Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons
Xinyuan Yan, Ana G. Chavez, Melissa C. Franch, Kalman A. Katlowitz, Ivy Gautam, Brian Kim, Aaditya Krishna, Aadit Shrivastava, Katie Van Arsdel, James L. Belanger, Assia Chericoni, Taha Ismail, Elizabeth A. Mickiewicz, Danika Paulo, Hanlin Zhu, , Sameer Anil Sheth
The paper investigates how bilinguals represent semantic concepts in two languages, finding shared neural geometries that support translation despite language-specific neuron responses.
Cell · Jun 24, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience