The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Sheila Blumstein

My research is concerned with delineating the neural basis of language and the processes and mechanisms involved in speaking and understanding. The research methodologies used include behavioral measures of aphasic patients correlated with structural measures of neuropathology and functional neuroimaging of normal subjects. I am interested in how the continuous acoustic signal is transformed by perceptual and neural mechanisms into the sound structure of language, how the sound structure of language maps to the lexicon (mental dictionary), and how the mental dictionary is organized for the purposes of language comprehension and production.

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Sheila E. Blumstein is the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive,
Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Blumstein has been at Brown since 1970. She is a 1965 magna cum laude graduate in linguistics of the University of Rochester and she earned her Ph.D. in linguistics at Harvard University in 1970. She came to Brown as an assistant professor in linguistics in 1970, was promoted to associate professor in 1976, and became a full professor in 1981. She was chairman of the Department of Linguistics from 1978-81, Chairman of the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from 1986-87, in 1997, and from 1998 to 2000, and Associate Chair from 2008-2010. She has served as Dean of the College at Brown from 1987-1995, as Interim Provost in 1998, and as Interim President from February 2000 to July 2001. Blumstein has published extensively on the neural basis of speech and language processing using both lesion-based and functional neuroimaging methods. She has served as member of a number of scientific review panels and boards for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the McDonnell Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. She has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institutes of Health, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, and an Honorary Doctorate as well as the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, both from Brown University. She has been elected fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Linguistic Society of America.

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SHEILA BLUMSTEIN, Ph.D.
Professor
Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences
Phone: +1 401 863 2849
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2616
E-mail: Sheila_Blumstein@Brown.EDU

Sheila Blumstein's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Sheila_Blumstein

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Interim President

Brown collaborators:

Jerome Sanes

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Carole Palumbo

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