They work with many types of patients, including stroke victims who are relearning to speak, babies who have trouble swallowing, people who speak with a stutter and children with language delays. “Our field is
Study finds distinct brain paths for speech, writing Way to help stroke victims is foreseenJudy Foreman, Globe Staff
A brainstem-stroke survivor with anarthria was implanted with a 253-channel high-density ECoG array 18 years after injury. Neural activity was processed and used to train deep-learning models to predict phone probabilities, speech-sound features and articulatory gestures. These outputs were used to...
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While this is relatively easy in the case of language loss from, for example, a brain stroke because the destroyed brain areas can be identified at autopsy, it is more difficult in the case of the large group of so-called functional speech disorders for two reasons: first, they are ...