Shanqing Cai, M.S.E.

Ph.D. student
at The Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology program,
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

I am currently working with Dr. Joseph Perkell and Dr. Frank Guenther on speech-related researches at Speech Communication Group of Research Lab of  Electronics.

 

My current research project aims at elucidating sensorimotor adaptations to perturbations of non-steady-state aspects of auditory feedback during speech.

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Research interests

  • Neurophysiology of vocal and speech communication in animals and humans.
  • Neurophysiology of normal and impaired hearing and vision.
  • Neural engineering for restoring hearing and vision.

Research projects

  • Thesis project: Intensity encoding of ventral cochlear nucleus neurons in normal and deafened cats and correlates of loudness recruitment.
    09/2005 – 07/2007. Neural Encoding Lab, Johns Hopkins University.
    Advisor: Dr. Eric D. Young.
    Abstract – Full text available upon request – See contact info below
  • Psychophysics and image processing of visual neuroprostheses.
    02/2003 - 07/2005. Biomedical Signal Processing Lab, Tsinghua University.
    Advisor: Prof. Guangshu Hu.

Abstracts and publications - Top

On speech production

  • S. Cai, M. Boucek, S. S. Ghosh, F. H. Guenther, & J. S. Perkell. “A system for online dynamic perturbation of formant frequencies.” To be presented at 8th Intl. Seminar on Speech Production, Strassbourg, France, December, 2008.

On cochlear nucleus neurophysiology in cats with sensorineural hearing loss, loudness recruitment and tinnitus

  • S. Cai, W.-L. Ma, & E. D. Young, “Encoding intensities in ventral cochlear nucleus neurons following acoustic trauma with implications for loudness recruitment.” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. [Under revision].
  • S. Cai, W.-L. Ma, B. Letham & E. D. Young. "Rate-intensity functions of ventral cochlear nucleus in normal and hearing-impaired cats and their possible relationships to loudness recruitment." Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Midwinter Meeting, Denver, Colorado, Feb. 2007. [Link - ARO]
  • B. Letham, W.-L. Ma, S. Cai & E. D. Young. "Acoustic trauma induces long-term temporal correlations in DCN." Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Midwinter Meeting, Denver, Colorado, Feb. 2007. [Link - ARO]

On psychophysics and image processing of prosthetic vision

  • L. Fu, S. Cai, H. Zhang, G. Hu & X. Zhang. "Psychophysics of reading with a limited number of pixels: towards the rehabilitation of reading ability with visual prosthesis." Vision Research, vol. 46, pp. 1292-1301, 2006. [Link - PubMed]
  • L. Fu, H. Zhang, S. Cai & G. Hu. "Chinese printed text reading performance with pixelized prosthetic vision system." (in Chinese), J. Tsinghua Univ. (Sci. & Tech.), vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 858-860, 871, 2006. [Link - JTHU]
  • S. Cai, L. Fu, H. Zhang, G. Hu & Z. Liang. "Prosthetic visual acuity in irregular phosphene arrays under two down-sampling schemes: a simulation study." in Proc. 27th Annual Int. Conf. IEEE-EMBS, Shanghai, China, 2005, pp. 5523-5526. [Link - IEEE]

Activities - Top

Amateur tubist

Contacts - Top
 

  • E-mail: cais [at] mit.edu
  • Tel: (443)-827-8451