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Dr. Daniel Mirman is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. He holds editorial roles as Editor-in-Chief of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and Special Issue Editor for Cortex. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural basis of language processing, including aphasia, narrative comprehension, metaphor, semantic organization, and statistical methods. He has taught at Drexel University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Education: PhD in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University (2005), postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut, and later research at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI). Current research explores functional communication deficits in post-stroke aphasia, metaphor processing, and semantic systems through behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods. He has developed tools like gazeR and SVR-LSM for data analysis.
Research interests include:
- Functional communication and narrative processing
- Metaphor and poetic language comprehension
- Semantic knowledge organization
- Lesion-symptom mapping techniques
- Statistical methods in cognitive science
Grants: Current funding includes a John Templeton Foundation grant (2024–2026) on multilingualism and a NIH/NIDCD grant (2019–2024) on aphasia communication deficits. Past grants include NIH-funded work on spoken word comprehension and oculomotor dynamics.
Lab: The Language & Cognitive Dynamics Laboratory investigates language impairments and cognitive processes using behavioral and neuroimaging methods, aiming to bridge basic science and clinical applications in aphasia rehabilitation.
