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 …

Towards a universal taxonomy of macro-scale functional human brain networks

LQ Uddin, BT Yeo, RN Spreng - Brain topography, 2019‏ - Springer
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of studies aimed at characterizing the human
connectome. These projects map the brain regions comprising large-scale systems …

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 …

Broca's area is not a natural kind

E Fedorenko, IA Blank - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020‏ - cell.com
Theories of human cognition prominently feature'Broca's area', which causally contributes to
a myriad of mental functions. However, Broca's area is not a monolithic, multipurpose unit–it …

[HTML][HTML] The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in acute and chronic pain

DA Seminowicz, M Moayedi - The journal of pain, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is a functionally and structurally heterogeneous
region and a key node of several brain networks, implicated in cognitive, affective, and …

Precision psychiatry: a neural circuit taxonomy for depression and anxiety

LM Williams - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2016‏ - thelancet.com
Although there have been tremendous advances in the understanding of human
dysfunctions in the brain circuitry for self-reflection, emotion, and cognitive control, a brain …

Origins of the brain networks for advanced mathematics in expert mathematicians

M Amalric, S Dehaene - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
The origins of human abilities for mathematics are debated: Some theories suggest that they
are founded upon evolutionarily ancient brain circuits for number and space and others that …

A domain-general cognitive core defined in multimodally parcellated human cortex

M Assem, MF Glasser, DC Van Essen… - Cerebral …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Numerous brain imaging studies identified a domain-general or “multiple-demand”(MD)
activation pattern accompanying many tasks and may play a core role in cognitive control …

fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension

C Shain, IA Blank, M van Schijndel, W Schuler… - Neuropsychologia, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Much research in cognitive neuroscience supports prediction as a canonical computation of
cognition across domains. Is such predictive coding implemented by feedback from higher …

Default mode contributions to automated information processing

D Vatansever, DK Menon, EA Stamatakis - Proceedings of the National …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Concurrent with mental processes that require rigorous computation and control, a series of
automated decisions and actions govern our daily lives, providing efficient and adaptive …