Application of electrical brain stimulation in the auditory language processing

Abstract

Electrical brain stimulation is an experimental technique with a long history, but only in recent years has it been widely used on human subjects. By electrically stimulating intracranial stimulation sites and analyzing elicited transient behavioral functional changes and electrical brain activity at the recording sites, electrical brain stimulation techniques can reveal functional roles within brain regions and effective connections between brain regions during cognitive processing. For auditory language processing, by stimulating thalamus, auditory cortex, and higher language area, existing research has revealed the different functional roles of each brain region and the information transfer mechanism between different brain regions, providing a new perspective for further exploring the neural mechanisms of auditory language processing.