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Evelina Fedorenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from MIT in 2007 and holds an A.B. in Psychology and Linguistics from Harvard University (2002). Her research focuses on how people understand and produce language, employing behavioral and brain imaging methods such as fMRI with both healthy adults and patients with developmental and acquired brain disorders. Fedorenko has pioneered techniques for identifying language areas within individual brains and has shown that language and thought are distinct processes within the human brain. Her work addresses key areas such as syntactic processing and its localization, the alignment of large language models with neural responses, and the impact of social context on language use. She also investigates the brain’s mechanisms for recovering from aphasia and the relationships between neural language markers and behavioral genetics. In addition to her research, Fedorenko teaches courses on language processing and the brain, and offers seminars on various topics in cognitive and developmental neuroscience.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Faculty member in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.