Hee So Kim

Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a new substack (link below) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3

New preprint on prosody in the brain! tinyurl.com/2ndswjwu @hee_so_kim NiharikaJhingan @sara_swords @HopeKean @_coltoncasto JenniferCole @ev_fedorenko 𝗧𝗟𝗗𝗥:Prosody areas are distinct from pitch,speech,and multiple-demand areas, and partly overlap with lang+social areas🧵

1/ New work! Localizing the human language network in ~3.5 minutes using speeded reading. Co-led with @elizj_lee, and with @aloxatel @ev_fedorenko Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Code: rb.gy/x2rjzj

Delighted to share our perspective piece “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought” now out in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… (with long-term collaborators (and friends) @spiantado and @LanguageMIT) 1/n

🧠💡New preprint! “Linguistic inputs must be syntactically parsable to fully engage the language network” w/ @hee_so_kim, @elizj_lee, NiharikaJhingan @she_jingyuan, @MayaTaliaferro, @LanguageMIT and @ev_fedorenko. Preprint: 📑 tinyurl.com/2hdh6fkh Tweeprint: 🧵👇

Can a new mash-up of neuroscience, AI, linguistics, and philosophy help us better understand the brain? McGovern scientists weigh in. @Nancy_Kanwisher @ev_fedorenko @KathaDobs @eghbal_hosseini thetransmitter.org/neural-network…

🚨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! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-sc…

💡New work! Do LLMs learn foundational concepts required to build world models? We address this question with 🌐🐨EWoK (Elements of World Knowledge)🐨🌐, a flexible cognition-inspired framework to test knowledge across physical and social domains ewok-core.github.io 🧵👇

1/ Really excited to share: Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines w @Nancy_Kanwisher @ev_fedorenko @AnnualReviews We survey the insights that language models (LMs) provide on the question of how language is represented and processed in the human brain. rb.gy/8afztv

Now out at #CerebralCortex - doi.org/10.1093/cercor… The same brain regions that perform high-level linguistic computations (lexical-semantics and compositional semantics and syntax)--also process sub-lexical phonological regularities.

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. @NatRevNeurosci rdcu.be/dEylV With the amazing @neuranna @tamaregev 🥳 🧵1/n