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 …

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 …

How does the brain learn environmental structure? Ten core principles for understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of statistical learning

CM Conway - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

[كتاب][B] After phrenology: Neural reuse and the interactive brain

ML Anderson - 2021‏ - books.google.com
A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

Neural reuse: A fundamental organizational principle of the brain

ML Anderson - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2010‏ - cambridge.org
An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

[كتاب][B] Brain and music

S Koelsch - 2012‏ - books.google.com
A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the
brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax …

Probabilistic map of critical functional regions of the human cerebral cortex: Broca's area revisited

MC Tate, G Herbet, S Moritz-Gasser, JE Tate, H Duffau - Brain, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
The organization of basic functions of the human brain, particularly in the right hemisphere,
remains poorly understood. Recent advances in functional neuroimaging have improved our …

Being together in time: Musical experience and the mirror neuron system

K Overy, I Molnar-Szakacs - Music perception, 2009‏ - online.ucpress.edu
THE DISCOVERY OF INDIVIDUAL" MIRROR NEURONS" in the macaque brain that fire both
when an action is executed and when that same action is observed or heard, and of a …

A functional MRI study of happy and sad emotions in music with and without lyrics

E Brattico, V Alluri, B Bogert, T Jacobsen… - Frontiers in …, 2011‏ - frontiersin.org
Musical emotions, such as happiness and sadness, have been investigated using
instrumental music devoid of linguistic content. However, pop and rock, the most common …

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 …