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

Reliable individual-level neural markers of language activity: A necessary precursor for relating neural variability to genetic and behavioral variability

Mahowald, K. & Fedorenko, E. 2016. NeuroImage, 139, 74-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.073. PMID: 27261158.
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2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24 2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24

Language and thought are not the same thing: Evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients

Fedorenko, E. & Varley, R. 2016. Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, 1369(1), 132-153. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13046. PMID: 27096882. PMC4874898.
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2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24 2016, paper ScienceSites 9/18/24

Syntactic processing is distributed across the language system

Blank, I., Balewski, Z., Mahowald, K. & Fedorenko, E. 2016 . NeuroImage, 127, 307-323. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.069. PMID: 26666896. PMC4755877.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Syntactic complexity effects in sentence production: A reply to MacDonald et al. (2016)

Scontras, G., Badecker W. & Fedorenko, E. 2017. Cognitive Science, 41(8), 2280-2287. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12495. PMID: 28397342. 
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Accommodating presuppositions is inappropriate in implausible contexts

Singh, R., Fedorenko, E., Mahowald, K. & Gibson, E. 2016. Cognitive Science, 40(3), 607-634. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12260. PMID: 26153044.
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Syntactic complexity effects in sentence production

Scontras, G., Badecker, W., Shank, L., Lim, E. & Fedorenko, E. 2015. Cognitive Science, 39(3), 559-583. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12168. PMID: 25256303.
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Constraints on Donkey pronouns

Grosz, P., Patel-Grosz, P., Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, E. 2015, Journal of Semantics, 32(4), 619-648. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffu009.
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A pragmatic account of complexity in definite Antecedent-Contained-Deletion relative clauses

Gibson, E., Jacobson, P., Graff, P., Mahowald, K., Fedorenko, E. & Piantadosi, S. 2015. Journal of Semantics, 32(4), 579-618. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffu006.
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Quantitative methods in syntax / semantics research: A response to Sprouse & Almeida (2013)

Gibson, E., Piantadosi, S. & Fedorenko, E. 2013. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(3), 229-240. DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.704385.
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The need for quantitative methods in syntax and semantics research

Gibson, E. & Fedorenko, E. 2013. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(1-2), 88-124. DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.515080.
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The syntactic complexity of Russian relative clauses

Levy, R., Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, E. 2013. Journal of Memory and Language, 69(4), 461-495. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.10.005. PMID: 24711687. PMC3975271.
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Evidence for shared cognitive processing of pitch in music and language

Perrachione, T., Fedorenko, E., Vinke, L., Gibson, E. & Dilley, L. 2013. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e73372. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073372. PMID: 23977386. PMC3744486.
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Direct evidence of memory retrieval as a source of difficulty in long-distance structural dependencies in language

Fedorenko, E., Woodbury, R. & Gibson, E. 2013. Cognitive Science, 37(2), 378-394. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12021. PMiD: 23362990.
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Info/information theory: Speakers choose shorter words in predictive contexts

Mahowald, K., Fedorenko, E., Piantadosi, S. & Gibson, E. 2013. Cognition, 126(2), 313-318. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.010. PMID: 23116925.
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The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity

Fedorenko, E., Piantadosi, S. & Gibson, E. 2012. Journal of Cognitive Science, 13(3), 249-285. DOI: 10.17791/jcs.2012.13.3.249.
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The processing of extraposed structures in English

Levy, R., Fedorenko, E., Breen, M. & Gibson, E. 2012. Cognition, 122(1), 12-36. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.012. PMID: 22035959. PMC3857735.
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Verbal interference suppresses exact numerical representation

Frank, M., Fedorenko, E., Lai, P., Saxe, R. & Gibson, E. 2012. Cognitive Psychology, 64(1-2), 74-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2011.10.004. PMID: 22112644.
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Processing relative clauses in supportive contexts

Fedorenko, E., Piantadosi, S. & Gibson, E. 2012. Cognitive Science, 36(3), 471-497. DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01217.x. PMID: 22256956.
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Acoustic correlates of information structure

Breen, M., Fedorenko, E., Wagner, M. & Gibson, E. 2010. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(7/8/9), 1044-1098. DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.504378.
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Weak quantitative standards in linguistics research

Gibson, E. & Fedorenko, E. 2010. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(6), 233-234. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.03.005. PMID: 20363175.
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The time-course of lexical and structural processes in sentence comprehension

Tily, H., Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, E. 2010. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(5), 910-927. DOI: 10.1080/17470210903114866. PMID: 19746299.
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Adding a third wh-element does not increase the acceptability of object-initial multiple-wh questions

Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, E. 2010. Syntax, 13(3), 183-195. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2010.00138.x.
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Structural integration in language and music: Evidence for a shared system

Fedorenko, E., Patel, A., Casasanto, D., Winawer, J. & Gibson, E. 2009. Memory and Cognition, 37(1), 1-9. DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.1.1. PMID: 19103970.
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Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition

Frank, M., Everett, D., Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, E. 2008. Cognition, 108(3), 819-824. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.007. PMID: 18547557.
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The nature of working memory in linguistic, arithmetic and spatial integration processes

Fedorenko, E., Gibson, E. & Rohde, D. 2007. Journal of Memory and Language, 56(2), 246-269. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.06.007.
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The nature of working memory capacity in sentence comprehension: Evidence against domain-specific resources

Fedorenko, E., Gibson, E. & Rohde, D. 2006. Journal of Memory and Language, 54(4), 541-553. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.006.
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The gender congruency effect and the selection of freestanding and bound morphemes: Evidence from Croatian

Costa, A., Kovacic, D., Fedorenko, E. & Caramazza, A. 2003. Journal of Experimental Psychology: LMC, 29(6), 1270-1282. DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.6.1270. PMID: 14622060.
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Functional identification of language-responsive channels in individual participants in MEG investigations

Bruffaerts, R., Pongos, A., Shain, C., Lipkin, B., Siegelman, M., Wens, V., Sjogard, M., Pantazis, D., Blank, I., Goldman, S., De Tiege, X. & Fedorenko, E. 2023.

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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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