Research/Clinical Interests
Aphasia Research Center
- Aphasia
- Neurolinguistics
- Neuroimaging
- Bi/Multilingualism
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Courses Taught in the Past Five Years
HESP 808: Seminar in Contemporary Research in Communication sciences & Disorders
HESP 888: Seminar in Neurological Bases of Language
HESP 610: Aphasia- Language problems of adults associated with brain injury.
HESP 602/422/NACS 728K: Neurological Bases of Human Communication- Basic neurology as it pertains to anatomical and physiological substrates of speech and language.
HESP 406: Acquired Disorders in Adults - Survey of the dysarthrias and aphasias in adults from an interdisciplinary point of view.
HONR 279M: How does the brain speak? Insights from neuroimaging and brain damage
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Research/Clinical Activities
The overarching focus of research is on language impairments in post-stroke aphasia. Most recent research has focused on morphosyntactic aspects of aphasia. Research projects include:
- Production and comprehension of verb morphology in aphasia
- Verb retrieval in aphasia, with an emphasis on Embodied Cognition and Cross-linguistic priming
- Treatment efficacy studies for aphasia, with a focus on treatment approaches for verb morphology, verb retrieval, and using constraint-induced therapy
- Neuroimaging (magnetoencephalography) investigations of verb and morphosyntactic processing in unimpaired and aphasic individuals, with a specific emphasis on neural plasticity following aphasia treatment
- Lesion-symptom mapping of aphasia (structural MRI scans) with collaborator Dr. Allen Braun (NIDCD)
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