Grounding language processing on basic neurophysiological principles

AD Friederici, W Singer - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
In animal models the neural basis of cognitive and executive processes has been studied
extensively at various hierarchical levels from microcircuits to distributed functional …

[HTML][HTML] Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models

L Bellier, A Llorens, D Marciano, A Gunduz… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music
perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography …

[HTML][HTML] Parallel and distributed encoding of speech across human auditory cortex

LS Hamilton, Y Oganian, J Hall, EF Chang - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Speech perception is thought to rely on a cortical feedforward serial transformation of
acoustic into linguistic representations. Using intracranial recordings across the entire …

Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex

SV Norman-Haignere, LK Long, O Devinsky… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
To derive meaning from sound, the brain must integrate information across many timescales.
What computations underlie multiscale integration in human auditory cortex? Evidence …

A spatial map of onset and sustained responses to speech in the human superior temporal gyrus

LS Hamilton, E Edwards, EF Chang - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
To derive meaning from speech, we must extract multiple dimensions of concurrent
information from incoming speech signals. That is, equally important to processing phonetic …

Auditory processing in the human cortex: An intracranial electrophysiology perspective

KV Nourski - Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Direct electrophysiological recordings in epilepsy patients offer an opportunity to
study human auditory cortical processing with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution …

Neural source dynamics of brain responses to continuous stimuli: Speech processing from acoustics to comprehension

C Brodbeck, A Presacco, JZ Simon - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
Human experience often involves continuous sensory information that unfolds over time.
This is true in particular for speech comprehension, where continuous acoustic signals are …

Estimating and interpreting nonlinear receptive field of sensory neural responses with deep neural network models

M Keshishian, H Akbari, B Khalighinejad, JL Herrero… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Our understanding of nonlinear stimulus transformations by neural circuits is hindered by the
lack of comprehensive yet interpretable computational modeling frameworks. Here, we …

Cortical representations of speech in a multitalker auditory scene

KC Puvvada, JZ Simon - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
The ability to parse a complex auditory scene into perceptual objects is facilitated by a
hierarchical auditory system. Successive stages in the hierarchy transform an auditory scene …

Hierarchical cortical networks of “voice patches” for processing voices in human brain

Y Zhang, Y Ding, J Huang, W Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Humans have an extraordinary ability to recognize and differentiate voices. It is yet unclear
whether voices are uniquely processed in the human brain. To explore the underlying …