Evelina Fedorenko

Dec 17, 2024 | cerveauetpsycho.fr | Gary Stix |Evelina Fedorenko

​​Lorsque vous réfléchissez à un problème, par exemple à la façon dont vous allez arranger votre salon pour la fête d’anniversaire de votre fille, comment vous y prenez-vous concrètement ?

Aug 9, 2024 | nature.com | Evelina Fedorenko

We thank Murphy and Woolnough for their comments on our recent Review (Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A. A, & Regev, T. I. The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 25, 289–312; 2024)1, which we respond to below (Murphy, E. & Woolnough, O. The language network is topographically diverse and driven by rapid syntactic inferences. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-024-00852-8 (2024))2. Murphy and Woolnough raise two issues.

Jun 19, 2024 | nature.com | Evelina Fedorenko

AbstractLanguage is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from neuroscience and allied disciplines to argue that in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking. We begin by introducing the brain network that supports linguistic ability in humans.