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Language in minds, brains, and machines. Linguistics faculty @Stanford . He/him.

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Joined May 2016

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

7 months

Now out in @PNASNews ! Large-scale reading evidence that next-word predictability effects in humans are driven by *inference* (logarithmic in predictability) rather than preactivation (linear in predictability). 1/10

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Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time | PNAS

During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to ...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

My toddler has learned that the formula for English question formation is "what the heck X?" like "what the heck blanket?" (where's the blanket) or "what the heck mac n cheese?" (can I have lunch). What the heck?

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1 year

I can't believe I'm saying this, but here goes: I'm going to be a professor! At Stanford Linguistics (starting fall 2024)!

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2 years

One thing that has struck me as a linguist+parent is the fact that my kids sometimes learn rules that are wrong, idiosyncratic, and productive. Two examples: 1/10

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1 year

👋I boost a lot of job opportunities on here and now it's time to boost my own! I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. 🧵👇

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8 months

Linguist here! We have so many. pied piping sausage machine vocal fry bleeding counterbleeding colorless green ideas Nim Chimpsky copula sloppy identity wug

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 months

Boarding a *one way* flight to SFO with the fam! Close of a wonderful chapter in @ev_fedorenko 's lab and hopefully the start of another one in my own.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Example 1: When my twins were toddlers, they learned the following rule for forming reciprocals, which is more complex than the actual rule ("each other"): our -> ourchothers your -> yourchothers their -> theirchothers 2/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

5 months

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 2-year full-time research coordinator. Help me get my new language-brain lab at @Stanford off the ground! fMRI and coding bg needed. Ideal for post-bacs interested in comp/cog/neuro/lang. Apply by May 31 for full consideration. Please RT!

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Social Science Research Coordinator (On-Site Only) in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford,...

The (brand-new) Laboratory for Computation and Language in Minds and Brains (CLiMB Lab, PI Cory Shain) is seeking a full-time research coordinator to....

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Want to understand recursion? Try reading papers the way I do it! WARNING: I have never finished a paper. read <- func(a) { for b in cited_by(a) { read(b) } }

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Since joining @ev_fedorenko 's lab from A Linguistics Department, I've been surprised at the combination of misinterpretation and rancor directed toward her functional localization paradigm for language. 1/

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This is a great example of how psychologists continue to use folk-scientific ideas about language even in their cutting-edge research, and why that matters: 🧵 1/

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1 year

One of my academic heroes is William Sealy Gosset, aka "Student". My admiration for him comes less from his contributions (which were huge) than from the model of his life. Many haven't heard of him, so here's a 🧵: 1/20

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

The Gricean Toddler Me: I love you. T: I love Mom. Me: I love Mom, too, but don't you love me? T (pause): I *just* love Mom.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

5 months

Now out in @JOCN_Journal ! Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network. . A 🧵...

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Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network

Abstract. Human language is expressive because it is compositional: The meaning of a sentence (semantics) can be inferred from its structure (syntax). It is commonly believed that language syntax and...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

This is why language development is such a fun puzzle: it's hard to explain BOTH the striking uniformity of developmental trajectories and adult language competence AND the flexible data-driven learning processes that yield idiosyncratic and contingent incorrect inferences. 8/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

*New preprint!* "Word Frequency and Predictability Dissociate in Naturalistic Reading". TLDR; Multiple datasets show that word frequency has a big effect on reading times that is not reducible to predictability, even during naturalistic reading. 1/22

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Our toddler used to say "waba" for "water bottle" but eventually figured out that this isn't enough syllables. So now it's been corrected to "wabawaba".

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

New preprint! Large-Scale Evidence for Logarithmic Effects of Word Predictability on Reading Time . With @clara__meister , @tipimentelms , @ryandcotterell , & @roger_p_levy . TLDR; supports a key role of probabilistic inference in language processing. 1/

Large-Scale Evidence for Logarithmic Effects of Word Predictability on Reading Time

During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' contextual predictability, but...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

New preprint! "'Constituent length' effects in fMRI do not provide evidence for abstract syntactic processing" With @HopeKean , @ben_lipkin , @AffourtitJosef , @MattSiegelman , @FrancisMollica , & @ev_fedorenko 1/

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‘Constituent length’ effects in fMRI do not provide evidence for abstract syntactic processing

How are syntactically and semantically connected word sequences, or constituents , represented in the human language system? An influential fMRI study, Pallier et al. (2011, PNAS ), manipulated the...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

4 years

I'm a Dr.!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

New preprint! "Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex" with @IbanDlank @ev_fedorenko @LanguageMIT and William Schuler 1/

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Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-se...

A standard view of human language processing is that comprehenders build richly structured mental representations of natural language utterances, word by word, using computationally costly memory...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

And yes :), if you did the math, I have 4 kids. They do a lot of talking and I try to do a lot of listening. 11/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Example 2: My youngest (still a toddler) has learned to always add the contracted copula in addition to the actual copula: I'm am we're are you're are He otherwise uses subject pronouns correctly (I want, you like, etc.) 3/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

New preprint! "A Deep Learning Approach to Analyzing Continuous-Time Systems" (with William Schuler) We propose a way to use deep learning to *analyze* (not just imitate) complex continuous-time processes. 1/

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A Deep Learning Approach to Analyzing Continuous-Time Systems

Scientists often use observational time series data to study complex natural processes, but regression analyses often assume simplistic dynamics. Recent advances in deep learning have yielded...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

New paper alert! "Similarity of Computations Across Domains Does Not Imply Shared Implementation: The Case of Language Comprehension" with @ev_fedorenko in Current Directions in Psychological Science: . 1/

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Similarity of Computations Across Domains Does Not Imply Shared Implementation: The Case of...

Understanding language requires applying cognitive operations (e.g., memory retrieval, prediction, structure building) that are relevant across many cognitive d...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

It also strikes me how easy it is to miss these observations precisely because they're idiosyncratic. Non-dorky non-linguist parents may not notice or report them, and most experimental and corpus methods are designed to find population-level patterns. 9/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

These errors are very cute so we naturally repeat them back to them all the time and even use them jokingly among each other, reinforcing the wrong pattern possibly even more frequently than the right one. 4/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

7 months

Now out in Open Mind @mitpress ! Word frequency and predictability effects dissociate, even in naturalistic reading where they tend to be correlated: . 1/

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Word Frequency and Predictability Dissociate in Naturalistic Reading

Abstract. Many studies of human language processing have shown that readers slow down at less frequent or less predictable words, but there is debate about whether frequency and predictability...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

6 months

@linguistMasoud Linguistics is the nexus of the known universe. It defies classification.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

I followed the advice to delete "very" in my writing, so I did that ewhere and now ething is so much punchier. Works e time!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

New preprint! "No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network" with @ampaunov , @Jessica_ChenXY , @ben_lipkin , & @ev_fedorenko . *Alex, Jessica and I contributed equally 1/

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No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network

Language comprehension and the ability to infer others’ thoughts (theory of mind, ToM) are interrelated during development and language use. However, neural evidence that bears on the relationship...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

These errors can also be contagious for other learners. The twins' older brother started (earnestly) using their incorrect reciprocal form based on their input, even though he had never done this before. 5/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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What kinds of clues about our amazing language learning abilities are lurking in the diversity of errorful learning trajectories that we explore (and eventually find our way out of) as individual children? 10/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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I'm not aware of previous reports of these specific error patterns, either from the research literature or from other parents. Despite highly similar genes and experiences, my kids borked the English language in unique and revealing ways, all on their own. 7/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Nothing can stop Praat from playing that sound you clicked on. Nothing.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Whenever I get too jazzed about the power of human statistical learning I remember that I'm still at chance accuracy on which switch turns on the light vs the ceiling fan

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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Now out in Open Mind @mitpress (with William Schuler)! "Black box" neural nets can be surprisingly useful for helping scientists interpret complex time series, like continuous human behavioral or brain responses: . 1/

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A Deep Learning Approach to Analyzing Continuous-Time Cognitive Processes

Abstract. The dynamics of the mind are complex. Mental processes unfold continuously in time and may be sensitive to a myriad of interacting variables, especially in naturalistic settings. But...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Now to appear in Cognition! Continuous-time deconvolutional regression (CDR, ) estimates cognitive dynamics from online experimental measures. Tested on synthetic, self-paced reading, eye tracking, and fMRI data (also applies to EEG, MEG, and others). 1/

Continuous-Time Deconvolutional Regression for Psycholinguistic Modeling

The influence of stimuli in psycholinguistic experiments diffuses across time because the human response to language is not instantaneous. The linear models typically used to analyze psycholinguistic...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Despite these adverse learning conditions, they correct these patterns relatively quickly (a few months). 6/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. You may call it insanity. I call it sampling.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

This morning I swooped my 3yo up in a big hug and said, "I love you". His eyes were kind, but full of pity. He replied, "I don't love you. I love Mom."

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

My lab will focus broadly on language in minds, brains, and machines (learning, representation, and processing), using computational, behavioral, and neuroimaging approaches. If you're a prospective student interested in this stuff, let's talk!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

7 months

Peer review is not quality control. 🧵 1/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

7 months

Are you self aware?

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this is an example of a bunch of things but it is NOT an example of self-awareness or anything approaching AGI. c'mon people.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

To be safe, I'm correcting my p value by the total number of hypothesis tests ever conducted. Anyone have that number off hand?

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Our #Cognition paper on continuous-time deconvolutional regression ( #CDR ) is finally out! I've already talked on here about the general idea 👇, so instead, here's a practical thread on how to actually use it to analyze your data. 1/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Now to appear in Cognition! Continuous-time deconvolutional regression (CDR, ) estimates cognitive dynamics from online experimental measures. Tested on synthetic, self-paced reading, eye tracking, and fMRI data (also applies to EEG, MEG, and others). 1/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

4 years

Excited to announce a new paper with Micha Elsner @conll_conf : "Acquiring language from speech by learning to remember and predict". 1/n

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

So excited to be in Pittsburgh for #HSP2023 , my first in-person conference in almost 4 years 🤯! Here are some thumbnails of the work I'll be presenting this week. Find me in person or online to chat about any of them (or anything else!):

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

4 months

Super excited for the amazing @YuhanZhang_ and for all the cool stuff she plans to do in her upcoming postdoc with me!

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Yuhan Zhang

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🙌🏻 I defended my PhD thesis “The Rational Processing of Language Illusions” yesterday!🎓 I am extremely grateful for my amazing advisors @LanguageMIT and @TeaAnd_OrCoffee and dear committee members @roger_p_levy and Kevin Ryan!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

4 months

The final version of our "Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax" paper is now out and open access!

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Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network

Abstract. Human language is expressive because it is compositional: The meaning of a sentence (semantics) can be inferred from its structure (syntax). It is commonly believed that language syntax and...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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Now out in @JOCN_Journal ! Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network. . A 🧵...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

5 months

My 11yo today: "I meant to think X but instead I thought Y." Turns out she was talking about her inner voice, which made a speech error (!). This blew my mind. Do other people have this experience?

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

My approach to the cocktail party problem of being an interdisciplinary researcher Them: So what do you do? Me: I'm a postdoc at blabla Them: Oh really? What field? Me: I don't know

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 months

The recording of my #HSP2024 talk ("Are word predictability effects really linear?") is now online (first talk of the session)! .

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Incidental finding 1: GPT-2(-small) is a much better estimator of human surprisal than GPT-3, even though GPT-3 is 1000x bigger and trained on much more data. Large transformer LMs may be "too good" at next-word prediction. 18/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

5 months

If you're at #HSP2024 and can drag yourself to a virtual talk in the toughest slot (9am tomorrow/Saturday), I'll try to reward you with a bit of a 🌶️ take on "prediction" in language comprehension, w/ @clara__meister @tpimentelms @ryandcotterell & @roger_p_levy

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

Kid got a homework problem asking them to show that there are no positive integers a, b, c such that a^n + b^n = c^n for integer n > 2. I worked on it all evening and I'm stumped. These new math standards are tough!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Now in press at JNeurosci!

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Robust Effects of Working Memory Demand during Naturalistic Language Comprehension in Language-Se...

To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working memory as a mechanism...

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

New preprint! "Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex" with @IbanDlank @ev_fedorenko @LanguageMIT and William Schuler 1/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 months

I wonder when my kids will figure out how closely linked their bedtime is to how annoying they've been throughout the day.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

1. He embodied the disinterested pursuit of knowledge. His pay and reputation were totally disconnected from his academic work. He was not after citation counts, society honors, or "legacy". 10/20

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Toddlers reveal our hidden assumptions by messing with them. Today I let mine put his bread in the toaster and he put it in UPSIDE DOWN. This makes no practical difference but it bothers me to no end.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

Pro tip: I use the @zotero browser widget to quickly save papers I see on social media to my reading list. Not having time to read papers that are on my list feels much better than not having time to read papers that are not on my list.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

PSA in hopes of making everyone feel better about themselves: I just finished the poster for the conference abstract *that was accepted as an oral presentation*.🤦

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Hi all! A 🧵about my #ACL2021NLP paper on discovering complex dynamics in human cognition, which I'll be taking questions about live on Tuesday Aug 3 @ 12:30 EST in ACL session 11B. 1/

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CDRNN: Discovering Complex Dynamics in Human Language Processing

Cory Shain. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)....

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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In case you were wondering, it was NOT because they didn't want me. They were just fortunate to have received many strong applicants for this position (myself included) and had decided to move forward with other candidates at this time. Whew!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

8 months

If you think you've been snubbed by a job posting that didn't even have the courtesy to send you a rejection letter, be patient. Today I got a rejection letter from a place I applied to almost a year and a half ago. Employers, it's never too late to make someone's day!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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lol 2 of the key examples of America's "education dominance" (MIT & Caltech) don't even have legacy admissions

Legacy admissions are crucial to America’s higher education dominance

A ban on legacy admissions would weaken this sense of community and alumni engagement.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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My laptop just briefly attained sentience, typing random numbers and letters on its own. After a panicked restart and some web shopping for new computers, realized the toddler had found my bluetooth keyboard in the other room 🥴.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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If you think you've been snubbed by a job posting that didn't even have the courtesy to send you a rejection letter, be patient. Today I got a rejection letter from a place I applied to almost a year and a half ago. Employers, it's never too late to make someone's day!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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4yo (points at random stranger): What's that person's name? Me: Your guess is as good as mine. 4yo: I think it's Ronky. Me: Actually my guess may be better.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

11 months

A quick bump for those in the back: PhD applications for #StanfordLinguistics are due *Nov 30*: . Please RT!

Graduate Admissions | Linguistics

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1 year

My 3yo says "hostable" instead of "hospital". I like this because it swaps places of articulation but keeps the voicing features where they should be.

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@LanguageMIT The fact that that's not what it is makes me suspect this comes from siblings instead of me

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3 years

8 yo spontaneously made me regalia and a diploma for my zoom commencent 😍

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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Most of my own papers have improved immensely through interactions with constructive reviewers. I suspect this experience generalizes. As a result, I'm a fan of peer review and I take my role as a reviewer really seriously. 8/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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What kind of eclipse is it again when the sun comes between the earth and the moon?

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Sometimes I look at my own sentences and feel profound relief that they are not in the treebank I'm annotating.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

If you're a psychologist interested in generating good nonce words for experiments, my toddler is serviceable. A piece of playground equipment was "spoodgered" and he keeps telling me to "landle down". But they're catchy so act now before they catch on.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

You know a field is moving (too?) fast when people keep referring to papers from last year as "classical"

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

Can I make a humble request to get a decision *immediately* whenever I apply for something? This would improve my mental health greatly. Thx.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

8yo: How do you say "I agree" in French? me: Je suis d'accord. 8yo: I am... agree? me: *long explanation about how translation isn't word by word, with several examples* 8yo (smirking): I am agree!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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I owe this to a huge number of people, but esp @RSmithShain and my (official and unofficial) mentors William Schuler, Micha Elsner, @ev_fedorenko , @marty_with_an_e , @LanguageMIT , and @roger_p_levy .

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

Proposal: Give authors+reviewers anonymous email addresses so they can ask each other clarifying q's before submitting official reviews/responses. 1/10

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

An EvLab study led by @tamaregev has in fact shown exactly this! The morphophonological plausibility of nonwords modulates the degree to which they engage the language network. 8/

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Tamar Regev

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Excited to share the first preprint from my postdoc! We show that brain regions that process “high-level” meaning in language also process meaningless phoneme clusters, according to how much they respect linguistic phoneme-combinatorial constraints. 1/n

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And on the very last day that this can be called Shain, Paunov, Chen et al *2022*, our article on language and theory of mind is out in Cerebral Cortex! @ampaunov @Jessica_ChenXY @ben_lipkin @ev_fedorenko Happy New Year everybody!

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No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network

Abstract. Language comprehension and the ability to infer others’ thoughts (theory of mind [ToM]) are interrelated during development and language use. How

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2 years

New preprint! "No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network" with @ampaunov , @Jessica_ChenXY , @ben_lipkin , & @ev_fedorenko . *Alex, Jessica and I contributed equally 1/

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As he made discoveries, he wanted to make them public, but was contractually prevented from doing so by his employer. The workaround they converged on was for him to publish under a pseudonym. He chose "Student". That's the only author attribution in any of his >20 papers. 6/20

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My toddler has started asking what time it is. He has no concept of time. I tell him it's 26.

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Glad to see our recent study covered by @ElliotMurphy91 in @PsychToday ! Here's the full team: @HopeKean , @_coltoncasto , @ben_lipkin , @AffourtitJosef , @MattSiegelman , Frank Mollica, @ev_fedorenko

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Elliot Murphy

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4 months

Latest article for @PsychToday reviewing an excellent paper on neural correlates of syntax by @coryshain , @HopeKean , @_coltoncasto , @ben_lipkin , @AffourtitJosef and others.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

11 months

So exciting to see a computational psycholinguistics paper in Nature! Congrats @LakeBrenden & Marco Baroni!

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Brenden Lake

11 months

Today in Nature, we show how a standard neural net, optimized for compositional skills, can mimic human systematic generalization (SG) in a head-to-head comparison. This is the capstone of a 5 year effort with Marco Baroni to make progress on SG. (1/8)

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

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I had a great time talking at virtual #CUNY2020 today, thanks all for your great questions! Stay tuned for a link to the recording, which should be up soon... #CUNY2020

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great presentation by @coryshain #CUNY2020 who finds that Surprisal, both on the basis of word strings (5 grams) and at the level of grammatical constructions (e.g, NP VP; 'syntax') increase activation in the language-network

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(Let's pause and note how few structural incentives he had to do public-facing research. He did not hold a research job. Publication was actively discouraged. And publications were pseudonymous. As a result, he is to this day much less well known than his contemporaries.) 7/20

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

2. "Large-Scale Evidence for Logarithmic Effects of Word Predictability on Reading Time" (Spoken Session 5, submission #32 ), with @clara__meister , @tpimentelms , @ryandcotterell , and @roger_p_levy Plenary talk! For more details, see this thread:

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

New preprint! Large-Scale Evidence for Logarithmic Effects of Word Predictability on Reading Time . With @clara__meister , @tipimentelms , @ryandcotterell , & @roger_p_levy . TLDR; supports a key role of probabilistic inference in language processing. 1/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

1 year

Only partly joking: I think a good indicator of the reliability of a scientific idea/result is the number of times the authors have publicly reversed themselves. 1/4

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

2 years

This Christmas my toddler gave us a new word: forbrought. Used when you forgot to put a toy you were holding away and brought it along instead.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

4 months

Last day to apply for guaranteed consideration! Stragglers still welcome to submit after this 😉, I'll probably keep looking at new apps for at least a few days.

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

5 months

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 2-year full-time research coordinator. Help me get my new language-brain lab at @Stanford off the ground! fMRI and coding bg needed. Ideal for post-bacs interested in comp/cog/neuro/lang. Apply by May 31 for full consideration. Please RT!

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Me: Do you know what "chill out" means? 4yo: What? Me: It means not having strong emotions about little things. You should try it. 4yo: I HATE CHILLING OUT!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

7 months

I think peer review IS very good at one thing: quality *improvement* for good faith research. 7/

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

4 months

One week left to apply!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

5 months

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 2-year full-time research coordinator. Help me get my new language-brain lab at @Stanford off the ground! fMRI and coding bg needed. Ideal for post-bacs interested in comp/cog/neuro/lang. Apply by May 31 for full consideration. Please RT!

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

I had a great time talking with Stephen in depth about our latest preprint on language, working memory, and the brain: ! If you're interested, I'll be taking questions at @SNLmtg slide slam session B, Tues Oct 5 3:30pm ET (or wherever questions are asked).

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Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-se...

A standard view of human language processing is that comprehenders build richly structured mental representations of natural language utterances, word by word, using computationally costly memory...

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Stephen Wilson

3 years

Language Neuroscience Podcast #16 , I talk with @CoryShain about his fascinating new preprint on working memory demand in naturalistic language comprehension. Get yourself in the mood for @SNLmtg this week! @ev_fedorenko @IbanDlank @LanguageMIT

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Cory Shain ([email protected])

3 years

8yo: Wacha doing? Me: Writing a paper 8yo: Boring Me: YOU'RE boring 8yo: You're MORE boring Me: You're INFINITY boring 8yo: 😑 Did I win that? Yes I did.

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missed recursion opportunity

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