Linguistic Information
linguistic information
Fatma Deniz
We are looking for highly motivated researchers to join our group in interdisciplinary projects that focus on the development of computational models to understand how linguistic information is represented in the human brain. Computational encoding models in combination with deep learning-based machine learning techniques will be developed, compared, and applied to identify linguistic representations in the brain. The projects are conducted in collaboration with UC Berkeley.
Fatma Deniz
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher to join our group in interdisciplinary projects that focus on the development of computational models to understand how linguistic information is represented in the human brain during language comprehension. Computational encoding models in combination with deep learning-based machine learning techniques will be developed, compared, and applied to identify linguistic representations in the brain across languages.
Fatma Deniz
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher to join our group in interdisciplinary projects that focus on the development of computational models to understand how linguistic information is represented in the human brain during multi-modal language comprehension. Computational encoding models in combination with deep learning-based machine learning techniques will be developed, compared, and applied to identify linguistic representations in the brain. The projects are conducted in collaboration with UC Berkeley.
Fatma Deniz
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher to join our group for an ERC-project that focuses on the development of computational models to understand how linguistic information is represented in the human brain. Computational encoding models in combination with large language models will be developed, compared, and applied to identify linguistic representations in the brain. We are a small yet dynamic international team, driven by motivation and collaboration within a supportive environment.
Language Representations in the Human Brain: A naturalistic approach
Natural language is strongly context-dependent and can be perceived through different sensory modalities. For example, humans can easily comprehend the meaning of complex narratives presented through auditory speech, written text, or visual images. To understand how complex language-related information is represented in the human brain there is a necessity to map the different linguistic and non-linguistic information perceived under different modalities across the cerebral cortex. To map this information to the brain, I suggest following a naturalistic approach and observing the human brain performing tasks in its naturalistic setting, designing quantitative models that transform real-world stimuli into specific hypothesis-related features, and building predictive models that can relate these features to brain responses. In my talk, I will present models of brain responses collected using functional magnetic resonance imaging while human participants listened to or read natural narrative stories. Using natural text and vector representations derived from natural language processing tools I will present how we can study language processing in the human brain across modalities, in different levels of temporal granularity, and across different languages.