Overview

Hello there! Here’s a sample of my past and current research work.
In brief, the variation on a theme here is story listening, neural activity and natural language processing models. Below, you can get an overview of my research, community-building, and writing projects.

You can grab the PDF version of the resume here.

Research

Contextual encoding model for human ECoG responses to a spoken narrative

2021-ongoing
abstract

  • aim: estimate neural markers of narrative context integration across the cortex
  • approach: building predictive models of ECoG responses based on contextualized and non-contextualized language representations scrambled at different linguistic scales
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Short-term memory in neural language models

2021-2022
paper | video pitch | code (TBA) | data (TBA)

  • aim: to quantify how neural language models use the memory of language context
  • approach: apply tools from cognitive science of working memory to analyze neural lenguage models

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Developing a data resource for building neural network models of language

2020-2022
paper | data
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Neuronal timescales in spiking neural networks for working memory in natural language

2019-2020
thesis chapter 5 | code | data

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Context-driven language prediction in neural oscillations in story listening

2017-2019
code | paper | data

  • we related language prediction to neuronal oscillations

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A review on the use of NLP techniques in neuroscience

2016-2017
paper

  • reviewed the basics of language models and vector-based semantics
  • synthesized the empirical findings in the then-emerging field of computational cognitive neuroscience of language
  • offered a balanced assesment of the state of the field

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Community and Service

Open Science Community Nijmegen

January 2019 - August 2020
co-founder
paper

  • co-founding organizer of the community devoted to developing scientific practices that ensure transparency, rigour, and reproducibilty of research and academic work (give it a follow on twitter)

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Foundations of Cognition Series

April 2017 - August 2020
lead organizer, co-founder

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Writing

The Embodied Mind (book translation)

September 2016 - September 2017
translator

  • translated the cognitive science classic to from English to Slovenian (the first translation to Slovenian)

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