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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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I am Ted Gibson and I run a language lab at MIT. I tweet about psycholinguistics, cognitive science, language research, linguistics, and words.
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Jul 4, 2022
    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)
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    Open Mind | MIT Press
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Dec 8, 2019
    I have recently discovered that many people actually have an "inner voice" and they hear themselves talking when they think. Apparently, I am something of an outlier: I don't have any inner voice, perhaps similar to aphantasia (no visual imagery). Do you have an inner voice?
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Jul 4, 2020
    This letter says it is not trying to "cancel" Steve Pinker. But the explicit point of the letter is to take him off the LSA Fellows list and take away his influence in the LSA. This seems like canceling. Also, someone signed Ray Jackendoff's name: Ray did not sign that letter.
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    May 8, 2021
    On the anniversary of my mother Elizabeth (McPhedran) Gibson’s death, I would like to announce two new Human Sentence Processing (HSP) conference awards: the McPhedran-Fedorenko awards for junior researchers.
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Apr 11, 2019
    The black hole image algorithm boss lady - Katie Bouman - took my psycholinguistics lab class in 2013 (with @kmahowald TAing) cnn.com/2019/04/10/us/… She did a project on noisy channel interpretation, and now she is figuring out the origins of the universe
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Mar 30, 2019
    Chomsky in: statepress.com/article/2019/0…: "The idea that language has evolved as a system of communication, or designed for communication, makes no sense." Who needs evidence and argumentation? Let's just state that this idea "makes no sense".
    Noam Chomsky speaks as keynote at ASU philosophy club conference - The Arizona State Press
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    May 14, 2020
    my mum died a week ago, of alzheimer's at 95. I was close to her. My sister and I put together a slide show of photos of her, and I am astounded by how similar my mum at 2yrs looks like my daughter now (her namesake) so moving right now.
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Dec 9, 2021
    Open Mind is an Open Access journal, for Cognitive Science Like Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, but Open Access, for low money: $950 as opposed to $2K+ Published by MIT Press Please send us your papers! direct.mit.edu/opmi direct.mit.edu/opmi/pages/sub… editorialmanager.com/opmi/default1.…
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    Open Mind | MIT Press
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Mar 23, 2020
    Thread (1/11): I will be taking over as editor of OPEN MIND July 2020 OPEN MIND is an open access journal in cognitive science, started in 2016 by Dick Aslin, Haskins; first articles appeared in 2017
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    Open Mind | MIT Press
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Mar 6, 2018
    Wow: Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation
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    Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Apr 23, 2019
    Review article now out in Trends in Cognitive Science: How Efficiency Shapes Human Language cell.com/trends/cogniti…
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Nov 7, 2017
    this is supposed to be evidence relevant to language acquisition but it seems mostly evidence of bad parenting
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Jun 1, 2021
    A student got the following review, scored "poor" for their NSF postdoc application: "The PI has a solid publication record but all are collaborative projects. The PI's role appears to have been that of a data scientist..." Frustrating to say the least.
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    Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT
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    Jun 24, 2023
    From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to Dan Everett tedlab.mit.edu/everett_festsc… Talk recordings linked there & here: Session 1 (S1): youtube.com/watch?v=06zefF… S2: youtube.com/watch?v=Y9L46_… S3: youtube.com/watch?v=WHfb37… S4: youtube.com/watch?v=9OU7Cf… S5: youtube.com/watch?v=n_CISD…
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