Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT

I am Ted Gibson and I run a language lab at MIT. I tweet about psycholinguistics, cognitive science, language research, linguistics, and words.

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

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)

https://t.co/LrUMGJ5fFK

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

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

https://t.co/LrUMGJ5fFK

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

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

[McGovern Institute @mcgovernmit]

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 👉https://t.co/2I7Jh157RH

@NeuroCellPress paper 👉https://t.co/mTYrC0Dph1

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

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!

[Andrea de Varda @devarda_a]

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!

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

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!

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

When you find errors in the book, please let me know, so I can correct them for a future edition.

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

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:
https://t.co/ksQfTGoxpK

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

Chapter 10: The rational inference or “noisy-channel” approach to communication in language. See e.g., Levy (2008); Gibson et al (2013).

[McGovern Institute @mcgovernmit]

The @PNASNews paper by @ev_fedorenko @LanguageMIT + former @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT postdocs Sammy Floyd and @OlessiaJour 👇

https://t.co/mQtXLbc4h4