The Role of Midbrain in Perception of Tone Sequences and Speech: an Analysis of Individual Studies

L. B. Oknina; Окнина Л. Б.; E. L. Masherow; Машеров Е. Л.; A. M. Lange; Ланге А. М.; A. A. Slezkin; Слезкин А. А.; J. O. Vologdina; Вологдина Я. О.; I. A. Ziber; Зибер И. А.; G. V. Portnova; Портнова Г. В.; V. V. Podlepich; Подлепич В. В.; D. I. Pitshelauri; Пицхелаури Д. И.; A. O. Kantserova; Канцерова А. О.; E. V. Strelnikova; Стрельникова Е. В.

doi:10.31857/S0131164623600052

The Role of Midbrain in Perception of Tone Sequences and Speech: an Analysis of Individual Studies

Authors: Oknina L.B.¹, Masherow E.L.², Lange A.M.³, Slezkin A.A.¹^,4, Vologdina J.O.¹^,2, Ziber I.A.⁵, Portnova G.V.¹, Podlepich V.V.², Pitshelauri D.I.², Kantserova A.O.¹, Strelnikova E.V.¹
Affiliations:
1. Institite of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the RAS
2. Burdenko National Medical Research Center of Neurosurgery
3. Russian Technological University (MIREA)
4. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
5. National Research University Higher School of Economics
Issue: Vol 49, No 4 (2023)
Pages: 30-40
Section: Articles
URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0131-1646/article/view/139836
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0131164623600052
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/XAVGVT
ID: 139836

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Human speech is a complex combination of sounds, auditory events. To date, there is no consensus on how speech perception occurs. Does the brain react to each sound in the flow of speech separately, or are discrete units distinguished in the sound series, analyzed by the brain as one sound event. The pilot study analyzed the responses of the human midbrain to simple tones, combinations of simple tones (“complex” sounds), and lexical stimuli. The work is a description of individual cases obtained in the frame of intraoperative monitoring during surgical treatment of tumors of deep midline tumors of the brain or brain stem. The study included local-field potentials from the midbrain in 6 patients (2 women, 4 men). The S- and E-complexes that emerge at the beginning and end of the sound, as well as the S-complexes that emerge when the structure of the sound changes, were identified. The obtained data suggest that the selected complexes are markers of the primary coding of audio information and are generated by the structures of the neural network that provides speech perception and analysis.

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midbrain, evoked potentials, event-related potentials, speech perception, sound perception.

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