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Grindrod, Christopher
Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
Ph.D., McGill University
Research Areas
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Neural basis of language processing (using data from both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments and behavioral experiments of individuals with acquired language disorders)
Role of left and right cerebral hemispheres in integrating word meanings into higher-level sentence and discourse contexts
Cognitive bases of neurological communication disorders
Representative Publications
Grindrod, C. M., Bilenko, N. Y., Myers, E. B., & Blumstein, S. E. (2008). The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in implicit semantic competition and selection: An eventrelated fMRI study. Brain Research, 1229, 167-178.
Monetta, L., Grindrod, C. M., & Pell, M. D. (2008). Effects of working memory capacity on inference generation during story comprehension in adults with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21, 400-417.
Grindrod CM, and Baum SR. 2005. Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution in a discourse context: Evidence from individuals with unilateral left and right hemisphere lesions. Brain and Cognition 57:70-83.
Grindrod CM, and Baum SR. 2004. The effect of unilateral left and right hemisphere lesions on sensitivity to global context in lexical ambiguity resolution. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 10(S1), 214.
Grindrod CM, and Baum SR. 2003. Sensitivity to local sentence context information in lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from left- and right-hemisphere-damaged individuals. Brain and Language 85:503-523.
Grindrod CM, and Baum SR. 2002. Sentence context effects and the timecourse of lexical ambiguity resolution in nonfluent aphasia. Brain and Cognition 48:381-385.
Grindrod CM, and Baum SR. 2002. Context use as the source of right-hemisphere-damaged individuals' impairment in lexical ambiguity resolution. Brain and Language 83:65-68.
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