 | Rita Sloan Berndt,
Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology
School of Medicine
410-706-5874
rberndt@umaryland.edu
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ResearchMy research interests focus on the representation of language processes in the brain. Our primary methodology is to study the language and reading impairments of adult patients who have suffered a focal brain injury (primarily stroke) that affects their ability to comprehend and/or produce spoken and written language. Detailed studies of patients' symptoms are conducted using experimental methods designed to test cognitive theories of how language is processed in the normal case. Experimental treatments are directed at specific disorders to probe the relationships among language functions. Hypotheses about relationships among language processes are also tested using computational models of normal function, which can be lesioned to simulate the symptoms of aphasia (language impairment) and alexia (reading disorder). For more information about this and related research in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, please see http://cortex.neurology.umaryland.edu.
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PublicationsMitchum, C.C., Greenwald, M.L., Berndt, R.S. Cognitive treatments of sentence processing disorders: What have we learned? Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2000, 10, 311-336.
Berndt, R.S., and Haendiges, A.N. Grammatical class in word and sentence production: Evidence from an aphasic patient. Journal of Memory and Language, 2000, 43, 249-273.
Berndt, R.S. Lexical-semantic aspects of language disorders. In K.M. Heilman and E. Valenstein (Eds.) Clinical Neuropsychology 4th Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 92-107.
Berndt, R.S. Sentence production. In B. Rapp (Ed.) What Deficits Reveal About the Human Mind/Brain: A Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Philadelphia, Psychology Press, 2001, pp. 375-396.
Berndt, R.S. More than just words: Sentence production in aphasia. In R.S. Berndt (Ed.) Handbook of Neuropsychology. Volume 3: Language and Aphasia. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 2001, pp. 173-187.
Berndt, R.S., Haendiges, A.N., Burton, M.W. and Mitchum, C.C. Grammatical class and imageability in aphasic word production: their effects are independent. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2002, 15, 353-371.
Berndt, R.S., Burton, M.W., Haendiges, A.N. and Mitchum, C.C. Production of nouns and verbs in aphasia: Effects of elicitation context. Aphasiology, 2002, 16, 83-106.
Personal HistoryI received the Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, where I also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cognitive Neuropsychology. I served on the Programs Advisory Committee of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and as a member of the Sensory Disorders and Language Study Section, Division of Research Grants, NIH. My research is supported by two research grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Laboratory PersonnelJennifer Elswick, B.A.
Anne Haendiges, M.A.
Denise McCall, M.A.
Charlotte Mitchum, M.A.
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