Latané Bullock

The paper investigates how basal ganglia activity encodes speech production and ambient noise levels in humans, finding distinct neural populations for each.

The paper shows that spike-phase coupling between subthalamic nucleus neurons and posterior opercular cortex predicts speech sound accuracy during speech production.

This study uses intracranial EEG to show the supplementary motor area (SMA) is the earliest cortical region active before speech onset during stereotyped word articulation.