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Sheila Blumstein
Professor
Department: Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences
Phone: +1 401 863 2849
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2616
Email: Sheila_Blumstein@Brown.EDU
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Sheila BlumsteinProfessor Department: Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological SciencesPhone: +1 401 863 2849 Phone 2: +1 401 863 2616 Email: Sheila_Blumstein@Brown.EDU Location:401-863-2849; Sheila_Blumstein@brown.eduResearch SummaryMy research is concerned with understanding the processes and mechanisms involved in speaking and understanding and the the neural systems underlying language processing. We conduct behavioral experiments with normal individuals and in addition behavioral measures of brain-injured aphasic patients and functional neuroimaging of normal subjects. Areas of focus include: how the continuous acoustic signal is transformed by perceptual and neural mechanisms into the sound structure of language; how the sound structure of language maps on to the lexicon (mental dictionary); and how the mental dictionary is organized for the purposes of language comprehension and production.Past or Present Projects Available:Effects of Aging and Brain Injury on the Interaction of Lexical Access and Spoken Word Production; The Neural Bases of Phonological Competition: Effects of Age and Aphasia on Semantic Priming; Neural Systems Underlying Semantic and Phonological Competition in Speech Production; How Sound Affects Access to Meaning: An fMRI Investigation; Abstractionist and Exemplar Theories of Speech Perception Applied to Novel Word Learning |
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