The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the neurobiology of sentence...
Language and Communication
Bird pupils behave unexpectedly different
Pupil size changes in awake and sleeping birds in opposite ways to mammals. The pupil not only regulates the amount of...
Modulation Spectra Capture EEG Responses to Speech Signals and...
Speech signals have a unique shape of long-term modulation spectrum that is distinct from environmental noise, music, and...
Networks for memory and learning
Stable connections between nerve cells are the basis of memory. Memories are part of our lives, the good and the bad...
Word contexts enhance the neural representation of individual...
Visual context facilitates perception, but how this is neurally implemented remains unclear. One example of contextual...
What social distancing does to a brain
Scientists discover a neuropeptide that reflects the current state of a fish’s social environment. Have you recently...
Speaking rhythmically can shape hearing
Evidence suggests that temporal predictions arising from the motor system can enhance auditory perception. However, in...
A novel sequence to improve auditory functional MRI with...
Purpose: Auditory functional MRI (fMRI) often uses silent inter-volume delays for stimulus presentation. However...
Inhibition within a premotor circuit controls the timing of...
Vocal turn-taking is a fundamental organizing principle of human conversation but the neural circuit mechanisms that...
How a Bird Brain Times Tweets
Inhibitory neurons in the zebra finch brain control coordinated vocal interactions Zebra finches can take turns when...