Do domain-general executive resources play a role in linguistic prediction? Re-evaluation of the evidence and a path forward

R Ryskin, RP Levy, E Fedorenko - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Most current accounts of language comprehension agree on a role for prediction, but they
disagree on the importance of domain-general executive resources in predictive behavior. In …

Reduced language lateralization in autism and the broader autism phenotype as assessed with robust individual‐subjects analyses

O Jouravlev, AJE Kell, Z Mineroff, AJ Haskins… - Autism …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
One of the few replicated functional brain differences between individuals with autism
spectrum disorders (ASD) and neurotypical (NT) controls is reduced language lateralization …

Speech-accompanying gestures are not processed by the language-processing mechanisms

O Jouravlev, D Zheng, Z Balewski, ALA Pongos… - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Speech-accompanying gestures constitute one information channel during communication.
Some have argued that processing gestures engages the brain regions that support …

The small and efficient language network of polyglots and hyper-polyglots

O Jouravlev, Z Mineroff, IA Blank, E Fedorenko - Cerebral cortex, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Acquiring a foreign language is challenging for many adults. Yet certain individuals choose
to acquire sometimes dozens of languages and often just for fun. Is there something special …

No evidence for functional distinctions across fronto-temporal language regions in their temporal receptive windows

IA Blank, E Fedorenko - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The “core language network” consists of left temporal and frontal regions that are selectively
engaged in linguistic processing. Whereas the functional differences across these regions …

White matter networks dissociate semantic control from semantic knowledge representations: Evidence from voxel-based lesion-symptom map**

J Ding, K Chen, N Zhang, M Luo, X Du… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Although semantic system is composed of two distinctive processes (ie, semantic knowledge
and semantic control), it remains unknown in which way these two processes dissociate …

Composition is the core driver of the language-selective network

F Mollica, E Diachek, Z Mineroff, H Kean, M Siegelman… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
The fronto-temporal language network responds robustly and selectively to sentences. But
the features of linguistic input that drive this response and the computations these language …

[PDF][PDF] No evidence for functional distinctions across fronto-temporal language regions in their

IA Blank, E Fedorenko - Cerebral Cortex, 2019 - scholar.archive.org
Language comprehension engages a cortical network of frontal and temporal brain regions,
primarily in the left hemisphere (Binder et al., 1997; Bates et al., 2003; Fedorenko et al …