Mapping the neuronal building blocks of human language with language models

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Nature, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10691-5Wide-scale recordings reveal neurons in the human brain that encode fundamental components of language such as the grammatical relationships between words, their parts of speech and the higher-order syntactic structure of phrases and sentences.

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