Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages — Malik-Moraleda, S., Taliaferro, M., Shannon, S., Jhinkan, N., Swords, S., Frommer, P., Peterson, D., Okrand, M., Sims, J., Cardwell, R., Freeman, C., Fedorenko, E. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning — Bridgers, S., Qian, P., Parece, K., Taliaferro, M., Schulz, L., Ullman, T. — Cognition
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Bilinguals exhibit semantic convergence while maintaining near-optimal efficiency — Taliaferro, M.*, Imel, N*., Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Zaslavsky, N. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (47)
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Blending Boundaries: A Computational Approach to How Bilinguals Reconcile Cross-Linguistic Categorization — Singh, A*., Taliaferro, M.*, Lindsay, G., Blanco-Elorrieta, E. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (47)
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Influence of Task Complexity on Visuomotor Adaptation — Bejjanki, VR., Gaillard, M., Taliaferro, M., Taylor, J. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (47)
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2024
Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models — Tuckute, G., Sathe, A., Srikant, S., Taliaferro, M., Wang, M., Schrimpf, M., Kay, K., Fedorenko, E. — Nature Human Behavior
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Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI — Malik-Moraleda, S., Jouravlev, O., Taliaferro, M., Mineroff, Z., Cucu, T., Mahowald, K., Blank, I., Fedorenko, E. — Cerebral Cortex
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Ambivalence by design: A computational account of loopholes — Qian, P., Bridgers, S., Taliaferro, M., Parece, K., Ullman, T. — Cognition
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? Speaker use more redundant color adjectives when speaking to children than adults — Taliaferro, M., Schulz, L. — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (46)
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Linguistic inputs must be syntactically parsable to fully engage the language network — Kauf, C., Hee So, K., Lee, E., Jhingan, N., She, J., Taliaferro, M., Gibson, E., Fedorenko, E. — bioRxiv
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