Odysseas Myresiotis Alivertis
@odysseasalivertis.bsky.social
PhD Student @ School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Uni of Edinburgh
bilingualism, autism and social cognition! he/him
bilingualism, autism and social cognition! he/him
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Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference 2025
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk
🏴 Call for abstracts 🏴 Edinburgh Linguistics & English Language Postgraduate Conference 2025
4-6 June 2025 @ University of Edinburgh
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk/index.html
20-min talks + 10 mins Q&A !
4-6 June 2025 @ University of Edinburgh
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk/index.html
20-min talks + 10 mins Q&A !
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A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Reposted by Odysseas Myresiotis Alivertis
OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)
Full Luxury Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with brms
jebyrnes.github.io
December 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)
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Exciting! @evfedorenko.bsky.social and coll. @natureportfolio.bsky.social (NatRevNeurosci)'s piece functionally separated a core lang network from a percept.-motor network (+others);
and asked for an evo perspective!
Here we go: s.gwdg.de/WUPS8h
(together with A.D. Friederici)
and asked for an evo perspective!
Here we go: s.gwdg.de/WUPS8h
(together with A.D. Friederici)
December 19, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Exciting! @evfedorenko.bsky.social and coll. @natureportfolio.bsky.social (NatRevNeurosci)'s piece functionally separated a core lang network from a percept.-motor network (+others);
and asked for an evo perspective!
Here we go: s.gwdg.de/WUPS8h
(together with A.D. Friederici)
and asked for an evo perspective!
Here we go: s.gwdg.de/WUPS8h
(together with A.D. Friederici)
Reposted by Odysseas Myresiotis Alivertis
Check out @bkhmsi.bsky.social's summary of our new paper:
We identify "language network" units in LLMs using neuroscience approaches and show that ablating these units (but not random ones) drastically impair LLM language performance--moreover, these units better align with human brain data.
We identify "language network" units in LLMs using neuroscience approaches and show that ablating these units (but not random ones) drastically impair LLM language performance--moreover, these units better align with human brain data.
🚨 New Paper!
Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖
Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks!
w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🧵👇
Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖
Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks!
w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🧵👇
December 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Check out @bkhmsi.bsky.social's summary of our new paper:
We identify "language network" units in LLMs using neuroscience approaches and show that ablating these units (but not random ones) drastically impair LLM language performance--moreover, these units better align with human brain data.
We identify "language network" units in LLMs using neuroscience approaches and show that ablating these units (but not random ones) drastically impair LLM language performance--moreover, these units better align with human brain data.
Reposted by Odysseas Myresiotis Alivertis
🚨A four-year making @naturehumbehav.bsky.social with @UmitKeles @markthornton.bsky.social @Ralph Adolphs
Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎
face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎
face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Lin et al. show that trait impressions of faces are correlated with and causally influence mental state inferences from the same faces.
doi.org
December 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM
🚨A four-year making @naturehumbehav.bsky.social with @UmitKeles @markthornton.bsky.social @Ralph Adolphs
Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎
face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎
face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com).
#language #linguistics #science #academia
#language #linguistics #science #academia
November 13, 2024 at 8:28 PM
To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com).
#language #linguistics #science #academia
#language #linguistics #science #academia
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(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
November 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
🏴 Call for abstracts 🏴 Edinburgh Linguistics & English Language Postgraduate Conference 2025
4-6 June 2025 @ University of Edinburgh
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk/index.html
20-min talks + 10 mins Q&A !
4-6 June 2025 @ University of Edinburgh
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk/index.html
20-min talks + 10 mins Q&A !
Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference 2025
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 8:44 PM
🏴 Call for abstracts 🏴 Edinburgh Linguistics & English Language Postgraduate Conference 2025
4-6 June 2025 @ University of Edinburgh
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk/index.html
20-min talks + 10 mins Q&A !
4-6 June 2025 @ University of Edinburgh
pgc.lel.ed.ac.uk/index.html
20-min talks + 10 mins Q&A !