Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 (@ev

Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦

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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦

@ev_fedorenko

I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles. @evfedorenko.bsky.social

Massachusetts, USA

Joined June 2018

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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Apr 12, 2024
Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. @NatRevNeurosci rdcu.be/dEylV With the amazing @neuranna @tamaregev 🥳 🧵1/n
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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
May 29, 2021
In 2016, a woman (age 54 at the time) contacted us who was living without her left temporal lobe. She didn't know about her missing temp. lobe until age 25. She never experienced any head trauma/injury, so the temp. lobe was likely lost as a result of pre/perinatal stroke. 1/n
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Aug 2, 2022
As promised, a🧵on language and thought. The relationship between language and thought has long been pondered and debated. It may be one of the deepest and most exciting questions in cognitive science. 1/n
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Jul 29, 2021
Psyched to share the first results from a ~7yr journey, from an email I sent to @Nancy_Kanwisher in 2014 about an idea to develop lang(uage) 'localizers' for as many of the world's langs as possible to having fMRI data from native speakers of 45 langs. tinyurl.com/b5xv7e32 1/n
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
May 29, 2021
Replying to @ev_fedorenko
As with most cases of early brain damage, she had no linguistic or cognitive deficits, but brains like EG's (fake initials) are invaluable for understanding how cognitive functions reorganize in the tissue that remains. I told her we definitely want to study her brain. 2/n
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Aug 1, 2022
I am starting a search for a permanent research scientist in my lab. If you got your PhD in CS, cognitive science, or neuroscience and are interested in language+brains, but are not sure you want to run your own lab and would be happy to work under my guidance, drop me a line.
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Jun 19, 2024
Delighted to share our perspective piece “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought” now out in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… (with long-term collaborators (and friends) @spiantado and @LanguageMIT) 1/n
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought
From nature.com
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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Mar 7, 2023
Can we normalize citing co-first authored papers as Author1, Author2 et al. (Year)? Science has changed, with many big projects requiring multiple co-leaders (with diverse knowledge+skills). It doesn't seem like too much to ask to acknowledge both/all co-leaders in this way.
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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
May 29, 2021
Replying to @ev_fedorenko
This preprint is the first of several papers, each asking a different question about reorganization/plasticity: tinyurl.com/2vvnyerb. This one was led by the wonderful @GretaTuckute with help from @ampaunov @HopeKean @smallhannahe @ZachMineroff @IbanDlank 3/n
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Feb 23, 2019
Thrilled to share the news that I will join the faculty of BCS, MIT in July. I will be hiring a couple of postdocs (with cog neuro, esp. MEG/ECoG, and/or CS/NLP backgrounds) and full-time RAs. Formal ads to come out soon, but in the meantime, feel free to get in touch. Pls RT.
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Mar 7, 2022
Thx to the hard work of @ben_lipkin @GretaTuckute and others + @NIDCD funding, we are ready to present to you LanA (Language Atlas)—a probabilistic atlas for the lang network based on lang localizer data from >800 inds (available for both volume and surface brain spaces). 1/n
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Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
May 29, 2021
Replying to @DrDiban and @done_87
There is a lot of redundancy in the brain. It's a good way to build a system robust to damage.
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Jun 22, 2020
Thread: "Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network” tinyurl.com/y77cuznv is out in Cognition and is a culmination of one line of work, which I have been pursuing for the last ~15 years! Here is the story of how it all unfolded.
Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
@ev_fedorenko
Oct 22, 2022
What happens when parts of the🧠that eventually become a highly functionally specialized language system (left frontal and temporal areas) get damaged at birth or shortly thereafter? Where does the language system live in such brains? Long answer short: it's complicated! 1/n