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ArticlePLoS biology2023

Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models.

Ludovic Bellier, Anaïs Llorens, Déborah Marciano, Aysegul Gunduz, Gerwin Schalk, Peter Brunner, Robert T Knight

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Article in PLoS biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ludovic BellierHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6457-5792
Anaïs LlorensHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Déborah MarcianoHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Aysegul GunduzJ. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
Gerwin SchalkDepartment of Neurology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America.
Peter BrunnerDepartment of Neurology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America.
Robert T KnightHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.

Funding

Training and DisseminationP41EB018783 · NIBIB · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI Theresa M. Vaughan · 2014 to 2026
$15.4M
Attention, Orientation and the Human Prefrontal CortexR01NS021135 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI Robert Thomas Knight · 1985 to 2026
$6.5M
BCI2000: Software Resource for Adaptive Neurotechnology ResearchU24NS109103 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BRUNNER, PETER · 2019 to 2024
$2.8M
BCI2000+: A Software Platform for Adaptive NeurotechnologiesR01EB026439 · NIBIB · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BRUNNER, PETER · 2018 to 2022
$1.5M
Dynamics and Causal Functions of Large-Scale Cortical and Subcortical NetworksU01NS108916 · NINDS · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI WOLPAW, JONATHAN RICKEL · 2018 to 2019
$1.4M
International Workshop on Advances in ElectrocorticographyR13NS118932 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI BRUNNER, PETER, RITACCIO, ANTHONY · 2020 to 2020
$13k
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB018783NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB026439NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS021135NINDS NIH HHS R13 NS118932NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS108916NINDS NIH HHS U24 NS109103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) dataset of 29 patients who listened to a Pink Floyd song and applied a stimulus reconstruction approach previously used in the speech domain. We successfully reconstructed a recognizable song from direct neural recordings and quantified the impact of different factors on decoding accuracy. Combining encoding and decoding analyses, we found a right-hemisphere dominance for music perception with a primary role of the superior temporal gyrus (STG), evidenced a new STG subregion tuned to musical rhythm, and defined an anterior-posterior STG organization exhibiting sustained and onset responses to musical elements. Our findings show the feasibility of applying predictive modeling on short datasets acquired in single patients, paving the way for adding musical elements to brain-computer interface (BCI) applications.

Indexed as

Auditory CortexMusicAcoustic StimulationAuditory PerceptionBrain MappingHumansTemporal Lobe

Identifiers

PMID37582062
PMCPMC10427021

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