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We (Chong Zhao & Ed Vogel) are excited about our new pre-print on behavioral signatures of the recruitment of long-term memory to overcome visual working-memory capacity limits. psyarxiv.com/2h5pf/

New paper with Adeen Flinker 🇮🇱🇺🇦🎗️ is now out in @elife: Speech-induced suppression and vocal feedback sensitivity in human cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

An NYU Langone study of people with epilepsy offers new insight into speech planning and the role of the cerebral cortex. An analysis of pauses in our speech suggests that planning what to say occurs in a different area of the brain than saying the words: bit.ly/43ufxgW

We are hosting an Analytical Connectionism Summer School on August 12-23 on analytical tools for probing neural networks and higher-level cognition. Learn more and apply by 5/17: events.simonsfoundation.org/event/e070287e… #FlatironCCN #neuroscience

New paper out today in Nature Machine Intelligence, where we show robust neural to speech decoding across 48 patients. nature.com/articles/s4225…

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We have 4 talks and a poster this Society for Neuroscience (SfN) come see the incredible work by lab members !

Come check out my talk on the neural coding of syntax! 2:30 today in MCP Room S401 #sfn2024 Also my labmate Yasamin Esmaeili’s talk on functional connectivity in EgoG at 2:15 in the same nanosymposium!

Very excited our latest work led by Amir Khalilian-Gourtani is now out at PNASNews "A corollary discharge circuit in human speech" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

To ensure this signal was indeed a source of a corollary discharge and not just generic neural communication, we set out to test if it predicts the well established speech induce suppression. We quantified the degree of auditory suppression and degree of incoming communication.

The press release can be found here nyulangone.org/news/brain-map…

How the Brain Links Sound to Meaning A new brain-mapping study has identified how we retrieve words during speech, revealing two distinct but overlapping neural networks in the left prefrontal cortex. Using high-resolution electrocorticography in neurosurgical patients,

“A left-lateralized dorsolateral prefrontal network for naming” by Leyao Yu et al. Cell Reports dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

Very happy our new paper led by Leyao Yu is now out in Cell Reports "A left-lateralized dorsolateral prefrontal network for naming" doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

By leveraging unsupervised clustering and allowing the data to reveal prototypical temporal dynamics across cortex to these tasks we found two distinct pre-articulatory frontal networks.

The neural temporal profiles supported a Naming-specific cluster peaking prior to speech with elevated activity during semantic tasks, especailly Auditory Naming. In contrast to a task-agnostic pre-articulatory and articulatory cluster.

These two pre-articulatory clusters were strongly left lateralized in contrast to the articulatory.

We then asked what are these cortical networks representing and leveraged a encoding models and variance partitioning to dissociate acoustic processing and semantic processing/accumulation.

The cortical representations and statistical analysis across clusters supports a semantic processing role for the naming-specific cluster.

🧠🗞️🗣️Finally out! Paper with a way-too-long name for social media. How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9 rdcu.be/epA1J in Communications Psychology