Media

2026
- Martin Hilbert’s review of Gibson (2025): Syntax: A cognitive approach [YouTube]
- Language-Jones on Gibson (2025): Syntax: A cognitive approach [YouTube]
2024
- Ted Gibson on Lex Fridman’s podcast [YouTube]
- Coverage of Fedorenko, Piantadosi & Gibson’s Nature paper “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought”
  - New York Times
  - McGovern Institute
2023
- Coverage of Martínez, Mollica & Gibson’s PNAS paper “Even lawyers don’t like legalese”
2022
- Coverage of Saima Malik-Moraleda's work on bilingual word processing in Tsimane'-Spanish bilinguals
  - MIT News
- Coverage of Eric Martinez’s Cognition paper "Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language,” which won the IgNobel prize in literature
  - MIT News
  - MIT News
  - YCombinator
  - Rollongfriday
  - Associated Press
  - ABC Australia
  - El Pais
  - Yahoo News
  - Europa Press
  - CNN
  - Popular Science
  - MSN
  - The Scientist
  - New Atlas
  - Legal Insider
  - Vidi
  - Yek Pezeshk
  - Bild der Frau
  - RTBF
- Coverage of Ben Pitt’s Psychological Science paper "Exact number concepts are limited to the verbal count range”
  - MIT News
2017
- News coverage of our PNAS article “Color naming across languages reflects color use”
  - MIT News
  - Wired
  - The Conversation
  - Science
  - Boston Globe
  - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  - Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the national daily newspaper of Switzerland
  - Smithsonian
- Aeon article about 2017 Psychological Science article, “The unexpected benefits of getting lost in translation”
2016
- Ted Gibson’s talk “How Efficiency Shapes Human Language” at TEDxHarvardCollege [youtube]
2015
- Richard Futrell’s talk “Can you understand me now? Human languages as efficient communcation systems” at CafeSci Boston [youtube]
- Ted Gibson’s interview with HuffPost on Dependency Length Minimization [HuffPost]