Moshe Poliak
@moshepoliak.bsky.social
PhD student at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tedlab. I study psycholinguistics. immigrant 🏳️🌈 he/him ex-STEM-phobic
website: mpoliak.notion.site
website: mpoliak.notion.site
Reposted by Moshe Poliak
Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories.
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
Abstract. Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories.
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
hsp2026.org
October 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
(1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
tedlab.mit.edu
August 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
(1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
Reposted by Moshe Poliak
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n 🧵
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The cerebellar components of the human language network
The cerebellum's capacity for neural computation is arguably unmatched. Yet despite evidence of cerebellar contributions to cognition, including language, its precise role remains debated. Here, we sy...
www.biorxiv.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n 🧵
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n 🧵