Real-time decoding of question-and-answer speech dialogue using human cortical activity

DA Moses, MK Leonard, JG Makin, EF Chang - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Natural communication often occurs in dialogue, differentially engaging auditory and
sensorimotor brain regions during listening and speaking. However, previous attempts to …

Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex

H Akbari, B Khalighinejad, JL Herrero, AD Mehta… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Auditory stimulus reconstruction is a technique that finds the best approximation of the
acoustic stimulus from the population of evoked neural activity. Reconstructing speech from …

Hierarchical encoding of attended auditory objects in multi-talker speech perception

J O'Sullivan, J Herrero, E Smith, C Schevon… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Humans can easily focus on one speaker in a multi-talker acoustic environment, but how
different areas of the human auditory cortex (AC) represent the acoustic components of …

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 …

Adaptation of the human auditory cortex to changing background noise

B Khalighinejad, JL Herrero, AD Mehta… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Speech communication in real-world environments requires adaptation to changing acoustic
conditions. How the human auditory cortex adapts as a new noise source appears in or …

Distinct neural encoding of glimpsed and masked speech in multitalker situations

VS Raghavan, J O'Sullivan, S Bickel, AD Mehta… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Humans can easily tune in to one talker in a multitalker environment while still picking up
bits of background speech; however, it remains unclear how we perceive speech that is …

Interaction of bottom-up and top-down neural mechanisms in spatial multi-talker speech perception

P Patel, K van der Heijden, S Bickel, JL Herrero… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
How the human auditory cortex represents spatially separated simultaneous talkers and
how talkers' locations and voices modulate the neural representations of attended and …

[HTML][HTML] Functional characterization of human Heschl's gyrus in response to natural speech

B Khalighinejad, P Patel, JL Herrero, S Bickel… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Heschl's gyrus (HG) is a brain area that includes the primary auditory cortex in humans. Due
to the limitations in obtaining direct neural measurements from this region during naturalistic …

Deep neural networks effectively model neural adaptation to changing background noise and suggest nonlinear noise filtering methods in auditory cortex

G Mischler, M Keshishian, S Bickel, AD Mehta… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
The human auditory system displays a robust capacity to adapt to sudden changes in
background noise, allowing for continuous speech comprehension despite changes in …

[HTML][HTML] naplib-python: Neural acoustic data processing and analysis tools in python

G Mischler, V Raghavan, M Keshishian, N Mesgarani - Software impacts, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, the computational neuroscience community has pushed for more transparent and
reproducible methods across the field. In the interest of unifying the domain of auditory …