Giosuè Baggio
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Cognitive scientist @NTNU · Author of ‘Meaning in the Brain’ and ‘Neurolinguistics’ @mitpress · “(…) ita res accendent lumina rebus.” (Lucretius)
#Neurolinguistics was released today! @mitpress mitpress.mit.edu/books/neurolin…
#Neurolinguistics has a cover and a publication date in May! @mitpress An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders. mitpress.mit.edu/books/neurolin…
«Google, Microsoft, Cisco and other tech powerhouses have debated the (...) implications of [AI] with the Vatican, hoping to share the benefits of emerging technologies, win over the moral authority and potentially steer its influence over governments and policymakers.» @WSJ
Pope Leo is making the potential threat of AI to humanity a signature issue—challenging a tech sector that has spent years trying to cultivate the Vatican as an ally wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-l… via @WSJ
«Alle vitenskapelige teorier er feilbarlige, vitenskapelig sannhet er den oppfatningen som et idealsamfunn av vitenskapsmenn med uendelig mye tid til å forske og diskutere ville kommet frem til.» Stefán Snævarr om Charles Sanders Peirce @Salongen_no salongen.no/roff-guide/der…
New paper! We replicate *,** earlier P600 effects for meaning composition; we also show that composition requires morphosyntactically well-formed words and morphosyntax depends on lexical storage #ERP #EEG sciencedirect.com/science/articl… *doi.org/10.1080/232737… **doi.org/10.1080/232737…
«And all of this growth is for a new technology that’s still finding its footing, and in many applications—education, medical advice, legal analysis—might be the wrong tool for the job or at least have a less energy-intensive alternative.» @techreview technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/111…
A study by Mole et al. on a large sample of patients with unilateral focal lesions concludes that right dorsolateral frontal cortex is critical for both analogical and deductive reasoning; our own commentary, led by Carlo Reverberi, adds some caveats and nuance to this claim.
New issue of Brain now online! academic.oup.com/brain/issue/14…