Steven M. Barlow

Professor

Phone: (785) 864-0632 (office)
Phone: (785) 864-1196 (lab)
Fax: (785) 864-4403 (lab)
smbarlow@ku.edu

B.S., 1976, University of Wisconsin
M.S., 1980, University of Wisconsin
Ph.D., 1984, University of Wisconsin

Director, Communication Neuroscience Laboratories

Director, Speech Aerodynamics and Voice Laboratory,
Schiefelbusch Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic

Research

Professor Barlow and his research group have been studying the neural mechanisms of sensorimotor integration and motor control among orofacial and vocal tract structures in infants, children, and adults. Premature infants at-risk for brain damage are the focus of a major NIH project designed to explore activity-dependent mechanisms of neural plasticity using controlled mechanosensory inputs. Similar experimental issues of brain plasticity are being explored in the rat. In another line of study, electrophysiological and mechanosensory psychophysical experiments are underway to explore the effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulator implants on limb and vocal tract motor control in individuals with advanced forms of Parkinson's disease.

Selected Publications

Barlow, S.M., Dusick, A., Finan, D.S., Coltart, S., Biswas, A.: Mechanically evoked perioral reflexes in premature and term human infants. Brain Research, 899, 251-254, 2001.

Barlow, S.M., Dusick, A., Finan, D.S., Biswas, A., Coltart, S., & Flaherty, K.J.: Neurophysiological monitoring of the orofacial system in premature and term infants. Journal Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 8(4), 221-238, 2000.

Finan, D.S., Barlow, S.M. Mechanosensory modulation of non-nutritive sucking in human infants. Journal Early Human Development, 52(2), 181-197, 1998.

Finan, D.S., Barlow, S.M. The actifier and neurophysiological studies of orofacial control in neonates. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 833-838, 1996.

Andreatta, R.D., Barlow, S.M., Finan, D.S. Biswas, A.: Mechanosensory modulation of perioral neuronal groups during active force dynamics. Journal Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 1006-1017, 1996.