Yesterday I had a great chat with Stephen Wilson on his Language Neuroscience Podcast about my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Watch for the podcast and book release on November 25! langneurosci.org/podcast/

We still don't fully understand left-brain, right-brain differences. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025... I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)

Language is a "species" of sensorimotor control architecture. A major conclusion regarding the neural architecture of language in my forthcoming book this month, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social

Final adapted post from my forthcoming book @mitpress.bsky.social Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language. This one focuses on progress over the last 2.5 decades and summarizes some of the main takeaways, IMO. @psychtoday.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Audio-visual synchrony perception in speech, which requires precise temporal alignment, might be sensitive to subclinical neurological disease. Here's some preliminary data from stroke. Work led by my former student Jon Venezia. www.jvascsurg.org/article/S074...

A nice piece on my now former grad student Jeremy Yeaton. Very proud of their accomplishments and looking forward to following Jeremy’s future successes!

Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking. My new @psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire... .

More than two decades have passed since we discovered that rare disruptions of the FOXP2 gene disturb development of proficient speech/language skills. Today we know of multiple FOXP genes that are directly implicated in distinct brain-related conditions with differences in symptoms & severity.🧪 1/n

Another excerpt from my book, Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language published by @mitpress.bsky.social This post is on the ancient sensorimotor origins of language production networks. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

We are about a month away from the publication release date for my @mitpress.bsky.social book, Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language. Here's a chapter-by-chapter preview. drive.google.com/file/d/18mc5...

My attempt to depict the neural architecture of language as motivated in my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Like colors represent functional connectivity. Main insight: linguistic levels are all organized with a sensorimotor-like architecture. pbs.twimg.com/media/G2cwsM...

How your brain conducts the symphony of speech. My latest post on @psychtoday.bsky.social , excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Very happy to see Angelique's paper on semantic processing and the ATL with @vipiai.bsky.social, @profkatie.bsky.social out now in Cortex : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New work on aphasia treatment outcome from Janina Wilmskoetter and the CSTAR team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indeed, an interesting take on LLMs from my Department of Language Science colleague, Richard Futrell @ucirvine.bsky.social.

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

Telegrams and Sentence Monsters | Psychology Today My latest essay on the neurology of syntax excerpted from Wired for Words my forthcoming book published by @mitpress.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

VocalMind: A Stereotactic EEG Dataset for Vocalized, Mimed, and Imagined Speech in Tonal Language www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Secret Life of Words. My new piece on the mysterious word. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Neural plasticity had a good run. A bit of a myth? I always thought it was overblown. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We are still under the spell of split-brain research. My new piece in @psychtoday.bsky.social. Excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

This looks really good! (coming soon, by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social) I don't think Steve Pinker is on Bsky, but he's promoting this blog post about it on Twitter, which is also good: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language | New book by @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive and language scientist @gregoryhickok.bsky.social explores 150 years of research on how the brain enables language *Presale available now w/ 25% discount at @barnesandnoble.com* @mitpress.bsky.social

Wired for Words Table of Contents

Honored to have such nice endorsements from Cathy Price and Steve Pinker for my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...

Pre-order sale on Wired for Words @barnesandnoble.com www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wired-for-...

How strong is the Rhythm of Perception? Molly Henry, Jonathan Peelle, and team found out in a large-scale registered replication of Hickok, et al. 2015. @jpeelle.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

"More work with causal approaches is needed..." For the interested reader, here's some citations to work involving such causal approaches that didn't make the cut in this summary. They tell a rather different story on the cortical organization of syntax. @wmatchin.bsky.social

Hard copies have arrived!!!!!

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

Coming this fall from @mitpress.bsky.social!

My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

Our study of phonological processing in word recognition, N= 150 acute stroke patients. We assessed the degree to which phonological perception is bilateral vs. left dominant. Ans: it's bilateral in the majority of people. ~18% are (atypically) left dominant. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Important study yielding new insights into the deep roots of aspects of our communication system/#language— @berthetmelissa.bsky.social M. Surbeck and S. Townsend did great work to reveal semantic composition in vocal combinations in bonobos. 🧪 Out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New review on the neurobiology of sentence production by my grad student Jeremy Yeaton. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) was an Italian physiologist who worked on “human circulation balance”. Mosso hypothesized that mental activity could affect blood flow. 👀 (1/3) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_...

Lecturer position in the Department of Language Science @UC Irvine. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09494

Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs: dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...

First in #jocnforumrerun series: Take a Good Hard Look at Your Mirror Neurons, by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social, posted May 27, 2007 on TalkingBrains.org Support @jocnforum.bsky.social's preservation efforts by submitting classic blog posts at jocnf.pubpub.org. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Proud of this work, leveraging fMRI to address theories of subject island effects in English. Now out open access in @jocn.bsky.social W/ Jon Sprouse, Diogo Almeida, and @gregoryhickok.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Interesting article featuring my colleague Richard Futrell. www.quantamagazine.org/can-ai-model...

More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/12...

Are you a quantitative psychologist looking for a teaching-focused permanent position? I have good news for you! We're hiring: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Great department and Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live. Happy to answer any questions about working and living here

Let's talk lateralization. Suppose we measure a group average left > right hemisphere asymmetry = 20% on some task, e.g., 20% more activation in fMRI or 20% more errors following LH stroke. What does it mean? a) the left is 20% dominant in most people? OR b) 20% of people are left dominant?

More evidence that receptive syntactic deficits do not implicate Broca's area (or dorsal stream more generally).

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

Open-rank tenure-track position in COMD at University of South Carolina members.capcsd.org/jobboard/Det...