#  Evelina Fedorenko 

Associate professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

 

 

 



   ![Evelina Fedorenko](/sites/g/files/omnuum5491/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2024-09/fedorenko_1.jpg?itok=VTL7J_rf) 

 



 

 location\_on BCS at MIT 43 Vassar Street Building 46-3037 Cambridge MA 02139 

 email <evelina9@mit.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Lab Website](https://www.evlab.mit.edu/) 

 laptop\_windows [Publications](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1CgET20AAAAJ&hl=en) 

 

 



 

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.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Affiliations
    
     [MGH - Boston Campus](/affiliations/massachusetts-general-hospital-Boston) [MIT](/affiliations/massachusetts-institute-technology)
- ## People
    
     [Faculty](/people/faculty)
- ## Research Interests
    
     [Cognitive Neuroscience of Language and Music](/research-interests/cognitive-neuroscience-language-and-music)