Neural decoding of spoken vowels from human sensory-motor cortex with high-density electrocorticography

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:6782-5. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945185.

Abstract

We present the first demonstration of single-trial neural decoding of vowel acoustic features during speech production with high performance. The ability to predict trial-by-trial fluctuations in speech production was facilitated by using high-density, large-area electrocorticography (ECoG) combined with an adaptive principal components regression. In experiments from two human neurosurgical patients with a high-density 256-channel ECoG grid implanted over speech cortices, we demonstrate that as much as 81% of the acoustic variability across vowels could be accurately predicted from the spatial patterns of neural activity during speech production. These results demonstrate continuous, single-trial decoding of vowel acoustics.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electroencephalography / methods
  • Gamma Rhythm
  • Humans
  • Sensorimotor Cortex / physiology*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Speech / physiology*