Our latest article in eLife on the sensitivity of the human temporal voice areas to closely related primate calls: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

A Perspective in Nature Reviews Neuroscience focuses on neural resonance theory in music, which summarizes how the dynamics of fundamental neural mechanisms can explain various aspects of music perception and performance. https://go.nature.com/3DXLLJ2 🔒

Temporal variation in the acoustic dynamic range is a confounding factor in EEG-based tracking of absolute auditory attention to speech https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.641391v1

A systematic review and meta-analysis in Nature Human Behaviour shows that people discern true from false news with ease. When making mistakes, people err on the side of skepticism and rate true news as false, instead of being fooled by false news. https://go.nature.com/4h6TQZC 🧪

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reduces Non-Decision Time in Perceptual Decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.637859v1

Yesterday's post on our @pnas.org study of London taxi drivers. Yellow lines = imagined journeys, described street-by-street. Some were 30 streets, which if using a tree-search over 26,000 possible states would take a very very long time. Daniel McNamee's models show how they compress this problem:

Syntax, speech, brain, continuous listening: fascinating work!

Conscious #perception is modulated by brain oscillations & slow cortical potentials within the brain, but how? @luakoenig.bsky.social & @biyuhe.bsky.social show that oscillations & aperiodic brain activity influence perception independently of each other 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/42dxjGH

Prefrontal cortex neuronal ensembles dynamically encode task features during associative memory and virtual navigation www.cell.com/cell-reports... #neuroscience

Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - neural activity in freely moving conditions is richer and more generalizable than in restrained conditions

Temporal recurrence as a general mechanism toexplain neural responses in the auditory system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.631909v1

Behavioral and neural sound classification: Insights from natural and synthetic sounds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631484v1

Hippocampus and orbital frontal cortex synchronise to make the right choice given the context: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important study on midbrain's acoustic region response independent of auditory cortex

Meaning of emotions in 2500 languages, impressive study:

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

An essay in Nature discusses how it’s an astonishing achievement that all of statistics and much of science depends on probability considering no one’s sure what it is. 🧪

Voice identity invariance by anterior temporal lobe neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.19.629267v1

Research in Nature Computational Science shows that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. https://go.nature.com/4gjBtku 🧪

Interesting article by many scientists discussing how many scientists can team up to explore comparative cognition (love the image chosen for this) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Change is rarely easy, but the right changes are worth it. As the year comes to a close, we’re showcasing some research and publishing highlights from the year with the hashtag #12DaysOfeLife Follow along over the next 12 days or check out our blog now! https://buff.ly/3Dhn21z

Hot take: I don't really think Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) can elucidate circuits based on fMRI data. Maybe not so hot???

What is the optimal level at which to describe the brain? @misicbata.bsky.social explores a study by @kangjoolee.bsky.social &co in #PLOSBiology, showing that simplifying complex brain recordings makes them more useful for studying brain function. 🧪Primer: plos.io/4iInF4q Paper: plos.io/3MZAdG4

Evidence for systematic - yet task- and motor-contingent - rhythmicity of auditory perceptual judgements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.17.628892v1

How do the functional networks in the brain change at the beginning of human life? Have a look at this longitudinal perinatal fMRI study of 140 babies revealing regionally specific changes in neural connectivity at the birth transition. #neuroscience #PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🧬⏳ Ancient humans and Neanderthals Scientists have now studied 45,000-year-old human remains & found all non-Africans share Neanderthal DNA from a single mixing event 45,000–49,000 years ago! This sheds light on how our ancestors spread across the world. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm 🧪

Impressive work on 'cooperating brains' using intracranial recordings #neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest preprint on the functional and causal neural mechanisms underlying voice perception and processing in challenging environments, namely highly noisy situations. #neuroscience #voice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recent research helps explain why people who are incorrect are so confident in their correctness. scim.ag/3ZNqKcd

Our recent preprint on the neural correlates of vocal emotion expression and associated vocal tract vibratory mechanisms, currently in revision. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What are you talking about? Representation of the Topic of Speech in the Human Brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628085v1

Tactile stimulations reduce or promote the segregation of auditory streams: psychophysics and modelling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.05.627120v1