Primary Investigator
Dr. Jacqueline Cummine
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
My program of research involves examining the behaviour, functional and structural pathways of basic reading and speech production processes. In particular, I am interested in bridging the gap between behavioural, functional and structural research by examining the relationships between/among parameters from each field: reaction time and accuracy rates from behavioural research, characteristics of the blood oxygenated level dependent (i.e., BOLD) response function from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research, and characteristics underlying white/grey matter from structural MRI. In addition, I am interested in the way in which such models of reading and speech production (both behavioural and neuroanatomical) can inform models of dyslexia and other language impairments (e.g. aphasia).
Current Personnel
Reyhaneh Bakhtiari, Post Doctoral Fellow
Brea Chouinard, PhD Candidate, "Contributions of Neural Structure and Function during a Figurative Language Task in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder"
CSD Master's Students
Kathryn Anton, Thesis, "Examination of Lexicala nd Semantic Representations Without Intention: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials"
Andrea Tam, Thesis, "Neural and physiological correlates of speech motor control"
Elysha Clapp, Project, "Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCstim) on speech and language function in younger and older healthy adults"
Rachel Antoniuk, Project, "Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCstim) on speech and language function in younger and older healthy adults"
Breanna Isted, Project, "Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCstim) on speech and language function in younger and older healthy adults"
Alison Johns, Project, "Event-related potentials (ERPs) in language processing"
Kristy Wilson, Project, "Event-related potentials (ERPs) in language processing"
Volunteers
Kulpreet Cheema
Eleanor Kinney
Miya Villarena