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How does our brain process constructed languages like Dothraki and High Valyrian?

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Maya Taliaferro, Research Scholar, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Featured news

What Can a Cell Remember? [Quanta Magazine]
August 5, 2025
A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory...
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Seminars + events

With the ending of CBMM, Center events will not continue. But, please enjoy the listings, videos and other associated materials from our past events using the link below.
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CBMM spotlight

Shari Liu: Young Learners
Shari Liu: Young Learners
Associated Research Thrust(s):
Development of Intelligence
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Highlighted publications

T. Poggio, “A Perspective: Sparse Compositionality and Efficiently Computable Intelligence”. 2026.
T. Poggio, “Associative Memory as the Core of Intelligence in Technology and Evolution”. 2026.
CBMM Memo No:
158
R. Dubach, Abdallah, M. S., and Poggio, T., “Multiplicative Regularization Generalizes Better Than Additive Regularization”. 2025.
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Featured video

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DeepMind CEO’s Former Mentor: AI is Intelligent, Not Conscious
If robots experience real pain, are they conscious?
I spoke with Tomaso Poggio about future of AGI, AI's impact on human society, the signs of sentience in AI, and AI predictions. Tomaso Poggio is...
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