Selected publications
Cognitive abilities in large language models
Mahowald*, K., Ivanova*, A. A., Blank, I. A., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Fedorenko, E. (2023). Dissociating language and thought in large language models: A cognitive perspective. arXiv:2301.06627.
Kauf, C., Ivanova, A. A., Rambelli, G., Chersoni, E., She, J., Chowdhury, Z., Fedorenko, E., & Lenci, A. (2022). Event knowledge in language models: The gap between the impossible and the unlikely. arXiv, arXiv.2212.01488.
Language vs. other cognitive functions in the brain
Benn*, Y., Ivanova*, A. A., Clark, O., Mineroff, Z., Seikus, C., Silva, J. S., Varley, R., & Fedorenko, E. (2023). The language network is not engaged in object categorization. Cerebral Cortex, bhad289. Oxford University Press (OUP).
Ivanova, A., Mineroff, Z., Zimmerer, V., Kanwisher, N., Varley, R., & Fedorenko, E. (2021). The language network is recruited but not required for nonverbal event semantics. Neurobiology of Language.
Ivanova, A. A., Srikant, S., Sueoka, Y., Kean, H. H., Dhamala, R., O'Reilly, U.-M., Bers, M. U., & Fedorenko, E. (2020). Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions. eLife, 9, e58906
Methods matter
Kauf, C., & Ivanova, A. A. (2023). A Better Way to Do Masked Language Model Scoring. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Ivanova, A. A., Schrimpf, M., Anzellotti, S., Zaslavsky, N., Fedorenko, E., & Isik, L. (2022). Beyond linear regression: Mapping models in cognitive neuroscience should align with research goals. Neurons, Behavior, Data Analysis, and Theory.
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* indicates co-first authors