Evelina Fedorenko

Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Natural Language Processing

External links

Prof. Fedorenko's faculty page

Missions

Language

Publications

NeurIPS 2022

2023/10/31

Convergent Representations of Computer Programs in Human and Artificial Neural Networks
biorxiv

2023/01/19

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

2022/07/18

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

Cerebral Cortex

2024/03/17

High-level language brain regions process sublexical regularities
Neurobiology of Language

2024/03/12

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

2024/01/03

Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models
NeurIPS 2022

2023/10/31

Convergent Representations of Computer Programs in Human and Artificial Neural Networks
biorxiv

2023/01/19

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

2022/07/18

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

2022/04/14

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

In the News

MIT News Office

2024/03/10

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

2024/01/03

Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder
The New York Times Magazine

2023/09/29

The Animals are Talking. What Does it Mean?

MIT News Office

2024/07/03

What is language for?
New York Times

2024/06/19

Do We Need Language to Think?
PNAS

2024/06/14

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

2024/03/10

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

2024/01/03

Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder
The New York Times Magazine

2023/09/29

The Animals are Talking. What Does it Mean?
MIT News Office

2023/09/22

Re-imagining our theories of language
MIT News Office

2023/02/21

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

2023/02/03

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

2022/12/31

Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages
MIT News Office

2022/12/21

This is your brain. This is your brain on code
Interview with SlatorPod

2022/11/29

How the Brain Processes Language, With MIT Neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko
The New York Times

2022/09/04

The Curious Hole in My Head
SciTechDaily

2022/07/25

MIT Scientists Discover That Computers Can Understand Complex Words and Concepts
MIT News Office

2022/07/18

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

2022/06/16

Can computers understand complex words and concepts?
MIT News Office

2022/05/03

What words can convey
Wired

2022/04/12

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

2022/04/05

The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages
Scientific American

2021/10/26

The Brain Guesses What Word Comes Ne-

Publications

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

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

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

In the News

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?

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-