Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Laboratory:
Studies of Language and the Brain

Supported by the NIH-R01 DC001948, R01 DC007213, R01DC008552-01 Frances Searle Building 2240 Campus Drive, Room 3-380 Evanston, IL 60208 Phone: 847-467-7591 Fax: 847-7377 fMRI- Room 3-337 Phone: 847-491-7197

Principal Investigator

Cynthia K. Thompson, Ph.D. ckthom@northwestern.edu Frances Searle Building 2240 Campus Drive, Room 3-363 Evanston, IL 60208-2952 Phone: 847-491-2421 Lab phones: 847-467-7591, 847-491-4171, 847-491-7191 Fax: 847-467-7377

Research in the Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Laboratory examines language processing and production in healthy volunteers and patients with stroke-induced or primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Of particular interest is charting language breakdown and recovery patterns based on what is known about normal language processing and representation. These patterns provide blueprints for clinical protocols and address the utility of this translational approach for studying language disorders. Studies also examine the processing mechanisms that support recovery by tracking eye movements in sentence processing and production, and the neural correlates of recovery using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). These data are useful for building theories of both normal and disordered language processing.

Links

Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s disease Center
Department of Linguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience (NUIN)
The Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR)
Academy of Aphasia
National Aphasia Association