Brain (Germany)

The working memory advantage for meaningful stimuli persists under high levels of proactive interference

Previous work has shown that visual working memory performance is higher for recognizable and meaningful stimuli relative to meaningless, but physically matched, stimuli (e.g., Asp et al., 2021). Here, we test whether the benefit for meaningful stimuli arises due to active storag...

Sensory context improves language prediction in humans and LLMs

Language is a fundamental human capacity. Large language models (LLMs) have presented the first viable model of language outside of humans, yet how these models learn and use language differs significantly from humans. Here, we compare LLMs and humans predicting language with var...

Pulse number determines synaptic plasticity threshold during intermittent theta-burst magnetic stimulation

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is widely used to modulate cortical excitability in clinical and experimental settings. Previous work has established that 10 Hz repetitive magnetic stimulation (rMS) reliably induces excitatory synaptic plasticity in mouse ento...