Vowel decoding from single‐trial speech‐evoked electrophysiological responses: A feature‐based machine learning approach

Abstract

Scalp‐recorded electrophysiological responses to complex, periodic auditory signals reflect phase‐locked activity from neural ensembles within the auditory system. These responses, referred to as frequency‐following responses (FFRs), have been widely utilized to index typical and atypical representation of speech signals in the auditory system. One of the major limitations in FFR is the low signal‐to‐noise ratio at the level of single trials. For this reason, the analysis relies on averaging across thousands of trials. The ability to examine the quality of single‐trial FFRs will allow investigation of trial‐by‐trial dynamics of the FFR, which has been impossible due to the averaging approach.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Apr 26, 2017
Source ID
10.1002/brb3.665

Entities

People

  • Alexandros G. Dimakis.
  • Bharath Chandrasekaran
  • Han-gyol Yi
  • Rachel Reetzke
  • Zilong Xie

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Science Foundation
  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks