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- language areas engage during both comprehension and production; are input and output modality-independent
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- damage to left-hemisphere frontal/temporal brain areas leads to aphasia (deficits in language comprehension and production)
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- Language is widely distributed throughout the brain ([drijvers, small, & skipper, 2025](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-024-00903-0)) - respond that rather than a "language network", the ‘language network’ could more simply be conceived of as a collection of hierarchically organized auditory association cortices communicating with functional connectivity hubs that coordinate a whole-brain distribution of contextually determined and, thus, highly variable ‘peripheral’ regions
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- Semantic encoding during language comprehension at single-cell resolution ([jamali...fedorenko, williams, 2024](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07643-2))
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- interpreting brain encoding models
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-[Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing](https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03036-1#Sec9) (caucheteux & king, 2022)
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- Seminal language-semantics fMRI study ([huth...gallant, 2016](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17637)) - build mapping of semantic concepts across cortex using word vecs
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- Crafting Interpretable Embeddings for Language Neuroscience by Asking LLMs Questions ([benara et al. 2024](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=mxMvWwyBWe))
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- A generative framework to bridge data-driven models and scientific theories in language neuroscience ([antonello et al. 2024](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00812))
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-[(caucheteux, gramfort, & king, facebook, 2022)](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20460-9) - predicts fMRI with gpt-2 on the narratives dataset
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-Deep language algorithms predict semantic comprehension from brain activity [(caucheteux, gramfort, & king, facebook, 2022)](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20460-9) - predicts fMRI with gpt-2 on the narratives dataset
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- GPT‐2 representations predict fMRI response + extent to which subjects understand corresponding narratives
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- compared different encoding features: phoneme, word, gpt-2 layers, gpt-2 attention sizes
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- brain mapping finding: auditory cortices integrate information over short time windows, and the fronto-parietal areas combine supra-lexical information over long time windows
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- decoding models
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-[Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.29.509744v1) (lebel, jain, & huth, 2022) - reconstruct continuous natural language from fMRI
- Bilingual language processing relies on shared semantic representations that are modulated by each language ([chen...klein, gallant, deniz, 2024](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600505v1)) - shared semantic representations are modulated by each language
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- multilingual stuff
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- Bilingual language processing relies on shared semantic representations that are modulated by each language ([chen...klein, gallant, deniz, 2024](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600505v1)) - shared semantic representations are modulated by each language
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- An investigation across 45 languages and 12 language families reveals a universal language network ([malik-moraleda...fedorenko, 2022](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01114-5#data-availability))
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- Multilingual Computational Models Reveal Shared Brain Responses to 21 Languages ([gregor de varda, malik-moraleda...tuckute, fedorenko, 2025](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.01.636044v1))
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- Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages ([malik-moraleda...fedorenko, 2023](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.28.550667v2))
- Mixture of Soft Prompts for Controllable Data Generation ([chen, lee, ..., yu, 2023](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01580.pdf)) - trains a small model on data from a big frozen LLM that is then more controllable
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### test-time training
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- Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States ([sun...guestrin, 2024](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04620))
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- Critique Fine-Tuning: Learning to Critique is More Effective than Learning to Imitate ([wang...chen, 2025](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17703))
- Hierarchical instruction following ([wallace..beutel, 2024](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13208))
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- Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming ([anthropic 2025](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.18837)) - use constitution to generate synthetic harmful/harmless texts and train classifiers on them
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## clinical/medical papers
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- Self-Verification Improves Few-Shot Clinical Information Extraction ([gero et al. 2023](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00024))
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- Universal Abstraction: Harnessing Frontier Models to Structure Real-World Data at Scale ([wong...poon, 2025](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00943)) - specialized prompt template for extracting attributes using LLM
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- MedCalc-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models for Medical Calculations ([khandekar...lu, 2024](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12036)) - create examples / questions from popular MDCalc guidelines
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- LLMs are Few-Shot Clinical Information Extractors ([agrawal...sontag, 2022](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12689)) - use GPT3
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- Health system-scale language models are all-purpose prediction engines ([NYU2023](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06160-y))
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