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As you listen to a story, the meaning of each word you hear relates to the meaning of prior words. But how? We operationalized semantic distance, and identified brain regions that correspond to this rolling summary measure during naturalistic listening. #neuroscienceoflanguage
Abstract submission deadline has been extended until May 6th! #neuroscienceoflanguage
There are more complex models of speech production (DIVA, hierarchical state feedback control) that are likely more accurate. But for students with no background, I introduce a basic framework that (a) highlights different stages of speech production and (b) feedback. (1/) 🧵
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Although you've likely heard of Pierre Paul Broca and "Broca's area", I suspect you have not heard of Marc or Gustave Dax. Who predated Broca in appreciating several aspects of cerebral dominance. 👀 (1/3) 🧵
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Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880) is famous for advancing ideas of language localization in the brain. One of my favorite papers is from Dronkers and colleagues (2007), who used MRI scanning to re-examine Broca's two most famous cases. #neuroscienceoflanguage (1/5) 🧪🧵
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The need for converging evidence has always struck me as central to our understanding of the brain. For language, different types of frontotemporal degeneration are associated with distinct patterns of language challenge, underscoring localization of various processes.
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NB I am not a clinician but as far as I know pouring milk into both ears is not an effective treatment for aphasia
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Picture of a textbook cover. The textbook title is "The Neuroscience of Language" by Jonathan E. Peelle. Below the title and author is an abstract image, consisting of multi-colored splashes that might remind one of neurons. The imprint at the top of the cover says "Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology".
In the midst of all the bad, I got the proofs for my book cover, which is fun. (I had little say in it, other than to approve their choice of stock art...but still exciting). ❤️ #neuroscienceoflanguage
Image of two brains, a speaker and a listener. An idea goes from the brain of a speaker through the speech production system and into an acoustic waveform, which is perceived both by the speaker (as auditory feedback) and the listener (where it is decoded back to a linguistic signal.
I've always appreciated the "speech chain" as a way to frame communication. I like that it explicitly includes an acoustic signal 👂 (which can be degraded) and feedback to the speaker. And brains. 🧠
So, this is the first figure in my book, and informs the rest. 🧵
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To mark the completion of my textbook, The Neuroscience of Language, I'll be posting some tidbits from my book over the coming months. Some will be languagey and some will be little rabbit holes that distracted me along the way. Enjoy!
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This phenomenon is actually really interesting in the context of category learning. I think she just has a “meal” category with several equivalent synonyms (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack).
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I'm interviewing PhD students this year. If you know students interested in using behavior & neuroimaging to study speech and language, please consider pointing them my way! Northeastern has a strong training environment and Boston is great.
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