ArticleNature communications2023
Robust cortical encoding of 3D tongue shape during feeding in macaques.
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- 3D directional tuning in the orofacial sensorimotor cortex during natural feeding and drinking.eLife · 2025Article
- Effects of Healthy Aging on Tongue-Jaw Kinematics During Feeding.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2025Article
- 3D directional tuning in the orofacial sensorimotor cortex during natural feeding and drinking.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A collicular map for touch-guided tongue control.Nature · 2025Article
- Distinct Neuron Types Contribute to Hybrid Auditory Spatial Coding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Evolution, biomechanics, and neurobiology converge to explain selective finger motor control.Physiological reviews · 2024Review
- Biomechanical and Cortical Control of Tongue Movements During Chewing and Swallowing.Dysphagia · 2024Review
- Three-dimensional mandibular kinematics of mastication in the marsupialPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Dexterous tongue deformation underlies eating, drinking, and speaking. The orofacial sensorimotor cortex has been implicated in the control of coordinated tongue kinematics, but little is known about how the brain encodes-and ultimately drives-the tongue's 3D, soft-body deformation. Here we combine a biplanar x-ray video technology, multi-electrode cortical recordings, and machine-learning-based decoding to explore the cortical representation of lingual deformation. We trained long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to decode various aspects of intraoral tongue deformation from cortical activity during feeding in male Rhesus monkeys. We show that both lingual movements and complex lingual shapes across a range of feeding behaviors could be decoded with high accuracy, and that the distribution of deformation-related information across cortical regions was consistent with previous studies of the arm and hand.
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