2025
From Language to Cognition: How LLMs Outgrow the Human Language Network
Badr AlKhamissi, Greta Tuckute, Yingtian Tang, Taha Osama A Binhuraib, Antoine Bosselut, Martin Schrimpf
EMNLP 2025
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable similarity to neural activity in the human language network. However, the key properties of language underlying this alignment—and how brain-like representations emerge and change across training—remain unclear. We here benchmark 34 training checkpoint