Jason Tourville, PhD

Scholarly Interests

• Speech neuroscience
• Neuroimaging
• Neuroanatomy

Recent Presentations

• Tourville, J.A., and Worth, A.J. Interactive digital atlas of the human cerebral sulci. 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Washington, D.C., November, 2011.
• Beal, D., Tourville, J.A., Segawa, J.A., Cai, S. and Guenther, F.G. An fMRI study of speech-sequence learning in people who stutter. Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. San Diego, CA, November, 2011.
• Segawa, J.A., Tourville, J.A., and Guenther, F.H. Neuroimaging evidence of phonological and structural frame representations in subsyllabic speech motor sequence learning. 9th International Seminar on Speech Production. Montreal, Canada, June, 2011
• Segawa, J.A., Tourville, J.A., and Guenther, F.H. Neural correlates of speech motor sequence learning. 17th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Quebec City, Canada, June, 2011.
• Worth, A., Millington, G., and Tourville, J.A. (2011). NeuroMorphoNaut: An open source tool to make anatomy less tedious. 17th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Quebec City, Canada, June, 2011.
• Klein, A., Worth, A.J., Tourville, J.T., Landman, B.A., Dal Canton, T., Ghosh, S.S., and Shattuck, D.W. An interactive tool for constructing optimal brain colormaps. 40th Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA, November, 2010.
• Worth, A.J., Millington, G.L., Tourville, J.A., Carper, R.A., Kennedy, D.N., and Salamon, G. Creating a large-scale morphometric baseline from MRI brain scans. 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, IL, November, 2009.
• Robin, D.A., Guenther, F.H., Narayana, S., Jacks, A., Tourville, J.A., Ramage, A.E., Lancaster, J.L., Franklin, C., Ghosh, S., and Fox, P.T. A transcranial magnetic stimulation virtual lesion study of speech. Conference on Motor Speech, Monterey, CA, March, 2008.
• Tourville, J.A., and Guenther, F.H. Neural mechanisms underlying sensory feedback control of speech. 154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, November, 2007.
• Reilly, K.J., Guenther, F.H., and Tourville, J.A. A neuroimaging investigation of auditory-motor learning. 154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, November, 2007.
• Reilly, K.J., Guenther, F.H., Tourville, J.A., and Bohland, J.W. Brain activations during learning of a novel speech sensorimotor mapping. Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders. Austin, TX, March, 2006.
• Tourville, J.A., Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S., Reilly, K.J., Bohland, J.W., and Nieto-Castanon, A. Effects of acoustic and articulatory perturbation on cortical activity during speech production. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada, June, 2005.
• Tourville, J.A., Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S., and Bohland, J.W. Effects of jaw perturbation on cortical activity during speech production. 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, November, 2004.
• Guenther, F.H., Tourville, J.A., and Bohland, J. Modeling the representation of speech sounds in auditory cortical areas. 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, TN, April, 2003.

Recent Publications

Lists of published works: Google Scholar 

• Tourville, J.T. and Guenther, F.H. (2011). The DIVA model: A neural theory of speech acquisition and production. Language and Cognitive Processes. 25(7): 952-981.
• Golfinopoulos E., Tourville, J.A., Bohland J,W., Ghosh S.S., Nieto-Castanon A., and Guenther F.H. (2011). MRI investigation of unexpected somatosensory feedback perturbation during speech. Neuroimage. 55(3):1324-1328.
• Golfinopolous, E., Tourville, J.T. and Guenther, F.H. (2010). The integration of large-scale neural network modeling and functional brain imaging in speech motor control. Neuroimage. 52(3):862-874.
• 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.
• Peeva, M.G., Guenther, F.H., Tourville, J.A., Nieto-Castanon, A., Anton, J., Nazarian, B., and Alario, F. (2010). Distinct representations of phonemes, syllables, and supra-syllabic sequences in the speech production network. Neuroimage. 50(2):626-638.
• Ghosh S.S., Tourville, J.A., and Guenther F.H. (2008). A neuroimaging study of premotor lateralization and cerebellar involvement in the production of phonemes and syllables. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 51:1183-1202.
• Tourville, J.A., Reilly, K.J., and Guenther, F.H. (2008). Neural mechanisms underlying auditory feedback control of speech. NeuroImage, 39(3):1429-1443.
• Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S., and Tourville, J.A. (2006). Neural modeling and imaging of the cortical interactions underlying syllable production. Brain and Language, 96(3):280-301.
• Klein A., Mensh B., Ghosh S., Tourville J., and Hirsch J. (2005). Mindboggle: automated brain labeling with multiple atlases. BMC Medical Imaging, 5:7
• Guenther, F.H., Nieto-Castanon, A., Ghosh, S.S., and Tourville, J.A. (2004). Representation of sound categories in auditory cortical maps. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47(1):46-57.
• Nieto-Castanon, A., Ghosh, S.S., Tourville, J.A., and Guenther, F.H. (2003). Region-of-interest based analysis of functional imaging data. NeuroImage, 19:1303-1316.

Professional Activities

• Research Assistant Professor, Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technologies, 2011-present
• Associate Director, SpeechLab
• Faculty, Graduate Program for Neuroscience: Computational Neuroscience, 2011-present
• Member, Society for Neuroscience
• Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Recent Grant Activity

• NIH, R01 DC007683, 4/1/2011-3/31/2016 (Frank Guenther, PI), Investigator.
• NIH, R01 DC002852, 8/1/2011-7/31/2016 (Frank Guenther, PI), Investigator.
• NIH, R01 MH084029, 7/1/2009-6/30/2012 (Arno Klein, PI) Consultant.

Awards and Honors

• Boston University Graduate Research Fellowship, 2000-2008
• Outstanding Teaching Fellow, Boston University, 2002
• Best Student Paper in Speech Communication, Acoustical Society of America, 2004