
Quanta Magazine
December 5, 2025
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language
In an interview with reporter John Pavlus, Prof. Evelina Fedorenko describes the language network in the brain.
“It’s like a map, and it tells you where in the brain you can find different kinds of meaning. It’s basically a glorified parser that helps us put the pieces together — and then all the thinking and interesting stuff happens outside of [its] boundaries.”