MIT Professor Unravels the Brain's Language Processing Mechanisms
2025-04-03
From learning multiple languages in the former Soviet Union to becoming an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, Dr. Evelina Fedorenko dedicates her research to understanding the brain's language processing regions. Her work utilizes fMRI to precisely locate these areas, revealing their high selectivity for language and lack of overlap with other cognitive functions like music processing or code reading. Furthermore, she explores the temporal differences in processing across different brain regions, the development of language processing areas in young children, and uses large language models to investigate the plasticity and redundancy of the brain's language capabilities.