Rachel Ryskin

Cognitive scientist @UCMerced // PI of Language, Interaction, & Cognition (LInC) lab: // Now mostly on Bsky:

[Rachel Ryskin @raryskin]

🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: https://t.co/zbZ6t7vrrW

We (w/ @LanguageMIT, @AphasiaLab) explore how individuals with aphasia interpret sentences & whether their comprehension difficulties stem from increased expectations of noise in language input. 🧵👇

[Thomas Hikaru Clark @thomashikaru]

1/7 If you're at CogSci 2025, I'd love to see you at my talk on Friday 1pm PDT in Nob Hill A! I'll be talking about our work towards an implemented computational model of noisy-channel comprehension (with @postylem, @LanguageMIT, and @roger_p_levy).

[Kanishka Misra 🌊 @kanishkamisra]

Looking forward to attending #cogsci2025! I’m especially excited to meet students who will be applying to PhD programs in Computational Ling/CogSci in the coming cycle.

Please reach out if you want to meet up and chat! Email is best, but DM also works if you must

quick🧵:

[Cory Shain @coryshain]

New brain/language study w/ @ev_fedorenko! We applied task-agnostic individualized functional connectomics (iFC) to the entire history of fMRI in the Fedorenko lab, parcellating nearly 1200 brains into networks based on activity fluctuations alone. https://t.co/hJQRfIDQfQ . 🧵

[NozariLab@IU @NozariL]

Interested in how language production is regulated and controlled? Here's an update, in light of new developments in the cognitive control literature. https://t.co/UOfd9VCzNr

[Rachel Ryskin @raryskin]

@Ella_Maru @LanguageMIT @AphasiaLab Thanks, Ella! That's what we think, yes!

[Rachel Ryskin @raryskin]

🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: https://t.co/zbZ6t7vrrW

We (w/ @LanguageMIT, @AphasiaLab) explore how individuals with aphasia interpret sentences & whether their comprehension difficulties stem from increased expectations of noise in language input. 🧵👇

[Rachel Ryskin @raryskin]

@michaelwdickey @LanguageMIT @AphasiaLab Thanks so much, Michael! Really appreciate the work you all are doing in this space -- excited to keep the conversation going!

[Rachel Ryskin @raryskin]

6/ These findings suggest that some comprehension challenges in aphasia may be due to altered *expectations about noise* rather than a purely syntactic deficit. Understanding language processing in aphasia through a noisy-channel lens could inform new approaches to treatment.

[Rachel Ryskin @raryskin]

5/ What about ppl w/ aphasia?
✅ They rely more on noisy-channel inferences than healthy adults, even when we account for differences in guessing btwn populations using a hierarchical mixture model.

🔹 Unlike healthy adults, their ability to adapt to noise remains unclear.

[Weijie Xu @weijiexu_97]

Glad to share that our paper (with @rljfutrell) is now on JML. In this paper, we proposed strategic memory allocation as a mechanism to handle less predictable but more informative linguistic units.

Check out this link for more details:
https://t.co/2L2aZhDoRL

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

The reply to our NRN piece (https://t.co/LFOLHlHzN6) by Drijvers et al. presented a chance to clarify common confusions about our work on the language network (LN) and the functional localization approach more generally: https://t.co/2MwLf6nSYd. 🧵1/n w/@neuranna @tamaregev

[Hope Kean @HopeKean]

New paper with @alexanderdfung, @PramodRT9 , @jessica__chomik , @Nancy_Kanwisher, @ev_fedorenko on the representations that underlie our intuitive physical reasoning about the world. Thread 🧵about our new preprint 📄✨linked here: https://t.co/NbfYM6LeVs 1/10

[Noga Zaslavsky @NogaZaslavsky]

I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! My lab works at the intersection of information theory, cognition, language, and AI. Wanna hear more? I asked notebookLM to generate a podcast just for you (but pls take it with a big grain of salt...)
https://t.co/YGPrJEh8gm

[Matthew Winn @matt_with_ears]

the main theme of this paper as an image:
(more relevant than the auto-image of participant ages)

[Language and Memory Aging Lab @LamaLabUtah]

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 New paper lead by @17copeal We use co-registration of EEG and eye movements to examine how context processing unfolds across multiple fixations in natural reading. Our first full co-registration reading study. Check it out!!
https://t.co/BZEnQPhvKt

[Inbal Arnon @inbalarnon]

Very excited about new paper with the amazing Susan Goldin-Meadow: Children creating language engage in whole-to-part learning. This suggests such learning is not driven by hard-to-segment input, but is a bias children bring to language: https://t.co/MLvMb5EKZt.