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ArticleNeuroImage2017

Chronic ambulatory electrocorticography from human speech cortex.

Vikram R Rao, Matthew K Leonard, Jonathan K Kleen, Ben A Lucas, Emily A Mirro, Edward F Chang

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Article in NeuroImage, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A guide to neuromodulation in drug-resistant epilepsy.Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape · 2026
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  3. Intracranial substrates of meditation-induced neuromodulation in the amygdala and hippocampus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Brain-Computer Interface: Applications to Speech Decoding and Synthesis to Augment Communication.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2022
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  18. The Potential for a Speech Brain-Computer Interface Using Chronic Electrocorticography.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Vikram R RaoUniversity of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States. Electronic address: vikram.rao@ucsf.edu.
Matthew K LeonardUniversity of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurosurgery, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States; Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States.
Jonathan K KleenUniversity of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States.
Ben A LucasUniversity of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurosurgery, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States; Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States.
Emily A MirroNeuroPace, Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.
Edward F ChangUniversity of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurosurgery, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States; Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States.

Funding

Functional organization of the superior temporal gyrus for speech perceptionR01DC012379 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Edward Chang · 2012 to 2026
$8.3M
NINDS Research Education Programs for Residents and Fellows in Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology and Emergency Medicine (R25)R25NS070680 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JOSEPHSON, SCOTT ANDREW · 2010 to 2023
$6.8M
Functional Architecture of Speech Motor CortexU01NS098971 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHANG, EDWARD · 2016 to 2018
$3.5M
The Neurophysiological Dynamics of Lexical and Sub-Lexical RepresentationsF32DC013486 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LEONARD, MATTHEW KANTER · 2013 to 2016
$168k
NIDCD NIH HHS F32 DC013486NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012379NINDS NIH HHS R25 NS070680NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS098971
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Direct intracranial recording of human brain activity is an important approach for deciphering neural mechanisms of cognition. Such recordings, usually made in patients with epilepsy undergoing inpatient monitoring for seizure localization, are limited in duration and depend on patients' tolerance for the challenges associated with recovering from brain surgery. Thus, typical intracranial recordings, similar to most non-invasive approaches in humans, provide snapshots of brain activity in acute, highly constrained settings, limiting opportunities to understand long timescale and natural, real-world phenomena. A new device for treating some forms of drug-resistant epilepsy, the NeuroPace RNS® System, includes a cranially-implanted neurostimulator and intracranial electrodes that continuously monitor brain activity and respond to incipient seizures with electrical counterstimulation. The RNS System can record epileptic brain activity over years, but whether it can record meaningful, behavior-related physiological responses has not been demonstrated. Here, in a human subject with electrodes implanted over high-level speech-auditory cortex (Wernicke's area; posterior superior temporal gyrus), we report that cortical evoked responses to spoken sentences are robust, selective to phonetic features, and stable over nearly 1.5 years. In a second subject with RNS System electrodes implanted over frontal cortex (Broca's area, posterior inferior frontal gyrus), we found that word production during a naming task reliably evokes cortical responses preceding speech onset. The spatiotemporal resolution, high signal-to-noise, and wireless nature of this system's intracranial recordings make it a powerful new approach to investigate the neural correlates of human cognition over long timescales in natural ambulatory settings.

Indexed as

Evoked PotentialsAdolescentAdultElectrodes, ImplantedElectroencephalographyFemaleGamma RhythmHumansImplantable NeurostimulatorsSpeech PerceptionTelemetryTemporal LobeWireless TechnologyBroca's areaChronic electrocorticographyECoGHumanRNS SystemWernicke's area

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PMID28396294
PMCPMC5482367

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