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preprint ScienceSites 10/26/26 preprint ScienceSites 10/26/26

Comprehension in chronic aphasia relies on the language network, not the Multiple Demand network

Billot, A., Vakanitsa, M., Jhingan, N., Carvalho, N., Falconer, I., Small, H., Ryskin, R., Blank, I., Fedorenko, E. & Kiran, S. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 9/26/26 preprint ScienceSites 9/26/26

The cerebellum specializes for language even in the absence of contralateral neocortical inputs

Wang, B., Tuckute, G., Kean, H., Fedorenko, E. & D’Mello, A. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 9/8/26 preprint ScienceSites 9/8/26

The language network does not support music perception across a range of music experience

Olson, H.A., Chen, X.J., Boebinger, D., Richardson, H. & Fedorenko, E. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 9/3/26 preprint ScienceSites 9/3/26

Shared circuits predict whether LLMs generalize across formats in arithmetic reasoning

De Varda, A.G., Pandey, S., Han, P., Andreas, J. & Fedorenko E. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 8/25/26 preprint ScienceSites 8/25/26

Behavioral and brain responses to language reflect different levels of linguistic representation

De Varda, A.G., Berzak, Y., Fedorenko, E. & Levy, R. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 6/27/26 preprint ScienceSites 6/27/26

Modular cognitive architecture emerges in large language models

Han, P., Andreas, J., Fedorenko E. & De Varda, A.G. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 5/20/26 preprint ScienceSites 5/20/26

Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex

Xu, R., Bush, A., Takahashi, A., Sisterson, N., Walton, A., Hutchinson, S., Kammen, A., Neudorfer, C., Kokkinos, V., Nanda, P., Jhingan, N., Marvi, A., Fung, A., Duraivel, S., Hosseini, E., Casto, C., Valenzuela, C., Yee, S., Kirsch, J., Fedorenko, E., Kanwisher, N., Desimone, R. & Richardson, R.M. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 4/27/26 preprint ScienceSites 4/27/26

Representational curvature modulates behavioral uncertainty in large language models

King, J., Fedorenko, E. & Hosseini, E. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 4/23/26 preprint ScienceSites 4/23/26

Modulating cross-modal convergence with single stimulus intra-modal dispersion

Hosseini, E., Cheung, B., Fedorenko, E. & Williams, A.H. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 3/2/26 preprint ScienceSites 3/2/26

The emergence of the language system in the toddler brain

Olson, H.A., Chen, E.M., Osumah, C.J., Du, H., Fedorenko, E. & Saxe, R. 2026.

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preprint ScienceSites 12/14/25 preprint ScienceSites 12/14/25

A distinct set of brain areas process prosody – the melody of speech

Regev, T.I., Kim, H.S., Jhingan, N., Swords, S., Kean, H., Casto, C., Cole, J.S. & Fedorenko E. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 12/10/25 preprint ScienceSites 12/10/25

Semantic reasoning takes place largely outside the language network

Ivanova, A., Kauf, C., Gao, R., She, J.S., Kean, H.H., Goldhaber, T., Nieto-Castañón, A., Varley, R., Kanwisher, N. & Fedorenko, E. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 11/24/25 preprint ScienceSites 11/24/25

What does it mean to understand language?

Casto, C., Ivanova, A. A., Fedorenko, E., & Kanwisher, N. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 10/22/25 preprint ScienceSites 10/22/25

A human brain network specialized for abstract formal reasoning

Kean, H., Fung, A., Ohams, C., Chen J., Rule, J. S., Tenenbaum, J., Piantadosi, S. T. & Fedorenko, E. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 9/27/25 preprint ScienceSites 9/27/25

Modeling the language cortex with form-independent and enriched representations of sentence meaning reveals remarkable semantic abstractness

Saha, S., Li, S., Tuckute, G., Li, Y., Zhang, R.-Y., Wehbe, L., Fedorenko, E. & Khosla, M. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 8/15/25 preprint ScienceSites 8/15/25

Representing speech through autoregressive prediction of cochlear tokens

Tuckute, G., Kotar, K., Fedorenko, E. & Yamins, D.L.K. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 8/15/25 preprint ScienceSites 8/15/25

Language models align with brain regions that represent concepts across modalities

Ryskina, M., Tuckute, G., Fung, A., Malkin, A. & Fedorenko, E. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 5/23/25 preprint ScienceSites 5/23/25

A two-dimensional space of linguistic representations shared across individuals

Tuckute, G., Lee, E., Ou, Y., Fedorenko, E., & Kay, K. 2025.

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preprint Patrick Sherlock 2/2/25 preprint Patrick Sherlock 2/2/25

Multilingual computational models capture a shared meaning component in brain responses across 21 languages

de Varda, A. G., Malik-Moraleda, S., Tuckute, G., & Fedorenko, E. 2025.

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preprint ScienceSites 12/26/24 preprint ScienceSites 12/26/24

Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks

Hosseini, E., Casto, C., Zaslavsky, N., Conwell, C., Richardson, M. & Fedorenko, E. 2024.

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preprint ScienceSites 9/24/24 preprint ScienceSites 9/24/24

Linguistic inputs must be syntactically parsable to fully engage the language network

Kauf, C., Kim, H. S., Lee, E. J., Jhingan, N., She, J. S., Taliaferro, M., Gibson, E. & Fedorenko, E. 2024.
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preprint ScienceSites 4/10/23 preprint ScienceSites 4/10/23

Evaluation of psychometric properties and inter-test associations for three popular measures of social competence

Jouravlev, O., Mahowald, K., Paunov, A., Gibson, E., & Fedorenko, E. 2023.

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preprint ScienceSites 12/1/16 preprint ScienceSites 12/1/16

Expanding the language network: Hippocampal recruitment during high-level linguistic processing

Blank, I., Duff, M., Brown-Schmidt, S. & Fedorenko, E. 2016.

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