Abstract
Commentary on "The role of domain-general cognitive control in language comprehension" by Fedorenko.
Highlights
Edited by: Tamara Swaab, University of California Davis, USA Reviewed by: Chantel Spring Prat, University of Washington, USA
The first part of Fedorenko’s paper presents data that she says shows that (1) a neural “language system” is stable within and across individuals, time, modality of presentation, and language, and that (2) a “multipledemand (MD) system” that is activated by tasks that contrast conditions that vary in difficulty is anatomically separate from the language system
Fedorenko localized the high level language comprehension system by subtracting BOLD signal associated with item recognition in lists of non-words from that associated with recognizing words in sentences, and localized the MD system by varying complexity of arithmetic processing and working memory and with the Stroop task
Summary
Edited by: Tamara Swaab, University of California Davis, USA Reviewed by: Chantel Spring Prat, University of Washington, USA. The crucial question is whether the executive control system needs to activate the comprehension functions localized by Fedorenko’s language localizer when it performs executive functions in the tasks that Fedorenko used to localize it.
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