Excited and thrilled and humbled that our work is now out at Nature Human Behaviour linking Memorability with Time Perception! I hope you all find it of interest 🙂 Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa) #academicsky#neuroskyence#psychscisky#science
In this Article, Ma et al. show, across a series of experiments, that time and memorability (the probability of recalling a visual stimulus) mutually influence one another, suggesting that time is a f...
Now out in Open Mind @mitpress! Word frequency and predictability effects dissociate, even in naturalistic reading: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article.... 1/
Abstract. Many studies of human language processing have shown that readers slow down at less frequent or less predictable words, but there is debate about whether frequency and predictability effects...
New manuscript from the lab! What is the neural code for reading? Through simulations of convolutional neural networks, we propose a new hypothesis on how, in literate brains, neurons encode written letters and their relative positions within the word. arxiv.org/abs/2403.06159
Learning to read places a strong challenge on the visual system. Years of expertise lead to a remarkable capacity to separate highly similar letters and encode their relative positions, thus...
At population level perirhinal cortex was quite mixed, some multimodal sites and some reading or naming selective sites. I'll have to take a closer look
Thank you! And to the extent we test it appears to. The selective naming sites usually knock out both visual and auditory cued naming, with reading and auditory repetition remaining intact. This paper has more detail on the naming side: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Anomia, a disruption of semantic memory access, is common in dementia and following damage to temporal cortex. Using electrocorticography in patients undergoing
Out now in Brain! Using direct cortical stimulation in 49 patients we show distinct regions of ventral temporal cortex that selectively knock out the ability to read or name. Word-selective VWFA can causally and reliably be isolated from other visual language functions. doi.org/10.1093/brai...
Our study examining intracranial responses to vocoded speech, relevant to cochlear implants, is out now ( www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... ), led by Kirill Nourski & Mitch Steinschneider. Some very interesting dorsal/ventral stream differences dependent on task performance.
Cochlear implants (CIs) are the treatment choice for severe to profound hearing loss. Variability in CI outcomes remains despite advances in technology and is attributed in part to differences in cort...