Cory Shain

The paper applies individualized functional connectomics to over 1,000 human brains performing diverse tasks, revealing a stable left-hemisphere language network.

The paper examines age-related changes in the language and executive function networks using fMRI, finding preserved language network function in older adults compared to decline in the executive network.

The paper uses fMRI to show that language processing involves a distributed network sensitive to both structure and meaning, challenging theories of distinct brain areas for each.

The paper identifies language-responsive neural channels in individual participants using MEG, showing spatial stability within individuals but variability across individuals, leading to greater sensitivity in analyses.

The paper examines the relationship between language processing and theory of mind (ToM) using fMRI, finding that language network responses to ToM tasks are largely due to linguistic confounds rather than neural overlap.

This study uses fMRI to show that working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension affects language-selective brain regions but not multiple-demand regions, supporting domain-specific WM resources for language.

The paper examines the relationship between comprehension difficulty and neural activity in the multiple demand and core language networks during story listening, finding no link in the multiple demand network but a link in the core language network.

This study uses fMRI to show that predictive coding during sentence comprehension is domain-specific and relies on both local word patterns and hierarchical structure, not domain-general circuits.