Topic: Whisper

Humans possess the remarkable ability to extract discrete words and construct meaningful sentences from continuous streams of acoustic signals. While brain regions such as the superior temporal gyrus (STG) are known to be involved in speech recognition, how populations of neurons coordinate to enable this process remains unclear. Similar to the brain, state-of-the-art models like Whisper [1] excel at speech processing by transforming acoustic inputs into high-dimensional representations. Such models can thus be valuable tools for studying the neural mechanisms underlying speech perception. In

The prevalence of memory deficits among epilepsy patients is approximately 50%, reported as a major factor affecting the quality of life. In particular, individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy are increasingly identified with a deficit termed Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting. Monitoring and treatment of these deficits require efficient automated tools for repeated probing of memory functions with or without concurrent recording of the brain activities. We used a classic verbal memory free recall paradigm, in which subjects recall out-loud words after a distractor, assessing performance by tran