The Language Neuroscience Podcast

‘Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex’ with Cory Shain

Oct 4, 2021

01:04:31

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How Did You Find Your Way Into Neuroscience?

02:34

Are There Controls for High Level Language Processing?

04:31

How to Deduce Storage Costs From Leftward Parsing

02:32

Introduction

2min

What Kind of Work Did You Do After You Graduated From Ohio State?

3min

Is That How You Say It?

2min

How Did You Find Your Way Into Neuroscience?

3min

How Did You Get Your PhD? And You're a Postdoc?

2min

Is There an Alternative to Syntactic Analysis in Language Processing?

6min

The Predictability Effects and Language Processing

4min

Surprising All Is Not a Close to Parsing, Right?

1min

The Dominant View of Working Memory in Language Parsing

4min

10.

Language Localizer and Multiple Demand Localizer

4min

11.

Using the Negative of Language Versus Pseudowords to Map Out the MD Network?

2min

12.

The Multiple Domain Network and Working Memory in Language Processing

2min

13.

Are There Controls for High Level Language Processing?

5min

14.

The Dependency Locality Theory Theory

2min

15.

The Dependency of a Penicylicality Theory

4min

16.

How to Deduce Storage Costs From Leftward Parsing

3min

17.

Do the Memory Predictors Improved Model Fit to the Data?

2min

18.

Do You Think the DLT Is Better Than the Other Models?

2min

19.

The Finding of Working Memory for Vectors, Um, Is a Good One?

2min

20.

How Much of the Stimulus Turbine Signal Is Explanable?

2min

21.

Is It Domain Specific Versus Domain General Working Memory?

2min

22.

Is the MD Network the Best Possible Candidate for Domain General Effects?

2min

23.

Did It All Come Out the Way You Thought?

2min

24.

The Message From AdMob: Is There a Memory Effect?

3min

In this episode, I talk with Cory Shain, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, about his recent fMRI study of working memory demand in naturalistic language comprehension.

Shain C, Blank IA, Fedorenko E, Gibson E, Schuler W. Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex. bioRxiv 2021; 2021.09.18.460917. [doi]

Cory Shain’s website

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