eLife

Modality-agnostic decoding of vision and language from fMRI

Modality-agnostic decoders leverage modality-invariant representations in human subjects' brain activity to predict stimuli irrespective of their modality (image, text, mental imagery).

Sramcbled wrods: The real reason you can still read jumbled text

You've probably seen it on social media before: a paragraph of scrambled text that looks like nonsense at first glance, yet ...

Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

In addition to the financial burdens of HEVC licensing, the risk of lawsuits from patent holders can deter companies from ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Microarchitecture Tailored to 3D-Stacked Near-Memory Processing LLM Decoding (U. of Edinburgh, Peking U., Cambridge et al.)

A new technical paper, “Rethinking Compute Substrates for 3D-Stacked Near-Memory LLM Decoding: Microarchitecture-Scheduling ...
Frontiers

Talk, Text, Connect: Naturalistic language and social meaning across brains and AI models

For decades, cognitive neuroscience relied on highly controlled, albeit artificial, experimental designs using isolated words or fragmented sentences to map ...
eLife

Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex

This manuscript presents important findings that challenge traditional models of speech processing by demonstrating that theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the auditory cortex is primarily a ...