Broca's area is not a natural kind

E Fedorenko, IA Blank - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Theories of human cognition prominently feature'Broca's area', which causally contributes to
a myriad of mental functions. However, Broca's area is not a monolithic, multipurpose unit–it …

The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience

E Fedorenko - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Traditional fMRI group analyses are limited in their ability to inform the human
cognitive architecture.•Functional localization helps establish a robust and cumulative …

Probabilistic atlas for the language network based on precision fMRI data from> 800 individuals

B Lipkin, G Tuckute, J Affourtit, H Small, Z Mineroff… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Two analytic traditions characterize fMRI language research. One relies on averaging
activations across individuals. This approach has limitations: because of inter-individual …

Brain-to-brain mechanisms underlying pain empathy and social modulation of pain in the patient-clinician interaction

DM Ellingsen, K Isenburg, C Jung… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Social interactions such as the patient–clinician encounter can influence pain, but the
underlying dynamic interbrain processes are unclear. Here, we investigated the dynamic …

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

E Fedorenko, IA Blank, M Siegelman, Z Mineroff - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions

AA Ivanova, S Srikant, Y Sueoka, HH Kean, R Dhamala… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Computer programming is a novel cognitive tool that has transformed modern society. What
cognitive and neural mechanisms support this skill? Here, we used functional magnetic …

Syntactic processing is distributed across the language system

I Blank, Z Balewski, K Mahowald, E Fedorenko - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Language comprehension recruits an extended set of regions in the human brain.
Is syntactic processing localized to a particular region or regions within this system, or is it …

A functional dissociation between language and multiple-demand systems revealed in patterns of BOLD signal fluctuations

I Blank, N Kanwisher… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
What is the relationship between language and other high-level cognitive functions?
Neuroimaging studies have begun to illuminate this question, revealing that some brain …

Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex

C Shain, IA Blank, E Fedorenko, E Gibson… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual
signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working …

Power aware scheduling of bag-of-tasks applications with deadline constraints on DVS-enabled clusters

KH Kim, R Buyya, J Kim - … on Cluster Computing and the Grid …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power-aware scheduling problem has been a recent issue in cluster systems not only for
operational cost due to electricity cost, but also for system reliability. As recent commodity …