Shari R. Baum, Ph.D.
Academic title(s):
Distinguished James McGill Professor
Vice Dean, Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Degree(s):
BA French Linguistics, Cornell University
MS Communication Science & Disorders, University of Vermont
PhD Linguistics, Brown University
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Research areas:
Alzheimer's
Aphasia
Bilingual learners and speakers
Healthy adults
Hearing impaired
Neuromotor disorders
Right hemisphere damage
Typically-developing infants and children
Current research:
The main subjects of investigation of Dr. Baum and her lab members are language neuroscience and speech science. Diverse methods are used – EEG/ERP, structural and functional MRI, behavioural tasks and eye-tracking – to investigate speech and prosodic processing, word recognition, and sentence and discourse processing in an effort to advance knowledge concerning the neural bases of language. Dr. Baum’s most recent work focuses on understanding multilingualism using cutting-edge tools and techniques.
Selected publications:
Group:
Core and Clinical Faculty
