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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 focused on questions like:

  • How does your ability to pay attention affect how well you understand what is being said?
  • Does speech prosody improve our ability to understand language?
  • Do individuals have differences in their verbal and non-verbal cognitive abilities?

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 in individuals with aphasia. This project is funded by the ASHFoundation.

This is a retrospective study that examines how sentence comprehension varies across different aphasia types and severity levels.

This 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.

This study focuses on exploring executive function and discourse language in left versus right hemisphere stroke.

This project focuses on studying the brain regions that support auditory and visual attention.