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 – …

Prior investigations of functional specialization have focused on the response profiles of
particular brain regions. Given the growing emphasis on regional covariation, we propose to …

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 is, …

In 1861, Paul Broca stood up before the Anthropological Society of Paris and announced
that the left frontal lobe was the seat of speech. Ever since, Broca's eponymous brain region …

… ., 1991, PhD Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University), which is discussed along with other
examples elsewhere (Gibson, E. and Fedorenko E., The Need for Quantitative Methods in Syntax, …

Does speaking a language without number words change the way speakers of that language
perceive exact quantities? The Pirahã are an Amazonian tribe who have been previously …

Today's large language models (LLMs) routinely generate coherent, grammatical and
seemingly meaningful paragraphs of text. This achievement has led to speculation that these …

The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative modeling
approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across many …

… of the language system, differences in the scanning procedures and in the analyses, and
an almost nonexistent practice of replicating findings within and across labs (see Fedorenko, …

To understand the architecture of human language, it is critical to examine diverse
languages; however, most cognitive neuroscience research has focused on only a handful of …