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Lindy Comstock^1,2, Vinícius Rezende Carvalho³, Claudia Lainscsek^4,5

¹Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

|September 28, 2024

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) causally links brain activity and behavior. TMS applied to specific brain regions enhances psychomotor activity, improving neural decoding accuracy for speech sounds.

Keywords:

motor theory of speech perception neural speech decoding neuromodulation phoneme discrimination transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is used to probe motor control mechanisms.
The precise cortical targets and focal limitations of TMS are debated.
Previous studies suggest TMS can improve performance in tasks like phoneme discrimination.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the causal relationship between electromagnetic stimulation and psychomotor activity.
To determine if TMS-enhanced neural activity improves neural decoding.
To explore site-specific effects of TMS on phoneme discrimination and EEG decoding.

Main Methods:

Replication of previous findings on TMS and phoneme discrimination.
Site-specific TMS application targeting distinct phoneme processing regions.
Electroencephalography (EEG) recording during TMS for neural decoding analysis.
Bayesian analysis to assess evidence for TMS effects on decoding accuracy.

Main Results:

Site-specific TMS demonstrated a double dissociation in phoneme discrimination ability.
EEG decoding accuracy showed a dissociation linked to TMS stimulation site, mirroring behavioral results.
Task accuracy significantly predicted decoding accuracy for both phoneme categories and individual phonemes.

Conclusions:

Provides new evidence for a causal link between TMS, neural function, and behavior.
TMS-facilitated psychomotor activity can serve as a valuable input for neural decoding.
Stimulation of brain regions processing multiple phoneme features yielded more robust decoding results.