ReviewCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2018
Language-related domain-specific and domain-general systems in the human brain.
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- Language comprehension in chronic aphasia relies on the language network, not the Multiple Demand network.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Cognition Disconnected: The Influence of Domain-General Cognition (g) in Lesion-Deficit Mapping.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- A Deep Learning Approach to Analyzing Continuous-Time Cognitive Processes.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024Article
- Domain-general and domain-specific functional networks of Broca's area underlying language processing.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Brain structural and functional correlates of the heterogenous progression of mixed transcortical aphasia.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Variation in how cognitive control modulates sentence processing.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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- The organization of individually mapped structural and functional semantic networks in aging adults.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Longitudinal assessment of network reorganizations and language recovery in postoperative patients with glioma.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Hemispheric dissociations in regions supporting auditory sentence comprehension in older adults.Aging brain · 2022Article
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Abstract
While a long history of neuropsychological research places language function within a primarily left-lateralized frontotemporal system, recent neuroimaging work has extended this language network to include a number of regions traditionally thought of as 'domain-general'. These include dorsal frontal, parietal, and medial temporal lobe regions known to underpin cognitive functions such as attention and memory. In this paper, we argue that these domain-general systems are not required for language processing and are instead an artefact of the tasks typically used to study language. Recent work from our lab shows that when syntactic processing - arguably the only domain-specific language function - is measured in a task-free, naturalistic manner, only the left-lateralized frontotemporal syntax system and auditory network are activated. When syntax is measured within the context of a task, several other domain-general networks come online and are functionally connected to the frontotemporal system. While we have long argued that syntactic processing does not occur in isolation but is processed in parallel with semantics and pragmatics - functions of the wider language system - our recent work makes a strong case for the domain-specificity of the frontotemporal syntax system and its autonomy from domain-general networks.
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