Elliot Murphy
@elliot-murphy.bsky.social
• Postdoc, Dept of Neurosurgery, UTHealth
• Compositionality in neural and artificial systems
Website: https://elliot-murphy.com/
• Compositionality in neural and artificial systems
Website: https://elliot-murphy.com/
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Elliot Murphy
@elliot-murphy.bsky.social
· Jul 14
ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar
Processing natural language syntax requires a negotiation between symbolic and subsymbolic representations. Building on the recent representation, operation, structure, encoding (ROSE) neurocomputa...
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New paper out today in Cognitive Neuroscience!
Proposing an explicit, causal-mechanistic, falsifiable and empirically grounded neural code for natural language syntax, and its innate basis.
ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Proposing an explicit, causal-mechanistic, falsifiable and empirically grounded neural code for natural language syntax, and its innate basis.
ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)
Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1939
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November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)
Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)
I’ll be presenting new intracranial work this week at #SFN25 🧠
Sunday afternoon poster session (MM1 @ 1pm)
Cortical cascades support rapid semantic inference during reading concrete and abstract words
Sunday afternoon poster session (MM1 @ 1pm)
Cortical cascades support rapid semantic inference during reading concrete and abstract words
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’ll be presenting new intracranial work this week at #SFN25 🧠
Sunday afternoon poster session (MM1 @ 1pm)
Cortical cascades support rapid semantic inference during reading concrete and abstract words
Sunday afternoon poster session (MM1 @ 1pm)
Cortical cascades support rapid semantic inference during reading concrete and abstract words
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👉Softbank sells entire Nvidia position.
👉Oracle debt downgraded.
👉Meta financing games revealed.
👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations.
👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week.
You do the math.
👉Oracle debt downgraded.
👉Meta financing games revealed.
👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations.
👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week.
You do the math.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
👉Softbank sells entire Nvidia position.
👉Oracle debt downgraded.
👉Meta financing games revealed.
👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations.
👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week.
You do the math.
👉Oracle debt downgraded.
👉Meta financing games revealed.
👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations.
👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week.
You do the math.
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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...
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
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...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
Reading about sensations recruits the posterior insula: An intracranial EEG study
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Reading about sensations recruits the posterior insula: An intracranial EEG study
Natural sciences; Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Clinical neuroscience
www.cell.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reading about sensations recruits the posterior insula: An intracranial EEG study
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www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Distance of bipolar re-referencing imparts nonlinear frequency-specific influences on intracranial recording signal measurements
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Distance of bipolar re-referencing imparts nonlinear frequency-specific influences on intracranial recording signal measurements
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Now that we have Hidden Markov Models do we still need correlation matrices?? 😀
For example, this looks cool.
(I'm aware that HMMs are not new, I played with them in grad school...)
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
#neuroskyence
For example, this looks cool.
(I'm aware that HMMs are not new, I played with them in grad school...)
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
#neuroskyence
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Now that we have Hidden Markov Models do we still need correlation matrices?? 😀
For example, this looks cool.
(I'm aware that HMMs are not new, I played with them in grad school...)
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
#neuroskyence
For example, this looks cool.
(I'm aware that HMMs are not new, I played with them in grad school...)
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
#neuroskyence
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Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....
OSF
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November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....
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Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon video.
Great presentation by @elliot-murphy.bsky.social and discussion with @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Bonus: Check the first 17 min or so on Large Language Models
youtu.be/K5wd7nHxzNw
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon video.
Great presentation by @elliot-murphy.bsky.social and discussion with @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Bonus: Check the first 17 min or so on Large Language Models
youtu.be/K5wd7nHxzNw
Brain architecture for syntax and language by Elliot Murphy with William Matchin and Sander van Bree
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon video.
Great presentation by @elliot-murphy.bsky.social and discussion with @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Bonus: Check the first 17 min or so on Large Language Models
youtu.be/K5wd7nHxzNw
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon video.
Great presentation by @elliot-murphy.bsky.social and discussion with @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Bonus: Check the first 17 min or so on Large Language Models
youtu.be/K5wd7nHxzNw
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Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook
Big thank you to @pessoabrain.bsky.social for hosting me yesterday in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon!
The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
Brain architecture for syntax and language by Elliot Murphy with William Matchin and Sander van Bree
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
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November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Big thank you to @pessoabrain.bsky.social for hosting me yesterday in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon!
The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
Comparison of lateralization and spatial patterns of hemodynamic and neuromagnetic language brain mapping
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Comparison of lateralization and spatial patterns of hemodynamic and neuromagnetic language brain mapping
To compare and integrate hemispheric lateralization and spatial patterns of language mapping derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Comparison of lateralization and spatial patterns of hemodynamic and neuromagnetic language brain mapping
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Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking. My new
@psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...
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@psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...
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Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking
For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking. My new
@psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...
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@psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...
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**CORRECTION of link**
Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language
Neuro & Philo Salon: join our discussion with
@elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US
Registration:
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Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language
Neuro & Philo Salon: join our discussion with
@elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US
Registration:
umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
**CORRECTION of link**
Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language
Neuro & Philo Salon: join our discussion with
@elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US
Registration:
umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language
Neuro & Philo Salon: join our discussion with
@elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social
Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US
Registration:
umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity
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November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interplay of semantic and phonological predictions in language comprehension: Insights from the visual world paradigm
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Interplay of semantic and phonological predictions in language comprehension: Insights from the visual world paradigm
Prediction in language processing is a fundamental cognitive function that supports efficient comprehension and interaction by anticipating upcoming l…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Interplay of semantic and phonological predictions in language comprehension: Insights from the visual world paradigm
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mind the Gap: How BabyLMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies
“Results show that BabyLM-scale models partially acquire filler-gap dependencies but often fail to generalize or fully capture island constraints.”
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
“Results show that BabyLM-scale models partially acquire filler-gap dependencies but often fail to generalize or fully capture island constraints.”
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
Mind the Gap: How BabyLMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies
Chi-Yun Chang, Xueyang Huang, Humaira Nasir, Shane Storks, Olawale Akingbade, Huteng Dai. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.
aclanthology.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Mind the Gap: How BabyLMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies
“Results show that BabyLM-scale models partially acquire filler-gap dependencies but often fail to generalize or fully capture island constraints.”
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
“Results show that BabyLM-scale models partially acquire filler-gap dependencies but often fail to generalize or fully capture island constraints.”
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
Topographic Variation in Human Neurotransmitter Receptor Densities Explains Differences in Intracranial EEG Spectra
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Topographic Variation in Human Neurotransmitter Receptor Densities Explains Differences in Intracranial EEG Spectra
Brain function and its failures arise from dynamical patterns of neuronal activity shaped by synaptic neurotransmission. Both neurotransmitter receptor expression and neuronal population dynamics show a remarkable regional variability across the ...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Topographic Variation in Human Neurotransmitter Receptor Densities Explains Differences in Intracranial EEG Spectra
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...