📢Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @Steph_Bickel and Ashesh Mehta! "Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG https://t.co/PRVXOHssci

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✨Today, we will be sharing a bit about Rotations and Curriculum. ✨ ✅PGY-1: We spend our intern year with @uabimres, named after Dr. Tinsley Harrison. During this time, we also get to do 4 months of Neurology- Consults, Inpatient, Clinic/Palliative, and NEURO BOOTCAMP! 🧠

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📢Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @Steph_Bickel and Ashesh Mehta! "Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG https://t.co/PRVXOHssci

Learned a lot thanks to my wonderful co-authors, @Akash_Mishra7, @NoahMarkowitz, @eespinal_npsych, @KMenoua, @NimaMesgarani, Charles Schroeder and my PhD advisors @Steph_Bickel and Ashesh Mehta. Happy to discuss more! Here's the free access link:

We believe our findings support the neural entrainment of oscillations during speech perception by acoustic edges. This is just another drop in the bucket of the vast literature on the neural oscillations. There is more to look and much to debate.

This effect was localized to HG in theta and alpha bands and to STG in theta band only.

If the phase concentration happened just because of the evoked potential, the 2nd cycle would have gone back to baseline values. However, what we see is that the ITPC stayed higher than the phase concentration happened before the evoked potential.

Then, we looked if the acoustic edge locked phase alignment (inter-trial phase coherence) lasts more than two cycles for events that are at least 800ms apart. We found ITPC lasts 2 cycles of theta band above the phase concentration that happens right before an acoustic edge.

We initially replicated that both Heschl's gyrus and superior temporal gyrus have cerebro-acoustic coherence with speech in the theta range. But both HG and STG respond to the acoustic edge earlier than acoustic peak. As expected, since acoustic edges lead the acoustic peaks.

We tried to replicate these findings using intracranial EEG as there are several differences between MEEG and iEEG. Our participants (I don't like calling them patients since they give their best effort for science without return) listened to ~45min of speech stimuli.

One elegant way to answer the difference is by looking at the phase alignment after an evoked activity as elegantly proposed by Oganian et al. https://t.co/IOd3sCWd29

Two hypotheses emerged as potential mechanisms in understanding how we perceive speech Neural entrainment of oscillations has amassed much attention due to its flexibility and rich background Evoked response hypothesis explains what we see as a combination of responses to speech

Our own Dr. Angela Shapshak! So lucky to be trained by her! Deserves absolutely the best 👏👌 @uab_neurology @uabneurores

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Well, good news, one paper got accepted! 🎉 More details soon...

Juggling 3 manuscript submissions/revisions, doing analyses on another project, writing an abstract for a case report... All the while not missing the clinical duties. I feel welcomed to the #physicianscientist life 😮‍💨 Is this how it'll be the rest of my career? 🫣 I hope so 😁

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