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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 2d

I view the IFG as the system that codes linearized plans for production at the syntactic (~pars triangularis) and phonological (~pars opercularis) levels. The core hierarchical component is the pMTG.

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 4d

It can be preordered now, however. www.amazon.com/Wired-Words-...

Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language

Amazon.com: Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language eBook : Hickok, Gregory: Kindle Store

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 4d

I call it the Linguistic Sensorimotor Model. Ventral areas code targets for production, dorsal areas code plans for execution and a translation system, at each level. Receptive function only involves ventral systems for the most part. The book will be released in late November.

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 4d

My attempt to depict the neural architecture of language as motivated in my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Like colors represent functional connectivity. Main insight: linguistic levels are all organized with a sensorimotor-like architecture. pbs.twimg.com/media/G2cwsM...

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah there were a lot of questions after that early finding. We followed up with a ton of further studies. See me my book for all of the details!

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 12d

How your brain conducts the symphony of speech. My latest post on @psychtoday.bsky.social , excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

How Your Brain Conducts the Symphony of Speech

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements. This discovery revolutionized speech science.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · 22d

Very happy to see Angelique's paper on semantic processing and the ATL with @vipiai.bsky.social, @profkatie.bsky.social out now in Cortex : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are the ventral anterior temporal lobes involved in accessing conceptual knowledge during spoken word production? fMRI evidence from auditory naming

There is ongoing debate about the role of ventral anterior temporal lobe (vATL) regions in the initial stages of production, particularly in accessing…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 22d

New work on aphasia treatment outcome from Janina Wilmskoetter and the CSTAR team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Naming practice effects and inconsistencies relate to treatment outcome in people with aphasia

Intra-individual variability in language performance has been proposed as a factor associated with treatment outcomes in chronic aphasia. However, the…

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 23d

Indeed, an interesting take on LLMs from my Department of Language Science colleague, Richard Futrell @ucirvine.bsky.social.

William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 23d

Provocative piece and more interesting than most that have been written about this topic. I greatly encourage people to weigh in!

My own perspective is that while there is utility to LMs, the scientific insights are greatly overstated.

Kyle Mahowald (COLM 2025) @kmahowald.bsky.social · 23d

📣@futrell.bsky.social and I have a BBS target article with an optimistic take on LLMs + linguistics. Commentary proposals (just need a few hundred words) are OPEN until Oct 8. If we are too optimistic for you (or not optimistic enough!) or you have anything to say: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 29d

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...

Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 28d

Telegrams and Sentence Monsters | Psychology Today

My latest essay on the neurology of syntax excerpted from Wired for Words my forthcoming book published by
@mitpress.bsky.social

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Telegrams and Sentence Monsters

Discover how studying the breakdown of language following a stroke has finally revealed the hidden machinery of one of humanity's most remarkable abilities.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · Aug 23

VocalMind: A Stereotactic EEG Dataset for Vocalized, Mimed, and Imagined Speech in Tonal Language

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

VocalMind: A Stereotactic EEG Dataset for Vocalized, Mimed, and Imagined Speech in Tonal Language - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - VocalMind: A Stereotactic EEG Dataset for Vocalized, Mimed, and Imagined Speech in Tonal Language

www.nature.com

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Secret Life of Words. My new piece on the mysterious word. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

The Secret Life of Words

Words aren't simply sounds connected to meanings, but involve a hidden "middle layer" that might unlock a deeper understanding of how language works generally.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Aug 21

Neural plasticity had a good run. A bit of a myth? I always thought it was overblown. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost

Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation.

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are still under the spell of split-brain research. My new piece in @psychtoday.bsky.social. Excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

We Are Still Under the Spell of Split-Brain Research

For decades, researchers insisted the left brain dominates all aspects of language. But rare cases of "word deafness" and new experiments reveal a hidden symmetry.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Andrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social · Jul 28

This looks really good! (coming soon, by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social) I don't think Steve Pinker is on Bsky, but he's promoting this blog post about it on Twitter, which is also good: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Jul 18

The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics - Behavior Research Methods

This paper presents the UCI Phonotactic Calculator (UCIPC), a new online tool for quantifying the occurrence of segments and segment sequences in a corpus. This tool has several advantages compared to...

link.springer.com

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language | New book by @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive and language scientist @gregoryhickok.bsky.social explores 150 years of research on how the brain enables language

*Presale available now w/ 25% discount at @barnesandnoble.com*

@mitpress.bsky.social

Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language

www.socsci.uci.edu

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wired for Words
Table of Contents

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Jul 9

Honored to have such nice endorsements from Cathy Price and
Steve Pinker for my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Jul 7

Pre-order sale on Wired for Words @barnesandnoble.com
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wired-for-...

Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language|Paperback

A critical synthesis of over 150 years of research on the brain’s networks that enable us to communicate through language.The neural architecture of language has been a hotly debated topic in ne...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Jun 11

How strong is the Rhythm of Perception? Molly Henry, Jonathan Peelle, and team found out in a large-scale registered replication of Hickok, et al. 2015. @jpeelle.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

How strong is the rhythm of perception? A registered replication of Hickok et al. (2015) | Royal Society Open Science

Our ability to predict upcoming events is a fundamental component of human cognition. One way in which we do so is by exploiting temporal regularities in sensory signals: the ticking of a clock, falli...

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · May 30

"More work with causal approaches is needed..." For the interested reader, here's some citations to work involving such causal approaches that didn't make the cut in this summary. They tell a rather different story on the cortical organization of syntax. @wmatchin.bsky.social

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · May 29

Hard copies have arrived!!!!!

Photograph of a book with titled The Neuroscience of Language

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · May 20

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

(please share widely)

Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

lacns.github.io

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