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 language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain

E Fedorenko, AA Ivanova, TI Regev - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

[HTML][HTML] The preregistration revolution

BA Nosek, CR Ebersole… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Progress in science relies in part on generating hypotheses with existing observations and
testing hypotheses with new observations. This distinction between postdiction and …

Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models

G Tuckute, A Sathe, S Srikant, M Taliaferro… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Transformer models such as GPT generate human-like language and are predictive of
human brain responses to language. Here, using functional-MRI-measured brain responses …

Cross-validation failure: Small sample sizes lead to large error bars

G Varoquaux - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Predictive models ground many state-of-the-art developments in statistical brain image
analysis: decoding, MVPA, searchlight, or extraction of biomarkers. The principled approach …

Building a science of individual differences from fMRI

J Dubois, R Adolphs - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
To date, fMRI research has been concerned primarily with evincing generic principles of
brain function through averaging data from multiple subjects. Given rapid developments in …

Probabilistic maps of visual topography in human cortex

L Wang, REB Mruczek, MJ Arcaro, S Kastner - Cerebral cortex, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The human visual system contains an array of topographically organized regions. Identifying
these regions in individual subjects is a powerful approach to group-level statistical analysis …

Activity flow over resting-state networks shapes cognitive task activations

MW Cole, T Ito, DS Bassett, DH Schultz - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) has helped reveal the intrinsic network
organization of the human brain, yet its relevance to cognitive task activations has been …

Pupil diameter covaries with BOLD activity in human locus coeruleus

PR Murphy, RG O'connell, M O'sullivan… - Human brain …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The locus coeruleus‐noradrenergic (LC–NA) neuromodulatory system has been implicated
in a broad array of cognitive processes, yet scope for investigating this system's function in …

Broad domain generality in focal regions of frontal and parietal cortex

E Fedorenko, J Duncan… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Unlike brain regions that respond selectively to specific kinds of information content, a
number of frontal and parietal regions are thought to be domain-and process-general: that …