Journal
NEUROIMAGE
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages 151-159Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.001
Keywords
Single unit recording; Decoding; Speech perception; Local field potentials
Funding
- I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee
- Israel Science Foundation [51/11, 1771/13, 2043/13]
- Human Frontiers Science Project (HFSP) [CDA00078/2011-C]
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Deciphering the content of continuous speech is a challenging task performed daily by the human brain. Here, we tested whether activity of single cells in auditory cortex could be used to support such a task. We recorded neural activity from auditory cortex of two neurosurgical patients while presented with a short video segment containing speech. Population spiking activity (similar to 20 cells per patient) allowed detection of word onset and decoding the identity of perceived words with significantly high accuracy levels. Oscillation phase of local field potentials (8-12 Hz) also allowed decoding word identity although with lower accuracy levels. Our results provide evidence that the spiking activity of a relatively small population of cells in human primary auditory cortex contains significant information for classification of words in ongoing speech. Given previous evidence for overlapping neural representation during speech perception and production, this may have implications for developing brain-machine interfaces for patients with deficits in speech production. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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