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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019

Low-Frequency Oscillations Code Speech during Verbal Working Memory.

Johannes Gehrig, Georgios Michalareas, Marie-Therese Forster, Juan Lei, Pavel Hok, Helmut Laufs, Christian Senft, Volker Seifert, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Simon Hanslmayr and 1 more

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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  1. Left Perisylvian Rhythms Encode Prosody and Syntax during Delayed Sentence Repetition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  14. Transformation of speech sequences in human sensorimotor circuits.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Johannes GehrigDepartment of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.
Georgios MichalareasMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt, Germany.
Marie-Therese ForsterDepartment of Neurosurgery, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.
Juan LeiDepartment of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.
Pavel HokDepartment of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.
Helmut LaufsDepartment of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.
Christian SenftDepartment of Neurosurgery, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.
Volker SeifertDepartment of Neurosurgery, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.
Jan-Mathijs SchoffelenRadboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and.ORCID 0000-0003-0923-6610
Simon HanslmayrSchool of Psychology at University of Birmingham, B15 2TT Birmingham, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4448-2147
Christian A KellDepartment of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany, c.kell@em.uni-frankfurt.de.ORCID 0000-0002-6299-0076

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The way the human brain represents speech in memory is still unknown. An obvious characteristic of speech is its evolvement over time. During speech processing, neural oscillations are modulated by the temporal properties of the acoustic speech signal, but also acquired knowledge on the temporal structure of language influences speech perception-related brain activity. This suggests that speech could be represented in the temporal domain, a form of representation that the brain also uses to encode autobiographic memories. Empirical evidence for such a memory code is lacking. We investigated the nature of speech memory representations using direct cortical recordings in the left perisylvian cortex during delayed sentence reproduction in female and male patients undergoing awake tumor surgery. Our results reveal that the brain endogenously represents speech in the temporal domain. Temporal pattern similarity analyses revealed that the phase of frontotemporal low-frequency oscillations, primarily in the beta range, represents sentence identity in working memory. The positive relationship between beta power during working memory and task performance suggests that working memory representations benefit from increased phase separation.

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AdultBrainElectrocorticographyFemaleHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermMiddle AgedSpeechSpeech PerceptionYoung Adultelectrocorticographymemory representationssentence repetitionspeech perceptionspeech productiontemporal pattern similarity

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PMID31196933
PMCPMC6697399

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