Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms

WP Clawson, M Levin - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The rich variety of biological forms and behaviours results from one evolutionary history on
Earth, via frozen accidents and selection in specific environments. This ubiquitous baggage …

Unimo: Towards unified-modal understanding and generation via cross-modal contrastive learning

W Li, C Gao, G Niu, X ** cortex is functionally pluripotent: evidence from blindness
EJ Saccone, M Tian, M Bedny - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024 - Elsevier
How rigidly does innate architecture constrain function of develo** cortex? What is the
contribution of early experience? We review insights into these questions from visual cortex …

Similar object shape representation encoded in the inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex of sighted and early blind people

Y Xu, L Vignali, F Sigismondi, D Crepaldi, R Bottini… - PLOS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
We can sense an object's shape by vision or touch. Previous studies suggested that the
inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex (ILOTC) implements supramodal shape representations …

Pushing the envelope: Developments in neural entrainment to speech and the biological underpinnings of prosody perception

BR Myers, MD Lense, RL Gordon - Brain sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prosodic cues in speech are indispensable for comprehending a speaker's message,
recognizing emphasis and emotion, parsing segmental units, and disambiguating syntactic …

[HTML][HTML] Visual motion processing recruits regions selective for auditory motion in early deaf individuals

S Benetti, J Zonca, A Ferrari, M Rezk, G Rabini… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
In early deaf individuals, the auditory deprived temporal brain regions become engaged in
visual processing. In our study we tested further the hypothesis that intrinsic functional …

Neural tracking of continuous acoustics: properties, speech‐specificity and open questions

B Zoefel, A Kösem - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human speech is a particularly relevant acoustic stimulus for our species, due to its role of
information transmission during communication. Speech is inherently a dynamic signal, and …