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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT

I am Ted Gibson and I run a language lab at MIT. I tweet about psycholinguistics, cognitive science, language research, linguistics, and words.

Joined May 2013
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Announcements for Open Mind, an MIT Press Open Access journal for Cognitive Science 1. We are now “Diamond” access for the foreseeable future (at least 2 years at this point): this means there are NO CHARGES for publication (or submission, or anything) direct.mit.edu/opmi

Open Mind | MIT Press

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adam morgan (same handle at oo-blay eye-skay)@adumbmoron
Mar 29
Very grateful to have received the Gibson/Fedorenko Award at #HSP2026, and sorry I couldn’t attend this year. HSP feels like my academic home, so I’m especially touched. Thank you to the community, organizers, and donors who make it possible! @LanguageMIT @ev_fedorenko
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McGovern Institute
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Jan 22
MIT researchers @_coltoncasto @ev_fedorenko have found a "satellite" component of the brain’s dedicated language network in the cerebellum, a region better known for coordinating movement. Learn more 👉mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/01/22/… @NeuroCellPress paper 👉cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
Six fMRI scans showing activity in the cerebellum during language tasks.

ALT Six fMRI scans showing activity in the cerebellum during language tasks.

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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦@ev_fedorenko
Jan 22
Could not be more excited about Colton's @_coltoncasto work! A deep dive into the linguistic cerebellum, and a discovery of an area remarkably functionally similar to the core left-hemisphere language areas, including in its selectivity for language. Go Colton and team!
Colton Casto@_coltoncasto
Jan 22
The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @NeuroCellPress, 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/1mUU8… 1/n🧵👇
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Andrea de Varda@devarda_a
25 Dec 2025
It's fascinating that you can explain *so much* with dependency distance (effects in language production, comprehension, cross-linguistic differences in word orders, the difficulty of 'legalese'...). Highly recommended!
Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT@LanguageMIT
24 Dec 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_websit…
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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦@ev_fedorenko
24 Dec 2025
I may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible overly complicated accounts, this book is for you: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural languages. A must-read!
Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT@LanguageMIT
24 Dec 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_websit…
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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_websit…

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Chapter 10: The rational inference or “noisy-channel” approach to communication in language. See e.g., Levy (2008); Gibson et al (2013).
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When you find errors in the book, please let me know, so I can correct them for a future edition.
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McGovern Institute
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11 Dec 2025
The @PNASNews paper by @ev_fedorenko @LanguageMIT former @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT postdocs Sammy Floyd and @OlessiaJour 👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…

Three distinct components of pragmatic language use: Social conventions, intonation, and world...

Successful communication requires frequent inferences. Such inferences span a multitude of phenomena: from understanding metaphors, to detecting ir...

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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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Language and thought in minds and machines (supported by the NSF) The relationship between language and thought has been debated and researched across diverse disciplines, including linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science/psychology, neuroscience, and AI.
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Invited Speakers: Rosemary Varley, U College, London Anna Papafragou, U Pennsylvania Gary Lupyan, U Wisconsin Cristine Legare, U Texas Austin Julian Jara-Ettinger, Yale U Ray Jackendoff, Tufts U Anna Ivanova, Georgia Institute of Tech Jacob Andreas, MIT
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