Category: News

Conference on Motor Speech – Guenther lab participation

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 […]

Our new lab space is up and running!

The summer of 2017 brought many changes for the Guenther Lab, the most noticeable being our relocation of our main lab space at 635 Commonwealth Ave to 677 Beacon Street. After months of construction, packing, and finally the big move, the new lab is fully operational! Here are a few pictures of the new space.

Guenther Lab brain-machine interface research featured in Christian Science Monitor

Our brain-machine interface that detects when a human observer sees a robot making a mistake was featured in an article on human-robot interactions in The Christian Science Monitor titled: Robot communication: It’s more than just talk.  This article discusses work at Boston University as well as MIT and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Guenther lab members present at the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control

The Guenther Lab’s Principal Investigator, Frank Guenther, and Assistant Director, Jason Tourville recently attended the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control held in Groningen, the Netherlands. The conference, which takes place roughly once every 5 years, brings together colleagues from leading research groups that study speech motor control and related disorders. During the “Windows […]

Press coverage of our error-detecting robotic brain-computer interface

Our brain-computer interface that detects when a human observer sees a robot making a mistake has gotten a lot of press coverage in the past two weeks, including articles on NPR, Newsweek, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Wired, New Scientist, Discover, and over 100 other popular and scientific news outlets. Congratulations to Guenther Lab PhD student Andrés Salazar-Gómez as […]

Oculomotor brain-computer interface article published

Decoding of intended saccade direction in an oculomotor brain-computer interface In collaboration with Prof. Earl Miller’s lab at MIT, several lab members, including first author Nan Jia, worked on a novel BCI paradigm involving the eye movement system in the brain. By implanting microarrays in multiple prefrontal areas in monkeys, high online BCI performance was […]

Dissertation Defense – Nan Jia

Notice of Dissertation Defense Nan Jia Candidate for the degree of Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems Title: DEVELOPING AN OCULOMOTOR BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE AND CHARACTERIZING ITS DYNAMIC FUNCTIONAL NETWORK Friday, December 9, 2016 1:30 pm CompNet Building Room B02 Boston University Graduate Program for Neuroscience 677 Beacon Street Boston (Advisor: Professor Frank Guenther) Nan Jia Abstract

Dissertation Defense – Andrés F. Salazar-Gómez

Notice of Dissertation Defense Andrés F. Salazar-Gómez Candidate for the degree of Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience Title: ERROR-RELATED POTENTIALS FOR ADAPTIVE DECODING AND VOLITIONAL CONTROL Friday, December 2, 2016 10am CompNet Building Room B02 Boston University Graduate Program for Neuroscience 677 Beacon Street Boston (Advisor: Professor Frank Guenther) Salazar-Gómez Abstract

Article in Spectrum highlights lab’s autism research

Guenther lab  research was highlighted in an article in Spectrum, titled, “Imaging study hints at compensation in verbal teens with autism”. This article discusses a talk titled, Neural bases of language phenotypes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, given by Jennifer Segawa at this year’s Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego. This research was a collaboration between […]