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Neural Dynamics Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich

@ndlab.bsky.social
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Searching for the neuronal mechanisms of language | ndlab.ch @ INI | computational neuroscience | human intracranial recordings | epilepsy.

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Neural Dynamics Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich @ndlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We found a top-down alignment in this anterior superior temporal gyrus area: the representation for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd... phoneme peaks at the same moment as the meaning, at a fixed delay after the word starts.
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Neural Dynamics Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich @ndlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We recorded neurons with Utah electrode arrays in the temporal lobe of three people undergoing epilepsy monitoring. They judged whether words describing animals or objects, like "chair", named something bigger than a foot, and also listened to natural speech.
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Neural Dynamics Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich @ndlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications! 🎉 Recording neurons in human temporal cortex, we found that speech sounds and word meaning are both encoded in neural manifolds, and that speech sounds line up in time with word meaning, a signature of top-down prediction. 🧵
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