose connections to business, mass media, and government are continuously tested and revised. Olga Fedorenko challenges the mainstream notions of advertising, which universalize the ways it developed in Transatlantic countries, and offers a glimpse of what advertising could look like if its public effects were taken as seriously as its marketing goals. A critical and innovative intervention into the studies of advertising, Flower of Capitalism breaks new ground in current debates on the intersection of media, culture, and politics. Dr. Fedorenko is an associate professor of anthropology at the Seoul National University. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and her BA in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has published a number of articles on advertising, popular culture, and the sharing economy in South Korea. You can find her on Research Gate here. To view the commercials mentioned in “Flower of Capitalism,” go here. Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer with an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. You can follow her on X at https://twitter.com/AJuseyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.07.28.550667v1?rss=1 Authors: Malik-Moraleda, S., Taliaferro, M., Shannon, S., Jhingan, N., Swords, S., Peterson, D. J., Frommer, P., Okrand, M., Sams, J., Cardwell, R., Freeman, C., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: What constitutes a language? Natural languages share some features with other domains: from math, to logic, to music, to gesture. However, the brain mechanisms that process linguistic input have been shown to be highly specialized, showing little or no response to diverse non-linguistic tasks. Here, we examine a class of stimuli that have not been previously investigated with neuroscientific methods - constructed languages, or conlangs, like Esperanto and Klingon - to ask whether they draw on the same neural mechanisms as natural languages, or whether they instead pattern with domains like math and logic. Using individual -subject fMRI analyses, we show that understanding conlangs recruits the same brain areas as natural language comprehension. This result holds for Esperanto (n=19 speakers) - a conlang that was created to resemble natural languages - and fictional conlangs (Klingon (n=10), Na'vi (n=9), High Valyrian (n=3), and Dothraki (n=3)), which were created to differ from natural languages, and suggests that a) conlangs and natural languages share critical features, including an ability to express a wide range of meanings related to the external and internal worlds, and b) the notable differences between (even fictional) conlangs and natural language are not consequential for the cognitive and neural mechanisms that they engage. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.05.05.539646v1?rss=1 Authors: Kauf, C., Tuckute, G., Levy, R., Andreas, J., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: Representations from artificial neural network (ANN) language models have been shown to predict human brain activity in the language network. To understand what aspects of linguistic stimuli contribute to ANN-to-brain similarity, we used an fMRI dataset of responses to n=627 naturalistic English sentences (Pereira et al., 2018) and systematically manipulated the stimuli for which ANN representations were extracted. In particular, we i) perturbed sentences' word order, ii) removed different subsets of words, or iii) replaced sentences with other sentences of varying semantic similarity. We found that the lexical semantic content of the sentence (largely carried by content words) rather than the sentence's syntactic form (conveyed via word order or function words) is primarily responsible for the ANN-to-brain similarity. In follow-up analyses, we found that perturbation manipulations that adversely affect brain predictivity also lead to more divergent representations in the ANN's embedding space and decrease the ANN's ability to predict upcoming tokens in those stimuli. Further, results are robust to whether the mapping model is trained on intact or perturbed stimuli, and whether the ANN sentence representations are conditioned on the same linguistic context that humans saw. The critical result--that lexical-semantic content is the main contributor to the similarity between ANN representations and neural ones--aligns with the idea that the goal of the human language system is to extract meaning from linguistic strings. Finally, this work highlights the strength of systematic experimental manipulations for evaluating how close we are to accurate and generalizable models of the human language network. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.16.537080v1?rss=1 Authors: Tuckute, G., Sathe, A., Srikant, S., Taliaferro, M., Wang, M., Schrimpf, M., Kay, K., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: Transformer language models are today's most accurate models of language processing in the brain. Here, using fMRI-measured brain responses to 1,000 diverse sentences, we develop a GPT-based encoding model to identify new sentences that are predicted to drive or suppress responses in the human language network. We demonstrate that these model-selected 'out-of distribution' sentences indeed drive and suppress activity of human language areas in new individuals (85.7% increase and 97.5% decrease relative to the diverse naturalistic sentences). A systematic analysis of the model-selected sentences reveals that surprisal and well-formedness of linguistic input are key determinants of response strength in the language network. These results establish the ability of accurate models of the brain to noninvasively control neural activity in higher-level cortical areas, like the language network. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.03.23.533424v1?rss=1 Authors: Bruffaerts, R., Pongos, A., Shain, C., Lipkin, B., Siegelman, M., Wens, V., Sjogard, M., Pantazis, D., Blank, I., Goldman, S., De Tiege, X., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: Making meaningful inferences about the functional architecture of the language system requires the ability to refer to the same neural units across individuals and studies. Traditional brain imaging approaches align and average brains together in a common space. However, lateral frontal and temporal cortex, where the language system resides, is characterized by high structural and functional inter-individual variability. This variability reduces the sensitivity and functional resolution of group-averaging analyses. This problem is compounded by the fact that language areas often lay in close proximity to regions of other large-scale networks with different functional profiles. A solution inspired by other fields of cognitive neuroscience (e.g., vision) is to identify language areas functionally in each individual brain using a localizer task (e.g., a language comprehension task). This approach has proven productive in fMRI, yielding a number of discoveries about the language system, and has been successfully extended to intracranial recording investigations. Here, we apply this approach to MEG. Across two experiments (one in Dutch speakers, n=19; one in English speakers, n=23), we examined neural responses to the processing of sentences and a control condition (nonword sequences). We demonstrated that the neural response to language is spatially consistent at the individual level. The language-responsive sensors of interest were, as expected, less responsive to the nonword condition. Clear inter-individual differences were present in the topography of the neural response to language, leading to greater sensitivity when the data were analyzed at the individual level compared to the group level. Thus, as in fMRI, functional localization yields benefits in MEG and thus opens the door to probing fine-grained distinctions in space and time in future MEG investigations of language processing. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Dr. Olga Fedorenko is scholar of Korean Studies and anthropology of media at Seoul National University. Her research interests revolve around media and its connection to social and political life in contemporary South Korea. Her book The Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising At a Crossroads: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/flow... T his is a discussion about Korea, media, and the advertising landscape. Dr. Fedorenko also taught me a staple of anthropology: Find the strange in the familiar, and the familiar in the strange. I love this idea. My next two conversations are in-person so Olga might be the last Zoom discussion that takes place on Korea Deconstructed. There's something about being in-person. Discussion Outline 0:00 Early Experiences of Korea 8:47 Contemporary South Korea 19:17: The Liberalization of Korean Media 28:00 Life in a Korean Advertising Agency 47:40 Marxism in Academia and South Korea 54:00 Celebrities in South Korea 1:14:10 Advertising in Daily Life 1:31:30 Advice and the Future Korea Deconstructed by David Tizzard ▶ Get in touch: datizzard@swu.ac.kr ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=62047873 ▶ Watch us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidTizzard ▶ Listen on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast... ▶ Listen on podcasts: https://koreadeconstructed.libsyn.com... ▶ Music by Kev at Disorientalz. https://www.instagram.com/disorientalz/
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.07.527469v1?rss=1 Authors: Wolna, A., Szewczyk, J., Diaz, M., Domagalik, A., Szwed, M., Wodniecka, Z. Abstract: When bilingual speakers switch back to speaking in their native language (L1) after having used their second language (L2), they often experience difficulty in retrieving words in their L1: this phenomenon is referred to as the L2 after-effect. We used the L2 after-effect as a lens to explore the neural bases of bilingual language control mechanisms. Our goal was twofold: first, to explore whether bilingual language control draws on domain-general or language-specific mechanisms; second, to investigate the precise mechanism(s) that drive the L2 after-effect. We used a precision fMRI approach based on functional localizers to measure the extent to which the brain activity that reflects the L2 after-effect overlaps with the language network (Fedorenko et al., 2010) and the domain-general Multiple Demand network (Duncan et al., 2010), as well as three task-specific networks that tap into interference resolution, lexical retrieval, and articulation. Forty-two Polish-English bilinguals participated in the study. Our results show that the L2 after-effect reflects increased engagement of domain-general but not language-specific resources. Furthermore, contrary to previously proposed interpretations, we did not find evidence that the effect reflects increased difficulty related to lexical access, articulation, and the resolution of lexical interference. We propose that difficulty in speech production - manifested as the L2 after-effect - reflects interference at a non-linguistic level of task schemas or a general increase of engagement of cognitive control in speech production in L1 after L2. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.30.522216v1?rss=1 Authors: Regev, T. I., Casto, C., Hosseini, E. A., Adamek, M., Brunner, P., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: A left-lateralized network of frontal and temporal brain regions is specialized for language processing-spoken, written, or signed. Different regions of this 'language network' have all been shown to be sensitive to various forms of linguistic information, from combinatorial sentence structure to word meanings, to sub-lexical regularities. However, whether neural computations are the same across and within these different brain regions remains debated. Here, we examine responses during language processing recorded intracranially in patients with intractable epilepsy. Across two datasets (Dataset 1: n=6 participants, m=177 language-responsive electrodes; Dataset 2: n=16 participants, m=362 language-responsive electrodes), we clustered language-responsive electrodes and found three distinct response profiles, with differences in response magnitude between linguistic conditions (e.g., sentences vs. lists of words), different temporal dynamics over the course of the stimulus, and different degrees of stimulus locking. We argue that these profiles correspond to different temporal receptive windows that vary in size between sub-lexical units and multi-word sequences. These results demonstrate the functional heterogeneity of neural responses in the language network and highlight the diversity of neural computations that may be needed in order to extract meaning from linguistic input. Importantly, electrodes that exhibit these distinct profiles do not cluster spatially and are instead interleaved across frontal and temporal language areas, which likely made It difficult to uncover functional differences in past fMRI studies. This mosaic of neural responses across the language network suggests that all language regions have direct access to distinct response types-a property that may be crucial for the efficiency and robustness of language processing mechanisms. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Joining SlatorPod this week is Ev Fedorenko, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT. Ev also runs EvLab, an MIT language lab that discovers how the human brain creates language.Ev talks about the different hypotheses concerning the origin of language and how it has likely been a gradual evolution. She shares a number of intriguing research findings on the relationship between language and abstract representations of structure (i.e., complex thought).Ev discusses how language processing takes place and how we can use brain imaging to compare language with other non-linguistic tasks, such as solving math problems and composing music. She questions whether specific languages can be objectively easy or difficult to learn as an adult.She also considers what sets polyglots apart when it comes to learning languages and some of the generalizations made in research. Ev talks about how language processing in machines like GPT-3 compares to that in humans. She argues that it would be more fruitful to build language systems that are structured similar to the human brain.Ev concludes with the collaboration between academia and the booming field of applied AI, despite different goals. She touches on the MIT Quest for Intelligence, which brings together scientists and engineers to build better human-like models for the benefit of society.
What is a holistic approach to Mangrove reforestation that addresses social impact, habitat development, global warming mitigation, positive climate change, bringing together technologies with community stakeholders to create prosperity? Working in the carbon market since 2011, mangroves are finally getting the attention they should have as a climate solution. In an interview with Better Worlds host Julian Guderley, Dr. Irina Fedorenko noted that the emerging market is still messy and not transparent because it didn't receive enough attention in the past few years. At first an underdog, she is now on point with the trends in the carbon market, working with VlinderClimate and Caux Dialogue, and other organizations in unison to democratize the market. Through a holistic approach, these organizations build teams and strengthen partnerships for mangrove reforestation projects, helping communities manage mangroves as a barrier between land and sea to protect land from increasing climate-change storms and the damage they bring. But they have a multitude of other benefits and through their efforts, communities see direct benefits that mangroves have on shoreline communities in social impact, habitat development and positive climate impact, and their own prosperity. Mangroves, which Irina refers to in this podcast as “magical trees” due to their vast ability to create better ecosystems. Specifically, mangroves stabilize the shores, protect land from sea, holding rich nutrients in the soil, and sequester five times the carbon dioxide of the Amazon rainforest, the most important carbon sink in the world. Irina talks with Better Worlds about how communities are benefiting from new mangrove-related business opportunities as well, citing new projects in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal. Irina discusses how the shoreline communities are the key stakeholders in any mangrove effort. To help keep them engaged as stewards of their own environment, the partnership with these organizations brings to them 50 percent of the carbon revenue. Irina explains how this creates prosperity for community stakeholders and the roles of each partner, from upkeep to technological mapping to show sequestration in “almost” real time. BIO For the past seven years Dr. Federenko has been the Managing Director of Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security leading the conference team and organizing the dialogue on links between desertification, land restoration & conflict in the context of climate change. Advising on strategies and planning for the future content of the Caux Dialogue on Land & Security, in partnership with UNCCD & IUCN. Irina is also the Chief Carbon Officer at Vlinder where she works on creating most impact on Climate Change mitigation with Nature-Based Solutions. Bringing expertise on carbon markets, landscape restoration and technology. Irina co-foundedd the Kindness Collective 6 years ago. The Collective is a brand of natural detergent launched by the Oxford students social enterprise. It aims to provide a reliable source of livelihood to some of the rural and communities living in and around particular forest areas in India. Totaling over 100 million, the indigenous people are insulated from the technological, social and economic advancements of the modern world. While many of these people have never been to a school, they spend most of their time on the farms to grow enough for themselves or forage through the forests for food, fuel and medicinal herbs. Thanks to living in the lap of nature, the forest communities have accumulated a great knowledge system in utilizing herbs, fruits, flowers, seeds, nuts and barks of the forests in their lifestyles. Adding business skills and education to this knowledge, Kindness Collective promotes the use of these organic forest products and helps the local communities.
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.10.04.510681v1?rss=1 Authors: Hosseini, E. A., Schrimpf, M. A., Zhang, Y., Bowman, S., Zaslavsky, N., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: Artificial neural networks have emerged as computationally plausible models of human language processing. A major criticism of these models is that the amount of training data they receive far exceeds that of humans during language learning. Here, we use two complementary approaches to ask how the models ability to capture human neural and behavioral responses to language is affected by the amount of training data. First, we evaluate GPT-2 models trained on 1 million, 10 million, 100 million, or 1 billion tokens against two fMRI benchmarks and one behavioral (reading times) benchmark. Because children are exposed to approximately 100 million words during the first 10 years of life, we consider the 100 million token model developmentally plausible. Second, we test the performance of a GPT-2 model that is trained on a 9 billion dataset to reach state-of-the-art next-word prediction performance against the same human benchmarks at different stages during training. Across both approaches, we find that (i) the models trained on a developmentally plausible amount of data already achieve near-maximal performance in capturing neural and behavioral responses to language. Further, (ii) lower perplexity (a measure of next-word prediction performance) is associated with stronger alignment with the human benchmarks, suggesting that models that have received enough training to achieve sufficiently high next word prediction performance also acquire human-like representations of the linguistic input. In tandem, these findings establish that although some training is necessary for the models ability to predict human responses to language, a developmentally realistic amount of training (~100 million tokens) may suffice. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by PaperPlayer
Schule, Uni, Haushalt, Arbeit – die Liste unserer Verantwortlichkeiten ist lang. Unser Leben umso kürzer. Wie schaffen wir es also, Spaß in Dinge zu bekommen, für die wir zwangsläufig Verantwortung übernehmen müssen? Business Coach Roma zeigt uns das 6-Phasen-Modell und beschreibt, wie er es geschafft hat, in seinen beiden Jobs als Studioleiter sowie Gesellschafter & Gründer Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Ganz viel Spaß und gute Inspiration bei dieser Folge und herzliche Corona-Grüße von Teneriffa!
Lisa Fedorenko is passionate about helping create a fairer world through increased diversity and sustainability. After completing a triple major in Advanced mathematics, computer science and econometrics in her combined Commerce/Science degree, she began her career in equity research sales at Credit Suisse before moving into a range of finance roles spanning value investing (at Montgomery Investment Management), venture capital (at Reinventure), and venture debt (at Marshall Investment Management). Lisa is now the investment manager at Alberts, a unique family business with over 130 years of history and a commitment culturally rich, inclusive, healthy and sustainable world. Lisa is fluent in English, Russian and French and as a raging extrovert never stops being inspired by the entrepreneurs she works with. Companies mentioned Uluu Baymatob Like Family Books: Quiet by Susan Cain Principles by Ray Dalio – it's particularly interesting for company culture Atomic Habits by James Clear – one of the best life-hack books 21 lessons for the 21st century by Yugal Noah Harari – very thought provoking Anyone looking to get into VC should read: The Hard thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz The Lean Startup by Eric Ries What You Do is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christenson
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
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
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
Anton Fedorenko is the mastermind behind Infopathy which offers two biohacking devices that I've been using for some time now to enhance my brainpower, mood, concentration, immunity, sleep, and even exercise.Last year I published a biohacker review entitled Downloadable medicine is NO longer science fiction… and it made the dogmatic “skeptics” of the internet very angry.Now, I can understand the skeptics because non-pharmaceutical, downloadable medicine is a pretty fantastic proposition. IF it's real it's the most disruptive medicinal technology of this century.In this interview, we discuss the mind-blowing phenomena of water memory and Anton explains how infoceuticals (ICs) actually work.2:22 Skeptical?4:10 History, theory & mechanism17:57 Why ICs don't have side effects22:00 The nose is a spectrometer25:32 Scientific evidence30:28 Placebo effect and ICs40:55 Anecdotal evidence from the Infopathy community47:00 Anton's go-to ICs53:03 ICs vs EMFs59:59 Anton's cognitive enhancement biohacks1:05:12 What to expect from ICs1:08:22 How to get the optimal effect from the ICs1:15:13 The new EMF-shielded water bottle1:17:00 Which ICs are free to the publicRead
To watch this as a video Download it and play it from the Downloads section in the Castbox app on your device.Anton Fedorenko is the mastermind behind Infopathy which offers two biohacking devices that I've been using for some time now to enhance my brainpower, mood, concentration, immunity, sleep, and even exercise.Last year I published a biohacker review entitled Downloadable medicine is NO longer science fiction… and it made the dogmatic “skeptics” of the internet very angry.Now, I can understand the skeptics because non-pharmaceutical, downloadable medicine is a pretty fantastic proposition. IF it's real it's the most disruptive medicinal technology of this century.In this interview, we discuss the mind-blowing phenomena of water memory and Anton explains how infoceuticals (ICs) actually work.2:22 Skeptical?4:10 History, theory & mechanism17:57 Why ICs don't have side effects22:00 The nose is a spectrometer25:32 Scientific evidence30:28 Placebo effect and ICs40:55 Anecdotal evidence from the Infopathy community47:00 Anton's go-to ICs53:03 ICs vs EMFs59:59 Anton's cognitive enhancement biohacks1:05:12 What to expect from ICs1:08:22 How to get the optimal effect from the ICs1:15:13 The new EMF-shielded water bottle1:17:00 Which ICs are free to the publicRead
This episode originally aired on 2/21/2020. New episodes coming soon. Learn about whether people think in words or in pictures; why brussels sprouts really are tastier than they used to be; and why buying luxury items might make you feel like an impostor.Whether People Think in Words or Pictures by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Alicia)(2020). Twitter. https://twitter.com/KylePlantEmoji/status/1221713792913965061Heavey, C. L., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2008). The phenomena of inner experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 798–810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.12.006Pristine Inner Experience. (2020). Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-experienceAmit, E., Hoeflin, C., Hamzah, N., & Fedorenko, E. (2017). An asymmetrical relationship between verbal and visual thinking: Converging evidence from behavior and fMRI. NeuroImage, 152, 619–627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.029Why Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now by Steffie DruckerFrom Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom. (2019, October 30). NPR.Org. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-boBeck, A. (2019, November 7). It's Not Your Imagination, Brussels Sprouts Really Do Taste Better Now. Better Homes & Gardens; Better Homes & Gardens. https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/Pearson, H. (2006, September 18). Distaste for sprouts in the genes. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/news060918-1Perman, A. (2011, November 1). The “brussels sprouts” gene: TAS2R38 | Anna Perman's Genetic Spaghetti. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-geneNeuroscience for Kids - Bitter Taste Gene. (2003, July 15). Washington.edu. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bitter.htmlMasur, L. (2019, December 26). The Top 10 Food Trends of the Entire Decade. Kitchn; Apartment Therapy, LLC. https://www.thekitchn.com/decade-food-trends-2010-2019-22973978Luxury Buying Makes People Feel Fake by Kelsey DonkLuxury consumption can fuel “impostor syndrome” among some buyers. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/bc-lcc122019.phpWong, K. (2020, January 30). Why Your Designer Bag Is Making You Feel Worse. The Financial Diet. https://thefinancialdiet.com/luxury-consumer-imposter-syndrome/Goor, D., Ordabayeva, N., Keinan, A., & Crener, S. (2019). The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption. Journal of Consumer Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucz044Want to learn even more? Head to discovery+ to stream from some of your favorite shows. Go to discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply.
Los extremos sonoros protagonizan esta semana nuestro programa. El piano, el bajo, la mesa de mezclas como instrumento. Conoceremos los trabajos de Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, Catherine Graindorge, Brendan Faegre, Robert Takahashi Crouch, Toshimaru Nakamura, Dark Star Safari, Distant Fires Burning o Kkot Como muestra de solidaridad y apoyo al pueblo ucraniano, recuperamos el trabajo del compositor experimental ucraniano Dmytro Fedorenko bajo su alias de Variàt que sirve como adelanto del especial Ucrania que estamos preparando y que podréis escuchar muy pronto en Atmósfera. Escuchar audio
Valery Fedorenko is a Russian world record kettlebell lifter and coach who founded the World Kettlebell Club in 2006. While competing in Kettlebell lifting, Fedorenko achieved the title of "Honored Master of Sport", which is the sport's highest level of recognized skill. Time Stamp 00:00 Valery's Kettlebell Beginnings 13:00 Becoming Master Of Sport Worldclass 32:20 What Separates The Good From The Great Athletes 45:00 How To Perfect Endurance For Kettlebell Sport 1:05:00 Linear Vs. Complex Progress 1:20:00 Lower Back Stretch Mechanism 1:33:00 Valery's Mission On General Fitness With Kettlebells --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lebe-stark/message
La conexión China - Chota: ¿Cuál era la jugada con las constructoras chinas que eran parte de la mafia del MTC, según Karelim? ADEMÁS: Aclara Nakasaki. MIENTRAS TANTO: A pesar de lo prometido por Castillo hace casi una semana, el avión para rescatar a los peruanos en Ucrania sigue en su hangar. TAMBIÉN: Cómo juegan en pared las mafias policiales y de las combis. Y... Desde Moscú, le preguntamos a María Fedorenko, una economista rusa que ha vivido mucho tiempo en el Perú, cuál era su visión del conflicto en el que está envuelto su país.
Have you heard of “infoceuticals”? Whenever we ingest an herb, supplement, drug, or other compounds, it alters the electromagnetism of cells. Certain processes start, others stop. The characteristic effects of the substance result. What if we could use modern tools to accomplish something similar? I tested a few of their products. Skeptical of its effects, I transformed my water into all kinds of things. Growth hormone, cannabis, Xanax, and nootropics to name a few. Infopathy is like digital, 21st-century homeopathy. I decided to bring their founder on the show to explain how this crazy technology works. Meet our guest Anton Fedorenko received his BASc in Applied Physics and Mathematics (2012) and MASc in Innovation and High Technologies (2017) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia). For 10 years, Anton has been involved with several water-related projects wherein he not only conducted fundamental research but also developed water-related products and web-based platforms. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the organizing committee for the annual Water Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. In 2018 Anton founded AshNu Technologies Inc. (Canada) and is currently developing two platforms: Infopathy and AquaPsy. Thank you to our sponsors Outliyr Peak Performance Shop: get exclusive discounts on cutting-edge health, wellness, & performance gear Infopathy (see my review): save 10% with code URBAN10 Key takeaways How water carries information and consciousness and how we can harness this knowledge Why Anton's research (and that of others') suggests we should rethink some basic postulates of biology Using PEMF to kill micro-organisms Tips to optimize Infopathy (substance) complexes (ICs) Links Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qaxm5-n_pos Full episode show notes: mindbodypeak.com/36 Connect with Nick on social media Instagram Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Easy ways to support Subscribe Leave an Apple Podcast review Suggest a guest Do you have questions, thoughts, or feedback for Anton or me? Let me know at mindbodypeak.com/36 and one of us will get back to you! Keep growing and be an Outliyr, Nick
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
Do you know the information your water is storing? Do you know how exposed your water is to EMFs? And do you have any idea what this can do to your health? In this episode of HYDRATE, my guest, Anton Fedorenko, gives you the drip. We discuss the electro magnetics fields your water is being exposed to and storing, the infoceinfoceuticals (ICs) found in your water, Quantum Electromagnetic theory, and tactics you can use to start protecting your water. Anton is a world-renowned physisis, founder of Infopathy, and and expert in the space of infoceuticals (ICs). What we discuss: 8:00 - EMF's stored in our water 20:00 - Quantum Electromagnetic theory 24:00 - Protecting our water from EMF's 31:30 - Imprinting vortexes water and IC's 33:30 - How much information water can hold 37:00 - How can we amplify the energy potential within us? 44:00 - Steps Tracy takes to protect her water Find more from Anton: www.infopathy.com Infopathy allows users to transfer infoceuticals (ICs) for health, cosmetic, veterinary, and gardening purposes anytime, anywhere.
In this episode, Lucas invites 2 special guests to talk about a new and novel technology that appears to hold HUGE potential. ICs work by stimulating the body's own healing abilities. ICs are electromagnetic signals that are generated using algorithms or recorded from substances that have healing, therapeutic, or other biological effects. The following video will briefly discuss ICs from the point of view of the Quantum Electrodynamic (QED) Theory. Here you will learn how water is able to mimic the electromagnetic spectrum of diluted substances as well as how one can record and store these electromagnetic signals - thus, creating ICs from active substances. Please note that this video provides a general overview of the QED theory of water and is not meant to explain all the details of the theory. Buy Infopathy here: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/infopathy-device-print-your-water-glowing-ic-pad Relevant links:Buy Infopathy Device here: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/infopathy-device-print-your-water-glowing-ic-pad
In this episode, Lucas invites 2 special guests to talk about a new and novel technology that appears to hold HUGE potential. ICs work by stimulating the body's own healing abilities. ICs are electromagnetic signals that are generated using algorithms or recorded from substances that have healing, therapeutic, or other biological effects. The following video will briefly discuss ICs from the point of view of the Quantum Electrodynamic (QED) Theory. Here you will learn how water is able to mimic the electromagnetic spectrum of diluted substances as well as how one can record and store these electromagnetic signals - thus, creating ICs from active substances. Please note that this video provides a general overview of the QED theory of water and is not meant to explain all the details of the theory. Buy Infopathy here: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/infopathy-device-print-your-water-glowing-ic-pad Relevant links:Buy Infopathy Device here: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/infopathy-device-print-your-water-glowing-ic-pad
The past century has been marked by the dominance of (mostly) patentable biochemicals for the purpose of altering chemistry and function inside the human body. We are now, however, fully present in the information age. As such, our approach to medicine in the twenty-first century is also rapidly changing. We have seen the way information can transform communicaion, transportation, commerce, and economics. Now we are being introduced to a new era of medicine which may be defined by our ability to bypass the mechanical structures of the body and apply healing mechanisms via information or energy information.In this episode of the Body Literacy Podcast, Anton Fedorenko, the founder of Infopathy, ignites a conversation about his technology that imprints water with the energetic signatures of chemical compounds and also employs the use of PEMF technology. The technology can be used to imprint water with anything from vitamins to pharmaceuticals.I was skeptical at first, but after taking the Infopathy technology for a test ride for a few months, I'm convinced there may be something to it and, certainly, it may have serious positive implications for the direction we are moving towards in a paradigm shift in Western Medicine.Anton Fedorenko received his Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics and Mathematics and Masters of Science in Innovation and High Technologies from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. For 10 years, Anton has been involved with several water-related projects wherein he not only conducted fundamental research but also developed water-related products and web-based platforms. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the organizing committee for the annual Water Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. In 2018 Anton founded the Canadian based AshNu Technologies Inc. and is currently developing two platforms: Infopathy and AquaPsy. Infopathy allows users to transfer the energetic signatures of infoceuticals , or ICs for short, for health, cosmetic, veterinary, and gardening purposes anytime and anywhere and introduces the concept of information medicine to curious users who are interested in stepping beyond the confines patent-driven biochemical medicine.AquaPsy takes consciousness research to a whole new level – through AquaPsy, people from around the world can be connected remotely to water-based sensors, which can detect and evaluate influences caused by non-local mind effects. Both of these platforms help one rediscover themselves from the Quantum View.InfopathyAquaPsyWater Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water* * * * *The Body Literacy Podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Any statements and views expressed by myself or my guests are not medical advice. The opinions of guests are their own and the Body Literacy Podcast does not endorse or accept responsibility for statements made by guests. If you have a medical problem, please consult a qualified and competent medical professional.Theme music for the Body Literacy Podcast is provided by Big Wild, https://bigwildmusic.com/ .Be sure to subscribe and sign up for updates at https://JenMayo.com .
Welcome to the Siim Land Podcast my name is Siim Land and today our guest is Anton Fedorenko. Anton is the founder of Infopathy, which is an online platform where people can transfer infoceuticals with a wide variety of physiological effects. Infoceuticals are electromagnetic signals recorded from different substances or hormones that have a therapeutic effect on the body. They can be imprinted or stored into water and then consumed. It sounds pretty crazy but there are a few studies about how these infoceuticals have a beneficial effect on improving symptoms of diabetes similar to metformin and healing things like ulcers. I’ve been using the IC pad for a few weeks and it certainly has a lot of potential. If you want to check out these infoceuticals, then head over to siimland.com/infopathy and use the code SIIM10 for a 20% discount off their services. That’s SIIM10 at siimland.com/infopathy. Timestamps: 00:58 What Are Infoceuticals 06:00 How Our Bodies React to Molecular Signals 09:56 Is It a Placebo or Nocebo 13:37 Research on Infoceuticals 19:55 Can You Increase Testosterone with Infoceuticals 23:35 How Infoceuticals Are Made 27:00 How Effective Are Infoceuticals 31:20 How Anton Got Into Infoceuticals 43:43 What Water Bottle to Use 48:20 Does Imprinted Water Have an Expiration Date 54:10 Creating Imprinted Complexes Here are the links to the podcast on all platforms Link to the Audio Podcast on iTunes and Stitcher Link to the podcast on Spotify Link to the podcast on CastBox Watch the Biohacking Bootcamp Videos on Patreon This episode is sponsored by BiOptimizers. They're giving the listeners of this podcast an exclusive offer on one of their best-selling products. It's called Magnesium Breakthrough and is the most full-spectrum magnesium supplement out there. Most supplements contain only 1 or 2 forms of magnesium... when in reality there are at least 7 that your body needs and benefits from. Magnesium is the master mineral that governs virtually all physiological processes in the body. With volume discounts combined with our custom 10% coupon code, SIIM10, you can save up to 40% off select packages of Magnesium Breakthrough! That’s an AMAZING value. And I promise that deal is ONLY available on this specific website, Click Here to Support the Show on Patreon! Show Notes Join Infopathy with the Code SIIM10 Infopathy Help Section Infopathy Infoceutical Catalog Infopathy Equipment Page Kaapa Health Mushrooms - Use Code SIIMLAND for 15% OFF The Mineral Fix Book The Immunity Fix Audiobook Stronger by Stress on Amazon Stronger by Stress Audiobook The Immunity Fix on Amazon Get Magnesium Breakthrough for a 10% Discount! Black Stuff Fulvic Acid 15% OFF with the Code SIIM Use Code SIIM for 10% Off Self Decode Use Code SIIM for a 10% Discount on the KAATSU Bands Get Your Biomarkers Tested with Lets Get Checked At-Home Tests! Use Code SIIMLAND for a 20% Discount (sponsored)! My New Book Stronger by Stress My NEW BOOK Metabolic Autophagy Metabolic Autophagy Audiobook Metabolic Autophagy Master Class Total Sleep Optimization Video Course Get the FULL GUIDE to INTERMITTENT FASTING FREE BOOK Get the Metabolic Autophagy Program Keto Adaptation Manual Book Watch the Biohacking Bootcamp Videos on Patreon Body Mind Empowerment Handbook Keto Fit Program Keto // IF Program Stay Empowered Siim
On this episode, Josh sits down with Anton Fedorenko to talk about the exciting technology of Infopathy and PEMF and ways to imprint a variety of substances in your water and much, much more! Anton Fedorenko received his BASc in Applied Physics and Mathematics (2012) and MASc in Innovation and High Technologies (2017) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia). For 10 years, Anton has been involved with several water-related projects wherein he not only conducted fundamental research but also developed water-related products and web-based platforms. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the organizing committee for the annual Water Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. In 2018 Anton founded AshNu Technologies Inc. (Canada) and is currently developing two platforms: Infopathy and AquaPsy Infopathy allows users to transfer infoceuticals (ICs) for health, cosmetic, veterinary, and gardening purposes anytime, anywhere. AquaPsy takes consciousness research to a whole new level – through AquaPsy, people from around the world can be connected remotely to water-based sensors, which can detect and evaluate influences caused by non-local mind effects. Both these platforms help one rediscover themselves from the Quantum View.
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Every substance has specific electromagnetic emission that can be recorded and played back into water. This is called "imprinting" infoceuticals and is the basis for the Infopathy technology. Of course, the foundation should be clean drinking water free of all contaminants, acids and properly mineralized. After that, there is a lot you can do to water, one of the coolest things being Anton's glowing IC pad device. In this interview Anton Fedorenko shares the deep science behind it and gives practical advice to those that buy bottled water at the store to make it healthier. Infopathy: https://www.infopathy.com/en Use the discount code BLACKBURN to save 10% My website: www.matt-blackburn.com Order Mitolife products: www.mitolife.co Music by George Henner: https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com
Learn about whether reading computer code is the same to your brain as reading another language; and a personality trait that could be key to lasting romance. Then, play along at home as we test your podcast knowledge in this month’s edition of Curiosity Challenge trivia. Is computer code the same as language to your brain? by Steffie Drucker To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/miot-ttb121520.php Ivanova, A. A., Shashank Srikant, Yotaro Sueoka, Kean, H. H., Dhamala, R., Una-May O’Reilly, Bers, M. U., & Fedorenko, E. (2020, December 15). Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions. ELife; eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd. https://elifesciences.org/articles/58906 This Personality Trait Could Be Key to Lasting Romance by Sonja Hodgen Ajrouch, K. J., Webster, N. J., & Antonucci, T. (2019, February 14). This trait could be key to a lasting romance. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/this-trait-could-be-key-to-a-lasting-romance-111722 Sociodemographic Differences in Humility: The Role of Social Relations. (2018). Research in Human Development. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15427609.2017.1414670?journalCode=hrhd20 Social Networks and Forgiveness: The Role of Trust and Efficacy. (2018). Research in Human Development. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15427609.2017.1415093?journalCode=hrhd20 Episodes referenced in Curiosity Challenge Trivia game: Second language: https://www.curiositydaily.com/why-are-the-covid-19-vaccines-kept-so-cold/ Remoras: https://www.curiositydaily.com/whats-the-shortest-amount-of-time-ever-recorded/ Ancient surgery: https://www.curiositydaily.com/people-respond-to-music-even-when-they-cant-hear-it/ Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Irina Fedorenko. Irina is a serial tech entrepreneur. She co-founded an innovative forestry start-up that uses drones for forest restoration, and is currently the Managing Director of the Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security, an Initiatives for Land, Lives and Peace program. This program brings together senior policymakers, project managers and social entrepreneurs to examine best practices of land restoration, climate change mitigation and peacebuilding. Irina has a PhD in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford. Her academic interests focus on entrepreneurship in Russia and China, and the use of technology for social and environmental change. In this episode you will hear about her work of planting with drones, democratizing planting for the community using blockchain, and more. Some notes... More about 1treellion & Irina Fedorenko. To support planting all over the world, please check out this link. The great music is credited to Pixabay.
Stephen talks with Ev Fedorenko, Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
Learn about whether people think in words or in pictures; why brussels sprouts really are tastier than they used to be; and why buying luxury items might make you feel like an impostor. Whether People Think in Words or Pictures by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Alicia) (2020). Twitter. https://twitter.com/KylePlantEmoji/status/1221713792913965061 Heavey, C. L., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2008). The phenomena of inner experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 798–810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.12.006 Pristine Inner Experience. (2020). Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-experience Amit, E., Hoeflin, C., Hamzah, N., & Fedorenko, E. (2017). An asymmetrical relationship between verbal and visual thinking: Converging evidence from behavior and fMRI. NeuroImage, 152, 619–627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.029 Why Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now by Steffie Drucker From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom. (2019, October 30). NPR.Org. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo Beck, A. (2019, November 7). It’s Not Your Imagination, Brussels Sprouts Really Do Taste Better Now. Better Homes & Gardens; Better Homes & Gardens. https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/ Pearson, H. (2006, September 18). Distaste for sprouts in the genes. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/news060918-1 Perman, A. (2011, November 1). The “brussels sprouts” gene: TAS2R38 | Anna Perman’s Genetic Spaghetti. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-gene Neuroscience for Kids - Bitter Taste Gene. (2003, July 15). Washington.edu. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bitter.html Masur, L. (2019, December 26). The Top 10 Food Trends of the Entire Decade. Kitchn; Apartment Therapy, LLC. https://www.thekitchn.com/decade-food-trends-2010-2019-22973978 Luxury Buying Makes People Feel Fake by Kelsey Donk Luxury consumption can fuel “impostor syndrome” among some buyers. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/bc-lcc122019.php Wong, K. (2020, January 30). Why Your Designer Bag Is Making You Feel Worse. The Financial Diet. https://thefinancialdiet.com/luxury-consumer-imposter-syndrome/ Goor, D., Ordabayeva, N., Keinan, A., & Crener, S. (2019). The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption. Journal of Consumer Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucz044 Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.26.174482v1?rss=1 Authors: Schrimpf, M., Blank, I. A., Tuckute, G., Kauf, C., Hosseini, E. A., KANWISHER, N. G., Tenenbaum, J. B., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: The ability to share ideas through language is our species' signature cognitive skill, but how this feat is achieved by the brain remains unknown. Inspired by the success of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in explaining neural responses in perceptual tasks (Kell et al., 2018; Khaligh-Razavi & Kriegeskorte, 2014; Schrimpf et al., 2018; Yamins et al., 2014; Zhuang et al., 2017), we here investigated whether state-of-the-art ANN language models (e.g. Devlin et al., 2018; Pennington et al., 2014; Radford et al., 2019) capture human brain activity elicited during language comprehension. We tested 43 language models spanning major current model classes on three neural datasets (including neuroimaging and intracranial recordings) and found that the most powerful generative transformer models (Radford et al., 2019) accurately predict neural responses, in some cases achieving near-perfect predictivity relative to the noise ceiling. In contrast, simpler word-based embedding models (e.g. Pennington et al., 2014) only poorly predict neural responses (
Learn about whether people think in words or in pictures; why brussels sprouts really are tastier than they used to be; and why buying luxury items might make you feel like an impostor. Whether People Think in Words or Pictures by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Alicia) (2020). Twitter. https://twitter.com/KylePlantEmoji/status/1221713792913965061 Heavey, C. L., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2008). The phenomena of inner experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 798–810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.12.006 Pristine Inner Experience. (2020). Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-experience Amit, E., Hoeflin, C., Hamzah, N., & Fedorenko, E. (2017). An asymmetrical relationship between verbal and visual thinking: Converging evidence from behavior and fMRI. NeuroImage, 152, 619–627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.029 Why Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now by Steffie Drucker From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom. (2019, October 30). NPR.Org. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo Beck, A. (2019, November 7). It’s Not Your Imagination, Brussels Sprouts Really Do Taste Better Now. Better Homes & Gardens; Better Homes & Gardens. https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/ Pearson, H. (2006, September 18). Distaste for sprouts in the genes. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/news060918-1 Perman, A. (2011, November 1). The “brussels sprouts” gene: TAS2R38 | Anna Perman’s Genetic Spaghetti. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-gene Neuroscience for Kids - Bitter Taste Gene. (2003, July 15). Washington.edu. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bitter.html Masur, L. (2019, December 26). The Top 10 Food Trends of the Entire Decade. Kitchn; Apartment Therapy, LLC. https://www.thekitchn.com/decade-food-trends-2010-2019-22973978 Luxury Buying Makes People Feel Fake by Kelsey Donk Luxury consumption can fuel “impostor syndrome” among some buyers. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/bc-lcc122019.php Wong, K. (2020, January 30). Why Your Designer Bag Is Making You Feel Worse. The Financial Diet. https://thefinancialdiet.com/luxury-consumer-imposter-syndrome/ Goor, D., Ordabayeva, N., Keinan, A., & Crener, S. (2019). The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption. Journal of Consumer Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucz044 Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing
Snowflake: Multiple Sclerosis HSCT: May, 2013 in Moscow, Russia Superpower: Patience and surrender How do you navigate your diagnosis? Would you describe your perspective as positive or negative? How do you normalize your experience with disease? After years of experiencing symptoms, Brooke was diagnosed with RRMS in 2006 and cycled through various disease modifying therapies, participated in a clinical trial, and sought alternatives to avoid the risk of developing PML. Despite working full time and distracting herself from the avalanche of symptoms, Brooke found herself transitioning into Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Inspired by the first American “ninja warrior” to receive HSCT in Moscow who blogged every detail about her experience, tune in to learn more about how Brooke focused her attention and perspective on the gifts and possibilities of HSCT. Brooke’s realistic perspective helped her embrace a positive approach and tackle the treatment that worked for her. Be sure to visit our website, HSCTWarriorsPodcast.com where you can find notes from today’s episode, submit ideas or feedback, and access the latest HSCT research and resources. Special thanks to musical genius Billy Alletzhauser for sharing his superpowers to create the soundtrack, edit, and produce the audio to make this podcast possible. You can find us both when you subscribe on SoundCloud, iTunes or wherever you find your podcasts. Take a moment to leave a review because your feedback will help to develop even better episodes, and your ratings will help other people find the show. Tune in next Wednesday for a brand new episode, highlighting another HSCT Warrior. Until then, be a snowflake and embrace your superpowers. Be kind. Be well. Resources noted: Brooke's blog: www.msslick.com Brooke's book website: www.brookeslick.com MS Gym Yoga Dr. Fedorenko at Aa Maximov Hospital, Moscow Russia
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to cognitive neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko. She is head of EvLab, her own language lab at MIT, and their mission is to discover how minds and brains create language. In this interview we speak about the language architecture of the brain, adult language learning, and the difference between thought and language. I hope you enjoy it!
I talk a bit about my new gym that I opened with Valery Fedorenko and how that came to be, read some Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, and Grateful Dead lyrics, and more...
Snowflake: Multiple Sclerosis HSCT: May, 2013 in Moscow, Russia Superpower: Patience and surrender How do you navigate your diagnosis? Would you describe your perspective as positive or negative? How do you normalize your disease? After years of experiencing symptoms, Brooke was diagnosed with RRMS in 2006 and cycled through various disease modifying therapies, participated in a clinical trial, and sought alternatives to avoid the risk of developing PML. Despite working full time and distracting herself from the avalanche of symptoms, Brooke found herself transitioning into Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Inspired by the first American “ninja warrior” to receive HSCT in Moscow who blogged every detail about her experience, tune in to learn more about how Brooke focused her attention and perspective on the gifts and possibilities of HSCT. Brooke’s realistic perspective helped her embrace a positive approach and tackle the treatment that worked for her. Be sure to visit our website, HSCTWarriorsPodcast.com where you can find notes from today’s episode, submit ideas or feedback, and access the latest HSCT research and resources. Special thanks to musical genius Billy Alletzhauser for sharing his superpowers to create the soundtrack, edit, and produce the audio to make this podcast possible. You can find us both when you subscribe on SoundCloud, iTunes or wherever you find your podcasts. Take a moment to leave a review because your feedback will help to develop even better episodes, and your ratings will help other people find the show. Tune in next Wednesday for a brand new episode, highlighting another HSCT Warrior. Until then, be a snowflake and embrace your superpowers. Be kind. Be well. Resources noted: Brooke's blog: www.msslick.com Brooke's book website: www.brookeslick.com MS Gym Yoga Dr. Fedorenko at Aa Maximov Hospital, Moscow Russia
At first glance, advertisement in South Korea is no different from what can be seen in many other countries. At the same time, the country’s political, economic and social history has shaped how goods and services are promoted, and what is seen as the right way to do so. To learn more about South Korean advertising, its unique features and its industry, we met with Professor Olga Fedorenko. We talked about the history of South Korean advertising, its relation to democracy, why it has been described in South Korea as the "flower of capitalism," and how advertisement was and is an arena where social norms are renegotiated. Olga Fedorenko is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Seoul National University. She obtained her Bachelor in Korean studies from the Institute of Asian & African Studies at Moscow State University and holds an MBA from Yonsei University. She completed her PhD in East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. She has published various articles and chapters on advertising in South Korea and is currently working on a book manuscript: Flower of Capitalism - South Korea Advertising at Crossroads.
Ranking Systems. In kettlebell sport we have a ranking system. Not quite like the military - and you won’t see a Rank 3 fetching coffee for a Master of Sport. No, it’s more like martial arts. Our ‘Master of Sport’ rank is a lot like a black belt, but without ability to single-handedly subdue a room full of would-be assassins.Of course, much like blackbelts, there are many Masters of Sport. In fact, I’ve read some estimates as high as 350,000 black belts working in the U.S. Then again, the World Registry of Black Belts, who attempt to tease out the pay-for Black Belts, lists just over 400 names across North and South America’s.There are many with the rank, but fighters are also ranked against each other. Most MMA sites host or produce their own pound-for-pound best fighter lists, many of which listing who they believe to be the top 10 fighters in the world. But like McLeod would say, there can be only one.In kettlebell sport we all have equal opportunity to achieve rank without resistance. But to be a champion you have to dig a bit deeper, and go head to head with your peers (or perhaps, your former idols). It’s true - achieving rank can be a very intrinsic process, a way of measuring personal progress, but at every rung of the ladder you also have the opportunity to make your mark - to stand out amongst the other rank and filers. Sure you can hold the rank, but can you beat everyone else in the division? You may look at that proposition as being motivated more by status than personal progress - but could chasing rank ultimately be holding you back? It might be. The original Ice Chamber Article: Ranks, Belts, & Kettlebell Sport Find the entire catalogue of BSN Radio at the Ballistic Strength homepage Purchase shirts from Ballistic Strength here!
This is a continuation of my interview with kettlebell sport veteran Mike Sherman, from episode 12. Please rate and subscribe!
This is the 12th episode of BSN Radio and Part I of my interview with Mike Sherman. Mike is a 10-year veteran of kettlebell sport, he’s competed in almost 70 competitions, and is just one birthday shy of 60 years old. We get topical on subjects like handle diameter, womens' ideal bell size, BYOB for local meets, rules & judging in KB Sport, and Mike's own revelations with being a successful girevik. **************************Ballistic Strength Radio, the only podcast dedicated to kettlebell sport, is 100% commercial free and is brought to you free of charge. If you appreciate the show, please show your appreciation by subscribing to the Ballistic Strength Radio Podcast on iTunes, as well as leaving a positive comment and a 5-Star rating. 5-Star ratings not only boost the show’s iTunes ranking, but also boost it’s exposure, which means it boosts the exposure and popularity of kettlebell sport! Please pause the episode now and head on over to iTunes to leave some positive feedback!
Live Life Aggressively Podcast w/Mike Mahler & Sincere Hogan
Andrew Durniat, (http://durniatstrength.com & http://optraining.blogspot.com) transformed his passion into a life-changing business in 2005. He has trained high level athletes and is one himself. He is a former All-American in lacrosse and has coached lacrosse at the College of Wooster. His past experience has led him to current compete in various high level strength/grip competitions, including Mighty Mitts at the renown Arnold Sports Festival.As a high level personal trainer and athlete, Andrew takes the best attributes from the different modalities of power-lifting, Olympic weightlifting, and kettlebell training, all distilled from his own training, and combines them into effective training programs for any serious athlete looking to improve their performance. His education includes certifications from the National Strength & Conditioning Association as a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist & USA Weightlifting as a Sports Performance Coach, and he is also certified as a Russian Kettlebell American Master Trainer.Andrew joins Mike & Sincere to discuss: Andrew shares his experience in recent grip sport competitions at the Arnold Classic and other events What is the importance of grip strength and why you should focus on it How does Andrew feel about deadlifting without belts, straps, and rounded-back deadlifts, and is it safe What is Andrew's preferred style of deadlift and why What techniques do Andrew suggest for beginners, as well as advanced trainees, to utilize to improve their grip strength How does Andrew utilize kettlebell sport techniques to enhance is training goals outside of kettlebell sport Why did Andrew step away from the world of kettlebell sport for awhile and what prompted his recent return How did Andrew's experience with training with Russian world champions, such as Sergey Rudnev & Sergey Rachinskiy, help improve his kettlebell lifting and coaching What's the one question every coach or trainer should ask their clients and themselves on day 1 of training Mike asks Andrew the most important question of Andrew's life...what was his answer How is Andrew's training facility becoming the main attraction of Wooster, Ohio & why you would also want to travel to train there Links & Resources: 1. Kettlebell Training In The Age of Quarrel Review : http://budurl.com/aoqreview 2. Kettlebell Training In The Age of Quarrel DVD: http://budurl.com/mahleraoq All this and much more:Listen and download at http://strengthbymahler.com or http://newwarriortraining.com. or subscribe, download, rate & review us at:iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/live-life-aggressively-podcast/id646524617 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=34706&refid=stprAlso, be sure to "like" and connect with us on our Facebook fan page at http://facebook.com/llapodcast.
Live Life Aggressively Podcast w/Mike Mahler & Sincere Hogan
Lisa Balash (http://kettlebellbombshell.com) is a former fitness competitor turned kettlebell sport athlete, kettlebell instructor, as well as highly sought-after social media health & fitness influencer. Lisa prides herself as an athlete who is not only in her mid 40's, stays fit year round via healthy lifestyle habits, but also, via her Kettlebell Bombshell training system, trains women to look like women and trains men to be strong and lean. Lisa joins Mike & Sincere to discuss the following: What came first, in terms of fit women in long socks and short shorts: Lisa or Crossfit? Why you should be weary of most of the big box gym trainers who claim to be certified in kettlebells What is a more efficient double kettlebell technique for athletes with shorter legs, longer arms, or even a combination of both Why world champion and top kettlebell instructor Valery Fedorenko would be the ideal employee at Home Depot Why top kettlebell lifters such as Valery Fedorenko, Sergey Rudnev, and Marty Farrell prove that the key to high level kettlebell lifting is all about technique, no matter what size you are How to use kettlebell sport accolades to get out of the "friend zone" Sincere shares how he first met Lisa, while she was in her underwear? Why did Lisa leave kettlebell sport and eventually returned Lisa shares the dirty little secrets of anabolic abuse and eating disorders of the female bodybuiding and fitness competition world, that those "Monday Motivation" fitness memes don't tell you Why more women in the West are favoring double kettlebell training Why wearing a weight vest or adding weight while sprinting does not improve your sprinting technique Why P90x and chiropractors are a business match made in heaven How your favorite female fitness competitors may trade one eating disorder for another Why the fitness competition industry is the epitome of why being fit does not equate being healthy When bringing "sexy back" may not be the most optimal for men dating many female fitness competitors How does Sincere deal with "down low" male social media followers How is Lisa currently involved with #FitFluential and Men's Health Magazine How Mike became the "Scorpion King" in bed All this and much more:Listen and download at http://strengthbymahler.com or http://newwarriortraining.com. or subscribe, download, rate & review us at:iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/live-life-aggressively-podcast/id646524617 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=34706&refid=stprAlso, be sure to "like" and connect with us on our Facebook fan page at http://facebook.com/llapodcast.
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.15.043844v1?rss=1 Authors: Wehbe, L., Blank, I. A., Shain, C., Futrell, R., Levy, R., von der Malsburg, T., Smith, N., Gibson, E., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: What role do domain-general executive functions play in human language comprehension? To address this question, we examine the relationship between behavioral measures of comprehension and neural activity in the domain-general "multiple demand" (MD) network, which has been linked to constructs like attention, working memory, inhibitory control, and selection, and implicated in diverse goal-directed behaviors. Specifically, fMRI data collected during naturalistic story listening are compared to theory-neutral measures of online comprehension difficulty and incremental processing load (reading times and eye-fixation durations). Critically, to ensure that variance in these measures is driven by features of the linguistic stimulus rather than reflecting participant- or trial-level variability, the neuroimaging and behavioral datasets were collected in non-overlapping samples. We find no behavioral-neural link in functionally localized MD regions; instead, this link is found in the domain-specific, fronto-temporal "core language network", in both left hemispheric areas and their right hemispheric homologues. These results argue against strong involvement of domain-general executive circuits in language comprehension. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.16.045732v1?rss=1 Authors: Ivanova, A. A., Srikant, S., Sueoka, Y., Kean, H. H., Dhamala, R., O'Reilly, U.-M., Bers, M. U., Fedorenko, E. Abstract: Computer programming is a novel cognitive tool that has transformed modern society. An integral part of programming is code comprehension: the ability to process individual program tokens, combine them into statements, which, in turn, combine to form a program. What cognitive and neural mechanisms support this ability to process computer code? Here, we used fMRI to investigate the role of two candidate brain systems in code comprehension: the multiple demand (MD) system, typically recruited for math, logic, problem solving, and executive function, and the language system, typically recruited for linguistic processing. Across two experiments, we examined brain responses to code written in two programing languages: Python, a text-based programming language (Experiment 1) and ScratchJr, a graphical programming language for children (Experiment 2). To isolate neural activity evoked by code comprehension per se rather than by processing program content, we contrasted responses to code problems with responses to content-matched sentence problems. We found that the MD system exhibited strong bilateral responses to code in both experiments. In contrast, the language system responded strongly to sentence problems, but only weakly or not at all to code problems. We conclude that code comprehension relies primarily on domain-general executive resources, demonstrating that the MD system supports the use of novel cognitive tools even when the input is structurally similar to natural language. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info
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