Evelina Fedorenko

Language is one of the few uniquely human cognitive abilities and a foundation of human culture and civilization. What cognitive and neural mechanisms enable us to produce and understand language? A broad array of brain regions have been implicated in linguistic processing spanning frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of both hemispheres, as well as subcortical and cerebellar structures. However, characterizing the precise contributions of these different structures to linguistic processing has proven challenging. The goal of our research program is to understand the representations and computations that underlie our linguistic ability, and to provide a detailed characterization of the brain regions that support language processing in both typical and atypical brains.