News
Our scaling vs. finetuning paper is out in Nature Computational Science!
Our paper "Increasing alignment of large language models with language processing in the human brain" is finally online!
Big thanks to all the collaborators!
SNL2027 is going to be held in Hong Kong!
Jixing is one of the organizers of SNL 2027 and looks forward to welcoming you—with good milk tea!
Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 17th Annual Meeting
Zhengwu and Qimiao presented their poster titled "Neural tracking of semantic and rhythmic information under temporal compression" at SNL2025, Washington, D.C., USA.
8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN)
Jixing (on behalf of Chengcheng) presented a poster titled "Finding modularity in large language models: Insights from aphasia simulations" at CCN2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 16th Annual Meeting
Zhengwu and Chengcheng presented two posters titled "Modeling the trajectory of language processing in neural state space" and "Functional specificity in multimodal large language models and the human brain" at SNL2024, Brisbane, Australia. Jixing organized the Symposia "Modeling linguistic processes through experimental and naturalistic designs."
The 23rd International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMEG)
Jixing gave two talks titled "Semantic composition in experimental and naturalistic paradigms" and "Neural tracking of bottom-up and top-down processes in speech comprehension" at BIOMEG 2024, Sydney, Australia.
The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Changjiang and Jixing presented a poster titled "Measuring meaning composition in the human brain with composition scores from large language models" at ACL2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
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The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Met friends at ACL 👆 Jixing gave a tutorial titled "Computational linguistics for brain encoding and decoding: Principles, practices and beyond" at ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
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The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Jixing gave a tutorial titled "Brain encoding and decoding with deep neural networks: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions" at IJCAI 2024, Jeju Island, South Korea.
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Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 15th Annual Meeting
Changjiang presented a poster titled "Impact of model size and fine-tuning techniques on LLMs' resemblance to the human brain" in Marseille, France.
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Second Brain Research Cluster Symposium: NLP X Neurolinguistics
Research topics covered include: media neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, communication neuroscience, neurolinguistics, EEG and fMRI for social science research.
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 30th Annual Meeting
Jixing presented a poster titled "Modeling multi-talker speech comprehension in normal and hearing-impaired listeners" at CNS2023, San Francisco, USA.
HK Tech 300
Our group won the best pitch of the HKTech 300 (9th cohort)!
Roundtable Forum: Mechanisms of language processing in brains and machines
Roundtable forum topics: take ChatGPT as an example to explore the relationship between artificial neural language models and language processing in the human brain:
1. Does ChatGPT resemble human language processing?
2. Can neural language models help us understand how the brain processes language?
3. How can studies of language processing in the human brain help advance natural language processing models?
NeuroAI Reading Seminar: Syntax and semantics in NLP models
This reading seminar will discuss two review articles about the syntactic and semantic abilities of deep learning language models.
The outline of the seminar is as follows:
1. Syntax: long-distance agreement, nature vs nurture.
2. Reading: Syntactic structure from deep learning.
3. Semantics: Distributional Semantics, Compositional Semantics.
4. Reading: Semantic structure in deep learning.
5. Conclusion and discussion.
Neuroimaging Methods Workshop
This 2-day workshop covers various topics in analysing neuroimaging data, including fMRI, MEG, EEG and ECoG.
The goal of the workshop is to introduce neuroimaging concepts and practice analysis skills with hands-on tutorials.
Detailed slides and recording videos, please see our Seminar workshop section.