Evelina Fedorenko (* 1980 in Wolgograd) ist eine russisch-amerikanische Neurowissenschaftlerin.
Fedorenko lebt seit 1998 in den USA. Sie studierte Psychologie und Linguistik an der Harvard University, das sie 2002 mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss beendete. 2007 wurde sie am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) promoviert.
Seit Februar 2024 ist sie Associate Professorin und leitet ein Labor am Brain and Cognitive Sciences department des MIT.
Eines ihrer Forschungsgebiete ist die Sprache.
Auszeichnungen 2025: Troland Research Award
Schriften (Auswahl) Fedorenko, E., Duncan, J., & Kanwisher, N. (2013). Broad domain generality in focal regions of frontal and parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(41), 16616-16621. Fedorenko, E., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2014): Reworking the language network. Trends in cognitive sciences, 18(3), 120-126. Fedorenko, E., & Blank, I. A. (2020): Broca’s area is not a natural kind. Trends in cognitive sciences, 24(4), 270-284. Fedorenko, E., Blank, I. A., Siegelman, M., & Mineroff, Z. (2020): Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network. Cognition, 203, 104348. M. Schrimpf, I. A. Blank, G. Tuckute, C. Kauf, E. A. Hosseini, N. G. Kanwisher, J. B. Tenenbaum, E. Fedorenko: The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118, e2105646118 (2021). Benn, Y., Ivanova, A. A., Clark, O., Mineroff, Z., Seikus, C., Silva, J. S., ... & Fedorenko, E. (2023): The language network is not engaged in object categorization. Cerebral Cortex, 33(19), 10380-10400. Mahowald, K., Ivanova, A. A., Blank, I. A., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Fedorenko, E. (2024): Dissociating language and thought in large language models. Trends in cognitive sciences, 28(6), 517-540. Fedorenko, E., Ivanova, A. A., & Regev, T. I. (2024): The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 25(5), 289-312. Fedorenko, E., Piantadosi, S. T., & Gibson, E. A. (2024): Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought. Nature, 630(8017), 575-586. Tuckute, G., Kanwisher, N., & Fedorenko, E. (2024): Language in brains, minds, and machines. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 47(2024), 277-301. de Varda, A. G., D’Elia, F. P., Kean, H., Lampinen, A., & Fedorenko, E. (2025): The cost of thinking is similar between large reasoning models and humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(47), e2520077122. Agata Wolna, Aaron Wright, Colton Casto, Samuel Hutchinson, Benjamin Lipkin, Evelina Fedorenko: The extended language network: Language-responsive brain areas whose contributions to language remain to be discovered. In: Journal of Neuroscience 29 June 2026, e0638252026; DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0638-25.2026. H. Kean, A. Fung, P. Jaggers, J. Chen, J.S. Rule, Y. Benn, J.B. Tenenbaum, S.T. Piantadosi, R.A. Varley, & E. Fedorenko: Evidence from formal logical reasoning reveals that the language of thought is not natural language. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (28) e2520095123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520095123 (2026). Shain, C., Fedorenko, E.: A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of 1199 human brains doing arbitrary tasks. Nat Commun 17, 8180 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75745-8. Billot, A., Jhingan, N., Varkanitsa, M. et al. [Evelina Fedorenko]: Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and functional connectivity of the language network in older brains. Nat Commun 17, 8573 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76598-x.
Weblinks bcs.mit.edu/directory/evelina-fedorenko Ev Fedorenko's Language Lab at MIT Language versus thought in human brains and machines? | Evelina Federenko MIT news: The brain’s language network is more extensive than previously thought (abgerufen am 1. Juli 2026)
Fedorenko, Evelina Kategorie:Hochschullehrer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Kategorie:Russe Kategorie:US-Amerikaner Kategorie:Geboren 1980 Kategorie:Frau