Publications

Dissertation

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

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Brumberg, J. S., Wright, E. J., Andreasen, D. A., Guenther and Kennedy, P. R. (2011). Classification of intended phoneme production from chronic intracortical microelectrode recordings in speech motor cortex. Frontiers in Neuroprosthetics, 5(65).[link]

Brumberg, J. S. and Guenther, F. H. (2010). Development of speech prostheses: current status and recent advances. Expert Review of Medical Devices. 7(5), 667-679.[link]

Brumberg, J. S., Nieto-Castanon, A., Kennedy, P. R., and Guenther, F. H. (2010). Brain-Computer Interfaces for Speech Communication. Speech Communication. 52(4), 367-379.[link]

Denby, B., Schultz, T., Honda, K., Hueber, T., Gilbert, J. M. and Brumberg, J. S. (2010). Silent Speech Interfaces. Speech Communication. 52(4), 270-287.[link]

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. (2009). A wireless brain-machine interface for real-time speech synthesis. PLoS ONE, 4(12), e8218.[link]

Terband, H., Maassen, B., Guenther, F. H. and Brumberg, J. (2009). Computational neural modeling of speech motor control in childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 52(6), 1595-1609.[link]

Conference Proceedings

Matthews, B., Brumberg, J. and Clements, M. (2010). A Probabilistic Decoding Approach to a Neural Prosthesis for Speech. In Proceedings of the 2010 4th Annual Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2010), Chengdu, China, 18-20 June 2010.[link][reviewed]

Brumberg, J. S., Kennedy, P. R. and Guenther, F. H. (2009). Artificial speech synthesizer control by brain-computer interface. In 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.[pdf][reviewed]

Posters and Abstracts

Brumberg, J. S., Kim, J., Matthews, B., Wright, E. J., Guenther, F. H., Clements, M. and Kennedy, P. R. Evaluation of supervised classification techniques for direct phoneme prediction by a brain-computer interface. Program No. 86.11. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.

Law, R., Brumberg, J. and Guenther, F. (2010). Nonlinear Bayesian filters for EEG-based speech prostheses. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS), Boston, MA, May 19-22, 2010.

Velliste, M., Brumberg, J. S., Perel, S., Fraser, G. W., Spalding, M. C., Whitford, A. S., McMorland, A. J. C., Wright, E. J., Guenther, F. H., Kennedy, P. R., Schwartz, A. B.. Modular software architecture for neural prosthetic control. Program No. 895.1. 2009 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2009. Online.

Kennedy, P., Andreasen, D., Brumberg, J., Clements, M., Guenther, F., Kim, J., Matthews, B., Ramos, C., Velliste, M., Wright, E.J. Human speech cortex [2]: Tuning of single units during listening and imagined singing of tones and musical notes using feedback. Program No. 181.11. 2009 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2009. Online.

Panko, M., Brumberg, J. S., Nieto-Castanon, A., Wright, E. J., Law, R., Kennedy, P. R. and Guenther, F. H. (2009), "Decoding intended speech with a brain-machine interface utilizing a Neurotrophic Electrode," Berlin Brain-Computer Interface Workshop: Advances in Neurotechnology, July 8-10, 2009.

Brumberg, J. S., Nieto-Castanon, A., Guenther, F. H., Bartels, J. L., Wright, E. J., Siebert, S. A., Andreasen, D. S. and Kennedy, P. R. Methods for construction of a long-term human brain machine interface with the Neurotrophic Electrode. Program No. 779.5. 2008 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2008. Online.[pdf]

Terband, H., Maassen, B., Brumberg, J. S. and Guenther, F. H. (2008). Increased levels of neural noise as the core deficit in childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). In: Proceedings of the Conference on Motor Speech, Monterey, CA.

Brumberg, J. S., Andreasen, D. S., Bartels, J. L., Guenther, F. H., Kennedy, P. R., Siebert, S. A., Schwartz, A. B. Velliste, M. and Wright, E. J. Human speech cortex long-term recordings [5]: formant frequency analyses. Program No. 517.17. 2007 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online.[pdf]

Wright, E. J., Andreasen, D. S., Bartels, J. L., Brumberg, J. S., Guenther, F. H., Kennedy, P. R., Miller, L., Rebesco, J., Schwartz, A. B., Siebert, S. A. and Velliste, M. Human speech cortex long-term recordings [3]: neural net analyses. Program No. 517.18. 2007 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online.[pdf]

Siebert, S. A., Andreasen, D. S., Bartels, J. L., Brumberg, J. S., Guenther, F. H., Kennedy, P. R. and Wright, E. J. Human speech cortex long-term recordings [1]: spike sorting and noise reduction. Program No. 728.14. 2007 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online.[pdf]

Terband, H., Maassen, B. and Brumberg, J. Motor speech in adults and children: computational-neurological modeling of childhood appraxia of speech (CAS). (2007) Poster presented at American Speech-Language Association Conference 2007. Boston, MA

Shipley, T. F., Maguire, M.J., & Brumberg, J. (2004). Segmentation of event paths. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 562.

Shipley, T.F., Maguire, M.J., &. Brumberg, J.S. (2003). Top down effects on search for biological motion. Abstracts of the Psychonomics Society, 8, 51.

Technical Reports

Shipley, T.F. & Brumberg, J.S. (2003). Markerless motion-capture for point-light displays. Technical Report, Temple University Vision Laboratory, Philadelphia, PA.

Presentations

"Bridging speech, neuroscience and engineering for speech rehabilitation." Department of Speech, Hearing and Language Sciences Research Colloquium Series, Boston, MA, February 16, 2011.

"Brain-computer interfaces for communication." Science of Learning Centers PI Awardee Meeting, Washington, DC, October 14, 2010.

"Brain-computer interfaces for artificial speech synthesis." Department of Speech, Hearing and Language Sciences Research Colloquium Series, Boston, MA, April 27, 2010.

"Artificial speech synthesizer control by brain-computer interface." Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, September 7, 2009.

"Real-time speech synthesis for neural prosthesis." Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR, May 18, 2009. [pdf]

"Speech restoration by brain computer interface." CELEST Education Curriculum Workshop, July 11, 2008. [Invited talk: pdf]

"An electrophysiological investigation of human motor cortex and its application to speech restoration." Boston University, June 11, 2008. [Dissertation defense: pdf]