Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT

I am Ted Gibson and I run a language lab at MIT. I tweet about psycholinguistics, cognitive science, language research, linguistics, and words. tedlab.mit.edu MIT, Cambridge, MA Joined May 2013

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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT

a week ago

Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

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adam morgan (same handle at oo-blay eye-skay) @adumbmoron

3 months ago

Very grateful to have received the Gibson/Fedorenko Award at #HSP2026, and sorry I couldn’t attend this year. HSP feels like my academic home, so I’m especially touched. Thank you to the community, organizers, and donors who make it possible! @LanguageMIT @ev_fedorenko

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McGovern Institute @mcgovernmit

5 months ago

MIT researchers @_coltoncasto @ev_fedorenko have found a "satellite" component of the brain’s dedicated language network in the cerebellum, a region better known for coordinating movement. Learn more 👉mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/01/22/lan… @NeuroCellPress paper 👉cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 @ev_fedorenko

5 months ago

Could not be more excited about Colton's @_coltoncasto work! A deep dive into the linguistic cerebellum, and a discovery of an area remarkably functionally similar to the core left-hemisphere language areas, including in its selectivity for language. Go Colton and team!

Colton Casto @_coltoncasto

5 months ago

The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @NeuroCellPress, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfHC-… 1/n🧵👇

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Andrea de Varda @devarda_a

6 months ago

It's fascinating that you can explain *so much* with dependency distance (effects in language production, comprehension, cross-linguistic differences in word orders, the difficulty of 'legalese'...). Highly recommended!

Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT

6 months ago

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website…

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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 @ev_fedorenko

6 months ago

I may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible+overly complicated accounts, this book is for you: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural languages. A must-read!