Patrick Sherlock 9/1/26 Patrick Sherlock 9/1/26

Functional identification of language-responsive sensors in individual participants in MEG investigations

Huybrechts, M., Bruffaerts, R., Pongos, A., Shain, C., Lipkin, B., Siegelman, M., Wens, V., Sjøgård, M., Blank, I., Goldman, S., De Tiège, X. & Fedorenko, E. 2026. Journal of Neurophysiology, 136(3), 1075-1085. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00628.2025. PMID: 42611035. PMC13615564.
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Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and functional connectivity of the language network in older brains

Billot, A.*, Jhingan, N.*, Varkanitsa, M., Wolna, A., Shain, C., Blank, I., Ryskin, R., Kiran, S.^, & Fedorenko, E.^ 2026. Nature Communications, 17, 8573. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-76598-x. PMID: 42637780. PMC13503826.
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ScienceSites 8/13/26 ScienceSites 8/13/26

A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of 1,199 human brains doing arbitrary tasks

Shain, C. & Fedorenko, E. 2026. Nature Communications, 17, 8180. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75745-8. PMID: 42595752. PMC13473096.
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ScienceSites 7/22/26 ScienceSites 7/22/26

The extended language network: Language-responsive brain areas whose contributions to language remain to be discovered

Wolna, A., Wright, A., Casto, C., Hutchinson, S., Lipkin, B. & Fedorenko, E. 2026. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(29), e0638252026. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0638-25.2026. PMID: 42373548. PMC13393535
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ScienceSites 7/6/26 ScienceSites 7/6/26

Evidence from formal logical reasoning reveals that the language of thought is not natural language

Kean, H., Fung, A., Jaggers, P., Chen, J., Rule, J.S., Benn, Y., Tenenbaum, J.B., Piantadosi, S.P., Varley, R.A. & Fedorenko, E. 2026. PNAS, 123(28), e2520095123. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2520095123.
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ScienceSites 6/26/26 ScienceSites 6/26/26

The language network responds robustly to sentences across tasks

Gao, R., Cheung, C., Siegelman, M., Pongos, A.L.A., Kean, H., Tanner, A., Fedorenko, E.^, & Ivanova, A.^ 2026. Imaging Neuroscience, 4. DOI: IMAG.a.1283.
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Aalok Sathe 5/16/26 Aalok Sathe 5/16/26

Precision fMRI reveals that the language network exhibits adult-like left-hemispheric lateralization by 4 years of age

Ozernov-Palchik, O.*, O’Brien, A. M.*, Lee, E. J., Richardson, H., Romeo, R., Poliak, M., Lipkin, B., Small, H., Capella, J., Nieto-Castañón, A., Saxe, R., Gabrieli, J. D. E. & Fedorenko, E. 2026. Nature Communications, 17, 6505. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72916-5. PMID: 38798360. PMC11118489.
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ScienceSites 4/30/26 ScienceSites 4/30/26

A 3.5-minute-long reading-based fMRI localizer for the language network

Tuckute, G.*, Lee, E. J.*, Sathe, A. & Fedorenko, E. 2026. Imaging Neuroscience, 4. DOI: 10.1162/IMAG.a.1246
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ScienceSites 1/22/26 ScienceSites 1/22/26

The cerebellar components of the human language network

Casto, C., Poliak, M., Tuckute, G., Small, H., Sherlock, P., Wolna, A., Lipkin, B., D’Mello, A., & Fedorenko, E. 2026. Neuron, 114(8), 1504-1523. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.12.030
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An automated pipeline for efficiently generating standardized, child-friendly audiovisual language stimuli

Santi, B., Soza, M., Tuckute, G., Sathe, A., Fedorenko, E., & Olson, H. 2026. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 78. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101674.
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