Verbal working memory as emergent from language comprehension and production

SC Schwering, MC MacDonald - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This article reviews current models of verbal working memory and considers the role of
language comprehension and long-term memory in the ability to maintain and order verbal …

[HTML][HTML] Generative models, linguistic communication and active inference

KJ Friston, T Parr, Y Yufik, N Sajid, CJ Price… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a biologically plausible generative model and inference scheme that is
capable of simulating communication between synthetic subjects who talk to each other …

The domain-general multiple demand (MD) network does not support core aspects of language comprehension: a large-scale fMRI investigation

E Diachek, I Blank, M Siegelman, J Affourtit… - Journal of …, 2020 - jneurosci.org
Aside from the language-selective left-lateralized frontotemporal network, language
comprehension sometimes recruits a domain-general bilateral frontoparietal network …

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

E Fedorenko, IA Blank, M Siegelman, Z Mineroff - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Mechanisms for handling nested dependencies in neural-network language models and humans

Y Lakretz, D Hupkes, A Vergallito, M Marelli, M Baroni… - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Recursive processing in sentence comprehension is considered a hallmark of human
linguistic abilities. However, its underlying neural mechanisms remain largely unknown. We …

Composition is the core driver of the language-selective network

F Mollica, M Siegelman, E Diachek… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
The frontotemporal language network responds robustly and selectively to sentences. But
the features of linguistic input that drive this response and the computations that these …

[HTML][HTML] No evidence for differences among language regions in their temporal receptive windows

IA Blank, E Fedorenko - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
The “core language network” consists of left frontal and temporal regions that are selectively
engaged in linguistic processing. Whereas functional differences among these regions have …

Stories grounded in decades of research: What we truly know about the teaching of reading

C Compton‐Lilly, LK Spence, PL Thomas… - The reading …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent dissemination of selective research findings related to reading privileges a
narrow body of reading scholarship and a singular, unproven solution—teaching phonics …

Information-restricted neural language models reveal different brain regions' sensitivity to semantics, syntax, and context

A Pasquiou, Y Lakretz, B Thirion… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
A fundamental question in neurolinguistics concerns the brain regions involved in syntactic
and semantic processing during speech comprehension, both at the lexical (word …

[HTML][HTML] Modularity and granularity across the language network-A primary progressive aphasia perspective

MM Mesulam, CA Coventry, BM Rader, A Kuang… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Tests of grammar, repetition and semantics were administered to 62 prospectively enrolled
right-handed participants with primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Structural brain images …