Pronouns reactivate conceptual representations in human hippocampal neurons
D. E. Dijksterhuis, Matthew W. Self, Jessy K. Possel, Judith Carolien Peters, Elisabeth C.W. van Straaten, Sander Idema, Johannes C. Baayen, S. M. A. van der Salm, Erik J. Aarnoutse, Nicole E. C. van Klink, Pieter van Eijsden, Simon Hanslmayr, Ramesh Chelvarajah, Frédéric Roux, Luca D. Kolibius, , Pieter R. Roelfsema
The paper shows that pronouns reactivate noun-specific neurons in the human hippocampus during reading, linking memory and language at the single-cell level.
Science · Sep 26, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience