How our brains balance what was said with what was likely to be said 

Understanding and producing language is one of the brain’s most crucial cognitive functions. Language processing relies on the brain's ability to integrate statistical patterns and linguistic structure over time. We study how rhythmic brain activity, the temporal dynamics of the brain, orchestrates a symphony of sounds, words, structures, and probabilities into meaningful language. By uncovering how timing and neural activity coordinate to balance flexibility and prediction with our knowledge of linguistic structure, our team sheds light on the neural mechanisms that make language possible.