Clinical mapping
Localise seizure onset and eloquent cortex.
iEEG sits at the intersection of epilepsy surgery and cognitive neuroscience: clinical necessity enables millimetre–millisecond human data.
This page maps promises and hard limits without selling consumer brain implants.
Pillars
High-frequency dynamics
High-gamma and ripple-band windows onto population activity.
Task neuroscience
Perception, language and memory paradigms in surgical patients.
Ethical constraints
Sparse coverage, consent and no healthy-volunteer implant.
Key facts
Spatial scale
Millimetres near cortical generators.
Temporal bandwidth
Kilohertz sampling captures high-gamma.
ECoG vs SEEG
Surface grids versus depth trajectories.
Clinical first
Research piggybacks on indicated monitoring.
Sparse sampling
Electrodes follow surgical plans, not whole-brain maps.
Decoding limits
Task-linked signals ≠ reading private thoughts.
Pair with Epilepsy, Language, Motor Control and Methods neighbours.
Sources & research
- Promises and limitations of human intracranial electroencephalographyPromises and limits of human iEEG.DOI
- High-frequency neural activity and human cognition: past, present and possible future of intracranial EEG researchHigh-frequency activity and cognition review.DOI
- High-frequency gamma oscillations and human brain mapping with electrocorticographyHigh-gamma mapping with ECoG.DOI
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