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SUMMARY:Dr. Leila Wehbe, Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION:“Capturing Language Representations in the Human Brain with
Language Models”\n\nLeila Wehbe\, Ph.D.\n\nAssistant Professor\, Carnegi
e Mellon University\n\nDepartment of Psychology\n\nIt has become increas
ingly common to use representations extracted from modern language model
s to study language comprehension in the human brain. This approach ofte
n achieves accurate prediction of brain activity\, often accounting for
almost all the variance in the recordings that is not attributable to no
ise. However\, better prediction performance doesn't always lead to bett
er scientific interpretability. This talk presents some approaches for t
he difficult problem of making scientific inferences about how the brain
represents high-level meaning. While these inferences are based on the
powerful ability of today's language models to predict brain recordings\
, this talk also explores the limitations of these models and their dive
rgence from brain activity recordings\, suggesting some language phenome
na that they process differently than humans.\n\nFor more details: https
://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-leila-wehbe-carnegie-mellon-university/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“Capturing Language Representations in the Human Bra
in with Language Models”
Leila Wehbe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon
University
Department of Psychology
It has become increasing
ly common to use representations extracted from modern language models t
o study language comprehension in the human brain. This approach often a
chieves accurate prediction of brain activity, often accounting for almo
st all the variance in the recordings that is not attributable to noise.
However, better prediction performance doesn't always lead to better sc
ientific interpretability. This talk presents some approaches for the di
fficult problem of making scientific inferences about how the brain repr
esents high-level meaning. While these inferences are based on the power
ful ability of today's language models to predict brain recordings, this
talk also explores the limitations of these models and their divergence
from brain activity recordings, suggesting some language phenomena that
they process differently than humans.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-leila-wehbe-carnegie-mellon-unive
rsity/
LOCATION:102 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
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