About
Dr. Catherine Mason is an academic at Macquarie University, holding casual appointments in both the School of Psychological Sciences and Department of Linguistics within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences. She is affiliated with the Centre for Reading, focusing on language processing and communication disorders research.
Her primary research explores:
- Aphasia rehabilitation and word retrieval mechanisms
- Clinical assessment methods for speech disorders
- Impact of group therapy on communication outcomes
- Emotion and abstract word processing in language
- Semantic factors in lexical access
Her recent publications predominantly investigate clinical linguistics and cognitive neuropsychology, with consistent focus on improving assessment methodologies for aphasia and exploring semantic processing in language disorders. Publications demonstrate strong emphasis on clinical applications of psycholinguistic research.
Dr. Mason collaborates on research projects including the development of specialized assessment tools like the BAPPA-R battery for plural processing in aphasia. She maintains active research collaborations with colleagues at Macquarie University's language processing research groups.
