Tamar I. Regev

ORCID: 0000-0003-0639-0890
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Research Areas
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Topic Modeling
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Fractal and DNA sequence analysis
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Image and Signal Denoising Methods
  • Color Science and Applications

McGovern Institute for Brain Research
2021-2025

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022-2025

ETH Zurich
2023

Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2023

University of Cambridge
2023

Stanford University
2023

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2018-2021

Tel Aviv University
2008-2009

Language and music are two human-unique capacities whose relationship remains debated. Some have argued for overlap in processing mechanisms, especially structure processing. Such claims often concern the inferior frontal component of language system located within "Broca's area." However, others failed to find overlap. Using a robust individual-subject fMRI approach, we examined responses brain regions stimuli, probed musical abilities individuals with severe aphasia. Across 4 experiments,...

10.1093/cercor/bhad087 article EN Cerebral Cortex 2023-04-01

Abstract A network of left frontal and temporal brain regions supports language processing. This “core” stores our knowledge words constructions as well constraints on how those combine to form sentences. However, linguistic additionally includes information about phonemes they phonemic clusters, syllables, words. Are phoneme combinatorics also represented in these regions? Across five functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, we investigated the sensitivity high-level processing...

10.1093/cercor/bhae077 article EN Cerebral Cortex 2024-03-01

Focal adhesions (FAs) are specialized membrane-associated multi-protein complexes that link the cell to extracellular matrix and play crucial roles in cell-matrix sensing. Considerable information is available on complex molecular composition of these sites, yet regulation FA dynamics largely unknown. Based a combination FRAP studies live cells, with silico simulations mathematical modeling, we show plaque proteins paxillin vinculin exist four dynamic states: an immobile FA-bound fraction,...

10.1371/journal.pone.0004304 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2009-01-27

Abstract Language and music are two human-unique capacities whose relationship remains debated. Some have argued for overlap in processing mechanisms, especially structure processing. Such claims often concern the inferior frontal component of language system located within ‘Broca’s area’. However, others failed to find overlap. Using a robust individual-subject fMRI approach, we examined responses brain regions stimuli, probed musical abilities individuals with severe aphasia. Across four...

10.1101/2021.06.01.446439 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021-06-01

Conversation is a dynamic, multi-modal activity involving the exchange of complex streams information like words, prosody, gesture, eye contact, and backchannels. Understanding how these different channels interact in naturalistic scenarios essential for understanding mechanisms governing human communication.Past studies suggested that duration words tied to their predictability context, but it remains unclear whether this relationship speaker-oriented (e.g. retrieval or production-based)...

10.31234/osf.io/uydmx preprint EN 2025-01-23

Conversation is a dynamic, multi-modal activity involving the exchange of complex streams information like words, prosody, gesture, eye contact, and backchannels. Understanding how these different channels interact in naturalistic scenarios essential for understanding mechanisms governing human communication.Past studies suggested that duration words tied to their predictability context, but it remains unclear whether this relationship speaker-oriented (e.g. retrieval or production-based)...

10.31234/osf.io/uydmx_v1 preprint EN 2025-01-23

Much of what is known about the timing visual processing in brain inferred from intracranial studies monkeys, with human data limited to mainly noninvasive methods lower spatial resolution. Here, we estimated onset latencies electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings a patient who was implanted 112 subdural electrodes, distributed across posterior cortex right hemisphere, for presurgical evaluation intractable epilepsy. Functional MRI prior surgery used determine boundaries areas. The presented...

10.1111/ejn.14164 article EN European Journal of Neuroscience 2018-09-22

Background DNA chips allow simultaneous measurements of genome-wide response thousands genes, i.e. system level monitoring the gene-network activity. Advanced analysis methods have been developed to extract meaningful information from vast amount raw gene-expression data obtained microarray measurements. These usually aimed distinguish between groups subjects (e.g., cancer patients vs. healthy subjects) or identifying marker genes that help those groups. We assumed motifs related internal...

10.1371/journal.pone.0002708 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2008-07-15

Abstract Despite long knowing what brain areas support language comprehension, our knowledge of the neural computations that these frontal and temporal regions implement remains limited. One important unresolved question concerns functional differences among populations comprise network. Leveraging high spatiotemporal resolution intracranial recordings, we examined responses to sentences linguistically degraded conditions discovered three response profiles differ in their dynamics. These...

10.1101/2022.12.30.522216 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022-12-30

ABSTRACT A network of left frontal and temporal brain regions supports ‘high-level’ language processing— including the processing word meanings, as well word-combinatorial processing—across presentation modalities. This ‘core’ has been argued to store our knowledge words constructions constraints on how those combine form sentences. However, linguistic additionally includes information about sounds (phonemes) they clusters, syllables, words. Is this phoneme combinatorics also represented in...

10.1101/2021.06.11.447786 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021-06-11

The perceptual organization of pitch is frequently described as helical, with a monotonic dimension height and circular chroma, accounting for the repeating structure octave. Although neural representation widely studied, way in which chroma manifested activity currently debated. We tested automaticity processing using MMN-an ERP component indexing automatic detection deviations from auditory regularity. Musicians trained to classify pure or complex tones across four octaves, based on...

10.1162/jocn_a_01374 article EN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2019-01-18

Abstract Everyday auditory streams are complex, including spectro-temporal content that varies at multiple timescales. Using EEG, we investigated the sensitivity of human cortex to past stimulation in unattended sequences equiprobable tones. In 3 experiments 82 participants overall, found neural responses measured different latencies after stimulus onset were sensitive frequency intervals computed over distinct Importantly, early a longer history than later responses. To account for these...

10.1093/cercor/bhab200 article EN Cerebral Cortex 2021-06-09

Prosody—the suprasegmental component of speech, including pitch, loudness, and tempo—carries critical aspects meaning. However, the relationship between information conveyed by prosody vs. words themselves remains poorly understood. We use large language models (LLMs) to estimate how much is redundant themselves. Using a spoken corpus English audiobooks, we extract prosodic features aligned individual test well they can be predicted from LLM embeddings, compared non-contextual word...

10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.606 article EN cc-by Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2023-01-01

Lukas Wolf, Klemen Kotar, Greta Tuckute, Eghbal Hosseini, Tamar I. Regev, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Alexander Scott Warstadt. Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. 2023.

10.18653/v1/2023.conll-babylm.21 article EN cc-by 2023-01-01

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10.1371/annotation/ce274a43-a284-4839-9791-59e4b2563c9c article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2009-03-04

ABSTRACT Everyday auditory streams are complex, including spectro-temporal content that varies at multiple time scales. Using EEG, we investigate the sensitivity of human cortex to past stimulation in unattended sequences equiprobable tones. In 3 experiments 82 participants overall, found neural responses measured different latencies after stimulus onset were sensitive frequency intervals computed over distinct Importantly, early a longer history than later responses. To account for these...

10.1101/2020.06.08.141044 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2020-06-09

Abstract Much of what is known about the timing visual processing in brain inferred from intracranial studies monkeys, with human data limited to mainly non-invasive methods lower spatial resolution. Here, we estimated onset latencies electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings a patient who was implanted 112 sub-dural electrodes, distributed across posterior cortex right hemisphere, for pre-surgical evaluation intractable epilepsy. Functional MRI prior surgery used determine boundaries areas....

10.1101/377887 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2018-07-26

Human cortical responses to natural sounds, measured with fMRI, can be approximated as the weighted sum of a small number canonical response patterns (components), each having interpretable functional and anatomical properties. Here, we asked whether this organization is preserved in cases where only one temporal lobe available due early brain damage by investigating unique family: sibling born without left lobe, another right third anatomically neurotypical. We analyzed fMRI diverse sounds...

10.1101/2023.01.18.523979 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023-01-18

Prosody -- the suprasegmental component of speech, including pitch, loudness, and tempo carries critical aspects meaning. However, relationship between information conveyed by prosody vs. words themselves remains poorly understood. We use large language models (LLMs) to estimate how much is redundant themselves. Using a spoken corpus English audiobooks, we extract prosodic features aligned individual test well they can be predicted from LLM embeddings, compared non-contextual word...

10.48550/arxiv.2311.17233 preprint EN cc-by arXiv (Cornell University) 2023-01-01
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