Angelica will present at the 2018 Clinical Aphasiology Conference
Undergraduate student Angelica Hutchinson has been accepted to attend the 2018 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, to report on her research project.
The Neurolinguistics Lab studies how the brain supports language, with an emphasis on the breakdown of language functions after brain damage in adults, for example after stroke. Through the investigation of the neural correlates of language production and processing in healthy speakers and speakers with aphasia, we aim to learn more about the nature of language and linguistic representations, about the extent to which language functions are autonomous from or interactive with other cognitive domains, but also about the nature of language disorders and the role of neural plasticity in recovery from aphasia. The overall aim of the lab is to contribute to new approaches to aphasia rehabilitation, based on the combination of behavioral intervention and neurophysiological stimulation of relevant brain functions.
News
Paper on vowel formant dispersion accepted
Our paper on variance in vowel articulations by speakers with apraxia of speech has been accepted for publication in the journal Aphasiology.
Two undergraduate research projects funded
Two undergraduate research grant proposals coming from the lab were funded, through USC's Magellan Scholarship awards.
Paper on neural correlates of verb argument structure accepted for publication
A new paper by Svetlana Malyutina and Dirk den Ouden, based on Svetlana's dissertation research, has been accepted for publication in the journal Brain & Language.