School of Communication

People


Lab Personnel


Dirk-Bart den Ouden

Dirk-Bart den Ouden Ph.D.
(University of Groningen, 2002)
Senior Research Associate
d-ouden@northwestern.edu
847-467-2515

Joined lab in 2006. Involved in fMRI studies of neural plasticity in recovery from agrammatic aphasia. Dirk’s dissertation was on phonological deficits in aphasia.

Aaron Meyer

Aaron M. Meyer, Ph.D.
(University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
aaron-meyer@northwestern.edu
847-467-7591

Joined lab in 2008. Involved in eye-tracking and fMRI studies investigating sentence processing, lexical integration, and verb processing in aphasia.

Aneta Kielar

Aneta Kielar, Ph.D.
(University of Western Ontario, 2008)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
847-467-7591

Joined lab in 2008. Involved in studies examing the neurobiology of functional category processing and productions.

Mejrima Cosic

Mejrima (Mary) Cosic
Project Coordinator
m-cosic@northwestern.edu
847-467-7591

Joined lab in 2005. Coordinates all lab projects.


Sladjana Lukic

Sladjana Lukic
Research Technician
s-lukic@northwestern.edu
847-467-7591

Joined lab in 2008. Assists with neurobiology of recovery studies, patient testing and treatment.


Charis Price

Charis Price
Research Technician
charis-price@northwestern.edu
847-467-7591

Joined lab in 2007. Conducts studies in Primary Progressive Aphasia.


Doctoral Students


Soojin Cho
Soojin Cho

Research: Complex sentence production and comprehension in aphasia; studies of on-line sentence production.

Janet Choy
Janet Choy

Research: On-line sentence processing, including pronoun and anaphor processing in aphasia.

Jiyeon Lee
Jiyeon Lee

Research: Functional category production and recovery; on-line analysis of verbs and verb argument structure production.

Moniquie King
Moniquie King
Research: Primary progressive aphasia; treatment of verb retrieval deficits in agrammatism.
Ellyn Riley
Ellyn Riley

Research: Reading comprehension deficits and recovery in aphasia; effects of theoretically based treatment.

   

Lab Alumni


Kirrie J. Ballard, Ph.D. (1997) University of Sydney, Australia
Ruby Drew, Ph.D. (1996) Western Carolina University
Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah, Ph.D. (2004) University of Maryland
Steve Fix, Ph.D. (2005) Northwestern University
Naomi Hashimoto, Ph.D. (2006) University of Wisconsin at River Falls
Mikyong Kim, Ph.D. (2001) University of Rhode Island
Swathi Kiran, Ph.D. (2001) Boston University
Sandra L. Schneider, Ph.D. (1996) Vanderbilt University

Post-Doctoral Fellows


Miseon Lee, Ph. D. (2000-2003) Hanyang University-Seoul, Korea
Michael Walsh Dickey (2000-2007) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lisa Milman, Ph.D. (2003-2006) Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Borna Bonakarour, M.D. (2004-2008) University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona