Evelina Fedorenko

Evelina G. Fedorenko (born 1980) is a Russian-born American cognitive neuroscientist.

1. Judith Thurman (August 27, 2018). "The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages". The New Yorker .
2. "Evelina Fedorenko". The Helix Center. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
3. "EvLab Family". MIT. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
4. "Curriculum Vitae: Evelina (Ev) G. Fedorenko" (PDF). MIT. March 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2024.
5. "The Polyglots: The Superlinguists. Episode 1 of 4". BBC. July 2, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

Further reading

• Stix, Gary, "Thinking without Words: Cognition doesn't require language, it turns out" (interview with Evelina Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Scientific American , vol. 332, no. 3 (March 2025), pp. 86–88. "[I]n the tradition of linguist Noam Chomsky... we use language for thinking: to think is why language evolved in our species. [However, evidence that thought and language are separate systems is found, for example, by] looking at deficits in different abilities – for instance, in people with brain damage... who have impairments in language – some form of aphasia [ – yet are clearly able to think]." (p. 87.) Conversely, "large language models such as GPT-2... do language very well [but t]hey're not so good at thinking, which... nicely align[s] with the idea that the language system by itself is not what makes you think." (p. 88.)

External links

• Evelina Fedorenko publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Ev Fedorenko's Language Lab

Evelina Fedorenko
Born	Volgograd, Russian SFSR, USSR
Citizenship	United States
Spouse	Ted Gibson
Awards	K99/ R00 career development award
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)

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