Ariel Goldstein, Avigail Grinstein-Dabush, Mariano Schain, Haocheng Wang, Zhuoqiao Hong, Bobbi Aubrey, Mariano Schain, Samuel A Nastase, Zaid Zada, Eric Ham, Amir Feder, Harshvardhan Gazula, Eliav Buchnik, Werner Doyle, Sasha Devore, Patricia Dugan, Roi Reichart, Daniel Friedman, Michael Brenner, Avinatan Hassidim, Orrin Devinsky, Adeen Flinker, Uri Hasson
Contextual embeddings, derived from deep language models (DLMs), provide a continuous vectorial representation of language. This embedding space differs fundamentally from the symbolic representations posited by traditional psycholinguistics. We hypothesize that language areas in the human brain, similar to DLMs, rely on a continuous embedding space to represent language. To test this hypothesis, we densely record the neural activity patterns in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) of three participants using dense intracranial arrays while they listened to a 30-minute podcast...
March 30, 2024: Nature Communications