User profiles for I. A. Blank

Idan Asher Blank

Assistant Professor, UCLA
Verified email at psych.ucla.edu
Cited by 2893

Broca's area is not a natural kind

E Fedorenko, IA Blank - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Theories of human cognition prominently feature 'Broca's area', which causally contributes to
a myriad of mental functions. However, Broca's area is not a monolithic, multipurpose unit – …

Dissociating language and thought in large language models: a cognitive perspective

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Today's large language models (LLMs) routinely generate coherent, grammatical and
seemingly meaningful paragraphs of text. This achievement has led to speculation that these …

[HTML][HTML] What are large language models supposed to model?

IA Blank - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Do large language models (LLMs) constitute a computational account of how humans
process language? And if so, what is the role of (psycho)linguistic theory in understanding the …

Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split. …

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative modeling
approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across many …

The neural architecture of language

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute, C Kauf… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - JSTOR
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative modeling
approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across many …

fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension

C Shain, IA Blank, M van Schijndel, W Schuler… - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Much research in cognitive neuroscience supports prediction as a canonical computation of
cognition across domains. Is such predictive coding implemented by feedback from higher-…

Functional network dynamics of the language system

LR Chai, MG Mattar, IA Blank, E Fedorenko… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… Each stimulus was followed by a 300 ms blank screen, a memory probe (presented for 1000
ms), and again a blank screen for 500 ms, for a total trial duration of 6 s. Participants were …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic atlas for the language network based on precision fMRI data from> 800 individuals

…, M Siegelman, C Hoeflin, A Pongos, IA Blank… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Two analytic traditions characterize fMRI language research. One relies on averaging activations
across individuals. This approach has limitations: because of inter-individual variability …

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

E Fedorenko, IA Blank, M Siegelman, Z Mineroff - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies the …