collaborators

5 papers

cs.HC2026

From Neurons to Conversation: Speech Brain-Computer Interfaces

Moein Khajehnejad, Forough Habibollahi, Tommaso Boccato +4

Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to restore communication by transforming neural activity related to speech, language, or communicative intent into external outputs such…

q-bio.NC2026

Mapping Whisper Representations to Human ECoG Responses with Interpretable Time-Resolved Neural Encoding

Matteo Ciferri, Tommaso Boccato, Michal Olak +2

Understanding how speech foundation models relate to human cortical activity is a key challenge for computational neuroscience. Here, we investigate how internal representations fr…

q-bio.NC2026

Seeing the imagined: latent functional alignment in visual imagery decoding from fMRI data

Fabrizio Spera, Tommaso Boccato, Michal Olak +5

Recent progress in visual brain decoding from fMRI has been enabled by large-scale datasets such as the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) and powerful diffusion-based generative models.…

cs.CL2026

Decoding the decoder: Contextual sequence-to-sequence modeling for intracortical speech decoding

Michal Olak, Tommaso Boccato, Matteo Ferrante

Speech brain--computer interfaces require decoders that translate intracortical activity into linguistic output while remaining robust to limited data and day-to-day variability. W…

eess.AS2026

BrainWhisperer: Leveraging Large-Scale ASR Models for Neural Speech Decoding

Tommaso Boccato, Michal Olak, Matteo Ferrante

Decoding continuous speech from intracortical recordings is a central challenge for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), with transformative potential for individuals with conditions…