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Lexicon-level contrastive visual-grounding improves language modeling

Zhuang, C., Fedorenko, E., & Andreas, J. 2024. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 231-247.
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What we mean when we say semantic: A consensus statement on the nomenclature of semantic memory

Reilly, J., Diaz, M., Pylkkänen, L., Jefferies, E., Poeppel, D., Zubicaray, G., ... & Rodd, J. 2024. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

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Visual grounding helps learn word meanings in low-data regimes

Zhuang, C., Fedorenko, E., & Andreas, J. 2024. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 1 (Long Papers), 1311-1329.
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High-level language brain regions are sensitive to sub-lexical regularities

Regev, T.I., Kim, HS., Affourtit, J., Chen, X., Schipper, A.E., Bergen, L., Mahowald, K., & Fedorenko, E. 2024. Cerebral Cortex, 34(3), bhae07. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae077. PMID: 38494886.
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Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI

Malik-Moraleda, S.*, Jouravlev. O.*, Mineroff, Z., Cucu, T., Taliaferro, M., Mahowald, K., Blank, I. & Fedorenko. E. 2024. Cerebral Cortex, 34(3), bhae049. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae049. PMID: 38466812. PMC10928488.
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The language network reliably ‘tracks’ naturalistic meaningful non-verbal stimuli

Sueoka, Y.*, Paunov, A.*, Tanner, A., Blank, I., Ivanova, A. A.^, Fedorenko, E.^ 2024. Neurobiology of Language, 5(2), 385-408. DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00135. PMID: 38911462. PMC11192443.
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Artificial neural network language models align neurally and behaviorally with humans even after a developmentally realistic amount of training

Hosseini, E., Schrimpf, M., Zhang, Y., Bowman, S., Zaslavsky, N. & Fedorenko, E. 2024. Neurobiology of Language, 5(1), 43-63. DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00137. PMID: 38645622. PMC11025646.
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Preserved functional organization of human auditory cortex in individuals missing one temporal lobe from infancy

Regev, T. I.*, Lipkin, B.*, Boebinger, D. L., Paunov, A. M., Kean, H., Norman-Haignere, S. V., & Fedorenko, E. 2024. iScience, 27(9), 110548. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110548. PMID: 36711687. PMC9882328.
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Semantic encoding during language comprehension at single-cell resolution

Jamali, M.*, Grannan, B.*, Cai, J., Khanna, A. R., Muñoz, W., Caprara, I., Paulk, A. C., Cash, S. S., Fedorenko, E. & Williams, Z. M. 2024. Nature, 631(8021), 610-616. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07643-2. PMID: 38961302. PMC11254762.
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Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows

Regev, T. I.*, Casto, C.*, Hosseini, E., Adamek, M., Ritaccio, A. L., Willie, J. T., Brunner, P., & Fedorenko, E. Nature Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01944-2.
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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. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00853-7. PMID: 39123047.
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Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

Fedorenko, E., Piantadosi, S.T. & Gibson, E.A.F. 2024. Nature, 630, 575–586. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07522-w. PMID: 38898296.
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Distributed sensitivity to syntax and semantics throughout the language network

Shain, C.*, Kean, H.*, Casto, C., Lipkin, B., Affourtit, J., Siegelman, M., Mollica, F.^, & Fedorenko, E.^, 2024. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(7), 1427-1471. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02164. PMID: 38683732.
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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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JOSA: Joint surface-based registration and atlas construction of brain geometry and function

Li, J., Tuckute, G., Fedorenko, E., Edlow, B. L., Dalca, A. V. & Fischl, B. 2024. Medical Image Analysis, 98, 103292. DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2024.103292. PMID: 37744470. PMC10516111.
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Language in brains, minds, and machines

Tuckute, G., Kanwisher, N., & Fedorenko, E. 2024. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 47. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-120623-101142.
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Dissociating language and thought in large language models: A cognitive perspective

Mahowald, K.*, Ivanova, A. A.*, Blank, I. Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. & Fedorenko E. 2024. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(6), 517-540. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.01.011.
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Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models

Tuckute, G., Sathe, A., Srikant, S., Taliaferro, M., Wang, M., Schrimpf, M., Kay, K., & Fedorenko, E. 2024. Nature Human Behavior, 8(3), 544-561. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01783-7. PMID: 38172630.
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