Excited to share that my postdoc work with Timothée Proix @ndlab.bsky.social is now in Nature Communications!🎉 Recording from 624 human neurons, we show that semantic predictions realign phonetic population activity—revealing how meaning feeds back to reshape speech-sound processing. Thread 1/6 👇

Excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications! 🎉 Recording neurons in human temporal cortex, we found that speech sounds and word meaning are both encoded in neural manifolds, and that speech sounds line up in time with word meaning, a signature of top-down prediction. 🧵

Our review on language networks and neuromodulation is finally out! 🎉 We propose the Interacting Language Network (ILN), arguing that neuromodulation for language disorders should target distributed networks rather than isolated regions. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

New preprint 🧠🗣️ We recorded intracranial activity while people told stories freely. The brain commits to sentence structure early: syntactic depth and core categories (nouns, verbs) are encoded ~1s before articulation, while adjectives and adverbs are specified only ~0.5s out. Check it out!

Cortico-hippocampal dynamics of hierarchical syntactic planning in natural speech production

The human brain must rapidly construct hierarchical structures to organize complex sequential behavior, yet the neural dynamics supporting this process during natural behavior remain poorly understood...

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Exciting new preprint from our lab! We find evidence that the human medial temporal lobe encodes letter pairs using a distinct population of neurons, separate from those encoding individual letters. doi.org/10.64898/202...

📢 After many years of work, our new paper with Sophie Bouton, Anne-lise Giraud, Elia Formisano, Valerian Chambon and Narly Golestani is finally out: Aligning Statistical Models with Inference Goals doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Aligning statistical models with inference goals in the neuroscience of language: A dual-dependency taxonomy

Abstract. Language unfolds over time and across multiple representational levels, from acoustics to meaning. Neural systems must, therefore, integrate temporal with representational structure, linking...

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NEWS: the Ndlab just moved from University of Geneva to the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich! Excited to start a new chapter in this inspiring environment!!

We also have a open Postdoc position in human brain electrophysiology in collaboration with Prof. Maxime Baud at the University of Bern, check it out: ndlab.ch #JobAlert #PostDoc #EEG #MachineLearning

The Ndlab is moving to the ETH Zurich and is hiring! We are opening two PhD positions in our lab at the prestigious institute of Neuroinformatics! Check it out: ndlab.ch #ComputationalNeuroscience #PhDpositions #ETHZurich #Ndlab #JobAlert

Phase of firing does not reflect temporal order in sequence memory of humans and recurrent neural networks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rarely categorical, always high-dimensional: how the neural code changes along the cortical hierarchy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪 go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu

Here's a starter pack for people interested in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. With all the new Bluesky arrivals, I'm sure I'm missing people—please let me know and I'll add! go.bsky.app/6iumPee

🧵(1/n) I'm thrilled to announce that I published my very first! pre-print on BioRxiv. This work was co-supervised by Wilson Truccolo and Timothée Proix @ndlab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠🧪 #compneuro

From spiking neuronal networks to interpretable dynamics: a diffusion-approximation framework

Modeling and interpreting the complex recurrent dynamics of neuronal spiking activity is essential to understanding how networks implement behavior and cognition. Nonlinear Hawkes process models can c...

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