The famous Pink Floyd lyrics emerge from sound that is muddy, yet musical: 'All in all, it was just a brick in the wall.'
"Right now, when we do just words, it's robotic," said senior researcherConsider the computer speech associated with one of the world's most famous locked-in patients, Stephen Hawking.
Original song waveform transformed into a magnitude-only auditory spectrogram, then transformed back into a waveform. Credit: Bellier et al., 2023, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0 "While they're in the hospital waiting to have three seizures [to pinpoint the location of the seizures], we can do experiments like these if the patients agree," Knight explained.
"However, these early findings do hold promise for improving the quality of signal detection for brain-computer interfaces by targeting the superior temporal gyrus," Pantelyat added."This offers hope for patients who have communication challenges due to various neurological diseases such as ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] or traumatic brain injury."
The investigators confirmed that the right side of the brain is more attuned to music than the left side, Knight said.
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