Maya Taliaferro

The paper shows that constructed languages activate the same brain regions as natural languages, suggesting shared cognitive mechanisms regardless of their creation or usage characteristics.

The paper tests whether syntactic parsing is necessary for language comprehension by analyzing brain responses to syntactically ill-formed but semantically plausible and grammatically correct but semantically implausible sentences.

This study uses fMRI to examine how polyglots and hyperpolyglots process their languages, finding that response magnitude scales with linguistic computation engagement.

The paper uses a GPT-based model to predict and control brain responses to language in humans using fMRI data.