Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

Preprints

  1. Kean, H., Fung, A., Ohams, C., Chen, J., Rule, J., Tenenbaum, J., Piantadosi, S., Fedorenko, E. (2025). A Human Brain Network Specialized for Abstract Formal Reasoning. Under review. [bioRxiv]
  2. Kean, H., Fung, A.*, Jaggers, P.*, Benn, Y., Tenenbaum, J., Piantadosi, S., Varley, R., Fedorenko, E. (2024). Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language. In revision at PNAS. [bioRxiv]
  3. Fung, A.*, Koehl, A.*, Jagota, M., Song, Y. (2022). The Impact of Protein Dynamics on Residue-Residue Coevolution and Contact Prediction. Preprint. [bioRxiv]

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Ryskina, M., Tuckute, G., Fung, A., Malkin, A., Fedorenko, E. (2025). Language Models Align With Brain Regions That Represent Concepts Across Modalities. COLM 2025 (Spotlight presentation). [Paper]
  2. Kean, H., Fung, A., Pramod, R.T., Chomik-Morales, J., Kanwisher, N., Fedorenko, E. (2025). Intuitive Physical Reasoning Is Not Mediated by Linguistic nor Domain-General Abstract Representations. Neuropsychologia. [Paper]
  3. Dudukovich, R., Gormley, D., Kancharla, S., Wagner, K., Short, R., Brooks, D., Fantl, J., Janardhanan, S., Fung, A. (2022). Towards the Development of a Multi-Agent Cognitive Networking System for the Lunar Environment. IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification. [Paper]
  4. Koehl, A.*, Jagota, M.*, Erdmann-Pham, D.*, Fung, A., Song, Y. (2021). Transferability of Geometric Patterns from Protein Self-Interactions to Protein-Ligand Interactions. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. [Paper]

In Preparation

  1. Fung, A., Hosseini, E., Tuckute, G., Casto, C., Fedorenko, E. Stimulus Repetitions Lead to More Reliable Neural Responses in fMRI Language Studies. In prep.

Posters

  1. Fung, A.*, Robles-Razzaq, I.*, Nogueira, R. (2025). The Geometry of Internal States of Behavior Across the Cortical Hierarchy of the Mouse Brain. Under review at COSYNE 2026.
  2. Xu, R., Takahashi, A., Bush, A., Sisterson, N., Walton, A., Hutchinson, S., Neudorfer, C., Kammen, A., Kokkinos, V., Jhingan, N., Fung, A., Marvi, A., Valenzuela, C., Kean, H., Pramod, R., McMahon, E., Yee, S., Kirsch, J., Kanwisher, N., Fedorenko, E., Desimone, R., Richardson, M. (2025). Mapping the Mesoscale Human Cortical Connectome. Poster presentation, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).
  3. Fung, A.*, Zhuang, C.*, Piantadosi, S., Andreas, J., Fedorenko, E. (2024). Word-Order Error Detection Helps Data-Efficient Language Models Learn Syntax. Poster presentation, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) 2024. [Paper] [Poster]
  4. Kean, H., Fung, A., Rule, J., Tenenbaum, J., Piantadosi, S., Fedorenko, E. (2024). Deductive and Inductive Processing Dissociate in the Human Brain. Poster presentation, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) 2024. [Paper] [Poster]