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<div>We invite submissions for our Special Issue of <em>Neurobiology of Language: </em>Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Language.</div>
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<div>In recent years, deep learning language models have reached remarkable performance on many complex language tasks. A rapidly evolving research program at the interface of artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience focuses on the question of whether
these computational models can serve as models of language processing in the human brain.</div>
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<div>Our special issue of Neurobiology of Language invites submissions — theoretical and empirical — at the intersection of computational linguistics, neuroscience of language, and psycholinguistics. The central question is whether the level of performance
on sentence comprehension tasks displayed by deep learning language models is achieved through mechanisms comparable to the ones employed by the human brain. The focus should be on how the architecture, the training task, and the internal representations of
deep learning language systems compare and relate to those of the language network in the human brain.</div>
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<div>See this link for more details: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://direct.mit.edu/nol/pages/neurobiology_of_language_call_for_papers_2021__;!!HJOPV4FYYWzcc1jazlU!6eCGXQ4DsoYZWLTLZZujNI6rH4aXkCTckQVIJfVQ5_cZMcKgccMPGynA4Spbazz8PfRPGKKQS0RcuEDPaMDHzhI-CaAIq762$" target="_blank">
https://direct.mit.edu/nol/pages/neurobiology_of_language_call_for_papers_2021</a></div>
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<div>If you are interested in this issue, but not sure whether your work fits in, please contact us.</div>
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Dr. Roel Willems<br>
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Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour<br>
Radboud University Nijmegen</div>
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<div>Research group Narrative, Cognition and Communication<br>
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Dr. Roel Willems<br>
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Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour<br>
Radboud University Nijmegen</div>
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