Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization

M Nau, AC Schmid, SM Kaplan, CI Baker… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cognitive neuroscience seeks generalizable theories explaining the relationship between
behavioral, physiological and mental states. In pursuit of such theories, we propose a …

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 …

Reworking the language network

E Fedorenko, SL Thompson-Schill - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014 - cell.com
Prior investigations of functional specialization have focused on the response profiles of
particular brain regions. Given the growing emphasis on regional covariation, we propose to …

Against cortical reorganisation

TR Makin, JW Krakauer - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Neurological insults, such as congenital blindness, deafness, amputation, and stroke, often
result in surprising and impressive behavioural changes. Cortical reorganisation, which …

The neurobiology of language beyond single-word processing

P Hagoort - Science, 2019 - science.org
In this Review, I propose a multiple-network view for the neurobiological basis of distinctly
human language skills. A much more complex picture of interacting brain areas emerges …

On the relationship between maps and domains in inferotemporal cortex

MJ Arcaro, MS Livingstone - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
How does the brain encode information about the environment? Decades of research have
led to the pervasive notion that the object-processing pathway in primate cortex consists of …

Language and developmental plasticity after perinatal stroke

EL Newport, A Seydell-Greenwald… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The mature human brain is lateralized for language, with the left hemisphere (LH) primarily
responsible for sentence processing and the right hemisphere (RH) primarily responsible for …

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 …

The role of domain-general cognitive control in language comprehension

E Fedorenko - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
What role does domain-general cognitive control play in understanding linguistic input?
Although much evidence has suggested that domain-general cognitive control and working …

Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind

E Striem-Amit, L Cohen, S Dehaene, A Amedi - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Using a visual-to-auditory sensory-substitution algorithm, congenitally fully blind adults were
taught to read and recognize complex images using" soundscapes"—sounds …