Cortico-hippocampal dynamics of hierarchical syntactic planning in natural speech production
Piermatteo Morucci, Mamady Nabé, Sebastian Sauppe, Martin E. Meyer, Pierre Mégevand, Laurent Spinelli, Balthasar Bickel, Timothée Proix, Anne‐Lise Giraud
The paper investigates hierarchical syntactic planning in speech production using SEEG recordings, finding that core syntactic categories are planned before modifiers and that the hippocampus contributes to sentence structure building.
bioRxiv · Aug 7, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience