Marco Chia-Ho Lai
@MarcoCHLai
Graduate student at NYU, interested in language, music, and developmental science
If you’re at #CNS2025, come check out our work on speech planning (poster C165) this Sunday! @CNSmtg
Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.
Very happy to see our latest study featured by @AIatMeta: 'Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain', by @EvansonLinnea et al, - paper: ai.meta.com/research/publi… - thread: x.com/EvansonLinnea/… - blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fair…
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s41586…
I wrote this Cortex commentary in response to a recent fMRIstudy on the angular gyrus's role in segmenting continuous info (speech, music, film), reviewing key findings & discussing how human connectome research can illuminate neural event segmentation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
New in @NatureHumBehav, @jessierliu, Lingyun Zhao, PhD & @ChangLabUCSF show that the middle precentral gyrus coordinates the muscle movements required to speak, challenging the longstanding view that Broca's area controls this process: nature.com/articles/s4156…
Check out our new paper “Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area” in PNAS! @carrasco_lab pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
We’re excited to share our unique ECoG dataset for natural language comprehension. The paper is now on Scientific Data (nature.com/articles/s4159…) and data is on OpenNeuro (openneuro.org/datasets/ds005…). @zaidzada_ @samnastase
📷 3-Year Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience at @BottiniLab, CIMeC, University of Trento! 📷 Memory, attention, eye movements, and cognitive maps INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1WGEEpl… DEADLINE TO APPLY JULY 9TH - BUT FLEXIBLE START AT END 2025 OR SPRING 2026!
Check out this super cool study on shared meaning representation across languages in brains and languages models 👉🏻
How do different languages converge on a shared neural substrate for conceptual meaning? We’re excited to share our latest preprint that specifically addresses this question, led by @zaidzada_
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications — a Review by Caio Seguin, Olaf Sporns & Andrew Zalesky nature.com/articles/s4158… @caioseguin @spornslab @AndrewZalesky
#JNeurosci: Stone et al. found that text-selective regions in the inferior frontal cortex are linked to reading proficiency in children, showing sensitivity to both stimulus and task responses—even when reading isn’t required. vist.ly/3n6z2q3
Join us in congratulating our Award Recipients: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, David Poeppel, and Jacob Momsen! 👏 #SNL2025 Learn more here: 2025.neurolang.org/awards-informa…
🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience at @BottiniLab, CIMeC, University of Trento! 🚨 Join our international team to explore memory, attention, eye movements, and cognitive maps using advanced neuroimaging methods (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG). More info: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6IuuX…
🧠🗞️🗣️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
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/s4427…
New lab preprint! This one has been a long time coming. On the generative mechanisms underlying the cortical tracking of natural speech: a position paper. osf.io/preprints/osf/… A brief thread below…
A study by Mole et al. on a large sample of patients with unilateral focal lesions concludes that right dorsolateral frontal cortex is critical for both analogical and deductive reasoning; our own commentary, led by Carlo Reverberi, adds some caveats and nuance to this claim.
New issue of Brain now online! academic.oup.com/brain/issue/14…
Tomorrow morning (May 18, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm) I will be presenting my poster with @carrasco_lab at @VSSMtg at Pavilion Endogenous attention enhances contrast sensitivity similarly around cardinal meridians despite differential adaptation effects! #VSS2025
Hands-on training at University of Oxford using OPM in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Deadline 23/05/2025
We are delighted to announce the first OPM-FLUX toolkit to be held 9th-12th June 2025 at St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford: neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2025
More MSCA postdoctoral fellowships this year! Join our lab to dive into fMRI, MEG, intracranial EEG, eye-tracking, cognitive maps, memory, blindness & concepts. Plus our new research-line: Generative AI for neuroimaging. Ready to apply together? …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdo…