Maayan Keshev

Assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Interested in syntactic processing and sewing. She/her

[Anna Laurinavichyute @annlaurin]

Paper alert!📢 @tmalsburg and I looked hard into agreement attraction configurations in grammatical sentences, and, against all probability, found stable attraction effects in 3 experiments: https://t.co/4C1rfHDV0M. Why did we find the effects when 30+ other studies failed to?

[Tal Linzen @tallinzen]

Very pleased to see this article in print! In a study with 2000 subjects, we track how people read syntactically complex sentences, and find that word predictability estimated from language models does a poor job of explaining the human data. https://t.co/pbzFavnMqS

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

This is unpredictably under cue-based retrieval where memory representations are fixed and early (ungrammatical) cues might even exaggerate later attraction. This calls for a model where memory representations can be distorted and updated (3/3)

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

As a Christmas gift, I'm happy to present to you a new paper, now out at JML! In this paper, @aya_meltzer and I look into the constancy of agreement features in memory over the course of the sentence.
https://t.co/WUPK3zm3Ls
(1/3)

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

We find that vulnerability to (reflexive) attraction depends on absence of previous verbal agreement cues. We propose that verbal agreement initiates updating of the representation of the subject, thus affecting later dependencies with that subject. (2/3)

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@FromPhDtoLife (of course there are many ppl who genuinely wish harm to Palestinians, but the responses you are describing don't necessarily indicate that the writers are of this racist category)

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@FromPhDtoLife I think ppl express pain that they feel doesn't get acknowledged and then the other side interprets this as saying that the their pain is not important. This is why ppl respond as you described and this is also reflected in how you interpret those responses

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@HadasKotek maybe tomorrow 🙏

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@yanaisen Wow. It's so sad that a 1967 ad is still so relevant 😔

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@caitoz This is the TikTok problem. But there are people out there maintain their humanity. We need to stand by them, rather than by terrorists and fundamentalists. No Letters to America. Empathy.
e.g: https://t.co/zoKnv7gVHp

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@caitoz Then you insulate yourself in an ideological echo chamber – you shut away any call for pragmatism as excusing war crimes. Because this way you can avoid the psychological discomfort which necessarily goes along with understanding that evil exists on all sides.

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

Register based on your time zone -
Monday is for America&Europe
Tuesday is for Australia,Asia&Middle East
https://t.co/izM71Fgnum

[Edith Kaan @EdithKaan]

HSP is hosting a free online abstract writing workshop Nov 13+14. Accommodating different time zones! See https://t.co/GNWlaiqhzA (you have my permission to register late!)

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@Nancy_Kanwisher It's more complicated. Yes, some people who use it like that. But not all. We definitely don't need at this time language that easily incites extremism. Wild chants of "from the river to the sea Israel will be safe" would surely be treated as a call for transfer/genocide too

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

Thoughtful nuanced takes are so rare here. But I believe that such sane voices are much more conservative

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

If you're sending a work email to an Israeli or Palestinian colleague (no matter where they are located now), please start with: "How are you doing? I hope your family is safe. It must be hard to attend to work these days, but in case you get around to it.."

[Naomi Havron, PhD @NaomiHavron]

מסדרון הומניטרי לעזה - גישה לחטופים עכשיו! הוסיפו את שמכם ליוזמה הבינלאומית הדחופה:
https://t.co/RhuqOyH7Lz via @zazim_org_il

[Maayan Keshev @MKeshev]

@NaomiHavron אלוהים אדירים. לא יכולה לדמיין מה אתם עוברים עכשיו. רק בשורות טובות