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Recreating Neural Activity During Speech Production with Language and Speech Model Embeddings

20 May 2025arXiv:2505.14074links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Owais Mujtaba Khanday, Pablo Rodroguez San Esteban, Zubair Ahmad Lone, Marc Ouellet, Jose Andres Gonzalez Lopez

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Understanding how neural activity encodes speech and language production is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. This study investigates whether embeddings from large-scale, self-supervised language and speech models can effectively reconstruct high-gamma neural activity characteristics, key indicators of cortical processing, recorded during speech production. We leverage pre-trained embeddings from deep learning models trained on linguistic and acoustic data to represent high-level speech features and map them onto these high-gamma signals. We analyze the extent to which these embeddings preserve the spatio-temporal dynamics of brain activity. Reconstructed neural signals are evaluated against high-gamma ground-truth activity using correlation metrics and signal reconstruction quality assessments. The results indicate that high-gamma activity can be effectively reconstructed using large language and speech model embeddings in all study participants, generating Pearson's correlation coefficients ranging from 0.79 to 0.99.

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