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Sheila Blumstein is the Albert D. Mead Professor in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Her research focuses on speech perception, language processing disorders, and neurolinguistics with an emphasis on aphasia and phonetic analysis. She investigates how neural systems underlie language functions, including lexical access, semantic processing, and the interplay between syntax and phonetics.
Her work integrates neuroimaging (fMRI) with behavioral studies to explore topics like hemispheric specialization in language, cross-modal semantic effects, and neuroplasticity in speech recovery. Notable contributions include studies on right hemisphere roles in language, phonological deficits in aphasia, and the neural correlates of lexical competition.
Blumstein has authored over 200 publications since the early 2000s, addressing issues such as speech perception under adverse conditions, foreign accent syndrome, and the impact of sentential context on auditory processing. Her research bridges cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and clinical linguistics, advancing understanding of both typical and impaired language systems.
