The LAnguages, Machines & Brains Lab (LAMB) is directed by Dr. Jixing Li. Our lab's research intersects the multidisciplinary fields of Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Cognitive Neuroscience. We are always looking for motivated graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, research assistants and visiting scholars to join our team. If interested, please email jixingli@cityu.edu.hk.


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Mar 31 - Apr 1, 2023

Second Brain Research Cluster Symposium: NLP X Neurolinguistics

Research topics covered include:

• Media Neuroscience

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Communication Neuroscience

• Neurolinguistics

• Electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) for social science research



Mar 25-28, 2023

The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 30th Annual Meeting

Dr. Li gave a poster presentation titled "Modeling multi-talker speech comprehension in normal and hearing-impaired listeners".


Mar 25, 2023

HK Tech 300

Our group won the best pitch of the HK Tech 300 (9th cohort)!


Jan 15, 2023

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?

Find the seminar and registration details here.


Jan 8, 2023

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

Find the seminar and registration details here.


Dec 10-11, 2022

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. Find the speakers details and tutorial titles here.