Tamar Regev

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Publications

Conference papers

➤ Yadavalli, A., Pimentel T., Regev, T.I., Wilcox E.G, Warstadt A. (2025). What do prosody and text convey? Characterizing how meaningful information is distributed across multiple channels. arXiv, ACL2026. Paper
➤ Wilcox E.G, Ding C., Acampa G., Pimentel T.*, Warstadt A.*, Regev, T.I.* (2025). Using information theory to characterize prosodic typology: The case of tone, pitch-accent and stress-accent. arXiv, ACL2025. Paper
➤ Regev, T.I., Ohams C., Xie S., Wolf, L., Fedorenko, E., Warstadt, A.*, Wilcox, E.G.* Pimentel T.* (2025). The time scale of redundancy between prosody and linguistic context. arXiv, ACL2025. Paper | Video abstract
➤ Wolf, L., Tuckute, G., Kotar, K., Hosseini, E., Regev, T.I.*, Wilcox, E.* & Warstadt, A.* (2023). WhisBERT: Multimodal text-audio language modeling on 100M words. arXiv, babyLM challenge. Paper
➤ Wolf, L., Pimentel T., Fedorenko, E., Cotterell, R., Warstadt, A.*, Wilcox, E.* & Regev, T.I.* (2023). Quantifying the redundancy between prosody and linguistic content. arXiv, EMNLP2023. Paper

Preprints

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  Regev, T.I., Kim H.S., Jhingan, N., Swords, S., Kean, H., Casto, C., Cole, J.S., & Fedorenko, E. (2025) A distinct set of brain areas process prosody—the melody of speech. bioRxiv. Paper

Journal papers

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  Clark, T. H., Poliak, M., Regev, T.I., Haskins, A. J., Robertson, C., & Gibson, E. (2025) The relationship between surprisal and prosodic prominence in conversation reflects intelligibility‐oriented pressures. Cognitive Science. Paper
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  Regev, T.I.*, Casto, C.*, Hosseini, E.A., Adamek, M., Ritaccio, A.L., Brunner, P., & Fedorenko, E. (2024) Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows. Nature Human Behavior. Paper | Link to data and code
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  Regev, T.I.*, Lipkin, B.*, Boebinger, D., Paunov, A., Kean, H., Norman-Haignere, S., & Fedorenko, E. (2024) Preserved functional organization of human auditory cortex in two individuals missing one temporal lobe from infancy. iScience. Paper | Link to data and code
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  Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A., Regev, T.I.. (2024) The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper
➤ Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A., Regev, T.I.. (2025) Reply to ‘Language is widely distributed throughout the brain’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper
➤ Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A., Regev, T.I.. (2024) Reply to ‘The core language network separated from other networks during primate evolution’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper
➤ Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A., Regev, T.I.. (2024) Reply to ‘The language network is topographically diverse and driven by rapid syntactic inferences’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper
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  Regev, T.I., Kim, H., Chen, X., Affourtit, J., Schipper, A.E., Bergen, L., Mahowald, K.*, & Fedorenko, E*. (2024) High-level language brain regions process sub-lexical regularities. Cerebral Cortex. Paper| Link to data and code
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  Chen, X., Affourtit, J., Ryskin, R., Regev, T.I., Norman-Haignere, S., Jouravlev, O., Malik-Moraleda S., Kean H., Varley R. & Fedorenko, E. (2023) The human language system does not support music processing. Cerebral Cortex. Paper
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  Regev, T.I., Markusfeld, G., Nelken, I., Deouell, L.Y. (2020) Context Sensitivity Across Multiple Time and Frequency Scales. Cerebral Cortex. Paper | Link to data and code
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  Regev, T.I., Nelken, I., Deouell, L.Y. (2019) Evidence for linear but not helical automatic representation of pitch in human auditory system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(5), 669–685 Paper
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  Regev, T.I., Winawer, J., Gerber, E.M., Knight, R.T., Deouell, L.Y (2018) Human posterior parietal cortex responds to visual stimuli as early as peristriate occipital cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. Paper | Link to data and code
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  Wolfenson, H., Lubelski, A., Regev, T., Klafter, J., Henis, Y.I., Geiger, B. (2009) A Role for the Juxtamembrane Cytoplasm in the Molecular Dynamics of Focal Adhesions. PLoS ONE. Volume 4, Issue 1, e4304. Paper
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  Madi, A., Friedman, Y., Roth, D., Regev, T., Bransburg-Zabary, S., Ben Jacob, E. (2008) Genome Holography: Deciphering Function-Form Motifs from Gene Expression Data. PLoS ONE. Volume 3, Issue 7, e2708. Paper

 

Conference presentations

• Apr. 2024 – CNS – Toronto. Symposium organization and talk: A network of brain areas is sensitive to prosody and distinct from language and auditory areas.
• Oct. 2022 – SNL – Philadelphia. Poster.: Heterogeneous neural responses distributed across the language network revealed by electrocorticography.
• Oct. 2020 – SNL – virtual. Poster: Sensitivity of high-level language processing brain regions to phonological information.
• Oct. 2019 – SFN+APAN – Chicago. Poster: Context sensitivity across multiple time and frequency scales.
• Feb. 2019 – SMPC – NYC. 2 Talks: 1. The neural representation of pitch – height versus chroma. 2. Statistical context sensitivity of ERP components in an unattended tone sequence.
• Mar. 2019 – CNS – San-Francisco. Poster: Multiple timescale sensitivity of EEG components to statistical features in unattended tone sequences.
• Feb. 2019 – ARO – Baltimore. Talk: Evidence for linear but not helical automatic representation of pitch in human auditory system.
• Feb. 2018 – ISCOP – Acre. Poster: Multiple timescale sensitivity of EEG components to statistical features in unattended tone sequences.
• Aug. 2017 – ICON – Amsterdam. Poster: Automatic representation of pitch in human auditory cortex is linear and not helical.
• Feb. 2017 – ISCOP – Acre, Israel. Music Cognition symposium organization and talk: Early brain processing of pitch – height versus chroma.
• Jul. 2016 – ICMPC – San-Francisco. Poster: Is pitch chroma discrimination automatic? – an EEG study.
• Mar. 2016 – The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Vocal Department Colloquium. Invited lecture – Music and the Brain.
• Feb. 2015 – ELSC, Ein Gedi. Talk: Early visual response in human posterior parietal cortex revealed by onset latency estimation using electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings.
• Nov. 2014 – SFN – San Diego. Poster: Early visual response in human posterior parietal cortex revealed by onset latency estimation using electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings.
• Dec. 2012 – ISFN – Eilat. Poster selected for swift presentation – Coupling Sound to Movement – Design and Assessment of Learned Auditory-Proprioceptive Integration.
• Jul. 2012 – ICMPC-ESCOM – Thessaloniki. Poster and spoken presentation – Sonic Feedback to Movement as Learned Auditory-Proprioceptive Sensory Integration.