Frank H. Guenther
Associate Professor,
Research Affiliate, RLE Speech Communication Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Faculty Member, Speech and Hearing
Bioscience and Technology Program, Harvard University-MIT Division of
Health Sciences and Technology,
Visiting Scientist, NMR
Center, Department of Radiology,
Ph.D., Cognitive and Neural Systems,
M.S.E., Electrical Engineering,
Click here for my curriculum vitae.
CN510: Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling I
Teaching Fellow: Tim Barnes (barnes@cns.bu.edu)
2007 Syllabus; Homework Guidelines; Assignment 1; Assignment 2; Assignment 3; Assignment 4; Assignment 5; Midterm Study Guide; Final Study Guide.
Lecture notes: Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3; Lecture 4; Lecture 5; Lecture 6; Lecture 7; Lecture 8; Lecture 9 (midterm exam); Lecture 10; Lecture 11; Lecture 12; Lecture 13; Lecture 14.
CN740: Topics in Sensory-Motor Control
2008 Syllabus; Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3; Lecture 4; Lecture 5; Lectures 6-8 (student presentations); Lecture 9; Lecture 10; Lecture 11; Lecture 12; Lecture 13 (student presentations).
Research interests:
I am a cognitive neuroscientist and neural modeler
interested in speech production, speech perception, and sensory-motor control. Click here to read more about our research in
the CNS Speech Lab, or view a poster describing our functional brain imaging research
carried out at
Our lab has developed and refined a neural network model of the brain
processes underlying speech production and the learning of speaking skills,
called the DIVA model. To see the model learning to produce speech, first
click here to hear sample words that
are presented to the model. Then click each of the pictures below from
left to right to see and hear the model's first few attempts to produce the
words:
More videos and information about the model are available here.
Selected publications (full list here):
Guenther, F.H. (2006). [490kb 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) [870kb pdf]. Neural modeling and imaging of the cortical interactions underlying syllable production. Brain and Language, 96, pp. 280-301.
Bohland, J.W. and Guenther, F.H. (2006) [730kb pdf]. An fMRI investigation of syllable sequence production. NeuroImage, 32, pp. 821-841.
Nieto-Castanon, A., Guenther, F.H., Perkell, J.S., and Curtin, H. (2005) [930kb pdf]. A modeling investigation of articulatory variability and acoustic stability during American English /r/ production. J Acoust Soc Am., 117, 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, pp. 46-57.
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. 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).
Max, L., Guenther, F.H., Gracco, V.L., Ghosh, S.S.,
and
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,
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 (pp. 169-173).
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. (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.
Hampson, M. Guenther, F.H., Cohen, M.A., and
Nieto-Castanon, A. (2003) [480kb pdf]. Changes in the McGurk
Effect across phonetic contexts.
Technical Report CAS/CNS-TR-03-006.
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. (2001) [80kb pdf]. Neural modeling of speech
production. Proceedings of the 4th
International
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,
Micci Barreca, D. and Guenther, F.H. (2001) [2.3Mb pdf]. A modeling study of potential sources of curvature in human reaching movements. Journal of Motor Behavior, 33, pp. 387-400.
Guenther, F.H. (2001) [40kb
pdf] [120kb html]. Neural
networks: Biological models and applications. International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
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. (2000) [20kb
pdf] [30kb html]. An analytical
error invalidates the ``depolarization'' of the perceptual magnet effect. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of
Guenther, F.H., Espy-Wilson, C.Y., Boyce, S.E.,
Matthies, M.L., Zandipour, M., and Perkell, J.S. (1999) [200kb
pdf] [1.0Mb postscript]. Articulatory tradeoffs reduce acoustic
variability during American English /r/ production. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of
Guenther, F.H., Husain, F.T., Cohen, M.A., and
Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (1999) [240kb pdf]
[1.2Mb postscript]. Effects of categorization and
discrimination training on auditory perceptual space. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of
Guenther, F.H., Hampson, M., and Johnson, D. (1998) [320kb pdf] [1.4Mb postscript]. A theoretical investigation of reference frames for the planning of speech movements. Psychological Review, 105, pp. 611-633.
Guenther, F.H., and Micci Barreca, D. (1997) [150kb
pdf] [520kb postscript]. 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).
Guenther, F.H., and Gjaja, M.N. (1996) [340kb pdf]
[3.0Mb postscript]. The perceptual magnet effect
as an emergent property of neural map formation. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of
Guenther, F.H. (1995) [350kb pdf] [1.2Mb postscript]. Speech sound acquisition, coarticulation, and rate effects in a neural network model of speech production. Psychological Review, 102, pp. 594-621.
Guenther, F.H. (1995) [90kb pdf] [160kb postscript]. 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).
Guenther, F.H. (1994) [140kb pdf] [1.2Mb postscript]. A neural network model of speech acquisition and motor equivalent speech production. Biological Cybernetics, 72, pp. 43-53.
Last updated 10/19/2006.