I’ll be presenting new intracranial work this week at #SFN25 🧠 Sunday afternoon poster session (MM1 @ 1pm) Cortical cascades support rapid semantic inference during reading concrete and abstract words

👉Softbank sells entire Nvidia position. 👉Oracle debt downgraded. 👉Meta financing games revealed. 👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations. 👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week. You do the math.

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)

Reading about sensations recruits the posterior insula: An intracranial EEG study www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Distance of bipolar re-referencing imparts nonlinear frequency-specific influences on intracranial recording signal measurements iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Now that we have Hidden Markov Models do we still need correlation matrices?? 😀 For example, this looks cool. (I'm aware that HMMs are not new, I played with them in grad school...) doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #neuroskyence

Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....

Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon video. Great presentation by @elliot-murphy.bsky.social and discussion with @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social Bonus: Check the first 17 min or so on Large Language Models youtu.be/K5wd7nHxzNw

Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook

Big thank you to @pessoabrain.bsky.social for hosting me yesterday in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon! The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...

Comparison of lateralization and spatial patterns of hemodynamic and neuromagnetic language brain mapping www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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... .

**CORRECTION of link** Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language Neuro & Philo Salon: join our discussion with @elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Registration: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intuitions of mathematical curves in young children's drawings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interplay of semantic and phonological predictions in language comprehension: Insights from the visual world paradigm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mind the Gap: How BabyLMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies “Results show that BabyLM-scale models partially acquire filler-gap dependencies but often fail to generalize or fully capture island constraints.” aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

Conflict Adaptation in Vision-Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2510.24804

Evaluating distillation methods for data-efficient syntax learning aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

Topographic Variation in Human Neurotransmitter Receptor Densities Explains Differences in Intracranial EEG Spectra pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Brain-language fusion enables interactive neural readout and in-silico experimentation www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.23941

*Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language* Don't forget our discussion this Wed. Note the different time and the change of time in the US.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

When word order matters: human brains represent sentence meaning differently from large language models elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Everyone should read The Two Victims of Plagiarism from @plagiarismtoday.com in the context of LLMs. LLMs provide plausible deniability unless we recognize what it means to choose to use the plagiarism machine: non-consensual ghost authorship in a blender. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/08/01/t...

Another Philosophy & Neuroscience Salon hosted by @pessoabrain.bsky.social is coming up on November 5th! Link below 👇 If you'd like to have span partnership events emailed to you monthly, join our mailing list: philandneuro.com

*Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/learning* Neuroscience & Philo Salon: join our discussion with @elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Register: umd.zoom.us/my/luizpesso... #neuroskyence

Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕 Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky

Understanding the flexibility of working memory: Compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroscience

New Paper in Nature Communications! We present exciting work on applying transfer learning on minimally invasive recordings to build scalable speech BCI for a more heterogeneous population. #iEEG #neuroskyence Check it out : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SIGNAL: Dataset for Semantic and Inferred Grammar Neurological Analysis of Language www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuronal correlations are a key mechanism governing computational capacity. Neuronal correlations shape the scaling behavior of memory capacity and nonlinear computational capability of reservoir recurrent neural networks journals.aps.org/prresearch/a... #neuroscience

A Cartesian dream: A geometrical account of syntax In honor of Andrea Moro iris.unica.it/retrieve/734...

From retinotopic to ordinal coding: Dissecting the cortical stages of visual word recognition www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social Summary 👇 1/8

Cortical γ-oscillations implement basic language operations journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I said it before and I'll say it again: Cognition is rhythmic Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroscience

“Without a base to anchor the composition of our representations of numbers, we would (...) never have managed to progress beyond the limits of working memory.” ‘A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems’, eds. A. Bender et al. 🧠🧮 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork

Stereoelectroencephalography Reveals Neural Signatures of Multisensory Integration in the Human Superior Temporal Sulcus during Audiovisual Speech Perception www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Gestural and Verbal Evidence of Conceptual Representation Differences in Blind and Sighted Individuals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Functional connectivity is dominated by aperiodic, rather than oscillatory, coupling www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Dissociation Between Simple and Complex Speech Motor Tasks Within Bilateral Motor Thalamus www.eneuro.org/content/earl...

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀? Thought-provoking piece on properties of systems. Including the Law of Increasing Functional Information, which applies to both biological and non-biological systems. Physicists will probably not like this at all... doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #complexity

Flexible perceptual encoding by discrete gamma events www.nature.com/articles/s41...