Pierre Mégevand

My big thanks to all my co-authors : Andrea Campos,
@vanmedge.bsky.social ,Juan Vidal, Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, Philippe Kahane, Thomas Thesen, Orrin Devinsky. My special thanks to the fantastic & inspiring Lucia Melloni @predictivebrainlab.bsky.social who conceived this project.

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‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures The imposing concrete buildings that defined British postwar architecture held a vision of the future – but many fell into disrepair. A new book finds the finest examples

‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures

This is figure 1, which shows shared acoustic–phonetic processing in STG across native and foreign speech.

The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research in Nature. The findings might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation. go.nature.com/4ppvsHb #Neuroskyence 🧪

Catching up on The Pitt. That neurologist is SPOT ON!! #ItTakesOneToSeeOne

Je viens de réaliser que Tolkien a commis une erreur de cohérence dans le SDA.
Une énorme. ÉNORMISSIME.
Les hobbits vivent dans des trous.
Leur pays ne devrait donc pas, ne peut pas s'appeler la Comté, mais l'Emmenthal.
Ce sera tout pour aujourd'hui minuit approche.

Haha, c'est pas chez nous qu'on verrait ça, tiens.

Eh oui. Pas toute la médecine moderne est inutile...

Excited to present our recent work on how sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal–cortical circuit. #SFN2025 Board NN12 Nov 19 8 AM–12 PM #sleep #memory #HumanSingleNeuron
Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab

If you're at #Sfn2025, stop by the 8am poster session Nov. 16 on Oral Motor and Speech and say hi! We're presenting two posters on the separate circuits for phonetic and prosodic control in speech production.

<em>Language Learning</em> | Language Learning Research Club Journal | Wiley Online Library Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of ...

Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... "L2 learners highlight the same, possibly inaccurate, part of an utterance in both modalities"

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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision

I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

#eNeuro | Man et al. explored effort during listening in noisy environments, finding that pupil size was an effective measure of effort, and that visual perception reduced the amount of effort needed to comprehend speech. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0288-25.2025

Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Mamdani- style graphic that says “funding for basic science”

Edited image showing an aerial view of construction of the Death Star from Star Wars in place where the East Wing of the White House once stood.

Construction of the new ball room is coming along nicely at the White House.

My quote of the day

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

This would be hilarious if it were fictional.

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?

We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.

Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#neuroskyence #musicscience

Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"

with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social

Summary 👇

1/8

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

"On peut pas aller en prison, on est pas des animaux".

C'est tellement lunaire que ça en devient comique. Les mecs ont tellement pas l'habitude d'avoir une quelconque conséquence à leurs actes que ça en devient incompréhensible.

Sensorimotor Theta Oscillations Coordinate Speech Movements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681482v1

Dear Director Bhattacharya: I saw your announcement about the appointment of Dr. Kyle Walsh as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. It is hard for me to express how disappointed and saddened that I am with this turn of events. This has little to do with Dr. Walsh or his qualifications. Instead, my concerns are based on the damage that this appointment, with the complete lack of any reasonable process, does to the NIH and the ability of this agency. which matters so much to the American people. to recruit and retain the best people for the 13 institute and center director positions that are now vacant.

Happy "No Kings" Day!

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.

The names of the speakers: Melanie Boly Ray Dolan Davide Folloni Laura Gwilliams Charles Hillman Hilleke Hulshoff Pol Jean-Rémi King Daniel Margulies Lucia Melloni

Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss.
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging

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Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds The results of a large study in France are consistent with previous research indicating that Covid vaccination is safe and effective in pregnancy.

A study of hundreds of thousands of infants in France did not find any increased risk of birth defects among those whose mothers received a Covid vaccine in the first trimester, building on previous evidence for the vaccines’ safety.

À l'interne d'obstétrique qui a tapé les réflexes de mon épouse avec la tranche de son natel : je t'ai vu. Je ne t'oublierai pas.

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely o...

Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask):
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736

With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!

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