Hayden Lab

Note: Registration for this conference is closed; we are at capacity. 

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Location: BRC Atrium
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Schedule: ​

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8:00 a.m. Breakfast (provided)

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9:00 a.m. Opening remarks, Benjamin Hayden (BCM/Rice)

9:10 a.m. Anna Ivanova (Georgia Tech): LLMs as a tool to understand the human mind and brain

9:40 a.m.  ​Elliot Murphy (UTH): Intracranial investigations of compositional syntactic structures: the search for a Universal Neural Grammar

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10:10 a.m. Coffee break (provided)

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10:35 a.m. Taylor Webb (U Montreal): Emergent symbol processing in transformer language models

11:05 a.m. Melissa Franch (BCM): Vectorial representations of word meaning

11:35 a.m. Shailee Jain (UCSF): Interpreting LLMs to interpret the brain

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12:05 p.m. Lunch (provided)

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1:00 p.m. Sam Nastase (USC): Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features

1:30 p.m. Hanjie Chen (Rice University): Interpretability and Control in Large Language Models

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2:00 p.m. Coffee (provided)

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2:25 p.m. Sameer Sheth (BCM/Rice): Neural encoding of language under anesthesia​

2:55 p.m. Kyle Mahowald (U Texas): Cognitive and Linguistic Insights from Language Models

​3:25 p.m.​ Lightning Talks from trainees

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​3:40 p.m.​ Poster session

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5:00 p.m.​ End

Supported by The Rice Creative Ventures Fund, Rice ENRICH, and the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative