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Frank H. Guenther

Frank H. Guenther

Boston University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
17436
World Ranking
3621
National Ranking
1668

Computer Science

D-Index
48
Citations
14006
World Ranking
6050
National Ranking
2730

Frank H. Guenther publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank H. Guenther sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 200 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Frank H. Guenther D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank H. Guenther sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Frank H. Guenther is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and conducts research primarily in psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans several main fields of study, including psychology with 60 publications and neuroscience with 47 publications. Within these areas, Guenther focuses on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and physiology.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics including neurobiology of language and bilingualism, phonetics and phonology research, stuttering research and treatment, language development and disorders, voice and speech disorders, neuroscience and music perception, and reading and literacy development.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Guenther include: Alfonso Nieto-Castañón, Jason A. Tourville, Elaine Kearney, Elizabeth S. Heller Murray, and Saul A. Frankford. These partnerships reflect a network focused on speech, language, and neuroscience research.

Guenther has contributed to multiple papers published in notable venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Neurobiology of Language
  • Brain and Language
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Guenther include:

  • Involvement of the Cortico-Basal Ganglia-Thalamocortical Loop in Developmental Stuttering, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Modelling speech motor programming and apraxia of speech in the DIVA/GODIVA neurocomputational framework, 2020, Aphasiology
  • The Neural Circuitry Underlying the "Rhythm Effect" in Stuttering, 2021, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • A Simple 3-Parameter Model for Examining Adaptation in Speech and Voice Production, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Plug-and-play supervisory control using muscle and brain signals for real-time gesture and error detection, 2020, Autonomous Robots

In 1995, Frank H. Guenther received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award, acknowledging their contributions in the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Neural modeling and imaging of the cortical interactions underlying syllable production.

    Frank H. Guenther;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Jason A. Tourville

  • The DIVA model: A neural theory of speech acquisition and production.

    Jason A. Tourville;Frank H. Guenther

  • Neural mechanisms underlying auditory feedback control of speech.

    Jason A. Tourville;Kevin J. Reilly;Frank H. Guenther

  • Cortical interactions underlying the production of speech sounds

    Frank H. Guenther

  • Speech sound acquisition, coarticulation, and rate effects in a neural network model of speech production.

    Frank H. Guenther

  • An fMRI investigation of syllable sequence production.

    Jason W. Bohland;Frank H. Guenther;Frank H. Guenther;Frank H. Guenther

  • A theoretical investigation of reference frames for the planning of speech movements.

    Frank H. Guenther;Michelle Hampson;Dave Johnson

  • Neural representations and mechanisms for the performance of simple speech sequences

    Jason W. Bohland;Daniel Bullock;Frank H. Guenther

  • A self-organizing neural model of motor equivalent reaching and tool use by a multijoint arm

    Daniel Bullock;Stephen Grossberg;Frank H. Guenther

  • Neural Control of Speech

    Frank H. Guenther

  • A Neural Theory of Speech Acquisition and Production.

    Frank H. Guenther;Tony Vladusich

  • Unstable or Insufficiently Activated Internal Models and Feedback-Biased Motor Control as Sources of Dysfluency: A Theoretical Model of Stuttering

    Ludo Max;Frank H. Guenther;Vincent L. Gracco;Satrajt S. Ghosh

  • A neural network model of speech acquisition and motor equivalent speech production

    Frank H. Guenther

  • Brain-computer interfaces for speech communication

    Jonathan S. Brumberg;Alfonso Nieto-Castanon;Philip R. Kennedy;Frank H. Guenther

  • A Wireless Brain-Machine Interface for Real-Time Speech Synthesis

    Frank H. Guenther;Frank H. Guenther;Jonathan S. Brumberg;E. Joseph Wright;Alfonso Nieto-Castanon

  • Sensorimotor adaptation to feedback perturbations of vowel acoustics and its relation to perception

    Virgilio M. Villacorta;Joseph S. Perkell;Frank H. Guenther

  • The perceptual magnet effect as an emergent property of neural map formation

    Frank H. Guenther;Marin N. Gjaja

  • A theory of speech motor control and supporting data from speakers with normal hearing and with profound hearing loss

    Joseph S. Perkell;Frank H. Guenther;Harlan Lane;Melanie L. Matthies

  • Speech motor control: acoustic goals, saturation effects, auditory feedback and internal models

    Joseph Perkell;Melanie Matthies;Harlan Lane;Frank Guenther

  • Computational modeling of stuttering caused by impairments in a basal ganglia thalamo-cortical circuit involved in syllable selection and initiation.

    Oren Civier;Daniel Bullock;Ludo Max;Ludo Max;Frank H. Guenther;Frank H. Guenther

  • Neural mechanisms underlying sensory feedback control of speech

    Jason Tourville;Frank Guenther

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph S. Perkell
Joseph S. Perkell MIT
Satrajit S. Ghosh
Satrajit S. Ghosh MIT
Stephen Grossberg
Stephen Grossberg Boston University
Douglas N. Greve
Douglas N. Greve Harvard University
Michelle Hampson
Michelle Hampson Yale University
Yohan Payan
Yohan Payan Grenoble Alpes University
Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus MIT
Carol Y. Espy-Wilson
Carol Y. Espy-Wilson University of Maryland, College Park
Ben Maassen
Ben Maassen University of Groningen
Christopher J. McDougle
Christopher J. McDougle Harvard University

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