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About Our Research

Our lab answers questions about language, cognition, and the brain’s interaction. We answer these questions in people with aphasia, people who have had a traumatic brain injury, and in people who do not have a history of brain injury.

Currently our lab is funded by:

ASHFoundation: Investigating music listening as a mechanism to improve attention and language in aphasia 

AHA 25TPA1477785: Treating attention and language in post-stroke aphasia using a music-based intervention

NIH R21 DC021481: Optimizing the assessment of auditory attention in aphasia

Ongoing Studies

This study investigates how language and cognition, specifically different types of attention, are impacted following a brain injury. Our current projects related to this work are focused on developing a task that can be used clinically to assess auditory attention in people with aphasia. We are actively recruiting both healthy adults and individuals with aphasia for this study. If you are interested in participating, Please contact us at abclab@purdue.edu or 765-496-2435. See the flyer for healthy adults here and the flyer for individuals with aphasia here.

This project investigates the impact of music listening on attention and its potential to enhance language production and comprehension in individuals with aphasia. This project is funded by the AHA.

We have two ongoing projects. One is a meta-analysis of the organization of three language properties: prosody, syntax, and semantics, within the brain. The goal of this study is to explore how distinct the neural resources supporting these language properties are. The second project is a study that aims to identify which aspects of prosody underlies previous findings.

This study aims to explore executive function in left versus right hemisphere stroke. We are actively recruiting both left and right hemisphere stroke survivors for this FULLY ONLINE study. If you are interested in participating, Please contact us at abclab@purdue.edu or 765-496-2435. See the flyer attached here for more information. 

This project uses fMRI to study brain regions that support auditory and visual attention. This Study is actively recruiting. If you are interested in participating, Please contact us at abclab@purdue.edu or 765-496-2435.

In this Study we are looking as how to reduce the employment barrier in veterans and individuals with TBI.