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Neural Response to Familiar Names Predicts Outcome of Comatose ICU Patients: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study
Abstract Predicting the outcome of comatose patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can inform decision making but remains challenging. Recent studies suggest that task-state electroencephalography (EEG) can detect covert cognition and facilitate patient prognosis. This study aimed to predict the outcome of comatose patients, by assessing covert processing of familiar names using a state-of-the-art EEG frequency tagging approach.
Constituent-constrained word prediction during language comprehension
Abstract Next-word prediction has been hypothesized as the central computational objective of the human language system, akin to that of current large language models. Here we put this conjecture to the test, investigating whether the brain predicts each upcoming word as precisely as possible when listening to connected speech.
Triangular Network Model for the Neural Basis of Calligraphy
Conflicts of Interest The author has no conflicts of interest to declare. References 1 and , Why Only Us? (MIT Press, 2017). 2, Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (University of Washington Press, 2001). 3 and , “Cultural Recycling of Cortical Maps,” Neuron 56, no. 2 (2007): 384–398. 4 and , “The Interactive Account of Ventral Occipitotemporal Contributions to Reading,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15, no. 6 (2011): 246–253.
Active use of latent tree-structured sentence representation in humans and large language models - Nature Human Behaviour
Abstract Understanding how sentences are represented in the human brain, as well as in large language models (LLMs), poses a substantial challenge for cognitive science. Here we develop a one-shot learning task to investigate whether humans and LLMs encode tree-structured constituents within sentences.
Sequence chunking through neural encoding of ordinal positions
Keywords neural dynamics neural entrainment low-frequency neural activity speech language state space Chunking as a common mechanism to encode sequences In daily life, short sensory events (see Glossary) can be organized into long sequences. For example, speech syllables can be organized into stories and visual scenes can be organized into movies.
Low-frequency Cortical Activity Reflects Context-dependent Parsing of Word Sequences
Abstract During speech listening, it has been hypothesized that the brain builds representations of large linguistic structures such as sentences, which are captured by neural activity tracking the rhythm of these structures. Nevertheless, it has been concerned that the brain may only encode words, and neural activity tracking structures may be confounded by neural activity tracking the predictability or syntactic properties of individual words.
2-D Neural Geometry Underpins Hierarchical Organization of Sequence in Human Working Memory
Abstract Working memory (WM) is constructive in nature. Instead of passively retaining information, WM reorganizes complex sequences into hierarchically embedded chunks to overcome capacity limits and facilitate flexible behavior.
Original speech and its echo are segregated and separately processed in the human brain
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Citation: Gao J, Chen H, Fang M, Ding N (2024) Original speech and its echo are segregated and separately processed in the human brain. PLoS Biol 22(2): e3002498. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002498 Academic Editor: Manuel S. Malmierca, Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN Received: July 11, 2023; Accepted: January 15, 2024; Published: February 15, 2024 Copyright: © 2024 Gao et al.
Automatic Auditory Streaming Restores Missing Temporal Modulations in Echoic Speech
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Examining cortical tracking of the speech envelope in post-stroke aphasia
Introduction Aphasia is a communication disorder resulting from damage to brain regions that support language. Due to their communication impairments, people with aphasia (PWA) experience social isolation, loss of autonomy, and other consequences that affect their quality of life (Cruice et al., 2006; Hilari, 2011). Intervention approaches leveraging rhythmic aspects of speech and music have been shown to be beneficial in improving language production in PWA (e.g., Stahl et al., 2011, 2013).
Frontiers | Significantly different noun-verb distinguishing mechanisms in written Chinese and Chinese sign language: An event-related potential study of bilingual native signers
Introduction Aural-oral languages, referred generally to both written and spoken forms of languages (Capek et al., 2009), are dependent extremely on the distinction of noun and verb categories. The neural mechanisms of native speakers’ noun and verb processing, indicated mainly by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalogram (EEG), have long been a focus in neurolinguistics (see Moseley and Pulvermüller, 2014; Feng et al., 2019 for reviews).
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