What do individual human neurons do when a sound violates expectations? In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... #MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...

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🦇🍸 bat cocktail party problem 🍸🦇 Like humans at a party, echolocating bats must pick out the sound they're interested in while ignoring out many others This review highlights roles of not just auditory but also "cognitive" brain areas in solving this problem #neuroskyence #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

Aditya Krishna@adikrish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share a review with @gracecapshaw.bsky.social and @batwoman123.bsky.social in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! Natural auditory behaviors invoke cognitive brain networks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very happy that our manuscript with my brilliant collaborators @jamestrujillo.bsky.social and @straubeb.bsky.social is now published @jneurolang.bsky.social. 🥳🥳🥳 Interested in gesture, discourse, fMRI, prediction, computational modeling? This is the paper for you 👇 doi.org/10.1162/NOL....

Discourse context and co-speech gestures jointly shape hierarchical prediction during the processing of a multimodal narrative

Abstract. Understanding one another in daily communication depends on predicting language from prior discourse context and visual signals, such as co-speech gestures. However, it remains unclear how d...

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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · last yr.

When listening to a story, earlier parts of the story (context) and the speaker's gestures help us predict and understand what they are saying. In a new preprint we show context and gestures have a push-pull synergy on neural response to linguistic information 👇🧵

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS

A synaptic locus of song learning - Nature

Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...

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Our brain is constantly looking for patterns. When something unexpected happens, we notice it more in a predictable context, than in an unpredictable environment. Our study identifies how the auditory cortex amplifies responses to unexpected sounds in predictable contexts. doi.org/10.1523/jneu...

OPEN POSTDOC position (part of @erc.europa.eu Consolidator DYNALANG) We build math&comp models of neural dynamics using insights from formal linguistics + ML Seeking theory-driven researchers w/ interests in language, neural dynamics, & math/comp neuroscience. Apply here: tinyurl.com/55exdpse

Out now in #JNeurosci! We used direct recordings and stimulation in human pulvinar to probe its causal role during naming from pictures, and spoken and written descriptions. We found naming-selective responses and stim-induced pure anomia. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #NeuroSkyence #iEEG 🧵👇

Medial Pulvinar Nucleus as a Causal Hub for Heteromodal Naming

Our ability to retrieve the names of objects in our environment is a fundamental aspect of everyday life. This process requires a complex, dynamic network of cortical and subcortical interactions. Whi...

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"Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments" in @natureportfolio.nature.com #NatNeurosci What a Dream Team of authors! #iEEG www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments - Nature Neuroscience

This study shows that brain signals can identify and amplify the voice a person wants to hear in a crowded scene. Choudhari et al. provide evidence that brain-controlled hearing can improve speech per...

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Intracerebral recordings in humans reveal emergence of musical beat representation across the dorsal auditory pathway Outstanding work from @tomaslenc.bsky.social, with Bruno Rossion and collaborators from CHU Nancy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Feedback welcome #MusicScience #iEEG #neuroscience

🚨New paper🚨 about the link between cue weighting and dimension-selective attention doi.org/10.1016/j.co... from fun times at @audioneurolab.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social with @ashleysymons.bsky.social Fred Dick, Kazuya Saito, @adamtierney.bsky.social 🧵1/5 #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics - Nature Neuroscience

This study shows that cerebellar circuits learn and encode prior probabilities of event timing. Cell-type-specific neural activity reflects environmental statistics and guides predictive motor behavio...

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Excited to see this Version Of Record of my work out in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/106... We investigate the mental representation of geometric shapes in adults and children using fMRI and MEG. Each figure has a video of me explaining the figure: go and read it, or read below.

3rd🚨new paper🚨this year! Here we're looking at the effects of targeted training on how L2 learners weight perceptual cues doi.org/10.1017/S136... @audioneurolab.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @ashleysymons.bsky.social, Yaoyao Ruan, Kazuya Saito, Fred Dick, @adamtierney.bsky.social 🧵1/5

🚨New paper🚨about mechanisms underlying individual differences in cue weighting doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... from fun times at @audioneurolab.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social with @ashleysymons.bsky.social, Kazuya Saito, Fred Dick, and @adamtierney.bsky.social #psychscisky #neuroskyence 🧵1/5

Early neural encoding of pitch drives cue weighting during speech perception

Abstract. Linguistic categories are conveyed in speech by several acoustic cues simultaneously, so listeners need to decide how to prioritize different potential sources of information. There are robu...

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📜🎉 Our project on aperiodic neural activity during sleep, led by the wonderful @mosameen.bsky.social, is now published! This project shows how time-resolved measures of aperiodic neural activity track changes of sleep stages + lots of other analyses in iEEG & EEG! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Temporally resolved analyses of aperiodic features track neural dynamics during sleep - Communications Psychology

Sleep involves dynamic changes in brain activity that unfold over time, reflected in the brain’s aperiodic EEG patterns. Incorporating the spectral ‘knee’—a bend in the EEG power spectrum—reveals stag...

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🚨New paper🚨 about accented speech perception doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... by brilliant (MSc student at the time!) Amir Ghooch Kanloo accompanied by myself, Kazuya Saito and @adamtierney.bsky.social from fun times at @audioneurolab.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social 🧵1/5

"The Human Insula Reimagined: Single Neurons Respond to Simple Sounds during Passive Listening" Single neuron activity in the insula #iEEG in #JNeurosci @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/46/4...

The Human Insula Reimagined: Single Neurons Respond to Simple Sounds during Passive Listening

The insula is critical for integrating sensory information from the body with that arising from the environment. Although previous studies suggested that posterior insula is sensitive to sounds, these...

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New work from our lab showing the human frontal lobe receives fast, low-level speech information in **parallel** with early speech areas! 🧠🗣️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Parallel encoding of speech in human frontal and temporal lobes - Nature Communications

Whether high-order frontal lobe areas receive raw speech input in parallel with early speech areas in the temporal lobe is unclear. Here, the authors show that frontal lobe areas get fast low-level sp...

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"Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding" by the Chang lab @changlabucsf.bsky.social, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #iEEG #ECOG

Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding

Zhang, Leonard, et al. use high-density direct human brain recordings to reveal how the superior temporal gyrus (STG) detects word boundaries in natural speech and encodes whole auditory word forms. N...

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If you haven't, you should, it's brilliant!

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

New preprint by Mika Nash and others on how selective attention affects neural tracking of prediction during ecologically valid music listening: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neural tracking of melodic prediction is pre-attentive

Music’s ability to modulate arousal and manipulate emotions relies upon formation and violation of predictions. Music is often used to modulate arousal and mood while individuals focus on other tasks,...

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As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Humans largely learn language through speech. In contrast, most LLMs learn from pre-tokenized text. In our #Interspeech2025 paper, we introduce AuriStream: a simple, causal model that learns phoneme, word & semantic information from speech. Poster P6, tomorrow (Aug 19) at 1:30 pm, Foyer 2.2!

My PhD student Yue Li is looking for L1 speakers of Chinese and Spanish for her online English experiment! Please see below for details!

Yue Li@yueli-ling.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓 Call for Participants – Paid Online English Study We look for: native speaker of Spanish or Chinese who has an advanced level of English 💸 Compensation provided ✅ Check the flyer for eligibility 📲 Scan the QR code to get in touch. Feel free to share this news! #linguistics #paidstudy

Can you think of examples of books, films, TV shows, etc. featuring earworms or other types of imagined music? Please share them here! musicinmyhead.org/inner-music-...

🎧 Join us for some fun listening tasks! 🧠 Researchers at the University of Manchester want to recruit normal hearing volunteers aged 18-50 who are native English speakers to take part in research, which will help us to understand different aspects of listening in noise. #hearinghealth #research

A ✨bittersweet✨ moment – after 5 years at UCL, my final first-author project with @smfleming.bsky.social is ready to read as a preprint! 🥲

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Distinct neural representations of perceptual and numerical absence in the human brain: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zyrdk_v1

Nice review, but why "controversies"? Evidence isn’t controversial. Like "epiphenomenon," it often just means, "doesn’t fit my hypothesis." That’s ad hominem science. Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639 #neuroscience