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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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)
direct.mit.edu/opmi
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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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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT retweeted
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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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT retweeted
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/…
@NeuroCellPress paper 👉cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
ALT Six fMRI scans showing activity in the cerebellum during language tasks.
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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT retweeted
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!
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/1mUU8…
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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT retweeted
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!
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_websit…
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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT retweeted
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!
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_websit…
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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_websit…
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Chapter 10: The rational inference or “noisy-channel” approach to communication in language. See e.g., Levy (2008); Gibson et al (2013).
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Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT retweeted
The @PNASNews paper by @ev_fedorenko @LanguageMIT + former @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT postdocs Sammy Floyd and @OlessiaJour 👇
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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