Erin Kunz

Excited to share our new study on inner speech out now in @CellPressNews! W/ @benyameister (co-lead) @WillettNeuro (senior) doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

Excited to see this out! This project includes some of my earliest PhD experiments and findings with participant T12. Huge congrats to @BenyaminAK_BCI and the rest of the team for building on it and getting it across the finish line!

Excited to share our new work on cross-brain transfer of speech and handwriting BCIs! Some studies have required 10+ days of training data for peak BCI performance. Can pooling neural data from other users speed things up? 1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

News podcast: @pearlsandpython @Stanford on inner voice; @SamuelDickenUK @ucl on ultra-processed foods; Solomon Hirsch @imperialcollege on Mars; and Katie Shanks @Renewables_UoE and Sophie Gledhill @FraunhoferISE on butterfly-inspired solar energy. thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked…

Massive shoutout to the participants T12,T15,T16,T17, my advisors and all the coauthors integral to this work! @JaimieHenderson @ShaulDr @BrainGateTeam @neuroleigh @seanyoon777 @foram_kamdar @chethan @NS_Card @ca_rrina @SergeyStavisky @DrDavidBrandman and many more!

Our findings show that inner speech could be a powerful new modality for BCIs—but also highlight the importance of privacy & agency. By decoding imagined sentences and creating safeguards, we aim to move toward communication neuroprosthetics that are empowering in all aspects.

Excited to share our new study on inner speech out now in @CellPressNews! W/ @benyameister (co-lead) @WillettNeuro (senior) doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

Interested in speech neuroprostheses? Come to the #SfN24 minisymposium organized by @HerffC and I. We have a fantastic lineup chosen to survey the many directions this field can go in: different recording modalities, languages, and behaviors (e.g. attempted vs. imagined speech).

It’s been a fun journey putting this together with our participants and our collaborators. Thanks to all contributors including my co-lead author @benyameister and mentors @WillettNeuro @ShaulDr and @JaimieHenderson !

We’re also presenting this work at #sfn2024 today (poster H19) and at a Minisymposium organized by @SergeyStavisky Monday Oct 7 2-4:30pm. Come talk to us to learn more!

Can a speech BCI really read your private thoughts? Inspired by a 2023 @Bcisociety workshop, our preprint tackles this question! We find that verbal thought is well represented in motor cortex, but accidental decoding can be prevented with proper training. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to @CathyrenOleande for winning the Brain-to-Text Benchmark '24 (eval.ai/web/challenges…). Her entry drove the word error rate down from 9.72% (our baseline) to 5.81%, a substantial improvement! Excited to see what we can learn from this approach and others.