News
Frank Guenther featured in NBCNEWS.com’s “The Body Odd” segment
Frank Guenther was featured in a recent NBCNEWS.com in an article entitled, "Why that echoey phone feedback drives us nuts", discussing delayed auditory feedback.
Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) established at BU
The National Institutes of Health announced an award of $10 million to establish an Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) at Boston University, directed by Helen Tager-Flusberg. The BU ACE brings together leading neuroscientists from the University in collaboration with colleagues from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Northeastern University, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition to Tager-Flusberg, the principal investigators for ACE’s major projects are Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, a College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering and director of the BU Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, and Frank Guenther, professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Biomedical Engineering.
Sean Lorenz was awarded the CELEST/CompNet prize in Neural Technology
Sean Lorenz was awarded the CELEST/CompNet prize in Neural Technology at this year's BU Science and Engineering Symposium for his poster entitled: "Adaptive tablet design for a mobile EEG brain-computer interface"
NPL was featured on WGBH, Science for the Public
Members of the neural prosthesis lab participated in a video lecture series, Science for the Public, describing our many speech neural prosthesis projects.
http://forum-network.org/lecture/cracking-neural-code-speech (under construction)
Frank Guenther mentioned in NewScientist Article
NewScientist article, "Telepathy machine reconstructs speech from brainwaves" mentions Frank Guenther's work on brain signals in speech production.
Video: Check out a lab spotlight in Science Nation
The Neural Prosthesis Lab is featured in this week's episode of Science Nation, “Mind Reading Computer System May Help People With Locked-in Syndrome.” The episode features our latest non-invasive brain-machine interfacing research.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/brainmachine.jsp
Lab member Emily Stephen awarded F31 NRSA from the NIDCD
Lab member Emily Stephen was just awarded a Kirschstein F31 NRSA from the National Institute of Deafness and other Communication disorders to study the EEG responses to initiation of speech and motor planning, production and covert production relative to rest. This study will initially examine these responses in subjects with no neurological disorders then expand to a cohort of subjects with spinal injuries for comparison.
NPL is a finalist for the 2011 BCI Award
Co-directors Jon Brumberg and Frank Guenther along with collaborator Philip Kennedy are one of 10 finalists out of 64 submissions for the 2011 BCI Award for their project: "An auditory output brain-computer interface for speech communication." This year's winner will be announced at the 5th International Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2011.
Lab mentioned in New Electronics
The Lab's intracortical speech BMI research was described alongside other ECoG research for controlling communication devices.
Discovery News piece focuses on Frank Guenther’s speech signal work
A recent Discovery News piece, Device turns thoughts into speech, focused on Frank Guenther's work decoding neural signals into speech sounds via an electrode in the brain of a locked-in patient.