Matthew Siegelman

The language network responds robustly to sentences across diverse tasks

The paper investigates the stability of language network responses across different tasks and compares it to the multiple demand network, finding robust language processing in the language network and task-dependent responses in the MD network.

Graded sensitivity to structure and meaning throughout the human language 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.

Functional identification of language-responsive channels in individual participants in MEG investigations

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.

LanA (Language Atlas): A probabilistic atlas for the language network based on fMRI data from >800 individuals

The paper introduces a probabilistic atlas for the language network using fMRI data from 806 individuals to bridge gaps between group-level and individual-level language research.

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

This study uses fMRI to investigate whether syntactic and lexico-semantic processing are localized to distinct brain regions, finding no such selectivity within the language network.

The domain-general multiple demand (MD) network does not support core aspects of language comprehension: a large-scale fMRI investigation

This study investigates the role of the multiple demand (MD) network in language comprehension using fMRI data from 481 participants, finding that MD network activity is task-dependent and not involved in core language processing.

Composition is the core driver of the language-selective network

The paper tests whether the language-selective network responds to sentence-level composition despite word order violations in naturalistic sentences.

An attempt to replicate a dissociation between syntax and semantics during sentence comprehension reported by Dapretto & Bookheimer (1999, Neuron)

This paper attempts to replicate a dissociation between syntax and semantics during sentence comprehension reported by Dapretto & Bookheimer (1999) but fails to find the original dissociation in the left inferior frontal gyrus.