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Colleague hails Fridriksson as “distinguished pioneer”
January 22, 2010
Julius Fridriksson
Two studies by Arnold School researcher Dr. Julius Fridriksson are making the rounds of the scientific blogs after receiving an endorsement by Dr. Whitney Anne Postman-Caucheteux of Temple University.
In a guest post on the scientific blog “Talking Brains,” Postman-Caucheteux describes Fridriksson as one of the “most distinguished pioneers” in understanding the contributions of parts of the brain to speech difficulties in person with chronic aphasia.
Postman-Caucheteux, like Fridriksson, is interested in using functional Magnetic Resolution Imaging to study aphasia.
“With two recently published aphasia fMRI papers, Dr. Fridriksson and his team at the University of South Carolina have done it again, by combining advanced fMRI techniques for acquiring overt speech responses with sophisticated psycholinguistic analyses of word production in aphasia,” Postman-Caucheteux writes.
Fridriksson is director of the Aphasia Lab at the Arnold School’s Department of Communication Science and Disorders.
Last year, Fridriksson was the recipient of a five-year, RO1 grant, worth $1.8 million, to support groundbreaking research into understanding how the same areas of the brain used to produce speech also are important for understanding speech.
“It (the study project) pretty much breaks from conventional wisdom which suggests that we have one area of the brain for speech production and one area for speech comprehension,” he said.
For more information, visit the Talking Brains blog.
