MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

Differences between musicians and nonmusicians are routinely attributed to training-induced plasticity and transfer, even though pre-existing factors provide equally plausible explanations. We propose...

Speech and gesture form an integrated communicative system, yet how this system operates in autism, and whether it varies across languages, remains unclear. We ...

Purpose: This study investigates how verbal and visuospatial memory capacities contribute to the processing and comprehension of pragmatic meanin...

Embeddings from larger language models and relatively earlier layers better predict neural activity during natural language.

Brosler et al. develop a brain–computer interface that simultaneously decodes speech and gestures from a single cortical implant to animate a virtual avatar, providing a step toward more flexible comm...

This study investigated the impact of visual speech cues on speech perception in noise and subjective listening effort in cochlear implant (CI) users compared with normal-hearing (NH) individuals. Fur...

The study of multitasking provides a unique window into the interaction of cognitive processes and systems and as such, into the cognitive architecture of the human mind. Previous studies reported tha...

Sourati et al. find that variance in writing complexity dropped on social media, news and scientific writing after ChatGPT’s release, a shift from individuality towards uniformity. LLM polishing strip...

We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds.,...

Abstract. A central challenge in systems neuroscience is to understand how distributed brain networks organize activity during naturalistic cognition. Here, we investigate whether transient, high-ampl...

We explore unsupervised pre-training for speech recognition by learning representations of raw audio. wav2vec is trained on large amounts of unlabeled audio data and the resulting representations are ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Humans readily recognize voices in noisy, challenging environments, yet how the brain does this remains poorly understood. A key question is whether t…

Direct recordings from the human brain reveal a hierarchy in planning to speak, with neural activity organizing whole syllables before the individual sounds that compose them are sequenced.

Misra et al. use invasive neurophysiological recordings from the human brain to describe a highly circumscribed region within the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex that shows strong selectivity for pa...

Fully in-ear Electroencephalography (EEG) configurations prioritize wearability and rapid setup but may constrain spatial sampling and signal-to-noise charac...

Abstract. The development of audiovisual speech perception in tone-language-speaking children remains debated, and this study addressed this issue by exami

This study investigated older and younger adults’ conversational speech understanding using an established topic monitoring task to assess real-time semantic pr...

Abstract. Developmental dyslexia has been linked to atypical neural processing of the temporal dynamics of speech, but there has been disagreement concerning whether faster or slower dynamics are impa...

In the process of extracting a meaning from a text, our eyes linger much more on some words than others, and we often reread earlier portions of th...

Scientific Reports - Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory