Jean Gordon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Biography
Research Areas:
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Psycholinguistics
- Aphasiology
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Aphasia
- Language
- Behavioral Methods
My research focuses on the process of word retrieval in normal speakers, and in speakers with acquired neurogenic language disorders (particularly aphasia). I am interested in exploring the factors which make words easier or harder to retrieve, and how these factors influence the production of speech errors. To investigate these questions, I use a combination of behavioral experimentation and computational modeling approaches.