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Recent Publications by WIN members
Early Identification of Language Disorders using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning: Challenges and emerging approaches.
(2025) J Speech Lang Hear Res.
Recent advances in artifical intelligence provide opportunitites to capture and represent complex features of human language in a more auomated manner, offering potential means of improving the efficiency of language assessment. This review article presents computerized approaaches for the analysis of narrative language identification and identification of language disorders in Children.
Read MoreCuriosity and Reward After Unsuccessful Memory Recall.
(2025) Conscious Cogn.
Curiosity is a motivational state characterized by the desire to obtain knowledge. Prior research suggests that metacognitive experiences during unsuccessful memory recall may induce curiosity. Specifically, feeling-of-knowing (FOK) experiences have been associated with increased subsequent information-seeking behaviour for inaccessible information. Here, we further investigated this relationship by focusing on subjective experiences of curiosity and reward.
Read MoreCortical Stimulation for Brain Mapping and Seizure Stimulation, Pediatric Practices Throughout Canada: A national survey and systematic literature review.
(2025) Neurophysiol Clin.
Diagnostic cortical stimulation (CS) in intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) is an established epilepsy presurgical assessment tool to delineate relevant brain functions and elicit habitual epileptic seizures. Currently, no consensus exists as to whether CS should be routinely performed in pediatric patients. A significant challenge is their limited ability to cooperate during the procedure or to describe non-observable seizure semiology features. Our goal was to identify the spectrum of CS practices in Canada, for both eloquent cortex mapping and seizure stimulation.
Read MoreImage Segmentation with Traveling Waves in an Exactly Solvable Recurrent Neuronal Network.
(2025) PNAS
Sensory expectations influence movement preparation, as humans and monkeys probabilistically cued about a future mechanical perturbation adjust their preparatory activity and improve corrective responses. High-density neural recordings reveal that these expectations shape motor cortical dynamics, with neural population activity scaling with perturbation probability and driving rapid responses through learned sensory-feedback integration.
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