Computational language modeling and the promise of in silico experimentation

S Jain, VA Vo, L Wehbe, AG Huth - Neurobiology of Language, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Language neuroscience currently relies on two major experimental paradigms:
controlled experiments using carefully hand-designed stimuli, and natural stimulus …

Brain Treebank: Large-scale intracranial recordings from naturalistic language stimuli

C Wang, A Yaari, A Singh… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract We present the Brain Treebank, a large-scale dataset of electrophysiological neural
responses, recorded from intracranial probes while 10 subjects watched one or more …

Modeling structure‐building in the brain with CCG parsing and large language models

M Stanojević, JR Brennan, D Dunagan… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To model behavioral and neural correlates of language comprehension in naturalistic
environments, researchers have turned to broad‐coverage tools from natural‐language …

ChineseEEG: A Chinese linguistic corpora EEG dataset for semantic alignment and neural decoding

X Mou, C He, L Tan, J Yu, H Liang, J Zhang, Y Tian… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
An Electroencephalography (EEG) dataset utilizing rich text stimuli can advance the
understanding of how the brain encodes semantic information and contribute to semantic …

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 …

Le petit prince hong kong (lpphk): Naturalistic fmri and eeg data from older cantonese speakers

M Momenian, Z Ma, S Wu, C Wang, J Brennan, J Hale… - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
Currently, the field of neurobiology of language is based on data from only a few Indo-
European languages. The majority of this data comes from younger adults neglecting other …

Converging crowds and tied twins: Audience brain responses to the same movie are consistent across continents and enhanced among twins.

R Schmälzle, S Lim, J Wu, S Bezbaruah… - Journal of Media …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent work using neuroimaging has shown that brain responses to a movie are similar
across viewers. These similar responses emerge because the movie recruits brain systems …

Map** brains with language models: A survey

A Karamolegkou, M Abdou, A Søgaard - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.05126, 2023 - arxiv.org
Over the years, many researchers have seemingly made the same observation: Brain and
language model activations exhibit some structural similarities, enabling linear partial …

fMRI predictors based on language models of increasing complexity recover brain left lateralization

L Bonnasse-Gahot, C Pallier - Advances in Neural …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Over the past decade, studies of naturalistic language processing where participants are
scanned while listening to continuous text have flourished. Using word embeddings at first …