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The Dissenter · 2025-07-04 · 43 min · 6,134 words

#1119 Anna Ivanova: Language and Large Language Models

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Anna Ivanova. She is assistant professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech, and today we're talking about topics like language from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, large language models, the language of programming. and related topics.

So Dr. Ivanova, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have youone. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me.

So uh let me start by asking you this. How do you approach language from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience? Well, so I'm interested in language as a cognitive capacity and I'm interested in the human brain. And so to me it was kind of natural to say, hey, how do these two work together? How does the combination of cells that we have in our head, the brain, carry out language?

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