Elements of World Knowledge (EWoK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models
Ivanova, A.*, Sathe, A.*, Lipkin, B.*, Kumar, U., Radkani, S., Clark, T.H., Kauf, C., Hu, J., Pramod, R.T., Grand, G., Paulun, V., Ryskina, M., Akyürek, E., Wilcox, E., Rashid, N., Choshen, L., Levy, R., Fedorenko, E., Tenenbaum, J.B. & Andreas, J. 2024.
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Precision fMRI reveals that the language network exhibits adult-like left-hemispheric lateralization by 4 years of age
Ozernov-Palchik, O.*, O'Brien, A.M.*, Lee, E.J., Richardson, H., Romeo, R., Lipkin, B., Small, H., Capella, J., Nieto-Castañón, A., Saxe, R., Gabrieli, J.D. & Fedorenko, E. 2024.
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Comparing plausibility estimates in base and instruction-tuned large language models
Kauf, C., Chersoni, E., Lenci, A., Fedorenko, E., & Ivanova, A. 2024.
Lexicon-level contrastive visual-grounding improves language modeling
Zhuang, C., Fedorenko, E., & Andreas, J. 2024. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 231-247.
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What we mean when we say semantic: A consensus statement on the nomenclature of semantic memory
Reilly, J., Diaz, M., Pylkkänen, L., Jefferies, E., Poeppel, D., Zubicaray, G., ... & Rodd, J. 2024. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Visual grounding helps learn word meanings in low-data regimes
Zhuang, C., Fedorenko, E., & Andreas, J. 2024. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 1 (Long Papers), 1311-1329.
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The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain
Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A.A. & Regev, T.I. 2024. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 25, 289–312. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00802-4. PMID: 38609551.
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