The Language Neuroscience Podcast

A podcast about the scientific study of language and the brain. Neuroscientist Stephen Wilson talks with leading and up-and-coming researchers about their work and ideas. This podcast is geared to an audience of scientists who are working in the field of language neuroscience, from students to postdocs to faculty.

‘Can the mismatch negativity really be elicited by abstract linguistic contrasts?’ with Steve Politzer-Ahles and Bernard Jap
May 2, 2025 – 01:08:42
What's going on with the NIH? with Julius Fridriksson
Apr 2, 2025 – 45:44
‘A mountain of small things’ with Masud Husain
Oct 22, 2024 – 38:28
Developmental dyslexia and neuroplasticity in aphasia with Maaike Vandermosten
Sep 16, 2024 – 01:03:12
Developmental language disorder and its neural basis with Dorothy Bishop
Apr 4, 2024 – 01:23:18
‘Determinants of multilevel discourse outcomes in anomia treatment for aphasia’ with Rob Cavanaugh
Oct 14, 2023 – 01:15:14
Deep learning algorithms, natural language processing, and the brain, with Jean-Rémi King
Jul 10, 2023 – 01:35:15
‘Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order’ with Laura Gwilliams
May 30, 2023 – 01:21:51
Encoding and decoding semantic representations with Alexander Huth
May 4, 2023 – 01:49:12
‘Disentangling Semantic Composition and Semantic Association in the Left Temporal Lobe’ with Liina Pylkkänen
Nov 17, 2022 – 01:04:12
‘Speech computations of the human superior temporal gyrus’ with Eddie Chang
Sep 21, 2022 – 01:22:10
Awake craniotomy for a brain tumor surrounded by language areas, with Olivia Leow
Aug 23, 2022 – 57:01
Generative linguistics and the neural basis of language, with Noam Chomsky
Jul 20, 2022 – 01:02:30
Cortical myeloarchitecture, tonotopy, and spectrally directed attention, with Fred Dick
May 4, 2022 – 01:04:36
Anatomy and neuropathology of progressive speech and language disorders, with Keith Josephs
Feb 23, 2022 – 01:01:44
Imaging the language network, with Cathy Price
Dec 27, 2021 – 01:07:44
Language development and perinatal stroke, with Elissa Newport
Nov 23, 2021 – 01:10:30
‘Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex’ with Cory Shain
Oct 4, 2021 – 01:04:31
‘Situating the left-lateralized language network in the broader organization of multiple specialized large-scale distributed networks’ with Rodrigo Braga
Sep 14, 2021 – 53:38
Neurotypology, predictive coding, and dorsal and ventral streams, with Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Aug 24, 2021 – 56:05
‘Neuroprosthesis for decoding speech in a paralyzed person with anarthria’ with David Moses and Jessie Liu
Aug 6, 2021 – 01:06:53
Neuromodulation with Roy Hamilton
Jul 13, 2021 – 01:06:59
The history of the neuroscience of language: 1820-1922, with Willem “Pim” Levelt
Jun 22, 2021 – 01:54:03
Broca and Wernicke are dead, with Pascale Tremblay
Jun 9, 2021 – 01:04:53
Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2021 Recap with Maya Henry, Andrew DeMarco, and Sarah Schneck
May 26, 2021 – 37:50
Aphasia treatment with Julius Fridriksson
May 5, 2021 – 01:01:09
'Functional organization for verb generation in children with developmental language disorder' with Saloni Krishnan
Apr 21, 2021 – 01:11:19
Sign language and the brain with Karen Emmorey
Apr 7, 2021 – 58:28
‘Damage to Broca’s area does not contribute to long-term speech production outcome after stroke’ with Andrea Gajardo-Vidal and Diego Lorca-Puls
Mar 25, 2021 – 49:06
Neural oscillations and neural entrainment with Jonas Obleser
Mar 10, 2021 – 01:12:24
A conversation with Eddie Chang
Feb 23, 2021 – 53:52
A conversation with Sophie Scott
Feb 10, 2021 – 58:15
A conversation with Ev Fedorenko
Jan 26, 2021 – 52:05

Recent Reviews

Jo642790752

Fantastic Resource!!

Wealth of info for an aspiring PhD student. Am enjoying becoming more acquainted with different researchers & methods.
debohspoon

An amazing resource for cognitive neuroscientists!

How amazing to get to hear the experts themselves discuss their latest findings! As a young scholar I am thrilled that this podcast exists.
Kels1231

So glad you started this podcast!

As a cognitive neuroscientist, language researcher, and lover of podcasts, I’m so excited to have this show! Now when I’m out walking around my neighborhood I can pretend I’m at having coffee or drinks at the SNL annual meeting 🧠