Lise Abrams, Ph.D.
Psychology
Email: abrams@ufl.edu
Website: http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~abrams
My research program examines the relationship between memory and language
processes in young and older adults, specifically the interactions between
memory retrieval and language perception, comprehension, and production.
Current studies are investigating: (1) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon,
an experience where one has a temporary inability to recall a known word;
(2) the ability to detect misspellings during reading, and the effects
of perceiving misspellings on comprehension and memory; and (3) factors
that influence the ability to retrieve correct spellings from long-term
memory, such as aging, spelling ability, and priming.
Lori J.P. Altmann, Ph.D
Communication Sciences and Disorders & Linguistics Email: laltmann@ufl.edu
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/laltmann
My research focuses on how differences in language ability and memory
capacity affect the production of grammatical language, particularly in
adults. Consequently, I see any impairment that affects language learning
or use or cognition as fair game for research. My most recent project involved
a factor analysis exploring several commonly used working memory tasks
and vocabulary tasks, along with a companion sentence production task.
We also have current projects involving sentence comprehension in young
and older adults, sentence production in dyslexic adults, and discourse
production in aphasia.
Tim Conway, Ph.D.
Clincial Psychology and the BRRC
Email: tconway@phhp.ufl.edu
Dr. Conway investigates the relationship between phonological knowledge,
reading ability and brain activation.
H. Wind Cowles, Ph.D.
Linguistics,br> Email: cowles@ufl.edu
Jason Craggs, Ph.D.
McKnight Brain Institute
Email: jcraggs@mbi.ufl.edu
Bruce Crosson, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology and the BRRC
Email: bcrosson@phhp.ufl.edu
Gregory P. Crucian, Ph.D.
Neurology
Email: crucigp@neurology.ufl.edu
Dr Crucian's research investigates the right hemisphere representation
of language and the effects of Parkinson's Disease on all aspects of cognition
including language.
David B. Efros, MS, CCC-SLP
Neurology
Email: efros@ufl.edu
M. Jeffrey Farrar, Ph.D.
Psychology
Email: farrar@ufl.edu
Website: http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~farrar
My research is primarily concerned with children's language development
from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Of particular interest is the
relation between language and cognition during development. Current research
is examining the role of language in theory of mind development in typically
developing preschoolers as well as those with SLI (specific language impairment).
Glen Finney, M.D.
Neurology and the Byrd Institute for Alzheimer Research
Email: finney@mbi.ufl.edu
Ira Fischler, Ph.D.
Psychology
Email: ifisch@ufl.edu
David FitzGerald, M.D.
Neurology
Email: dfitzger@ufl.edu
Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Director of the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center at the Malcom
Randall VA Hospital (BRRC)
Professor of Neurology, Communicative Disorders, Communication Sciences
and Disorders, and Clinical Psychology
Email:
Website: http://www.vard.org/brrc/index.html
For the last 20 years, Dr. Gonzalez Rothi’s research has focused on
understanding the brain organization of spoken language, reading, spelling,
memory, attention/intention, gesture and tool use and more recently her
focus has grown to include clinical trials (exploratory and Phase 1) of
the treatment of disorders of these systems using experiential and physiologic
treatment combinations.
Jimmy Harnsberger, Ph.D.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: jharns@csd.ufl.edu
Kenneth M. Heilman, M.D.
Neurology
Email: heilman@neurology.ufl.edu
Dr. Heilman is interested in everything to do with the brain and behavior.
Norman Holland, Ph.D.
English Department
Email: nnh@english.ufl.edu
Website: http://normholland.com
Current Research projects: I have just finished a book ms. on how the
brain processes literature, and I'm busy trying to get a compliant publisher.
Past research projects: I've written eleven books using psychoanalysis
and sometimes cognitive science and neuropsychology to talk about the way
humans create and re-create literature. Theme of research: How and why
do we do literature? Do check my web site which has whole books you can
download.
Bonnie W. Johnson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: bwjohns@csd.ufl.edu
Dr. Johnson is interested in how grammatical and semantic complexity
affect language acquisition in pre-school children with and without Specific
Language Impairment.
Edith Kaan, Ph.D.
Linguistics
Email: kaan@ufl.edu
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ekaan/
The focus of my research is human language processing, in particular the
comprehension of sentences and multi-sentence discourses. I use behavioral
techniques, electrophysiology (ERPs) and functional MRI to assess the cognitive
and neural mechanisms involved in language processing at this level. Recent
projects involve the comprehension of wh-questions, and the comprehension
of quantifiers such as 'four', 'most'. In addition, I started an additional
project with my colleague, Ratree Wayland, in the summer of 2005, looking
at the acquisition of tones and the effect of training on the Mismatch
Negativity in ERPs.
Diane L. Kendall, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Communication Sciences & Disorders and the BRRC
Email:
Dr. Kendall investigates the effects of different types of treatment
for speech and language on communication ability post-stroke.
Benzi Kluger, M.D.
Neurology
Email: Benzi.kluger@neurology.ufl.edu
Christiana Leonard, Ph.D.
McKnight Brain Institute
Email: leonard@ufbi.ufl.edu
Dr. Leonard is interested in the relationship between individual differences
in brain morphology and language ability, especially in dyslexia
Tracy Linderholm, Ph.D.
Educational Psychology
Email: linderholm@coe.ufl.edu
Linda J. Lombardino, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: llombard@csd.ufl.edu
Dr. Lombardino investigates and develops new methods for the differential
diagnosis of different types of learning disabilities, especially dyslexia,
in school-aged children. She also has worked with Christiana Leonard investigating
the relationship between dyslexia and different gyral configurations in
the brain, and is currently also investigating the relationship between
reading impairments, vocabulary size, working memory, and sentence production
with Lori Altmann.
Nan Musson, MA, CCC-SLP
The BRRC at the Malcom Randall VA Hospital
Email: Nan.musson2@med.va.gov
Steven Nadeau, M.D.
Neurology and the BRRC
Email:
Dr. Nadeau's primary interest is in connectionist (PDP) approaches
to understanding language function; the application of neural systems approaches
and emerging knowledge about neural plasticity to language and motoric
rehabilitation following stroke
John C. (Jay) Rosenbek, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Chair, Communicative Disorders and the BRRC
Email: jrosenbe@phhp.ufl.edu
H.K. Seung, Ph.D.
Communicative Disorders
Email: hkseung@phhp.ufl.edu
Ann-Marie Slinger, M.D.
Pediatric Neurology
Email: slingam@peds.ufl.edu
David Therriault, Ph.D.
Educational Psychology
Email: therriault@coe.ufl.edu
Dr. Therriault is interested in how people process discourse when reading.
Ratree Wayland, Ph.D.
Linguistics
Email: ratree@ufl.edu
My research focus is in cross-language speech perception among adult
population. I am particularly interest in the question of neural plasticity
in the brain i.e., how native language phonetic categories can be modified
to accomodate non-native categories.
Keith White
Psychology
Email: kdwhite@ufl.edu
Website: http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~white/
Current Research projects: fMRI of language rehabilitation in aphasic
stroke; fMRI of interhemispheric transfer in Parkinson's disease; fMRI
of visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease.
Past research projects: visual psychophysics of binocular rivalry in
schizophrenia