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Brain on Code
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Last updated on Feb 5, 2023
Brain on Code
Convergent Representations of Computer Programs in Human and Artificial Neural Networks
Shashank Srikant, Benjamin Lipkin, Anna Ivanova, Evelina Fedorenko, Una-May O'Reilly
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Probabilistic atlas for the language network based on precision fMRI data from >800 individuals
Benjamin Lipkin, Greta Tuckute, Josef Affourtit, Hannah Small, Zachary Mineroff, Hope Kean, Olessia Jouravlev, Lara Rakocevic, Brianna Pritchett, Matthew Siegelman, Caitlyn Hoeflin, Alvincé Pongos, Idan A. Blank, Melissa Kline Struhl, Anna Ivanova, Steven Shannon, Aalok Sathe, Malte Hoffmann, Alfonso Nieto-Castañón, Evelina Fedorenko
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The language network reliably 'tracks' naturalistic meaningful non-verbal stimuli
Yotaro Sueoka, Alexander Paunov, Anna Ivanova, Idan A Blank, Evelina Fedorenko
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No evidence for a special role of language in feature-based categorization
Yael Benn, Anna Ivanova, Oliver Clark, Zachary Mineroff, Chloe Seikus, Jack Santos Silva, Rosemary Varley, Evelina Fedorenko
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The language network is recruited but not required for nonverbal event semantics
The ability to combine individual concepts of objects, properties, and actions into complex representations of the world is often associated with language. Yet combinatorial event-level representations can also be constructed from nonverbal input, such as visual scenes. Here, we test whether the language network in the human brain is involved in and necessary for semantic processing of events presented nonverbally.
Anna Ivanova, Zachary Mineroff, Vitor Zimmerer, Nancy Kanwisher, Rosemary Varley, Evelina Fedorenko
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The language network is recruited but not required for nonverbal event semantics
Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions
Computer programming is a novel cognitive tool that has transformed modern society. What cognitive and neural mechanisms support this skill?
Anna Ivanova, Shashank Srikant, Yotaro Sueoka, Hope H Kean, Riva Dhamala, Una-May O'Reilly, Marina U Bers, Evelina Fedorenko
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Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions
Intrinsic functional organization of putative language networks in the brain following left cerebral hemispherectomy
Anna Ivanova, Eran Zaidel, Noriko Salamon, Susan Bookheimer, Lucina Q Uddin, Stella de Bode
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