Invasive neurophysiology and whole brain connectomics for neural decoding in patients with brain implants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pre-stimulus Brain States Predict and Control Variability in Stimulation Responses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's groundbreaking target article. We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)

Nice to see that some researchers have definitely not used ChatGPT to write their papers... www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...

Excited to share our new eLife paper from our lab's first Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Justin Campbell! In this paper, Justin explored the effects of direct electrical stimulation to the human amygdala on single-unit activity throughout the brain. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

New manuscript from the lab! "Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening" Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Large Language Model probabilities cannot distinguish between possible and impossible language arxiv.org/abs/2509.15114

Insular Traveling Waves Link Distributed Neural Dynamics to Human Memory Performance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My conversation with Michael Levin on causality and complexity in neural theories of language. youtu.be/Rl7B6P_uC6s?...

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

Five Fristonian Formulae Special volume in celebration of Karl Friston's 65th birthday 🎉 www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...

What's the point of talking? Auditory targets and communicative goals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Alpha for sustained attention, theta is the wanderer. Theta-rhythmic attentional exploration of space doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A preprint version of our paper "Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages" is here: it's soon to appear in print in the Journal of Linguistics. drive.google.com/file/d/1BEfZ...

Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews! When studying language in the brain, we often look for things that can be model systems for language (songbirds, artificial grammars, etc.). Here, we flip this on its head and argue that language itself is an excellent model system for cognition 🗣️🧏‍♀️🧠

Animal models of the human brain: Successes, limitations, and alternatives web.mit.edu/bcs/nklab/me...

Important new work 😮 Behavior-iEEG-Spectral-Power-Correlation: Defining Neural Substrates of Naturalistic Behavior onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Modeling sentence production as a staged generative process osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social

Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠 Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inattentional noise leads to subjective color uniformity across the visual field www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"[Language model] prefers nouns to verbs, thus showing a distinct linguistic backbone from humans, who tend to anchor language [around] tense, aspect, and mood. It is possible that the more complex domains of grammar reflect a mode of thought unique to humans." arxiv.org/abs/2508.16385

Nature Communications Double dissociation of dynamic and static face perception provides causal evidence for a third visual pathway idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

New Insights Into Slow Reading: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Analyses of Visual Word Recognition in Arabic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

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

I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it! Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've updated my literature review of studies of aperiodic neural activity in clinical disorders, adding ~30 papers, taking it to 177 reports across 38 disorders! It's got a review of results so far, discussion of themes & issues, & recommendations for future work! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hierarchical Reasoning Model arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734

'Left perisylvian rhythms encode prosody and syntax during delayed sentence repetition'. Cool intracranial work on syntax and phonology! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

"Our results suggest that LLMs' ability to predict brain activation does not strongly differ between language and non-language-related brain areas" On whether the relationship between large language models and brain activity is language-specific 2025.ccneuro.org/abstract_pdf...

Origins of numbers: A shared language-of-thought for arithmetic and geometry? escholarship.org/uc/item/65g8...

New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain Categorization is not a late stage of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. doi.org/10.31234/osf... #neuroscience

Some space for neurosymbolic approaches? elliot-murphy.com/wp-content/u...

A perennial question! But our recent work suggests that DALLE 3 does not reliably capture compositional syntactic representations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy This promises to be a must read One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

LIVE at 1140 AM ET on CNBC Squawk on the Street Was GPT-5 OpenAI’s Waterloo? What does it mean for Sam Altman’s credibility? For the future of A(G)I? So much to talk about!

A hierarchical multiscale model of forward and backward alpha-band traveling waves in the visual system doi.org/10.1101/2024... #neuroscience

Exploring the Morphological and Morpho-Syntactic abilities of Adolescents with Autism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.

Aligning syntactic structure to the dynamics of verbal communication: A pipeline for annotating syntactic phrases onto speech acoustics link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New paper with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social in Nature Communications: an RL model that builds a successor map compositionally. The new model plans as well as the best models, and it links components of the map used for planning to neural codes in the medial entorhinal cortex. rdcu.be/eAofi

"Reading with deaf eyes: Automatic activation of speech-based phonology during word recognition is task dependent" - new paper by @katerowley.bsky.social and colleagues. Hearing readers are often more distracted by phonology than deaf readers 😀 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

New paper out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (open access)! Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀 Link ⬇️