Evelina Fedorenko

Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Natural Language Processing

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In the News

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Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages

Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages

Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models

Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines

Comparing Plausibility Estimates in Base and Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models

High-level language brain regions process sublexical regularities

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Language: Using Computational Models to Investigate Language Processing in the Brain

Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models

Large language models implicitly learn to straighten neural sentence trajectories to construct a predictive representation of natural language

Convergent Representations of Computer Programs in Human and Artificial Neural Networks

Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI

An investigation across 45 languages and 12 language families reveals a universal language network

Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

In the News

Looking under the hood at the brain’s language system

To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

Evelina Fedorenko receives Troland Award from National Academy of Sciences

Looking under the hood at the brain’s language system

To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

Evelina Fedorenko receives Troland Award from National Academy of Sciences

You Don’t Need Words to Think

What is language for?

Do We Need Language to Think?

Can ChatGPT help researchers understand how the human brain handles language?

For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue

Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder

The Animals are Talking. What Does it Mean?

Re-imagining our theories of language

Studies of unusual brains reveal critical insights into brain organization, function

Your native tongue holds a special place in your brain, even if you speak 10 languages

Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages

This is your brain. This is your brain on code

How the Brain Processes Language, With MIT Neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko

The Curious Hole in My Head

MIT Scientists Discover That Computers Can Understand Complex Words and Concepts

Whether speaking Turkish or Norwegian, the brain’s language network looks the same

Can computers understand complex words and concepts?

What words can convey

She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter

The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages

The Brain Guesses What Word Comes Ne-