Gregory B. Cogan
@gcogan.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Director of Research, Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Duke University
http://coganlab.org
Director of Research, Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Duke University
http://coganlab.org
Come see the lab's work and say hello :)
Coming to San Diego for SfN and/or APAN? Come check out the intracranial work from the lab (7 posters)! There's a bit of everything this year, so come say hello!
#Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social
#Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Come see the lab's work and say hello :)
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@davidpoeppel.bsky.social receiving the well-deserved @snlmtg.bsky.social Distinguished Career Award
David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.
#SNL2025
David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.
#SNL2025
September 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social receiving the well-deserved @snlmtg.bsky.social Distinguished Career Award
David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.
#SNL2025
David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.
#SNL2025
Come by tomorrow morning to hear about verbal working memory!
Saturday Sept. 13 11am-12:30pm, Poster Session C
C54: Baishen Liang (Postdoctoral Associate) will be presenting his work on sensory-motor mechanisms for verbal working memory.
Hope to see you all there!
C54: Baishen Liang (Postdoctoral Associate) will be presenting his work on sensory-motor mechanisms for verbal working memory.
Hope to see you all there!
September 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Stop by this afternoon to see some intracranial speech decoding in the hippocampus and to say hello!
Friday Sept 12 4:30pm-6:00pm, Poster Session B
B70: Yuchao Wang (Rotation CNAP PhD Student) will be presenting his work on auditory pseudoword decoding in the hippocampus.
B70: Yuchao Wang (Rotation CNAP PhD Student) will be presenting his work on auditory pseudoword decoding in the hippocampus.
September 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Stop by this afternoon to see some intracranial speech decoding in the hippocampus and to say hello!
Come stop by to say hello and see some science!
Coming to DC for SNL later this week?
Come check out our posters on speech decoding and verbal working memory using intracranial recordings!
@snlmtg.bsky.social
#SNL2025
Come check out our posters on speech decoding and verbal working memory using intracranial recordings!
@snlmtg.bsky.social
#SNL2025
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Come stop by to say hello and see some science!
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Last week, Zac Spalding (@zspald.bsky.social, 4th year PhD student, @dukeubme.bsky.social) presented Adam Gosztolai, Robert Peach, and colleagues’ 2025 paper on MARBLE, a method for finding interpretable latent representations of neural dynamics.
MARBLE: interpretable representations of neural population dynamics using geometric deep learning - Nature Methods
MARBLE uses geometric deep learning to map dynamics such as neural activity into a latent representation, which can then be used to decode the neural activity or compare it across systems.
www.nature.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Last week, Zac Spalding (@zspald.bsky.social, 4th year PhD student, @dukeubme.bsky.social) presented Adam Gosztolai, Robert Peach, and colleagues’ 2025 paper on MARBLE, a method for finding interpretable latent representations of neural dynamics.
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Exciting work by PhD student Zac Spalding @zspald.bsky.social and multiple labs across departments at Duke! A combination of human electrophysiology, modeling/decoding, and cognitive concepts to improve BCI for speech in patients. 👏 🧠📈
We’re happy to present @zspald.bsky.social 's work on shared neural representations of speech production across individuals! We find that patient-specific data can be aligned to a shared space that preserves speech information, enabling cross-patient speech BCIs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Exciting work by PhD student Zac Spalding @zspald.bsky.social and multiple labs across departments at Duke! A combination of human electrophysiology, modeling/decoding, and cognitive concepts to improve BCI for speech in patients. 👏 🧠📈
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
From Cogan Lab Journal Club with @zspald.bsky.social
these decomposition acronyms are getting out of hand!
these decomposition acronyms are getting out of hand!
August 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
From Cogan Lab Journal Club with @zspald.bsky.social
these decomposition acronyms are getting out of hand!
these decomposition acronyms are getting out of hand!
Excellent work by @zspald.bsky.social !!
He finds that a shared neural speech production space across Micro-ECoG patients boosts decoding performance. Check it out!
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social
He finds that a shared neural speech production space across Micro-ECoG patients boosts decoding performance. Check it out!
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social
We’re happy to present @zspald.bsky.social 's work on shared neural representations of speech production across individuals! We find that patient-specific data can be aligned to a shared space that preserves speech information, enabling cross-patient speech BCIs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Excellent work by @zspald.bsky.social !!
He finds that a shared neural speech production space across Micro-ECoG patients boosts decoding performance. Check it out!
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social
He finds that a shared neural speech production space across Micro-ECoG patients boosts decoding performance. Check it out!
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Living in or around #DurhamNC and looking for something fun to do? Come share drinks and data at our Periodic Tables science cafe event! @gcogan.bsky.social will take us on a guided tour of the brain’s remarkable capacity to enable speech and language.
Periodic Tables: What Makes Us Speak?
For most of us, our brain oversees our effortless ability to speak. How does it do this? And how can we read the brain to restore speech in patients who have lost this ability? This month at Periodic…
scienceandsociety.duke.edu
August 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Living in or around #DurhamNC and looking for something fun to do? Come share drinks and data at our Periodic Tables science cafe event! @gcogan.bsky.social will take us on a guided tour of the brain’s remarkable capacity to enable speech and language.
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Last week, Nanlin Shi (Postdoctoral Associate) presented Jessie Liu and colleague’s latest work on speech encoding in the middle Precentral Gyrus (mPrCG). This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus - Nature Human Behaviour
Liu et al. examine the role of sustained neural activity in the planning and production of speech sequences, revealing a key role for the middle precentral gyrus.
www.nature.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Last week, Nanlin Shi (Postdoctoral Associate) presented Jessie Liu and colleague’s latest work on speech encoding in the middle Precentral Gyrus (mPrCG). This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Join an amazing lab!!
My new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that!
Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging.
Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT
Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j
Accepting GS apps in the Fall!
Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging.
Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT
Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j
Accepting GS apps in the Fall!
August 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Join an amazing lab!!
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
This week, Jim Zhang (3rd year PhD student, @dukebrain.bsky.social) presented Brooke Staveland’s paper on circuit dynamics of approach-avoidance conflict in humans. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Circuit dynamics of approach-avoidance conflict in humans
Debilitating anxiety is pervasive in the modern world. Choices to approach or avoid are common in everyday life and excessive avoidance is a cardinal feature of all anxiety disorders. Here, we used in...
www.biorxiv.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This week, Jim Zhang (3rd year PhD student, @dukebrain.bsky.social) presented Brooke Staveland’s paper on circuit dynamics of approach-avoidance conflict in humans. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Last week, Areti Majumdar (1st year PhD student) presented Leyao Yu and colleagues’ new paper on two overlapping but distinct frontal networks for word retrieval. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
July 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Last week, Areti Majumdar (1st year PhD student) presented Leyao Yu and colleagues’ new paper on two overlapping but distinct frontal networks for word retrieval. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Last week,
@danielsexton16.bsky.social
(7th year Neurosurgery Resident at Duke University) presented Linnea Evanson and colleagues' new paper on comparing the development of language from childhood to adulthood and how it relates to LLMs. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
@danielsexton16.bsky.social
(7th year Neurosurgery Resident at Duke University) presented Linnea Evanson and colleagues' new paper on comparing the development of language from childhood to adulthood and how it relates to LLMs. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
June 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Last week,
@danielsexton16.bsky.social
(7th year Neurosurgery Resident at Duke University) presented Linnea Evanson and colleagues' new paper on comparing the development of language from childhood to adulthood and how it relates to LLMs. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
@danielsexton16.bsky.social
(7th year Neurosurgery Resident at Duke University) presented Linnea Evanson and colleagues' new paper on comparing the development of language from childhood to adulthood and how it relates to LLMs. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Last week, Nicole Liddle (CRS, Sr. @nicoleliddle.bsky.social) presented Çatal and colleagues’ 2024 paper on the flexibility of intrinsic neural timescales during distinct behavioral states. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔):
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Flexibility of intrinsic neural timescales during distinct behavioral states - Communications Biology
Calcium imaging of spontaneously behaving mice show increased intrinsic neural timescales during behavior. The behavioral state of mice can be predicted from the topography of timescales of the cortex...
www.nature.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Last week, Nicole Liddle (CRS, Sr. @nicoleliddle.bsky.social) presented Çatal and colleagues’ 2024 paper on the flexibility of intrinsic neural timescales during distinct behavioral states. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔):
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
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)
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
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Come join us at Duke!
The Cogan Lab is looking for a new clinical research specialist/research assistant! If you are interested in speech, language, and BCI and want to work with patients implanted with intracranial electrodes, reach out!
www.coganlab.org/news
www.coganlab.org/news
NEWS | Cogan Lab
www.coganlab.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Come join us at Duke!
Come join us at Duke!
The Cogan Lab is looking for a new clinical research specialist/research assistant! If you are interested in speech, language, and BCI and want to work with patients implanted with intracranial electrodes, reach out!
www.coganlab.org/news
www.coganlab.org/news
NEWS | Cogan Lab
www.coganlab.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Come join us at Duke!
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Last week, Baishen Liang (postdoctoral associate) presented recent verbal working work using two-dimensional neural geometry by Fan and colleagues:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) :
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) :
Two-dimensional neural geometry underpins hierarchical organization of sequence in human working memory - Nature Human Behaviour
Working memory is constructive in nature. In three electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography studies, Fan et al. provide converging behavioural and neural evidence that a one-dimensional syllable ...
www.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Last week, Baishen Liang (postdoctoral associate) presented recent verbal working work using two-dimensional neural geometry by Fan and colleagues:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) :
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔) :
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
POST-DOC CALL!
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...
March 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
POST-DOC CALL!
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Duke is one of the largest biomedical research enterprises in the country. A cut of this magnitude (15%cap on F&As) would result in thousands of lost jobs at Duke & potentially tens of thousands across NC.
Sources: medschool.duke.edu/about-us/fac... & www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-pdf/?sta...
Sources: medschool.duke.edu/about-us/fac... & www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-pdf/?sta...
February 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Duke is one of the largest biomedical research enterprises in the country. A cut of this magnitude (15%cap on F&As) would result in thousands of lost jobs at Duke & potentially tens of thousands across NC.
Sources: medschool.duke.edu/about-us/fac... & www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-pdf/?sta...
Sources: medschool.duke.edu/about-us/fac... & www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-pdf/?sta...
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Hey neuroscientists: were you, your lab or any of your ongoing projects caught up in any of the latest NIH firings? You can find me on Signal at avaskham.54 if you want to chat. 🧪
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
February 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hey neuroscientists: were you, your lab or any of your ongoing projects caught up in any of the latest NIH firings? You can find me on Signal at avaskham.54 if you want to chat. 🧪
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
Reposted by Gregory B. Cogan
Last week, @danielsexton16.bsky.social (7th year Neurosurgery Resident at Duke University) presented Jonathan Daume and colleagues' new paper on single cell phase-amplitude coupling in a working memory task. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Control of working memory by phase–amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons - Nature
Hippocampal theta–gamma phase–amplitude coupling integrates cognitive control and working memory storage across brain areas in humans.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Last week, @danielsexton16.bsky.social (7th year Neurosurgery Resident at Duke University) presented Jonathan Daume and colleagues' new paper on single cell phase-amplitude coupling in a working memory task. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...