Estimation of neuronal tuning for word meaning from passively recorded naturalistic speech
Taha Ismail, Ana G. Chavez, Xinyuan Yan, Hao Zhu, Melissa C. Franch, James L. Belanger, Saipravallika Chamarthi, Katherine E. Kabotyanski, Kalman A. Katlowitz, Assia Chericoni, Elizabeth A. Mickiewicz, Timon Merk, Yewen Zhou, Nikhil Shivakumar, Paul Steffan, , Benjamin Y. Hayden
The paper develops a pipeline to estimate neuronal tuning for word meaning from naturalistic speech and validates it using patient data and ground-truth controls.
bioRxiv · Jun 28, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience