H. Steven Colburn
Prof. Colburn’s research involves the application of signal processing, statistical communication theory, and computational modeling to the study of hearing and hearing impairments. Prof. Colburn is particularly interested in the measurement and modeling of binaural hearing performance. Specific current topics include modeling the activity of auditory brainstem neurons and measurement and modeling of spatial attributes […]
Oded Ghitza
Decoding speech using neuronal oscillations; Hierarchical neuronal oscillators and the basis for cortical computation; Analysis of MEG signals recorded while performing a speech perception task; Predicting consonant confusions in noise; Closed‐loop auditory models for robust automatic speech recognition; Modeling damaged cochleae using speech‐governed methodologies. Prof. Ghitza’s current research focuses on the formulation of cortical computation […]
Frank Guenther
Frank Guenther is professor of speech language, & hearing sciences and biomedical engineering at Boston University. His research combines theoretical modeling with behavioral and neuroimaging experiments to characterize the neural computations underlying speech. He is the originator of the DIVA model, which provides a quantitative account of the neural computations underlying speech motor control and […]
Swathi Kiran
The primary goal of Prof. Kiran’s lab is to understand language processing and communication following a brain damage. Research in the lab makes use of Neuroimaging, neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic and neurobehavioral tools in investigating pertinent questions related to Aphasia. Some particular scholarly and practice interest of the lab are bilingual aphasia, aphasia rehabilitation, functional neuroimaging, language […]
Tyler Perrachione
Prof. Perrachione is the director of the Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory. The lab’s work focuses on developmental disorders of language and reading, human voice recognition and social auditory perception, mechanisms of plasticity in the human auditory cortex, and brain bases of complex auditory processing, including speech and voice perception.
Kamal Sen
How do neurons in the brain encode complex natural sounds? What are the neural substrates of selectivity for and discrimination of different categories of natural sounds? Are these substrates innate or shaped by learning? Our laboratory investigates these questions with a focus on auditory cortex. Electrophysiological techniques are used to record neural responses from hierarchical […]
Helen Tager-Flusberg
The overall aims of the research conducted in our center address questions about the phenotypic characteristics of the language, communication, and associated social-cognitive deficits in autism (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders. We have three ongoing lines of research: 1) investigating the early behavioral and brain developmental trajectories in infants at risk for autism (in collaboration […]
Jennifer Zuk
Jennifer Zuk studies factors in early childhood that shape the trajectory of speech, language, and reading acquisition, with the aim to facilitate positive outcomes for children susceptible to neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her research employs behavioral and neuroimaging tools with children from infancy through school age to study associations between the brain and speech, language, and reading […]