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2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24 2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24

A rational inference approach to aphasic language comprehension

Gibson, E., Sandberg, C., Bergen, L., Fedorenko, E. & Kiran, S. 2016. Aphasiology, 30(11), 1341-1360. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2015.1111994. PMID: 28391038. PMC5485413.
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2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24 2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24

A highly penetrant form of childhood apraxia of speech due to deletion of 16p11.2

Fedorenko, E.*, Morgan, A.*, Murray, E., Cardinaux, A., Mei, C., Tager-Flusberg, H., Fisher, S. & Kanwisher, N. 2016. European Journal of Human Genetics, 24(2), 302-306. DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.149. PMID: 26763793. PMC4717201.
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2015, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2015, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

The superior precentral gyrus of the insula does not appear to be functionally specialized for articulation

Fedorenko, E., Fillmore, P., Smith, K., Bonilha, L. & Fridriksson, J. 2015. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113(7), 2376-2382. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00214.2014. PMID: 25632073. PMC4416598.
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2015, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2015, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

A possible functional localizer for identifying brain regions sensitive to sentence-level prosody

Fedorenko, E., Hsieh, P.-J. & Balewski, Z. 2015. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(1-2) , 120-148. DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2013.861917. PMID: 25642425. PMC4306436.
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2014, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2014, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

The role of domain-general cognitive control in language comprehension

Fedorenko, E. 2014. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(335). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00335. PMID: 24803909. PMC4009428.
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2014, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2014, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

Reworking the language network

Fedorenko, E. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. 2014. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(3), 120-126. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.12.006. PMID: 24440115. PMC4091770. 
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2014, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2014, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

A functional dissociation between language and multiple-demand systems revealed in patterns of BOLD signal fluctuations

Blank, I., Kanwisher, N. & Fedorenko, E. 2014. Journal of Neurophysiology, 112(5), 1105-1118. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00884.2013. PMID: 24872535. PMC4122731.
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paper, 2013 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2013 ScienceSites 9/17/24

Broad domain-generality in focal regions of frontal and parietal cortex

Fedorenko, E., Duncan, J. & Kanwisher, N. 2013. PNAS, 110(41), 16616-16621. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315235110. PMID: 24062451. PMC3799302.
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paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24

Sensitivity to musical structure in the human brain

Fedorenko E., McDermott, J., Norman-Haignere, S. & Kanwisher, N. 2012. Journal of Neurophysiology, 108(12), 3289-3300. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00209.2012. PMID: 23019005. PMC3544885.
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paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24

Language-selective and domain-general regions lie side by side within Broca’s area

Fedorenko, E., Duncan, J. & Kanwisher, N. 2012. Current Biology, 22(21), 2059-2062. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.011. PMID: 23063434. PMC3494832.
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paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24

Subject-specific functional localizers increase sensitivity and functional resolution of multi-subject analyses

Nieto-Castañón, A. & Fedorenko, E. 2012. NeuroImage, 63(3), 1646-1669. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.065. PMID: 22784644. PMC3477490. 
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paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24

An algorithmic method for functionally defining regions of interest in the ventral visual pathway

Julian, J., Fedorenko, E., Webster, J. & Kanwisher, N. 2012. NeuroImage, 60(4), 2357-2364. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.055. PMID: 22398396.
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paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24

Lexical and syntactic representations in the brain: An fMRI investigation with multi-voxel pattern analyses

Fedorenko, E., Nieto-Castañón, A. & Kanwisher, N. 2012. Neuropsychologia, 50(4), 499-513. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.014. PMID: 21945850. PMC3292791.
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paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2012 ScienceSites 9/17/24

Syntactic processing in the human brain: What we know, what we don’t know, and a suggestion for how to proceed

Fedorenko, E., Nieto-Castañón, A. & Kanwisher, N. 2012. Brain and Language, 120(2), 187-207. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.001. PMID: 21334056. PMC3108014.
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2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain

Fedorenko, E., Behr, M. & Kanwisher, N. 2011. PNAS, 108(39), 16428-16433. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112937108. PMID: 21885736. PMC3182706.
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2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults

Bedny, M., Pascual-Leone, A., Dodell-Feder, D., Fedorenko, E. & Saxe, R. 2011. PNAS, 108(11), 4429-4434. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014818108. PMID: 21368161. PMC3060248. 
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2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

Some regions within Broca’s area do respond more strongly to sentences than to linguistically degraded stimuli: A comment on Rogalsky & Hickok (2010)

Fedorenko, E. & Kanwisher, N. 2011. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2632-2635. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00043. 
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2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2011, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

Functionally localizing language-sensitive regions in individual subjects with fMRI: A reply to Grodzinsky’s critique of Fedorenko & Kanwisher (2009)

Fedorenko, E. & Kanwisher, N. 2011. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(2), 78-94. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00264.x.
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paper, 2010 ScienceSites 9/17/24 paper, 2010 ScienceSites 9/17/24

A new method for fMRI investigations of language: Defining ROIs functionally in individual subjects

Fedorenko, E., Hsieh, P.-J., Nieto-Castañón, A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S. & Kanwisher, N. 2010. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(2), 1177-1194. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00032.2010. PMID: 20410363. PMC2934923.
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2009, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2009, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

Neuroimaging of language: Why hasn’t a clearer picture emerged?

Fedorenko, E. & Kanwisher, N. 2009. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3, 839-865. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00143.x.
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2008, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24 2008, paper ScienceSites 9/17/24

Language as a cognitive technology: English-speakers match like Pirahã when you don’t let them count

Frank, M., Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, E. 2008. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, 30, 439-444.
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paper, 2024 Aalok Sathe 5/25/24 paper, 2024 Aalok Sathe 5/25/24

The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain

Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A.A. & Regev, T.I. 2024. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 25, 289–312. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00802-4. PMID: 38609551.
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paper, 2024 Patrick Sherlock 5/25/24 paper, 2024 Patrick Sherlock 5/25/24

Reply to ‘Language is widely distributed throughout the brain’

Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A. A. & Regev, T. I. 2025. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26, 190-191. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00904-z.
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paper, 2024 Patrick Sherlock 5/25/24 paper, 2024 Patrick Sherlock 5/25/24

Reply to ‘The core language network separated from other networks during primate evolution’

Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A. A. & Regev, T. I. 2025. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26, 133-134. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00899-7.
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2024, paper ScienceSites 5/25/24 2024, paper ScienceSites 5/25/24

Reply to ‘The language network is topographically diverse and driven by rapid syntactic inferences’

Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A. A. & Regev, T. I. 2024. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 25(10), 706. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00853-7. PMID: 39123047. 
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