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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A fundamental discovery ! Immanuel Kant would have loved it.

Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

📢 New paper out in Neurobiology of Language! Using MEG, we found that the brain's responses to full sentences are strikingly similar to those elicited by single words. Our results suggest a "global-to-sequential" process: first a snapshot of structure, then left-to-right composition.

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A Unified Neural Time Course for Words, Phrases, and Sentences: MEG Evidence from Parallel Presentation

Abstract. Recent behavioral and neural research on reading shows that humans can extract syntactic structure from short sentences within a fraction of a second—faster than many estimates for recognizi...

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Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🚀 New paper out now in Cognition! In it, we show how the left anterior temporal lobe (LATL) contributes to interpreting quantifiers like all, some, and no during language comprehension. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106403

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