White matter connectivity linked to novel word learning in children

C Ekerdt, WM Menks, G Fernández… - Brain Structure and …, 2024 - Springer
Children and adults are excellent word learners. Increasing evidence suggests that the
neural mechanisms that allow us to learn words change with age. In a recent fMRI study …

A 3.5-minute-long reading-based fMRI localizer for the language network

G Tuckute, EJ Lee, A Sathe, E Fedorenko - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The field of human cognitive neuroscience is increasingly acknowledging inter-individual
differences in the precise locations of functional areas and the corresponding need for …

fMRI predictors based on language models of increasing complexity recover brain left lateralization

L Bonnasse-Gahot, C Pallier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17992, 2024 - arxiv.org
Over the past decade, studies of naturalistic language processing where participants are
scanned while listening to continuous text have flourished. Using word embeddings at first …

Personalized Neuroimaging Reveals the Impact of Children's Interests on Language Processing in the Brain

HA Olson, KT Johnson, S Nishith, IR Frosch… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cognition is shaped by individual experiences and interests. However, to study cognition in
the brain, researchers typically use generic stimuli that are the same across all individuals …