Jean K. Gordon Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

My research focuses on the process of word retrieval in normal speakers, and in speakers with acquired neurogenic language disorders (particularly aphasia). I am interested in exploring the factors which make words easier or harder to retrieve, and how these factors influence the production of speech errors. To investigate these questions, I use a combination of behavioural experimentation and computational modelling approaches.

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Selected Publications

Gordon, J.K. (2008). Measuring the lexical semantics of picture description in aphasia, Aphasiology 22(7/8), 839-852.

Gordon, J.K. (2007). A contextual approach to facilitating word retrieval in non-fluent aphasia, Aphasiology 21(6/7/8), 643-657.

Graves, W.W., Grabowski, T.J., Mehta, S. & Gordon, J.K. (2007). A neural basis for accessing lexical phonology: fMRI of the overt word frequency effect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19:4, 617-631.

Dell, G.S., Lawler, E.N., Harris, H.D. and Gordon, J.K. (2004). Models of errors of omission in aphasic naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21(2/3/4), 125-145.

Gordon, J.K. and Dell, G.S. (2003). Learning to divide the labor: An account of deficits in light and heavy verb production, Cognitive Science, 27(1), 1-40.

Gordon, J.K. (2002). Phonological neighborhood effects in aphasic speech errors: Spontaneous and structured contexts, Brain and Language, 82, 113-145.

Gordon, J.K. (1998). The fluency dimension in aphasia. Aphasiology, 12(7/8), 673-688.

Gordon, J. K. and Baum, S. R. (1994). Rhyme priming in aphasia: The role of phonology in lexical access. Brain and Language, 47, 661-683.