Last week, Kumar Duraivel (Senior PhD candidate) presented Matt Leonard, Laura Gwilliams, and colleagues paper on neuronal mechanisms of speech perception in the STG using state-of-the-art ultrahigh-density Neuropixel probes. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large-scale single-neuron speech sound encoding across the depth of human cortex - Nature

High-density single-neuron recordings show diverse tuning for acoustic and phonetic features across layers in human auditory speech cortex.

This week, Brooke Sevchik (senior undergraduate student) explored Luque and Morgan-Short's paper on the relationship between cognitive control and second language proficiency. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The relationship between cognitive control and second language proficiency

In the past 20 years, the field of bilingualism has made a substantial effort to better understand the set of cognitive mechanisms that allow bilingua…

Last week, Nicole Liddle (CRS, Sr.) presented Golesorkhi et al.’s paper on the shared temporo-spatial hierarchy of intrinsic neural timescales (INTs) and the Core-Periphery (CP) network architecture during rest and task states. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)

Last week, Erin Burns (sophomore undergraduate studying Neuroscience) presented Aponik-Gremillion and colleague’s paper on episodic and executive processes in the dorsal posterior cingulate. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) elifesciences.org/articles/807...

Distinct population and single-neuron selectivity for executive and episodic processing in human dorsal posterior cingulate

Invasive recordings from human dorsal posterior cingulate cortex show neural population responses occur for only executive tasks, while single neuron responses occur for specific executive or episodic...

Last week, Aaron Earle-Richardson (Research Tech) presented Christian Herff’s new conference paper on semantic representations of speech production. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)

Last week, Kumar Duraivel (6th year PhD candidate) presented Khanna, Muñoz, and Kim et al. ’s new paper on the neuronal mechanisms of speech production using state-of-the-art ultrahigh-density Neuropixel probes. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Single-neuronal elements of speech production in humans - Nature

Neuropixels recordings from the language-dominant prefrontal cortex reveal a structured organization of planned words, an encoding cascade of phonetic representations by prefrontal neurons i...

Last week, undergraduate junior Alice Lyu presented Wolna et al.’s paper on bilingual language control in speech production. This 🧵explores our thoughts (🤍& ❔) direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

Tracking Components of Bilingual Language Control in Speech Production: An fMRI Study Using Function...

Abstract. When bilingual speakers switch back to speaking in their native language (L1) after having used their second language (L2), they often experience difficulty in retrieving words in their L1. ...

Last week, Zac Spalding (2nd year BME PhD student,) presented Mostafa Safaie & Joanna Chang’s new paper investigating how similar motor behaviors are produced by the brains of different animals. They find that latent representations of neural activity are highly preserved across animals.

This week, Jim Zhang, (2nd year PhD student at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences) presented Baltazar Zavala and colleague’s paper on cognitive control using recordings from both awake DBS patients in the OR. They find that cognitive control involves theta power within trials and...

Last week, undergraduate sophomore Raymond Xiong presented @iberent.bsky.socialt.co/oP5X8qeuzd

Phonetic categorization relies on motor simulation, but combinatorial phonological computations are ...

Scientific Reports - Phonetic categorization relies on motor simulation, but combinatorial phonological computations are abstract