Same conclusion can be drawn on the study of human language. Better alignment =/ Better understanding of biology Better engineering =/ Better advances of science www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ‘Our experiments show that the human brain comprises distinct amodal networks for various domains of linguistic and semantic knowledge, and provide a simple paradigm to dissect them within a short fMRI session.’

What are the chances! I was working on a project at the beginning of this semester to argue against some of the major claims made by E. Gibson in his new book. And it turns out many phenomenon in Mandarin cannot be adequately explained under DG. See if we can work on this together if ur interested😄

Some very brief comments on this new book from a recent talk — dependency grammar is not a viable candidate theory of natural language syntax (1/2). At 49 mins: youtu.be/pqDnfNUlvRo?...

Delighted to be part of Michael Levin’s ongoing symposium on Platonic spaces in biology. My lecture focused on how we can use formalized algebraic models of language to narrow the space of candidate neural mechanisms. youtu.be/pqDnfNUlvRo?...

New paper out today! We provide evidence from 84,000 individuals with language deficits across 9 languages for distinct but highly common and robust structural syntactic types generated from Merge-based syntax. 🌲 🧠 arxiv.org/abs/2508.02885

New paper out today in Cognitive Neuroscience! Proposing an explicit, causal-mechanistic, falsifiable and empirically grounded neural code for natural language syntax, and its innate basis. ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....