Greg Hickok

Some very nice conclusions from Elliot Murphy's review of my book, Wired for Words in Bioloinguistics. @elliot-murphy.bsky.social

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Published today - my review of Greg Hickok's excellent new book 'Wired for Words'! @gregoryhickok.bsky.social

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Join us for the upcoming lecture by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social on Friday, February 6th at 1 pm EST: "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language and Its Sensorimotor Foundation"

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@gregoryhickok.bsky.social will be giving a C-STAR lecture on Friday, February 6 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time regarding his new book 'Wired for Words'. I'm sure it will be provocative in the best possible way. Please attend and prepare your most challenging questions!

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ROROTOKO interview on my book, Wired for Words, published by @mitpress.bsky.social .

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Very nice review of my @mitpress.bsky.social book Wired for Words from Jace Wolfe:

Wired for Words: A Magnum Opus! a.co/d/cRg7fk9

‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt In his new book, Hickok provides a detailed overview of the research into the circuits that control speech and language. In this excerpt from Chapter 5, he shares how meeting his colleague David…

Once "fully hypnotized by hemispheric dichotomies," @gregoryhickok.bsky.social shares how meeting his colleague David Poeppel led to them developing the theory for bilateral speech perception. An excerpt from "Wired for Words" via @thetransmitter.bsky.social:

‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt In his new book, Hickok provides a detailed overview of the research into the circuits that control speech and language. In this excerpt from Chapter 5, he shares how meeting his colleague David…

In an excerpt from his new book, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social details how meeting @davidpoeppel.bsky.social upended his understanding of speech processing in the brain and led to them developing the theory for bilateral speech perception.

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On language and thought: evidence from aphasia. My latest essay for @psychtoday.bsky.social from my new book, Wired for Words published @mitpress.bsky.social.
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You saw it before me!

I've yet to see a hardcopy myself but Amazon has some actual photos posted.

A copy of "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language" by Gregory Hickok on a plain background. The cover features a image of the brain.

In "Wired for Words," cognitive neuroscientist @gregoryhickok.bsky.social provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research on the brain’s networks that enable us to communicate through language: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...

Such a fun time chatting with @smwilson.bsky.social about my book and language science generally! The book is out TODAY!

Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...

Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪
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Why We Dance Ever wonder why humans can't resist moving to music? The answer connects dancing to speech in a surprising way—and explains why parrots are our unlikely partners in rhythm.

Why we dance: The surprising link between talking, music, and moving to the beat. My latest essay @psychtoday.bsky.social adapted from my forthcoming @mitpress.bsky.social book, Wired for Words. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

If you're at #Sfn2025, stop by the 8am poster session Nov. 16 on Oral Motor and Speech and say hi! We're presenting two posters on the separate circuits for phonetic and prosodic control in speech production.

Ok, I thought that's where you were going with this. I agree, but if Chomsky's right--and it's not a crazy idea--then it means that those features are not part of language, which renders my position true. Also, I'm talking specifically about the architecture, not the operations.

Brilliant. So a chunk of language is a species of sensorimotor control. What chunk is not, exactly?

Yesterday I had a great chat with Stephen Wilson on his Language Neuroscience Podcast about my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Watch for the podcast and book release on November 25! langneurosci.org/podcast/

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.

We still don't fully understand left-brain, right-brain differences.
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Similarly, language architecture and sensorimotor architecture (e.g., visually guided grasping) descend from a common neurocomputational architecture. Both build on their ancestral plan and have evolved to solve domain specific problems.

The two cases are exactly the same: humans are a species of ape just like language architecture is a species of sensorimotor control architecture. (Chimp-monkey is a bad example; chimps are not monkeys, but both are primates.) The point is that chimps and humans descend from a common ancestor.

Of course! But that doesn’t justify your “no.” Humans are a species of ape. Would you say yes and no to that as well?

Wanna elaborate?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but it sounds like you're taking it a bit too far?

Brain-wide single-neuron bases of working memory for sounds in humans In order to understand the constantly changing acoustic world our brains must maintain elements of auditory scenes in memory. The neural mechanisms for this fundamental process remain unclear. Here, w...

I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Language is a "species" of sensorimotor control architecture. A major conclusion regarding the neural architecture of language in my forthcoming book this month, Wired for Words
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Wired for Words: Understanding Language and the Brain After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.

Final adapted post from my forthcoming book
@mitpress.bsky.social Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language. This one focuses on progress over the last 2.5 decades and summarizes some of the main takeaways, IMO. @psychtoday.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Audiovisual Temporal Processing as a Behavioral Marker in Carotid Atherosclerotic Disease: Preliminary Data and Hypothesis Changes in auditory and audiovisual (AV) temporal processing occur in early aging and stroke. Asymptomatic carotid atherosclerotic disease (ACAD) can cause chronic vascular insufficiency and silent is...

Audio-visual synchrony perception in speech, which requires precise temporal alignment, might be sensitive to subclinical neurological disease. Here's some preliminary data from stroke. Work led by my former student Jon Venezia. www.jvascsurg.org/article/S074...

A nice piece on my now former grad student Jeremy Yeaton. Very proud of their accomplishments and looking forward to following Jeremy’s future successes!