Reposted by Moshe Poliaklanguagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi 118372
Reposted by Moshe PoliakAgata Wolna @awolna.bsky.social · 23/02/2026New paper exploring the flexibility of control mechanisms in bilinguals is out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social l! w/ @kalinkatimmer.bsky.social, Jakub Szewczyk, and Zofia Wodniecka. We ask if language context can affect language control in bilinguals. authors.elsevier.com/a/1meRF2Hx32... 👇🧵authors.elsevier.comPlease wait whilst we redirect youAll content on this site: Copyright © 2026 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply. 152
Reposted by Moshe PoliakColton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇 27320
Reposted by Moshe PoliakEv Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Now out in @pnas.org: a tour de force co-led by Sammy Floyd and Olessia Jouravlev (also with @moshepoliak.bsky.social, Zach Mineroff and Ted Gibson): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 1262
Reposted by Moshe Poliaklanguagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...tedlab.mit.edu 212541
Reposted by Moshe PoliakAlicia Chen @aliciamchen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories. In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)academic.oup.comDiscrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning spaceAbstract. Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms 1468
Moshe Poliak @moshepoliak.bsky.social · 05/10/202539th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing March 26-28, 2026 hsp2026.org MIT, Cambridge MA, USA. email: info@hsp2026.org Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines Submission deadline: December 12 2025 (Real deadline; no extension)hsp2026.org39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing 141
Moshe Poliak @moshepoliak.bsky.social · 05/08/2025(1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡 Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi... In memory of Curtis Chen.tedlab.mit.edu 172
Reposted by Moshe PoliakColton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 21/04/2025New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network** with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n 🧵biorxiv.orgThe cerebellar components of the human language networkThe cerebellum's capacity for neural computation is arguably unmatched. Yet despite evidence of cerebellar contributions to cognition, including language, its precise role remains debated. Here, we sy... 24918