CNS Speech Lab
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Journal Articles

Guenther, F.H., Brumberg, J.S., Wright, E.J., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J.A., Panko, M., Law, R., Siebert, S.A., Bartels, J.L., Andreasen, D.S., Ehirim, P., Mao, H., and Kennedy, P.R. (in press) A wireless brain-machine interface for real-time speech synthesis. PLoS ONE.

Ghosh S.S., Tourville, J.A., and Guenther F.H. (in press) An fMRI study of the overt production of simple speech sounds. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Tourville, J.A., Reilly, K.J., and Guenther, F.H. (2008) [978kb pdf]. Neural mechanisms underlying auditory feedback control of speech. NeuroImage, 39(3), pp. 1429-1443

Bohland, J.W., and Guenther, F.H. (2006) [731kb pdf]. An fMRI investigation of syllable sequence production. NeuroImage, 32(2), pp. 821-841.

Guenther, F.H. (2006) [487kb pdf]. Cortical interactions underlying the production of speech sounds. Journal of Communication Disorders, 39, pp. 350-365.

Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S., and Tourville, J.A. (2006) [865kb pdf]. Neural modeling and imaging of the cortical interactions underlying syllable production. Brain and Language, 96(3), pp. 280-301.

Nieto-Castanon, A., Guenther, F.H., Perkell, J.S., Curtin, H.D. (2005) [698 kb pdf]. A modeling investigation of articulatory variability and acoustic stability during American English /r/ production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117(5), pp. 3196-3212.

Guenther, F.H., Nieto-Castanon, A., Ghosh, S.S., and Tourville, J.A. (2004) [500kb pdf].  Representation of sound categories in auditory cortical maps.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47(1), pp.46-57.

Max, L., Guenther, F.H., Gracco, V.L., Ghosh, S.S., and Wallace, M.E. (2004) [260kb pdf]. Unstable or insufficiently activated internal models and feedback-biased motor control as sources of dysfluency: A theoretical model of stuttering. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 31, pp. 105-122.

Nieto-Castanon, A., Ghosh, S.S., Tourville, J.A., and Guenther, F.H. (2003)  [850kb pdf]. Region-of-interest based analysis of functional imaging data. NeuroImage, 19, pp. 1303-1316.

Guenther, F.H., and Bohland, J.W. (2002) [690kb pdf]. Learning sound categories: A neural model and supporting experiments. Acoustical Science and Technology, 23(4), pp. 213-220.

Guenther, F.H. (2000) [20kb pdf]. An analytical error invalidates the ``depolarization'' of the perceptual magnet effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107, pp. 3576-3580.

Guenther, F.H., Espy-Wilson, C.Y., Boyce, S.E., Matthies, M.L., Zandipour, M., and Perkell, J.S. (1999) [200kb pdf]. Articulatory tradeoffs reduce acoustic variability during American English /r/ production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105, pp. 2854-2865.

Guenther, F.H., Husain, F.T., Cohen, M.A., and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (1999) [240kb pdf]. Effects of categorization and discrimination training on auditory perceptual space. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, pp. 2900-2912.

Guenther, F.H., Hampson, M., and Johnson, D. (1998) [320kb pdf]. A theoretical investigation of reference frames for the planning of speech movements. Psychological Review, 105, pp. 611-633.

Guenther, F.H., and Gjaja, M.N. (1996) [340kb pdf]. The perceptual magnet effect as an emergent property of neural map formation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, pp. 1111-1121.

Guenther, F.H. (1995) [350kb pdf]. Speech sound acquisition, coarticulation, and rate effects in a neural network model of speech production. Psychological Review, 102, pp. 594-621.

Guenther, F.H. (1994) [140kb pdf]. A neural network model of speech acquisition and motor equivalent speech production. Biological Cybernetics, 72, pp. 43-53.

Book Chapters

Guenther, F.H., and Perkell, J.S. (2004) [365kb pdf].  A neural model of speech production and its application to studies of the role of auditory feedback in speech. To appear in: B. Maassen, R. Kent, H. Peters, P. Van Lieshout, and W. Hulstijn (eds.), Speech Motor Control in Normal and Disordered Speech, pp. 29-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Guenther, F.H. (2003) [300kb pdf].  Neural control of speech movements.  In: A. Meyer and N. Schiller (eds.), Phonetics and Phonology in Language Comprehension and Production: Differences and Similarities.  Berlin:  Mouton de Gruyter.

Guenther, F.H., and Micci Barreca, D. (1997) [150kb pdf]. Neural models for flexible control of redundant systems. In: P.G. Morasso and V. Sanguineti (eds.), Self-organization, Computational Maps and Motor Control (pp. 383-421). Amsterdam: Elsevier-North Holland.

Conference Proceedings

Brumberg, J. S., Kennedy, P. R. and Guenther, F. H. (2009) [360kb pdf]. Artificial speech synthesizer control by brain-computer interface. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), Brighton, U. K.: International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009.

Civier, O., Bullock, D., Max, L., and Guenther, F.H. (2009) [1.5MB pdf]. Simulating neural impairments to syllable-level command generation in stuttering. Poster presented at the IRCN, Huerta Grande, Argentina, September 4-6, 2009, and the 6th World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 5-8, 2009.

Civier, O. and Guenther, F.H. (2005) [280kb pdf]. Simulations of feedback and feedforward control in stuttering. Proceedings of the 7th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, 29th June - 2nd July 2005.

Bohland, J.W. and Guenther, F.H. (2004) [5.8MB pdf]. An fMRI investigation of the neural bases of sequential organization for speech production. 2004 Human Brain Mapping Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S., and Nieto-Castanon, A. (2003) [240kb pdf]. A neural model of speech production. Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney, Australia.

Guenther, F.H. and Ghosh, S.S. (2003) [340kb pdf]. A model of cortical and cerebellar function in speech. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences; Barcelona: 15th ICPhS Organizing Committee.

Ghosh, S.S., Bohland, J., and Guenther, F.H. (2003) [1.57MB pdf]. Comparisons of brain regions involved in overt production of elementary phonetic units. Poster presented at the 2003 Organization of Human Brain Mapping Conference.

Guenther, F.H. (2001) [80kb pdf]. Neural modeling of speech production. Proceedings of the 4th International Nijmegen Speech Motor Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 13-16, 2001.

Guenther, F.H., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J.A., and Ghosh, S.S. (2001) [200kb pdf]. The effects of categorization training on auditory perception and cortical representations. Proceedings of the Speech Recognition as Pattern Classification (SPRAAC) Workshop, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, July 11-13, 2001.

Ghosh, S.S., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J.A., and Guenther, F.H. (2001) [282kb pdf]. ROI-based Analysis of fMRI Data Incorporating Individual Differences in Brain Anatomy. Poster presented at the 2001 Organization of Human Brain Mapping Conference.

Guenther, F.H., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J.A., and Ghosh, S.S. (2000). [800kb pdf]. The representation of prototypical and non-prototypical vowels in peri-sylvian cortical areas. Poster presented at the 2000 Society for Neuroscience Meeting.

Guenther, F.H. (1995) [90kb pdf]. A modeling framework for speech motor development and kinematic articulator control. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (vol. 2, pp. 92-99). Stockholm, Sweden:. KTH and Stockholm University.

Technical Reports

Tourville, J.A. and Guenther, F.H. (2003) [400kb pdf]. A cortical and cerebellar parcellation system for speech studies. Boston University Technical Report CAS/CNS-03-022. Boston, MA: Boston University.

Hampson, M. Guenther, F.H., Cohen, M.A., and Nieto-Castanon, A. (2003)  [480kb pdf]. Changes in the McGurk Effect across phonetic contexts.  Boston University Technical Report CAS/CNS-TR-03-006. Boston, MA: Boston University.

Dissertations

Civier, O. (2010) [1.7Mb pdf]. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE NEURAL SUBSTRATES OF STUTTERING AND INDUCED FLUENCY. Boston University Thesis. Boston, MA: Boston University.

Brumberg, J. S. (2008) [8.6Mb pdf|7.8Mb ps]. AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN MOTOR CORTEX AND ITS APPLICATION TO SPEECH RESTORATION. Boston University Thesis. Boston, MA: Boston University.

Bohland, J. W. (2007) [8.14Mb pdf]. NEUROIMAGING AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF SYLLABLE SEQUENCE PRODUCTION. Boston University Thesis. Boston, MA: Boston University.

Nieto-Castanon, A. (2004) [400kb pdf]. AN INVESTIGATION OF ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN SPEECH PRODUCTION. Boston University Thesis. Boston, MA: Boston University.

Ghosh, S.S. (2004) [2.2Mb pdf]. UNDERSTANDING CORTICAL AND CEREBELLAR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPEECH PRODUCTION THROUGH MODELING AND FUNCTIONAL IMAGING. Boston University Thesis. Boston, MA: Boston University.