Jonathan Brumberg, Ph.D.

Man with dark grey hair, a light shirt and a dark jacket.
  • Chairperson, Department of Psychology
  • Professor, Department of Psychology

Contact Info

785-864-1061
Fraser Hall, 411
Lawrence
1415 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045

Personal Links

Biography —

Jonathan Brumberg is Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Behavioral Neuroscience degree program with a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and affiliations with the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Bioengineering Graduate Program. He earned his PhD at Boston University in the area of computational neuroscience of speech motor control in 2009 and continued at Boston University as a research assistant professor before coming to the University of Kansas in 2012. His research interests are in the neurological mechanisms underlying speech and communication and their use in brain-machine interfaces (BMI).

Education —

Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 2008, Boston, MA
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Delaware, 2002
B.S. in Computer and Information Science, University of Delaware, 2001

Research —

Dr. Brumberg is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying speech production, through electrophysiological and behavioral studies. He currently directs an NIH funded research program to develop brain-machine interfaces for control of augmentative and alternative communication devices using electroencephalography (EEG). He is also interested in studying the role of interactive computer programs and interfaces in speech research and rehabilitation, specifically those employing artificial speech synthesis for studying speech production in speakers with and without impairment.

Teaching —

Teaching interests:

  • neuroscience
  • neuroimaging
  • cognitive

Selected Publications —

Pitt, K., Brumberg, J. (2020). A screening protocol incorporating brain-computer interface feature matching considerations for augmentative and alternative communication. Assistive Technology - Issue 3 | Volume 32. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2018.1512175.
Brumberg, J., Pitt, K. (2019). Motor-Induced Suppression of the N100 Event-Related Potential During Motor Imagery Control of a Speech Synthesizer Brain–Computer Interface. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research - Issue 7 | Volume 62. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-MSC18-18-0198.
Brumberg, J., Nguyen, A., Pitt, K., Lorenz, S. (2019). Examining sensory ability, feature matching and assessment-based adaptation for a brain–computer interface using the steady-state visually evoked potential. Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology - Issue 3 | Volume 14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2018.1428369.
Brumberg, J., Thorson, J., Patel, R. (2018). The Prosodic Marionette: A method to visualize speech prosody and assess perceptual and expressive prosodic abilities. Speech Communication - Volume 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SPECOM.2018.09.009.
Pitt, K., Brumberg, J. (2018). Guidelines for Feature Matching Assessment of Brain–Computer Interfaces for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology - Issue 3 | Volume 27. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0135.
Brumberg, J., Pitt, K., Burnison, J. (2018). A Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface for Real-Time Speech Synthesis: The Importance of Multimodal Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering - Issue 4 | Volume 26. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2018.2808425.
Brumberg, J., Pitt, K., Mantie-Kozlowski, A., Burnison, J. (2018). Brain–Computer Interfaces for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Tutorial. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology - Issue 1 | Volume 27. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_AJSLP-16-0244.
Schultz, T., Wand, M., Hueber, T., Krusienski, D., Herff, C., Brumberg, J. (2017). Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication: A Survey. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing - Issue 12 | Volume 25. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2017.2752365.
Brumberg, J., Krusienski, D., Chakrabarti, S., Gunduz, A., Brunner, P., Ritaccio, A., Schalk, G. (2016). Spatio-Temporal Progression of Cortical Activity Related to Continuous Overt and Covert Speech Production in a Reading Task. PLoS ONE - Issue 11 | Volume 11. https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0166872.
Brumberg, J., Burnison, J., Guenther, F., Van Leishout, P., Maassen, B., Terband, H. (2016). Brain-machine interfaces for speech restoration. P. Van Leishout, B. Maassen, H. Terband (Eds.). Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech: future developments in theory and methodology.
Brumberg, J., Burnison, J., Pitt, K. (2016). Using Motor Imagery to Control Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication. Foundations of Augmented Cognition: Neuroergonomics and Operational Neuroscience [Conference] - Volume 9743 | Pages 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39955-3_2.
Brumberg, J., Castro, N., Rao, A. (2015). Temporal dynamics of the speech readiness potential, and its use in a neural decoder of speech motor intention. Interspeech 2015.
Chakrabarti, S., Sandberg, H., Brumberg, J., Krusienski, D. (2015). Progress in speech decoding from the electrocorticogram. Biomedical Engineering Letters - Issue 1 | Volume 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/S13534-015-0175-1.
Lotte, F., Brumberg, J., Brunner, P., Gunduz, A., Ritaccio, A., Guan, C., Schalk, G. (2015). Electrocorticographic representations of segmental features in continuous speech. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Volume 09. https://doi.org/10.3389/FNHUM.2015.00097.
Stephen, E., Lepage, K., Eden, U., Brunner, P., Schalk, G., Brumberg, J., Guenther, F., Kramer, M. (2014). Assessing dynamics, spatial scale, and uncertainty in task-related brain network analyses. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience - Volume 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/FNCOM.2014.00031.
Terband, H., Maassen, B., Guenther, F., Brumberg, J. (2014). Auditory–motor interactions in pediatric motor speech disorders: Neurocomputational modeling of disordered development. Journal of Communication Disorders - Volume 47. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCOMDIS.2014.01.001.
Brumberg, J., Wright, E., Andreasen, D., Guenther, F., Kennedy, P. (2011). Classification of intended phoneme production from chronic intracortical microelectrode recordings in speech-motor cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience - Issue 65 | Volume 5.
Brumberg, J., Guenther, F. (2010). Development of speech prostheses: current status and recent advances. Expert Review of Medical Devices - Issue 5 | Volume 7. https://doi.org/10.1586/erd.10.34.
Denby, B., Schultz, T., Honda, K., Hueber, T., Gilbert, J., Brumberg, J. (2010). Silent speech interfaces. Speech Communication - Issue 4 | Volume 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2009.08.002.
Brumberg, J., Nieto-Castanon, A., Kennedy, P., Guenther, F. (2010). Brain–computer interfaces for speech communication. Speech Communication - Issue 4 | Volume 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2010.01.001.
Guenther, F., Brumberg, J., Wright, E., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J., Panko, M., Law, R., Siebert, S., Bartels, J., Andreasen, D., Ehirim, P., Mao, H., Kennedy, P. (2009). A Wireless Brain-Machine Interface for Real-Time Speech Synthesis. PLoS ONE - Issue 12 | Volume 4. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008218.

Awards & Honors —

EURASIP Best Paper Award. European Association for Signal Processing. Received: 12-31-2015.