Researchers recorded from single neurons across frontotemporal cortex in 8 awake individuals during natural speech. They show how activities of collections of cells can capture syntactic & semantic properties of words, & also dynamically incorporate sentence context to encode combinatorial info.
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Wide-scale recordings reveal neurons in the human brain that encode fundamental components of language such as the grammatical relationships between words, their parts of speech and the...