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Moshe Poliak

@moshepoliak.bsky.social
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PhD student at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tedlab. I study psycholinguistics. international he/him ex-STEM-phobic website: mpoliak.notion.site

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languagemit.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
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Agata Wolna @awolna.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New 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... 👇🧵
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Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The 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 🧵👇
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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Now 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/...
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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
New 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...
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Alicia Chen @aliciamchen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Human 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)
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Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
Abstract. Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms
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Moshe Poliak @moshepoliak.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
39th 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)
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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.
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Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New 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 🧵
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The cerebellar components of the human language network
The 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...
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