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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025

Leveraging meaning-induced neural dynamics to detect covert cognition via EEG during natural language listening-a case series.

Ludvik Alkhoury, James O'Sullivan, Giacomo Scanavini, Jin Dou, Joshitha Arora, Lilah Hamill, Abigail Patchell, Ana Radanovic, William D Watson, Edmund C Lalor and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ludvik AlkhouryDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
James O'SullivanDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Giacomo ScanaviniDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Jin DouDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States.
Joshitha AroraDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Lilah HamillDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Abigail PatchellDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Ana RadanovicDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
William D WatsonChild Psychology, Blythedale Children's Hospital, Valhalla, NY, United States.
Edmund C LalorDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States.
Nicholas D SchiffDepartment of Neurology, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
N Jeremy Hill *National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, NY, United States.
Sudhin A Shah *Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.

Funding

Training and DisseminationP41EB018783 · NIBIB · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI Jonathan Rickel Wolpaw · 2014 to 2026
$15.4M
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB018783
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At least a quarter of adult patients with severe brain injury in a disorder of consciousness may have cognitive abilities that are hidden due to motor impairment. In this case series, we developed a tool that extracted acoustic and semantic processing biomarkers from electroencephalography recorded while participants listened to a story. We tested our method on two male adolescent survivors of severe brain injury and showed evidence of acoustic and semantic processing. Our method identifies cognitive processing while obviating demands on attention, memory, and executive function. This lays a foundation for graded assessments of cognition recovery across the spectrum of covert cognition.

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cognitive functiondisorder of consciousnessnatural languagepediatrictemporal response function (TRF)

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PMID40703721
PMCPMC12285682

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