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Education
University of Arizona
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Although scientists have systematically studied aphasia for well over a century, the mechanisms of aphasia recovery remain largely undefined. My research aims to understand how recovery occurs in aphasia. Specifically, what are the linguistic, cognitive, biological, and social variables that contribute to recovery? How can these variables be mathematically/psychometrically modeled? Do these variables behave differently across different languages? To this end, I take a broad cognitive neuroscience perspective drawing on research from linguistics, psychology, clinical aphasiology, measurement theory, and neuroscience. I use primarily behavioral measures, both on-line and off-line, in my research, though I have also begun to explore the application of neuroimaging and computational techniques. Understanding aphasia recovery in terms of mathematically defined variables (rather than vaguely defined categories, such as aphasia subtypes) has the potential of yielding powerful new approaches to the assessment, treatment, and modeling of this disorder.
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