Adeen Flinker@adeenflinker

Neuroscientist and technology aficionado. Associate Professor of Neurology & Biomedical Engineering, NYU School of Medicine. #ECoG tweets my own

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Joined February 2015
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New paper out today in @NatMachIntell, where we show robust neural to speech decoding across 48 patients. nature.com/articles/s42256-0…
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Cogan Lab@CoganLab
Aug 18
How does a speech plan become fluent movement? In Nature Human Behaviour, led by @dsuseendar: Intracranial recordings reveal how hierarchical speech plans become continuous motor sequences across planning, articulation, and monitoring networks. doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-0… 1/5

Distinct neural processes link speech planning and execution

Nature Human Behaviour - Direct recordings from the human brain reveal a hierarchy in planning to speak, with neural activity organizing whole syllables before the individual sounds that compose...

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Pierre Mégevand@pierre_vanmedge
Jan 30
New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @unige_en Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details: job offer below
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David Poeppel@davidpoeppel
Apr 21
New paper that merits a read (Im totally unbiased...not). Simple, straightforward, impactful message. Prediction a la LLM is nice. Constituent-constrained prediction is nicer. @jiajiezou.bsky.social and Nai Ding show brain, behavioral, MEG, ECoG data. nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Constituent-constrained word prediction during language comprehension

Nature Neuroscience - Zou et al. reveal a key difference between human brains and large language models (LLMs). While LLMs are optimized to predict the next word, the human brain modulates...

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I’m thrilled this new study is finally out pointing to a low activity coding scheme for linguistic representations. Amazing work from @adumbmoron
adam morgan (same handle at oo-blay eye-skay)@adumbmoron
Aug 7
New paper in @ScienceAdvances ! 10 ECoG patients perofrmed 3 language production tasks: word, word list, and sentence production. We found surprising dissociations between how active cortical sites were and whether they encoded linguistic information: 🧵 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec05…
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New paper in @ScienceAdvances ! 10 ECoG patients perofrmed 3 language production tasks: word, word list, and sentence production. We found surprising dissociations between how active cortical sites were and whether they encoded linguistic information: 🧵 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec05…

Hybrid spatial organization and evidence for magnitude-independent neural coding of linguistic...

Brain recordings during speech reveal complex linguistic information throughout cortex, independent of neural activity levels.

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Faxin Zhou@FaxinZhou
Jun 25
New paper with amazing @adeenflinker is now out in @NatureComms! Frontal cortex organization supporting audiovisual processing during naturalistic viewing: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Check out great work from @FaxinZhou out in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Frontal cortex organization supporting audiovisual processing during naturalistic viewing

Nature Communications - This study employed neurosurgical EEG recordings directly from the surface of the brain to reveal a dynamic ventral–dorsal gradient in the human frontal cortex that...

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Faxin Zhou@FaxinZhou
Jun 25
New paper with amazing @adeenflinker is now out in @NatureComms! Frontal cortex organization supporting audiovisual processing during naturalistic viewing: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Slutzky Lab@SlutzkyLab
Apr 1
Thrilled and grateful to share our paper out today in @Nature (rdcu.be/fbd7J). We used a brain machine interface (brain computer interface, #BCI) to causally test the origin of the high-gamma band of local field potentials #LFP. See explanation by @TH_Alec_Lei below
Tianhao Lei@TH_Alec_Lei
Apr 1
🎉 Excited to share our new paper in Nature: “Active Dissociation of Intracortical Spiking and High Gamma Activity.” 🧠 Huge thanks to my advisors first: @SlutzkyLab @joshuaiglaser Paper link: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Here are some digests that walk you through the results 👇🏼
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Check out our visualization toolbox for iEEG activity.
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv_neursci
21 Nov 2025
Mithra: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Visualization Toolbox for Human Intracranial Recordings biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci
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📊 New Preprint! A Scalable Pipeline for Estimating Verb Frame Frequencies Using Large Language Models. We introduce another unexpected use for LLMs: custom treebanks via automated corpus annotation 🧵1/8 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.…

A Scalable Pipeline for Estimating Verb Frame Frequencies Using...

We present an automated pipeline for estimating Verb Frame Frequencies (VFFs), the frequency with which a verb appears in particular syntactic frames. VFFs provide a powerful window into syntax in...

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Cell Reports@CellReports
12 May 2025
A left-lateralized dorsolateral prefrontal network for naming dlvr.it/TKjYCl

A left-lateralized dorsolateral prefrontal network for naming

Yu et al. dissociate two left-lateralized language networks leading up to word retrieval using electrocorticography in 48 patients: a semantic processing network spanning MFG and IFG, which encodes...

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🧠🗞️🗣️Finally out! Paper with a way-too-long name for social media. How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9 rdcu.be/epA1J in @CommsPsychol
Task screenshots (picture naming: a cartoon picture of Frankenstein; scene description: cartoon image of Dracula hitting Frankenstein) and mean neural activity per word for one electrode in middle temporal gyrus.

ALT Task screenshots (picture naming: a cartoon picture of Frankenstein; scene description: cartoon image of Dracula hitting Frankenstein) and mean neural activity per word for one electrode in middle temporal gyrus.

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Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ultimately spoken. @adumbmoron @adeenflinker nature.com/articles/s44271-0…

Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure...

Communications Psychology - Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a...

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“A left-lateralized dorsolateral prefrontal network for naming” by Leyao Yu et al. Cell Reports dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.…
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Very happy our new paper led by @yllyyao905 is now out in @CellReports "A left-lateralized dorsolateral prefrontal network for naming" doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.202…
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The cortical representations and statistical analysis across clusters supports a semantic processing role for the naming-specific cluster.
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Work was led by the amazing @yllyyao905 a PhD student at @nyutandon with the associated press release here engineering.nyu.edu/news/map….
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