Understanding speech is one of the most important functions of the human brain. We use information from both the auditory modality (the voice the of person we are talking to) and the visual modality (the facial movements of the person we are talking to) to understand speech. We will use intracranial encephalography to study the organization and operation of the brain during audiovisual speech perception.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
We will present audiovisual speech and record neural responses.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Measurement of neural activity
The name of the measurement is the broadband high-frequency activity (BHA) in the brain in response to audiovisual speech. The unit of measure is % increase in power from pre-stimulus baseline. The name of the measurement tool is intracranial EEG, recordings of the raw voltage signal from each electrode implanted in the brain. The voltage-by-time signal will be converted to spectral space using a wavelet transform, and the magnitude of the power between 70 and 150 Hz inclusive in a time window between 0 ms and 500 ms after stimulus onset will be calculated.
Time frame: During the procedure.
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