Hybrid spatial organization and magnitude-independent coding of linguistic information during sentence production.

ABSTRACT: Humans are the only species with the ability to systematically combine words to convey an unbounded number of complex meanings. This process is guided by combinatorial processes thought to be unique to our species. Despite their centrality to human cognition, the neural mechanisms underlying these systems remain obscured by inherent limitations of non-invasive brain measures and a near total focus on comprehension paradigms. Here, we address these limitations with high-resolution neurosurgical recordings (electrocorticography) and a controlled sentence production experiment. We uncover distinct cortical networks encoding word-level and higher-order information. These networks exhibited a hybrid spatial organization: broadly distributed across traditional language areas, but with focal conc

SUBMITTER: Morgan AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11212956 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature