Varun Saravanan

The paper identifies speech-induced artifacts in intracranial recordings and shows they correlate with speech audio and vibration patterns.

Treating neurons as independent gave about 46–96% false positives in simulated nested data; a hierarchical bootstrap stayed near 5% with many subjects and kept more power than per-subject averaging.

This study investigates how dopamine depletion affects vocal learning in songbirds by altering pitch and sensorimotor adaptation in response to auditory feedback.