Dr. Frank Guenther, Principal Investigator, and Dr. Elaine Kearney, Postdoctoral Research Associate, recently attended the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language held in the beautiful city of Helsinki, Finland from Aug 20 – 22. Dr. Guenther gave an invited keynote talk titled “Neural Modeling and Imaging of Speech Production in […]
Notice of Dissertation Defense Scott Kuzdeba Candidate for the degree of Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience Title: CHARACTERISTIC TIME COURSES OF ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHIC SIGNALS DURING SPEECH. Wednesday, July 31, 2019 1:00 pm Boston University 5 Cummington Mall, BRB-113 Boston (Advisor: Professor Frank Guenther) Abstract
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Matthew Masapollo, co-authored and presented two posters at the 2019 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium, one on complex interactions between speech production and perception and the roles of somatosensory feedback, and one on the timing and sequencing of speech movements and the contribution of working memory to speech sequence assembly.
Guenther lab postdoc Matthias Heyne recently (January 21-27, 2019) went on tour to Puerto Rico with the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble where they presented several concerts with Grammy-nominated alto saxophone player Miguel Zenon and taught Puerto Rican High students about topics ranging from Math, Physics, and Climate Change, to Computer Science. Matthias contributed presentations on […]
After making a number of submissions to journals, we all needed to blow off some steam. Axe throwing sounded like a good idea, and no that’s not a euphemism. We really went to throw axes at targets, with a little friendly competition to boot. Everyone had a great time and we’re hoping to make this […]
Dr. Elaine Kearney, a postdoctoral researcher in the Guenther lab, has been selected to participate in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s 2019 Pathways Program! The Pathways Program aims to mentor early-career clinical scientists in establishing strong foundations for an independent research career. It consists of two phases: an initial 2-day conference held in Maryland in June […]
Our study on brain structure anomalies in children who stutter as well as those who recover, a collaboration with the Chang Group at University of Michigan, is featured in Neurology Today. CORTICAL MORPHOLOGY of children who stutter: The areas show significant group differences in left hemisphere cortical morphology: aCO=anterior central operculum; midPMC=middle premotor cortex; preSMA=presupplementary […]
The Guenther Lab recently left the confines of the lab to take part in an all American pastime – baseball! We are fortunate enough to be steps away from historic Fenway Park so we got ourselves organized, thanks to Dr. Matthias Heyne, and headed to see the Boston Red Sox battle the Baltimore Orioles in […]
Dr. Frank Guenther and former Guenther lab graduate student Andres F. Salazar-Gomez are featured in an article on human-robot interactions on the MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s (CSAIL) website titled: How to control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures. This article discusses a paper authored by MIT researchers along with Dr. Guenther and Dr. Salazar-Gomez titled Plug-and-Play Supervisory […]
Many members of the Guenther Lab recently attended the Nineteenth Biennial Conference on Motor Speech in Savannah, Georgia, Feb 22 – 25, 2018. Principal Investigator Dr. Frank Guenther gave a talk titled, Quantitatively Assessing the DIVA Model with Neuroimaging. Dr. Jason Tourville presented a poster titled, Functional boundaries within the cortical speech motor control network. Graduate student Saul Frankford […]