Thanks to patients Phineas Gage and Henry Molaison, we have long known that behavioral control depends on the frontal lobes, whereas declarative memory depends on the medial temporal lobes (MTL). For...

Nature Human Behaviour - Speech is produced and perceived at a rate of 4–5 Hz. Gagl et al. show that the temporal structure of our eye movements during reading is similar...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Syllables play a central role in speech production and perception. In this Review, Poeppel and Assaneo outline how a simple biophysical model of the speech production...

Nature Human Behaviour - A mapping between emotions and speech prosody is commonly assumed. This study shows, using Bayesian modelling, that differences across individuals, cultures and sexes...

Two experts argue that the field needs to move beyond its limited roots

I am delighted to see two excellent commentaries published in eNeuro . György Buzsáki contacted me because, 20 years ago, he had tried to publish a commentary regarding the way behavioral-cognitive...

A brief introduction to decision-making with uncertain evidence (statistical decision theory) as presented at a faculty symposium on Evidence at NYU that too...

The environment is shaped by two sources of temporal uncertainty: the discrete probability of whether an event will occur and—if it does—the contin...

Listeners experience speech as a sequence of discrete words. However, the real input is a continuously varying acoustic signal that blends words and phonemes into one another. Here we recorded...

Neural oscillations track linguistic information during speech comprehension ([Ding et al., 2016][1]; [Keitel et al., 2018][2]), and are known to be modulated by acoustic landmarks and speech...

Before he wrote the recent book The Brain from Inside Out , the neuroscientist György Buzsáki previewed some of the arguments in a paper written 20 years ago (“The brain-cognitive behavior problem: a...

Humans use sensory input to anticipate events. The brain’s capacity to predict cues in time is commonly assumed to be modulated by two uncertainty parameters, the hazard rate (HR) of event probabil...

An interview with David Poeppel.

Although sensory input arrives continuously, we experience the world in discrete units, consisting of words, objects, scenes and events, which in turn form the basis of language, thought and memory....

Social neuroscientists ask what happens at the level of neurons when you tell someone a story or a group watches movies

A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization.Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we comman...

How does the human brain support real-world learning? We used wireless electroencephalography to collect neurophysiological data from a group of 12 senior high school students and their teacher...

When two animals interact, neural activity across their brains synchronizes in a way that predicts how they will behave and how they form social dominance relationships.

A MIT economist’s study shows that life sciences change course after star scientists die during their active careers.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by David Poeppel. David Poeppe...