The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain

E Fedorenko, AA Ivanova, TI Regev - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

Prediction during language comprehension: what is next?

R Ryskin, MS Nieuwland - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models

G Tuckute, A Sathe, S Srikant, M Taliaferro… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Transformer models such as GPT generate human-like language and are predictive of
human brain responses to language. Here, using functional-MRI-measured brain responses …

Toward a realistic model of speech processing in the brain with self-supervised learning

J Millet, C Caucheteux, Y Boubenec… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Several deep neural networks have recently been shown to generate activations similar to
those of the brain in response to the same input. These algorithms, however, remain largely …

Scaling laws for language encoding models in fMRI

R Antonello, A Vaidya, A Huth - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Representations from transformer-based unidirectional language models are
known to be effective at predicting brain responses to natural language. However, most …

Contextual feature extraction hierarchies converge in large language models and the brain

G Mischler, YA Li, S Bickel, AD Mehta… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have sparked interest in the parallels between
large language models (LLMs) and human neural processing, particularly in language …

Spatiotemporally distributed frontotemporal networks for sentence reading

O Woolnough, C Donos, E Murphy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Reading a sentence entails integrating the meanings of individual words to infer more
complex, higher-order meaning. This highly rapid and complex human behavior is known to …

Deep language algorithms predict semantic comprehension from brain activity

C Caucheteux, A Gramfort, JR King - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Deep language algorithms, like GPT-2, have demonstrated remarkable abilities to process
text, and now constitute the backbone of automatic translation, summarization and dialogue …

[HTML][HTML] A shared model-based linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations

Z Zada, A Goldstein, S Michelmann, E Simony, A Price… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Effective communication hinges on a mutual understanding of word meaning in different
contexts. We recorded brain activity using electrocorticography during spontaneous, face-to …

Lexical-semantic content, not syntactic structure, is the main contributor to ANN-brain similarity of fMRI responses in the language network

C Kauf, G Tuckute, R Levy, J Andreas… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Representations from artificial neural network (ANN) language models have been
shown to predict human brain activity in the language network. To understand what aspects …