Analysis ECoG features for movement execution using denoising source separation

The major challenge in ECoG-based neuroprosthesis is isolating features in a spectrally and spatially broad range of sources essential for modeling motor behavior. In this study, movement-related spectral modulations are resolved using broadband ECoG recordings passed through a filterbank of constant-Q filters. Denoising source separation is a semiblind source separation methodology which extracts hidden structures of interest within the data by exploiting prior knowledge on the observations. Herein, the methodology is utilized to extract sources that modulate within the frequency content of the hand trajectory. High signal acquisition rates (12 kHz) allow for analysis of frequencies beyond the fast gamma oscillations which have been thus far discarded as background activity. Exploratory analysis suggests the first components extracted from envelopes of high spectral bands correlate with the hand trajectory and their spatial distribution covers areas of premotor and primary motor cortices.