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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Putting a lollipop or lidocaine makes people read faster, but not faster in semantics - supercool finding! The connectivity shifts as well.

A lot of data, but the nicest one was this slide:

Last is Jacqueline Cummine from Alberta on the SMG. She says she has some provocative findings

They show strong evidence for the role of the SMG for alexia and try to model that nicely integrating speech and reading models

They used a classic reading artificial neural network architecture and lesioned it. It does a little bit worse than words. They lesioned the model and correlated it with imaging activation

He propses that the architecture for reading should be aligned with speech production, because our brains did not evolve for reading.

He is followed by Peter Turkeltaub who discusses alexia in relation to primarily stroke.

His data shows a strong role for the IPS and PCS, with overlap in most recorded neurons for reading and spelling

Next up is Oscar Woolnough from UT Houston using intracranial recordings. He will focus on the IPS and PCS.

They followed this up with TMS (iTBS). General improvement in reading speed and connectivity was seen.

Correction it was tDCS

You can dissociate phonological and semantic processing in dyslexia using TMS

Higher activation in salience network in dyslexia and lower activation in the ventral visual network activation, as well as reduced between-network connectivity in dyslexia. Nice broader picture here!

Next up is @sabrinaturker.bsky.social from Vienna. She focuses on reading & dyslexia and found hypoactivation in reading regions in dyslexia, with the difference getting bigger for complex words. Functional connectivity is also lower, functional connectivity is stronger on the dorsal route for words

Potential implications include:

The third challenge is the lack of integration with models of speech