Ev Fedorenko
@evfedorenko.bsky.social
I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles.
Using a large-scale individual differences investigation (with ~800 participants each performing an ~8-hour battery of non-literal comprehension tasks), we found that pragmatic language use fractionates into 3 components: Social conventions, intonation, and world knowledge–based causal reasoning.
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Using a large-scale individual differences investigation (with ~800 participants each performing an ~8-hour battery of non-literal comprehension tasks), we found that pragmatic language use fractionates into 3 components: Social conventions, intonation, and world knowledge–based causal reasoning.
Reposted by Ev Fedorenko
Led by amazing MIT undergraduate
Daria Kryvosheieva and in collaboration with @andreadevarda.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social ! 💫
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03676
Code: github.com/dariakryvosh...
Daria Kryvosheieva and in collaboration with @andreadevarda.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social ! 💫
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03676
Code: github.com/dariakryvosh...
Different types of syntactic agreement recruit the same units within large language models
Large language models (LLMs) can reliably distinguish grammatical from ungrammatical sentences, but how grammatical knowledge is represented within the models remains an open question. We investigate ...
arxiv.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Led by amazing MIT undergraduate
Daria Kryvosheieva and in collaboration with @andreadevarda.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social ! 💫
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03676
Code: github.com/dariakryvosh...
Daria Kryvosheieva and in collaboration with @andreadevarda.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social ! 💫
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03676
Code: github.com/dariakryvosh...