My research is concerned with delineating the neural basis of language and the processes and mechanisms involved in speaking and understanding. The research methodologies used include behavioral measures of aphasic patients correlated with structural measures of neuropathology and functional neuroimaging of normal subjects. I am interested in how the continuous acoustic signal is transformed by perceptual and neural mechanisms into the sound structure of language, how the sound structure of language maps to the lexicon (mental dictionary), and how the mental dictionary is organized for the purposes of language comprehension and production.

My research is concerned with the biology and neurology of language and the processes involved in speaking and understanding. The research methodologies used in my lab include behavioral measures of aphasic patients correlated with structural measures of neuropathology and neural modeling and functional neuroimaging of normal subjects.

RESEARCH IN APHASIA
My research in aphasia explores the effects of brain damage on normal language processing as a window into the neurological bases of language and the mechanisms contributing to normal language processing. The major focus of this research is on sound structure and the lexicon and the processing stages that map sound to meaning and meaning to sound. In particular, we are examining the effects of acoustic-phonetic, lexical, phonological, and semantic competition on the lexical processing of aphasic patients and investigating how higher level stages of lexical processing interact with and influence processing stages downstream from it.

In investigating the mapping from sound to meaning, it is hypothesized that deficits should emerge for patients with lesions involving the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) under conditions of lexical and lexical-semantic competition, whereas deficits should emerge for patients with lesions including the supramarginal gyrus when competition is induced by phonological lexical density. Higher-level stages of processing from lexical semantics or sentence context should override processing deficits that emerge under conditions of lexical competition.

In the investigations of the mapping from sound to meaning, we are exploring whether acoustic traces of the original target will emerge in the production of phonemic paraphasias. We are also exploring the extent to which neighborhood density influences the articulatory implementation of lexical targets.This influence should be overcome by the effects of higher-level lexical-semantic information.

RESEARCH ON THE NEURAL SYSTEMS UNDERLYING SPEECH AND LEXICAL PROCESSING USING fMRI
The goals of this research are to understand the neural systems underlying the computational properties of speech perception and how the computational properties of the speech-lexical processing system map on to its neural substrate.

Although there is general consensus that the functional role of anterior and posterior areas differ in the perception of speech — with posterior areas, e.g. transverse temporal gyrus and superior temporal gyrus, involved in the sensory processing of the stimuli and anterior areas, e.g. inferior frontal gryus, involved in executive processes — there is less consensus about the functional role of the two hemispheres. We intend to investigate whether the computational mechanisms of the two hemispheres preferentially process different properties of the speech signal. Our hypothesis is that the acoustic properties of speech will be preferentially processed by the left hemisphere irrespective of their acoustic structure, owing to the functional role that sound structure plays in language processing. Nonetheless, despite this left hemisphere preference, we hypothesize modulation of right hemisphere mechanisms as a function of the acoustic structure of the stimuli, with increased right hemisphere activation for acoustic properties that require fine spectral analysis and have a longer inherent duration.

A series of experiments using both speech discrimination and phonetic categorization tasks are planned to examine activation patterns in the processing of a number of acoustic-phonetic parameters underlying both consonant and vowel perception.

In addition, we plan to investigate the computational properties of the speech-lexical processing system. We are investigating whether the presence and extent of competition in the network (phonetic, phonological, lexical, and semantic) will have both behavioral and neural consequences. A series of experiments are investigating neural activation patterns under conditions of different types of competition including phonetic category competition, lexical competition, and semantic competition.

Bio-medical Sciences Support Grant, Brown University, 1971-1972; 1985-86.

National Institutes of Health, small grant for research on laterality, 1973.

National Institutes of Health, NICHD, co-principal investigator, the acquisition of speech in children, 1975-1978; 1978-1981.

National Institutes of Health, NINCDS, co-principal investigator, New Measures of Aphasic Symptom Variables, 1981-1984.

National Institutes of Health, NIDCD, Research Associate, The Aphasia Research Center, 1975-1980; 1980-1985; 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2000.

National Institutes of Health, NIDCD, principal investigator, Acoustic Invariance in Speech, 1979-1982; 1982-1986; 1986-1991; 1991-1995; 1995-98; 1998-2003.

Dana Foundation, principal investigator, Neural Systems Underlying Speech Perception, 2003-2005.

National Science Foundation, co-principal investigator, Major Research Infrastructure Program, awarded $2 million for purchase of a 3T magnet, 2005.

National Science Foundation, BCS, principal investigator, Workshop on Mind and Brain: Strategies and Directions for Future Research, 7/1/06-12/31/06, $34,452 total.

National Institutes of Health, NIDCD, principal investigator, Language and Speech Processing in Aphasia, 1985-1992; 1992-1995; 1996-2001; 2001-2006; 2006-2011 (total award: $1,062,500).

National Institutes of Health, NIDCD, principal investigator, Neural Basis of Lexical and Speech Processing, 2004-2009; 2009-2014 (total award: $1,380,128).

Research Seed Funds, Brown University, principle investigator, The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Speech and Lexical Processing, 2013-2014, (total award $99,000).

Program in Clinical Science Research, Dana Foundation,  principal investigator,  Translational Research on Speech and Language which may Lead to Improved Post-Stroke Aphasia Therapy, 2012-2015, no cost extension 2016  (total award $100,000).

National Institutes of Health, NIDCD, principle investigator, R21 R21DC013100, A Pilot Therapy Program to Improve Phonetic Production in Aphasia, 2013-2015, no cost extension 2016 (total award $325,000).

National Institutes of Health –NIH, (PI Jerome Sanes); Blumstein role: deputy director and mentor, COBRE Center for Central Nervous System Function, 2013-2016  (total award $10,916,075).

R01 DC13064 Myers (PI; University of Connecticut); subcontract (Blumstein), The Role of Frontal and Temporal Brain Areas in the Perception of Phonetic Category Structure,  2014-2017, (subcontract award $359,500)

Books

A Phonological Investigation of Aphasic Speech, Mouton, 1973.

 Psycholinguistics and Aphasia, H. Goodglass and S. Blumstein (eds.) Johns Hopkins Press, 1973.

Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics, P. Lieberman and S. E. Blumstein, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

When Words Betray Us: Language, the Brain, and Aphasia, Springer/Nature, in press 2022.

Articles

Blumstein, S. E. (2020). When Speech Goes Wrong: Evidence from Aphasia. Acoustics Today, 16(4), 12-19.

Guediche, S., Zhu, Y., Minicucci, D., & Blumstein, S. E. (2019). Written sentence context effects on acoustic-phonetic perception: fMRI reveals cross-modal semantic-perceptual interactions. Brain and Language, 199, 104698.

Luthra, S., Guediche, S., Blumstein, S. E., & Myers, E. B. (2019). Neural substrates of subphonemic variation and lexical competition in spoken word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(2), 151-169.

Luthra, S., Fuhrmeister, P., Molfese, P. J., Guediche, S., Blumstein, S. E., & Myers, E. B. (2019). Brain-behavior relationships in incidental learning of non-native phonetic categories. Brain and language, 198, 104692.

Reilly, M., Machado, N., & Blumstein, S. E. (2019). Distinctive semantic features in the healthy adult brain. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(2), 296-308.

Luthra, S., Fox, N. P., & Blumstein, S. E. (2018). Speaker information affects false recognition of unstudied lexical-semantic associates. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-19.

Fox, N. & Blumstein, S.E. 2016. Top-down effects of syntactic category expectation on spoken word recognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,42 (5), 730-741.  

Kurowski, K. and Blumstein, S.E. 2016. Phonetic basis of phonemic paraphasias in aphasia: Evidence for cascading activation, Cortex, 75. 193-203.   PMC4754157

Guediche. S., Reilly, M. Santiago, C., Laurent, P. and Blumstein, S.E. 2016. An fMRI study investigating effects of conceptually related sentences on the perception of degraded speech. Cortex, 79, 57-74.    PMC4875831

Ostrand, R., Blumstein, S. E., Ferreira, V. S., & Morgan, J. L. (2016). What you see isn’t always what you get: Auditory word signals trump consciously perceived words in lexical access. Cognition, 151, 96-107.    PMC4850493

Fox, N., Reilly, M. and Blumstein, S.E. 2015. Phonological Neighborhood Competition Affects Spoken Word Production Irrespective of Sentential Context. Journal of Memory and Language, 83, 97-117.  PMC4481884

Theodore, R., Blumstein, S.E. and Luthra, S. 2015. Attention modulates the time-course of specificity effects in spoken language processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-11. PMC4470712

Reilly, M., Machado, N. and Blumstein, S.E. 2015.   Hemispheric lateralization of semantic feature distinctiveness, Neuropsychologia, 75, 99-108. PMC4546568

Reilly, M. and  Blumstein, S.E. 2014. Effect of sound similarity and word position on lexical selection. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 29 (10), 1325-1341. PMC4243184

Blumstein, S.E. and Amso, D. 2013. Neural plasticity and dynamic functional organization: Insights from Functional Neuroimaging. Perspectives on Psychological Science, invited article, 8, 44-48. NIHMS in progress.

Bullock-Rest, N., Cerny, A., Sweeney, C.,  Palumbo, C., Kurowski, K., Blumstein, S.E. 2013. Neural Systems Underlying the Influence of Sound Shape Properties of the Lexicon on Spoken Word Production: Do fMRI Findings Predict Effects of Lesions in Aphasia? Brain and Language, 126 (2), 159-168, PMC3730128.

Guediche S., Blumstein S.E., Fiez, J., Holt L.L. 2013.   Speech perception under adverse conditions: Insights from behavioral, computational and neuroscience research. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7. PMC3879477

Guediche, S., Salvata, C. and Blumstein S.E. 2013. Temporal cortex reflects effects of sentence context on phonetic processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(5), 706-718. PMC3612392

Minicucci, D., Guediche, S. and Blumstein, S.E. 2013. An fMRI Examination of the Effects of Acoustic-Phonetic and Lexical Competition on Access to the Lexical-Semantic Network, Neuropsychologia, 51, 198-1988. PMC3796341.

White, K. S., Yee, E., Blumstein, S. E. & Morgan, J. L. 2013. Adults show less sensitivity to phonetic detail in unfamiliar words, too. Journal of Memory and Language, 68 (4), 362-378.

.Salvata, C., Blumstein, S.E., and Myers, E.B. 2012. Speaker invariance for phonetic information: an fMRI investigation. Language and Cognitive Processes,. 27(2), 210-230. PMC3528078

Apfelbaum, K., Blumstein, S.E., and McMurray, B. 2011. Semantic priming is affected by real-time phonological competition: Evidence for continuous cascading systems, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 141-149. PMC3480205

Mirman, D., Yee, E., Blumstein, S.E., and Magnuson, J. 2011. Theories of spoken word recognition deficits in aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking and computational modeling. Brain and Language, 117 (2), 53-68. PMC3076537

Peramunage D, Blumstein SE, Myers EB, Goldrick M, Baese-Berk M. 2011. Phonological neighborhood effects in spoken word production: an fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,  23(3),  593-603. PMC2898911

Myung, J-Y, Blumstein, S.E., Yee, E., Sedivy, J. C., Thompson-Schill, S., and Buxbaum, L.J. 2010. Impaired Access to Manipulation Features in Apraxia: Evidence from Eyetracking and Semantic Judgment Tasks. Brain and Language, 112(2), 101-12. PMC2853734

Righi, G., Blumstein, S.E., Mertus, J.A., Worden, M.S. 2010. Neural Systems underlying Lexical Competition: An Eye Tracking and fMRI Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(2), 213-24. PMC2857934

Blumstein, S.E. 2009. Auditory word recognition: evidence from aphasia and functional neuroimaging. Language and Linguistic Compass, 3 (4), 824-838. PMC: 19915692

Britton, Brendan, Blumstein, S.E., Myers, S.B., and Grindrod, C. 2009. The role of spectral and durational properties on hemispheric asymmetries in vowel perception, Neuropsychologia, 47. 1096-1106. PMC2847781

Cohen, D.A., Kurowski, K., Stevens, M.S., Blumstein, S.E., and Pascual-Leone. 2009. Paradoxical facilitation: the resolution of foreign accent syndrome after cerebellar stroke. Neurology, 73 (7), 566-567. PMC2730796

Myers, E.B., Blumstein, S.E., Walsh, E., Eliassen, J. 2009. Inferior Frontal Regions Underlie the Perception of Phonetic Category Invariance, Psychological Science, 20 (7), 895-903. PMC2851201

Wallace, A. and Blumstein, S.E. 2009. Temporal integration in vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 125, 1704-1711.  PMC2677283

Bilenko, N., Grindrod, C. and Blumstein, S.E. 2008. Neural Correlates of Semantic Competition during Processing of Ambiguous Words, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 (5), 960-975. PMC2855879

Hutchison, E.R., Blumstein, S.E., & Myers, E.B. 2008. An event-related investigation of voice-onset time discrimination, Neuroimage, 40, 342-352. PMC2265783

Myers, E.B. & Blumstein, S.E. 2008. The neural bases of the lexical effect: An fMRI investigation. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 278-288. PMC2851201

Ruff, I., Blumstein, S.E., Myers, E.B., and Hutchison, E. 2008.  Recruitment of anterior and posterior structures in lexical-semantic processing: An fMRI study comparing implicit and explicit tasks, Brain and Language, 105, 41-49. PMC2329799

Yee, E., Blumstein, S.E., and  Sedivy, J.C. 2008. Lexical-semantic Activation in Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia: Evidence from Eye Movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 592-612. PMC3474198

Grindrod, C.M., Bilenko, N., Myers, E.M. and Blumstein, S.E. 2007. The Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Implicit Semantic Competition and Selection: An Event-Related fMRI Study. Brain Research, 1229, 167-78.

Kurowski, K., Blumstein, S.E., Palumbo, C.L., Waldstein, R., and Burton, M.W. 2007. Nasal production in anterior and posterior aphasics: Speech deficits and neuroanatomical correlates. Brain and Language, 100, 262-275.

Blumstein, S.E. and Kurowski, K. 2006. The foreign accent syndrome: A perspective. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 19, 346-355.

Goldrick, M. and Blumstein, S.E. 2006.Cascading activation from phonological planning to articulatory processes: Evidence from tongue twisters. Language and Cognitive Processes, 21, 649-683.

Kittredge, A., Davis, L. and Blumstein, S.E.  2006. Effects of non-linguistic auditory variations on lexical processing in Broca’s aphasics. Brain and Language, 97, 25-40.

Myung, J-Y, Blumstein, S.E., and Sedivy, S. 2006. Playing on the Typewriter, Typing on the Piano: Manipulation Knowledge of Objects. Cognition, 98, 199-314.

Prabhakaran, R., Blumstein, S.E., Myers, E.B. and Hutchison, E. 2006. An event-related fMRI investigation of phonological-lexical competition, Neuropsychologia, 44, 2209-2221.

Blumstein, S.E., Myers, E.B., and Rissman, J. 2005.The perception of voice-onset time: An fMRI investigation of phonetic category structure. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1353-1366.

Goldrick, M. and Blumstein, S.E. 2005.Cascading activation from phonological planning to articulatory proceeses: Evidence from tongue twisters. Language and Cognitive Processes, in press.

Myung, J-Y, Blumstein, S.E., and Sedivy, S. 2005. Playing on the Typewriter, Typing on the Piano: Manipulation Knowledge of Objects. Cognition, in press.

Blumstein, S.E. 2005. Word recognition in aphasia. In G. Gaskell (Ed.). Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, in press.

Kurowski, K., Blumstein, S.E., Palumbo, C.L., Waldstein, R., Burton, M.W., 2005. Nasal production in anterior and posterior aphasics: Speech deficits and neuroanatomical correlates. Brain and Language, under editorial review.

Blumstein, S.E. and Kurowski, K. 2005. The foreign accent syndrome: A perspective. Journal of Neurolinguistics, in press.

Myers, E.B. and Blumstein, S.E. 2005. Selectional restriction and semantic priming effects in normals and Broca's Aphasics. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 18, 277-296.

Misiurski, C., Blumstein, S.E., Rissman, J. and Berman, D. 2005. The role of lexical competition and acoustic-phonetic structure in lexical processing: Evidence from normal subjects and aphasic patients, Brain and Language, 93, 64-75.

Kittredge, A., Davis, L. and Blumstein, S.E. 2005. Effects of non-linguistic auditory variations on lexical processing in Broca's aphasics. Brain and Language, in press.

Prabhakaran, R., Blumstein, S.E., Myers, E.B. and Hutchison, E. 2005. An Event-Related fMRI Investigation of Phonological-Lexical Competition, under editorial review.

Blumstein, S.E. 2004. Phonetic category structure and its influence on lexical processing. Proceedings of the Texas Linguistic Society, Cascadilla Press.

Nakano, H. and Blumstein, S.E. 2004. Deficits in thematic integration processes in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia. Brain and Language, 88, 96-107.

Blumstein, S.E. Phonology and adult aphasia. 2004. In R. Kent (Ed.). MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Kurowski, K., Hazen,E., and. Blumstein, S.E. 2003. The nature of speech production impairments in anterior aphasics: An acoustic analysis of voicing in fricative consonants. Brain and Language, 84, 353-371.

Baum, S. and Blumstein, S.E. 2003. Psycholinguistics: Approaches to Neurolinguistics. W. J. Frawley (Ed.). Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition.

Cutler, A. and Blumstein, S.E. 2003. Speech perception. W. J. Frawley (Ed.). Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition.

Rissman, J., Eliassen, J. and Blumstein, S.E. 2003. An event-related fMRI investigation of implicit semantic priming. J. of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 1160-1175.

Milberg, W., Blumstein, S.E., Giovanello, S.S. and Misiurski, C. 2003. Summation priming in aphasia: Evidence for alterations in semantic integration and activation. Brain and Cognition, 51, 31-47.

McNellis, M. and Blumstein, S.E. 2001. Self-Organizing dynamics of lexical access in normals and aphasics. J. Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 151-170.

Utman, J.A., Blumstein, S.E. and Sullivan, K. 2001. Mapping from sound to meaning: Reduced lexical activation in Broca's aphasics, Brain and Language, 79, 444-472.

Blumstein, S.E., and Milberg, W.P. 2000. Neural systems and language processing: Towards a synthetic approach. Brain and Language Third Millennium Special Issue, 71, 26-29.

Burton, M.W., Blumstein, S.E. and Small, S.L. 2000. The role of segmentation in phonological processing: An fMRI investigation. J. Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 679-690.

Blumstein, S.E. 2000. Deficits of speech production and speech perception in aphasia. In R. Berndt (Ed.). Handbook of neuropsychology, 2nd edition, Vol.2, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

Blumstein, S.E. and Milberg, W. 2000. Language deficits in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia: A singular impairment. In Y. Grodzinsky, L. Shapiro, and D. Swinney (Eds.). Language and the Brain: Representation and Processing. New York:Academic Press.

Utman, J. A., Blumstein, S. E. and Burton, M.W. 2000. Effects of unsystematic and rule-governed acoustic variation on word recognition. Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 1297-1311.

Blumstein, S.E., Milberg, W., Brown, T., Hutchinson, A., Kurowski, K., and Burton. 2000. The mapping from sound structure to the lexicon: Evidence from rhyme and repetition priming. Brain and Language, 72, 75-99.

Milberg, W., and Blumstein, W. 2000. Back to the future: Finding aphasia in cognitive neurolinguistics. Brain and Language Third Millennium Special Issue, 71, 160-163.

Blumstein, S.E. 1999. The neural basis of phonology. In R.W. Wilson and F.C. Keil (Eds.). MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Pickett, R., Blumstein, S. E., and Burton, M.W. 1999. Effects of speaking rate on the singleton/geminate consonant contrast in Italian, Phonetica, 56, 135-157.

Blumstein, S.E., Byma, G., Kurowski, K., Hourihan, J., Brown, T., and Hutchinson, A. 1998. On-line processing of filler-gap constructions in aphasia. Brain and Language, 61, 149-168.

Kessinger, R.H. and Blumstein, S. E. 1998. Effects of speaking rate on voice-onset time and vowel production: Some implications for perception studies, J. Phonetics, 26, 117-128.

Blumstein, S.E. 1998. Mapping from acoustic structure to the phonetic categories of speech: The invariance problem. Commentary on H. Sussman et al., The orderly output constraint: A functional role for highly correlated, linerarly related components in the speech signal. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 260.

Kurowski, K., Blumstein, S.E., and Mathieson, H. 1998. Consonant and vowel production in right hemisphere patients. Brain and Language, 63, 276-300.

Blumstein S.E. 1998. Phonological aspects of aphasia. In M.T. Sarno (ed.), Acquired Aphasia, 3rd edition. New York: Academic Press.

Kessinger, R. and Blumstein, S.E. 1997. Effects of speaking rate on voice-onset time in Thai, French, and English. J. Phonetics, 25, 143-168.

Pirello, K., Blumstein, S.E., and Kurowski, K. 1997. The characteristics of voicing in syllable-initial fricatives in American English, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 101, 3754-3765.

Blumstein, S.E. 1997. A perspective on the neurobiology of language. Brain and Language, , 60, 335-346.

Kurowski, K. M., Blumstein, S.E., and Alexander, M. 1996.The foreign accent syndrome: A reconsideration. Brain and Language, 54, 1-25.

W. Milberg, S.E. Blumstein, D. Katz, F. Gershberg, T. Brown. 1995. Semantic facilitation in aphasia: Effects of Time and Expectancy. J. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 33-50.

Blumstein, S. 1995. The neurobiology of language. In J. Miller and P. Eimas (eds.). Speech, Language, and Communication, Academic Press.

J. Andruski, S.E. Blumstein, and M. Burton. 1994. The effect of subphonetic differences on lexical access. Cognition, 52, 163-187.

Blumstein, S. 1994. The neurobiology of the sound structure of language. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.). Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Blumstein, S. 1994. Speech production and speech perception deficits in aphasia. In B. Butterworth, J. Morton, M. Snowling, and E. Warrington (Eds.). The Acquisition and Dissolution of Language. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 346, 29-36.

Burton, M. and Blumstein, S.E. 1994. Lexical effects on phonetic categorization: The role of stimulus quality. JEP:HPP, 21, 1230-1235.

S.E. Blumstein, M. Burton, S. Baum, R. Waldstein, and D. Katz. 1994. The role of lexical status on phonetic categorization in aphasia.. Brain and Language, 46, 181-197.

Utman, J. and Blumstein, S.E. 1994. The influence of language on the acoustic properties of phonetic features: A study of the feature [strident] in Ewe and English. Phonetica, 51, 221-238.

H. Magen and S.E. Blumstein, 1993. Effects of speaking rate on the vowel length distinction in Korean.. Journal of Phonetics, 21, 387-409.

K. Kurowski and S.E. Blumstein. 1993. Acoustic properties for the perception of nasal consonants. In M.K. Huffman and R. Krakow (eds.). The Feature Nasal: Phonetic Bases and Phonological Implications. Academic Press.

K.N. Stevens, S.E. Blumstein, L. Glicksman, M. Burton, and K. Kurowski. 1992. Acoustic and perceptual characteristics of voicing in fricatives and fricative clusters., Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91, 2979-3000.

M. Burton, S.E. Blumstein, and K.N. Stevens, 1992. A phonetic analysis of prenasalized stops in Moru., J. Phonetics, 20, 127-142.

Blumstein, S.E. The relation between phonetics and phonology. Phonetica, 1991, 48, 108-119.

Blumstein, S. 1991. Phonological aspects of aphasia. In M.T. Sarno (Ed.). Acquired Aphasia, 2nd edition, Academic Press.

Blumstein, S. 1991. Speech Perception. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, William Bright (Ed.), Oxford University Press.

Blumstein, S. 1991. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Neurolinguistics. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, William Bright (Ed.), Oxford University Press.

S.E. Blumstein, W.P. Milberg, B. Dworetzky, A. Rosen, and F. Gershberg. 1991. Syntactic priming effects in aphasia: An investigation of local syntactic dependencies. Brain and Language , 40, 393-421.

Blumstein, S. 1990. Phonological deficits in aphasia: theoretical perspectives. In A. Caramazza (Ed.), Advances in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Lawrence Erlbaum.

S. Baum, S.E. Blumstein, M.A. Naeser, C.L. Palumbo. 1990. Temporal dimensions of consonant and vowel production: an acoustic and CT scan analysis of aphasic speech., Brain and Language, 39, 33-56.

M.W. Burton, S. Baum, and S.E. Blumstein. 1989. Lexical effects on the phonetic categorization of speech: The role of acoustic structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, , 15, 567-575.

W. Milberg and S. E. Blumstein. 1989. Reaction time methodology and the aphasic patient: A reply to Hagoort. Brain and Language, 36, 349-353.

S. Blumstein. 1989. Theoretical implications of the quantal nature of speech: A commentary, J. Phonetics, 17, 55-61.

Aphasiology : Special Issue in Honour of Harold Goodglass, S.E. Blumstein and E.B. Zurif (eds.), Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1988.

Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics, P. Lieberman and S. E. Blumstein, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

W. Milberg, S.E. Blumstein, B. Dworetzky. 1988. Phonological factors in lexical access: Evidence from an auditory lexical decision task. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 26, 305-308.

S. Behrens and S.E. Blumstein. 1988. Acoustic characteristics of English voiceless fricatives: A descriptive analysis, J. Phonetics, 16, 295-298.

Blumstein, S. 1988. Linguistic deficits in aphasia. In F. Plum, Language, Commuincation, and the Brain, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, Vol. 66, Raven Press.

Blumstein, S. 1988. Neurolinguistics: An overview of language-brain relations in aphasia. In F. Newmeyer (Ed.). Linguistics:The Cambridge Survey. III. Cambridge University Press.

M.L. Rossen, L.T. Niles, G.N. Tajchman, M.A. Bush, J.A. Anderson, and S.E. Blumstein. 1988. A connectionist model for C-V syllable recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , 88, 59-66.

W. Milberg, S.E. Blumstein, and B. Dworetzky. 1988. Phonological processing and lexical access in aphasia. Brain and Language, 34, 279-293.

R. Berndt, A. Salasoo, C. Mitchum, and S.E. Blumstein. 1988. The role of intonation cues in aphasic patients' performance of the grammaticality judgment task. Brain and Language, 34, 65-97.

S. Behrens and S.E. Blumstein. 1988. On the role of the amplitude of the fricative noise in the perception of place of articulation in voiceless fricative consonants, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 84, 861-867.

Blumstein, S. 1988. Approaches to speech production deficits in aphasia. In F. Boller and J. Grafman, Handbook of Neuropsychology, Elsevier Press.

S. E. Blumstein, M. P. Alexander, J. H. Ryalls, W. Katz, and B. Dworetzky. 1987. On the nature of the foreign accent syndrome: a case study. Brain and Language, 31, 215-244.

J. Bertoncini, R. Bijeljac, S.E. Blumstein, and J. Mehler. 1987. Discrimination in neonates of very short CVs. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 82, 31-37.

Blumstein, S. 1987Speech perception and modularity: Evidence from aphasia. In E. Keller and M. Gopnik (eds.), Motor and Sensory Processes in Language. Erlbaum.

S.E. Blumstein and S. Baum. 1987. Consonant production deficits in aphasia. In J. Ryalls, Phonetic Approaches in Speech Production in Aphasia and Related Disorders, College-Hill.

S. Baum and S.E. Blumstein. 1987. Preliminary observations on the use of duration as a cue to syllable-initial fricative consonant voicing in English. J.Acoust. Soc. Amer., 82, 1073-1077.

W. Milberg, S. E. Blumstein, B. Dworetzky. 1987. Processing of lexical ambiguities in aphasia. Brain and Language, 31, 138-150.

K. Kurowski and S.E. Blumstein. 1987. Acoustic properties for place of articulation in nasal consonants. J.Acoust. Soc. Am., 81, 1917-1927.

Blumstein, S. 1986. On acoustic invariance in speech. In J. Perkell, G. Fant, B. Lindblom, D. Klatt and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds.), Invariance and Variability of Speech Processes, Erlbaum.

S.E. Blumstein and K.N. Stevens. 1985. On some issues in the pursuit of acoustic invariance in speech: A reply to Lisker, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 77, 1203-1204.

A. Jongman and S.E. Blumstein . 1985.Acoustic properties for dental and alveolar stop consonants: a cross-language study. J. Phonetics,13, 235-251.

P. C . Shinn, S.E. Blumstein, & A. Jongman. 1985. Limitations of context-conditioned effects in the Perception of [b] & [w]. Perception and Psychophysics, 38, 397-407.

S.E. Blumstein B. Katz, H. Goodglass, R. Shrier, and B. Dworetzky. 1985. The effects of slowed speech on auditory comprehension in aphasia. Brain and Language, 24, 246-265.

K. Kurowski and S.E. Blumstein. 1984. Perceptual integration of the murmur and formant transitions for place of articulation in nasal consonants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 76, 383-390.

S.E. Blumstein, V.C. Tartter, G. Nigro and S. Statlender. 1984. Acoustic cues for the perception of place of articulation in aphasia. Brain and Language, 22, 128-149.

A. Lahiri and S.E. Blumstein. 1984. A re-evaluation of the feature coronal. J. of Phonetics, 12, 133-145.

A. Lahiri, L.Gewirth and S.E. 1984. A reconsideration of acoustic invariance for place of articulation in diffuse stop consonants: Evidence from a cross-language study. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 76, 391-404.

P. Shinn and S.E. Blumstein. 1984. On the role of the amplitude envelope for the perception of [b] and [w]. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 75, 1243-1252.

Blumstein, S. 1984. The spectral characteristics of stop consonants provide important clues to the nature of place of articulation production in Broca's aphasia. A reply to W. Ziegler, S. Blumstein and P. Shinn, Brain and Language, 23, 171-174.

S.E. Blumstein, H. Goodglass, S. Statlender, and C. Biber. 1983. Comprehension strategies determining reference in aphasia: A study of reflexivization. Brain and Language,18, 115-127.

M. Mack and S.E. Blumstein. 1983. Further evidence of acoustic invariance in speech production: the stop-glide contrast. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 73, 1739-1750.

P. Shinn and S.E. Blumstein. 1983. Phonetic disintegration in aphasia: acoustic analysis of spectral characteristics for place of articulation. Brain and Language, 20, 90-114.

K. Landahl and S.E. Blumstein. 1982. Acoustic invariance and the perception of place of articulation: a selective adaptation study., J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 1, 1234-1241.

Blumstein, S. 1982. Language dissolution in aphasia: evidence for linguistic theory. In L. Obler and L. Menn (ed.). Exceptional Language and Linguistics, Academic Press.

S.E. Blumstein, W. Milberg, and R. Shrier. 1982. Semantic processing in aphasia: evidence from an auditory lexical decision task. Brain and Language, 17, 301-315.

J. Dwyer, S.E. Blumstein, and J. Ryalls. 1982. The role of duration and rapid temporal processing on the lateral perception of consonants and vowels, Brain and Language,17, 272-286.

S.E. Blumstein, E. Isaacs, and J. Mertus. 1982. The role of the gross spectral shape as a perceptual cue to place of articulation in initial stop consonants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,72, 43-50.

C. Chapin, S.E. Blumstein, B. Meissner, and F. Boller. 1981. Speech production mechanisms in aphasia: a delayed auditory feedback study. Brain and Language, 14, 106-113.

Blumstein, S. 1981. Neurolinguistics: Language-brain relationships. In S.B. Filskov and T.J. Boll (eds.), Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology, John Wiley.

Blumstein, S. 1981. Phonological aspects of aphasia. In M.T. Sarno, Acquired Aphasia, Academic Press.

Blumstein, S. 1981. Perception of speech in aphasia: its relation to language comprehension, auditory processing, and speech production. In T. Myers, J. Laver, and J. Anderson, The Cognitive Representation of Speech, North-Holland.

K.N. Stevens and S.E. Blumstein. 1981. The search for invariant acoustic correlates of phonetic features. In P.D. Eimas and J.L. Miller, Perspectives on the Study of Speech. Erlbaum.

W. Milberg and S.E. Blumstein. 1981. Lexical decision and aphasia: evidence for semantic processing, Brain and Language, , 14, 371-385.

S. Chang and S.E. Blumstein. 1981. The role of onsets in perception of stop place of articulation: effects of a spectral and temporal discontinuity. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 70, 39-44.

V. Tartter, and S.E. Blumstein. 1981.The effects of pitch and spectral differences on phonetic fusion in dichotic listening. J. of Phonetic , 9, 251-259.

E. Baker, S.E. Blumstein, and H. Goodglass. 1981. Interaction between phonological and semantic factors in auditory comprehension. Neuropsychologia, , 19, 1-15.

S.E. Blumstein and K.N. Stevens. 1981. Phonetic features and acoustic invariance in speech, Cognition, 10, 25-32.

S.E. Blumstein, W.E. Cooper, H. Goodglass, S. Statlender, J. Gottlieb. 1980. Production deficits in aphasia: a voice-onset time analysis. Brain and Language,9, 153-170.

S.E. Blumstein and K.N. Stevens. 1980. Perceptual invariance and onset spectra for stop consonants in different vowel environments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, 648-662.

Blumstein, S. 1980. Speech perception: an overview. In G. Yeni-Komshian, J. Kavanaugh, and C. Ferguson (eds.), Child Phonology: Perception and Production, Academic Press.

H. Goodglass, S.E. Blumstein, J.B. Gleason, M.R. Hyde, E. Green, and S. Statlender. 1979. The effect of syntactic encoding on sentence comprehension in aphasia, Brain and Language, 7, 201-209.

Blumstein, S. 1979. "Phrenology, 'boxology,' and neurology," commentary on "Neurolinguistics Must be Computational," M. Arbib and D. Caplan, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, 148-149.

S.E. Blumstein and K.N. Stevens. 1979. Acoustic invariance in speech production: evidence from measurements of the spectral characteristics of stop consonants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 66, 1001-1017.

Blumstein, S. 1978. The perception of speech in pathology and ontogeny. In E. Zurif and A. Caramazza (eds.), The Acquisition and Dissolution of Language, Johns Hopkins Press.

E. Zurif and S.E. Blumstein. 1978. Language and the brain. In M. Halle, J. Bresnan, and G.A. Miller (eds.), Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality, M.I.T. Press.

Blumstein, S. 1978. Review of: H. Whitaker and H.A. Whitaker (eds.), Studies in Neurolinguistics Vol. I and II. Contemporary Psychology, 23, 239-240.

Blumstein, S. 1978. Review of: S. Harnad, H. Steklis, and J. Lancaster (eds.) Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 64, 1543 (B).

Blumstein, S. 1978. Segment organization and syllable structure in aphasia. A. Bell and J.B. Hooper (eds.), Syllables and Segments, North-Holland Publishing Company.

K.N. Stevens and S.E. Blumstein. 1978. Invariant cues for place of articulation in stop consonants., J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 64, 1358-68.

P. Keating and S.E. Blumstein. 1978. Effects of transition length on the perception of stop consonants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 64, 57-64.

L. Hall and S.E. Blumstein. 1978. The effect of syllabic stress and segment structure on the identification of speech sounds, Perception and Psychophysics, 24, 137-144.

S. Blumstein, H. Goodglass, E. Baker. 1977. Phonological factors in auditory comprehension in aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 5, 19-30.

S. Blumstein, V. Tartter, D. Michel, B. Hirsch, E. Leiter. 1977. The role of distinctive features in the perception of vowels. Brain and Language, 4, 508-520.

L. Hall and S.E. Blumstein. 1977. The effect of vowel similarity and syllable length on acoustic memory. Perception and Psychophysics, 22, 95-99.

S. Blumstein and K.N. Stevens. 1977. Property detectors for bursts and transitions in speech perception. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 61, 1301-1313.

S. Blumstein, W.E. Cooper, E. Zurif, A. Caramazza. 1977. The perception and production of voice-onset time in aphasia, Neuropsychologia, 15, 371-383.

Blumstein, S. 1977. Review of: E.D. Mysak, Pathologies of Speech Systems. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., , 6l, 623.

M. Oscar-Berman, S. Blumstein, D. DeLuca. 1976. Iconic recognition of musical symbols in the lateral visual fields., Cortex, 12, 241-248.

Blumstein, S. 1975. Structuralism in linguistics: historical and methodological perspectives, in K. Riegel (ed.), Structure, Transformation Interaction: Developmental and Historical Aspects, Wiley.

K.N. Stevens and S.E. Blumstein. 1975. Quantal aspects of consonant production and perception: a study of retroflex stop consonants. Journal of Phonetics, 3, 215-233.

M. Oscar-Berman, E. Zurif, and S. Blumstein. 1975. Effects of unilateral brain damage on the processing of speech sounds., Brain and Language, 2, 345-355.

S. Blumstein, H. Goodglass, V. Tartter. 1975. The reliability of ear advantage in dichotic listening. Brain and Language, 2, 226-236.

W.E. Cooper, S.E. Blumstein, and G. Nigro. 1975. Articulatory effects on speech perception: a preliminary report. Journal of Phonetics, 3, 87-98.

S. Blumstein and W. Cooper. 1974. Hemispheric processing of intonation. Cortex, 10, 146-158.

Blumstein, S. 1974. Linguistic aspects of aphasia. In E. Strauss (ed.) Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Phenomenology: Pure and Applied, Duquesne.

Blumstein, S. 1974. A Review of: Generative Phonology - Evidence from Aphasia, M. Schnitzer, Cortex,10, 206-207.

W. Cooper and S. Blumstein. 1974. A 'labial' feature analyzer in speech perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 15, 591-600.

S. Blumstein. 1974. The use and theoretical implications of the dichotic listening technique for investigating distinctive features. Brain and Language, 1, 337-350.

Psycholinguistics and Aphasia, H. Goodglass and S. Blumstein (eds.) Johns Hopkins Press, 1973.

A Phonological Investigation of Aphasic Speech, Mouton, 1973.

Blumstein, S. 1973. Some phonological implications of aphasic speech. In H. Goodglass and S. Blumstein (eds.), Psycholinguistics and Aphasia, Johns Hopkins Press.

S. Blumstein and H. Goodglass. 1972. Perception of stress as a semantic cue in aphasia. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 15, 800-806.

.S. Blumstein and W. Cooper. 1972. Identification vs. discrimination of distinctive features in speech perception, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 24, 207-214.

F. Spellacy and S. Blumstein. 1970. Perception of language and non-language sounds. Journal of Auditory Research, 10, 349-355.

F. Spellacy and S. Blumstein. 1970. The influence of language set on ear preference in phoneme recognition. Cortex, 6, 430-439.

H. Goodglass, M. Hyde, and S. Blumstein. 1969. Frequency, picturability, and availability of nouns in aphasia., Cortex, 5, 104-119.

Blumstein, S. 1968. Phonological Aspects of Aphasic Speech. In C. Gribble (ed.) Studies Presented to Roman Jakobson by his Students, Slavica Publishers.

Chapters

Blumstein, S. 1968. Phonological Aspects of Aphasic Speech. In C. Gribble (ed.)  Studies Presented to Roman Jakobson by his Students, Slavica Publishers.

Blumstein, S. 1973. Some phonological implications of aphasic speech. In H. Goodglass and S. Blumstein (eds.),  Psycholinguistics and Aphasia, Johns Hopkins Press.

Blumstein, S. 1974. Linguistic aspects of aphasia. In E. Strauss (ed.)  Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Phenomenology:  Pure  and Applied, Duquesne.

Blumstein, S. 1975. Structuralism in linguistics:  historical and methodological perspectives, in K. Riegel (ed.),  Structure, Transformation Interaction:  Developmental  and Historical Aspects, Wiley.

Blumstein, S. 1978. The perception of speech in pathology and ontogeny. In E. Zurif and A. Caramazza (eds.),  The Acquisition and Dissolution of Language, Johns Hopkins Press.

Blumstein, S. 1978. Segment organization and syllable structure in aphasia. A. Bell and J.B. Hooper (eds.),  Syllables and Segments, North-Holland Publishing Company.

E. Zurif and S.E. Blumstein. 1978. Language and the brain. In M. Halle, J. Bresnan, and G.A. Miller (eds.),  Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality, M.I.T. Press.

Blumstein, S. 1980. Speech perception: an overview. In G. Yeni-Komshian, J. Kavanaugh, and C. Ferguson (eds.),  Child Phonology: Perception and Production, Academic Press.

Blumstein, S. 1981. Neurolinguistics: Language-brain relationships. In S.B. Filskov and T.J. Boll (eds.),  Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology, John Wiley.

KN. Stevens and S.E. Blumstein. 1981. The search for invariant acoustic correlates of phonetic features. In P.D. Eimas and J.L. Miller,  Perspectives on the Study of Speech. Erlbaum.

Blumstein, S. 1981. Phonological aspects of aphasia. In M.T. Sarno, Acquired Aphasia, Academic Press.

Blumstein, S. 1981. Perception of speech in aphasia: its relation to language comprehension, auditory processing, and speech production. In T. Myers, J. Laver, and J. Anderson,  The Cognitive Representation of Speech, North-Holland.

Blumstein, S. 1982. Language dissolution in aphasia: evidence for linguistic theory. In L. Obler and L. Menn (ed.).  Exceptional Language and Linguistics, Academic Press.

Blumstein, S. 1986. On acoustic invariance in speech. In J. Perkell, G. Fant, B. Lindblom, D. Klatt and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds.),  Invariance and Variability of Speech Processes, Erlbaum.

Blumstein, S. 1987. Speech perception and modularity:  Evidence from aphasia.  In E. Keller and M. Gopnik (eds.),  Motor and Sensory Processes in Language. Erlbaum.

S.E. Blumstein and S. Baum. 1987. Consonant production deficits in aphasia. In J. Ryalls,  Phonetic Approaches in Speech Production in Aphasia and Related Disorders, College-Hill.

Blumstein, S. 1988. Linguistic deficits in aphasia. In F. Plum,  Language, Commuincation, and the Brain, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, Vol. 66, Raven Press.

Blumstein, S. 1988. Approaches to speech production deficits in aphasia. In F. Boller and J. Grafman,  Handbook of Neuropsychology, Elsevier Press.

Blumstein, S. 1988. Neurolinguistics: An overview of language-brain relations in aphasia. In F. Newmeyer (Ed.).  Linguistics:The Cambridge Survey. III. Cambridge University Press.

Blumstein, S. 1990. Phonological deficits in aphasia: theoretical perspectives. In A. Caramazza (Ed.),  Advances in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Lawrence Erlbaum.

Blumstein, S. 1991. Phonological aspects of aphasia. In M.T. Sarno (Ed.).  Acquired Aphasia, 2nd edition, Academic Press.

Blumstein, S. 1991. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Neurolinguistics.  Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, William Bright (Ed.), Oxford University Press.

Blumstein, S. 1991. Speech Perception. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, William Bright (Ed.), Oxford University Press.

K. Kurowski and S.E. Blumstein. 1993. Acoustic properties for the perception of nasal consonants. In M.K. Huffman and R. Krakow (eds.). The Feature Nasal: Phonetic Bases and Phonological Implications. Academic Press.

Blumstein, S. 1994. The neurobiology of the sound structure of language. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.). Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Blumstein, S. 1994. Speech production and speech perception deficits in aphasia. In B. Butterworth, J. Morton, M. Snowling, and E. Warrington (Eds.). The Acquisition and Dissolution of Language. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 346, 29-36.

Blumstein, S. 1995. The neurobiology of language. In J. Miller and P. Eimas (eds.). Speech, Language, and Communication, Academic Press.

Blumstein S.E. 1998. Phonological aspects of aphasia. In M.T. Sarno (ed.), Acquired Aphasia, 3rd edition. New York: Academic Press.

Blumstein, S.E. 1999. The neural basis of phonology. In R.W. Wilson and F.C. Keil (Eds.). MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Blumstein, S.E. and Milberg, W. 2000. Language deficits in Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia: A singular impairment. In Y. Grodzinsky, L. Shapiro, and D. Swinney (Eds.). Language and the Brain: Representation and Processing. New York:Academic Press.

Blumstein, S.E. 2000. Deficits of speech production and speech perception in aphasia. In R. Berndt (Ed.). Handbook of neuropsychology, 2^nd edition, Vol.2, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

Cutler, A. and Blumstein, S.E. 2003. Speech perception. W. J. Frawley (Ed.). Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2^nd edition.

Baum, S. and Blumstein, S.E. 2003. Psycholinguistics: Approaches to Neurolinguistics. W. J. Frawley (Ed.). Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2^nd edition.

Blumstein, S.E. Phonology and adult aphasia. 2004. In R. Kent (Ed.). MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Blumstein, S.E. 2004. Phonetic category structure and its influence on lexical processing. Proceedings of the Texas Linguistic Society, Cascadilla Press.

Blumstein, S.E. 2007. Word recognition in aphasia. In G. Gaskell (Ed.). Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics.

Blumstein, S.E. 2009. Reflections on the cognitive neuroscience of language. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed). The Cognitive Neurosciences IV, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Blumstein, S.E. 2011. Neural Systems Underlying Lexical Competition in Auditory Word Recognition and Spoken Word Production: Evidence from Aphasia and Functional Neuroimaging. In G. Gaskell & P. Zwitserlood. Lexical Representation: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The Hague: Mouton.

Blumstein, S.E. and Myers, E.B. 2014. Neural systems underlying speech perception. K. Ochsner and S. Kosslyn (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume I; New York: Oxford University Press.

Blumstein, S.E. and Baum, S. 2015. The neurobiology of speech production. In G. Hickok and S. Small (Eds.). The Neurobiology of Language, Elsevier.

Blumstein, S.E. 2015.  Psycholinguistic approaches to the study of syndromes and symptoms of aphasia. In G. Hickok and S. Small (Eds.). The Neurobiology of Language, Elsevier.

Blumstein, S.E. 2017. Phonetic categories and phonological features: Evidence from the cognitive neuroscience of language. In A. Lahiri (ed.). Lexical and Speech Processing.  Berlin: Mouton.

Blumstein, S.E. 2018. Neurolinguistics: A Brief Historical Perspective. In de Zubicaray, Miozzo, Schiller (Eds.). Handbook of Neurolinguistics. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Blumstein, S.E. 2021. Features in speech perception and lexical access. In Nygaard, Pisoni, Pardo, Remez (Eds.). Handbook of Speech Perception. 2^nd edition, Wiley.

Phi Beta Kappa, 1964; Phi Sigma Iota, 1965; Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1965; A.B. with High Distinction; National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship, 1965-1968; National Institutes of Health Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1968-1970; Guggenheim Fellow, 1977-1978; Radcliffe Institute Fellow, 1977-1978; Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 1982-; Claude Pepper (Javits Neuroscience) Investigator Award, 1985-92; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993-; Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 1998-; Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Brown University, 2001; Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, Brown University, 2001; Hazeltine Senior Citation, Brown University, 2002; Independent Award, Brown University Club in New York, 2002; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005; Susan B. Anthony Legacy Award, University of Rochester, 2005, Fellow, Linguistic Society of America 2009; Fellow, American Psychological Society,  2010; Silver Medal in Speech Communication, Acoustical Society of America, 2014.

Advisory Editor, Contemporary Psychology, 1981-1983; Editorial Board, Cognition, 1982-90; Editorial Board, Applied Psycholinguistics, 1984-89; Editorial Board, Preprint Collection in Speech Communication, Vol.2, Speech perception, Acoustical Society of America, 1990; Editorial Board, Brain and Language, 1978-83, 1995-1997; Advisory Board 1998-.

Member, Communicative Sciences Study Section, National Institute of Neurological and Communication Diseases and Strokes (NINCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 1976-1980; Member 1978, Language Disorders panel and contributor to Behavioral Neurology Panel, National Institute of Neurological and Communication Diseases and Strokes (Charged to prepare a state-of-the-art report for Congress); Executive Committee, Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics, Biomechanics, National Research Council, 1980-1982; Member, Scientific Programs Advisory Committee, National Institute of Neurological and Communication Diseases and Strokes, National Institutes of Health 1982-84; Member, National Science Foundation, Linguistics Panel, 1983-1986; Panel member, An Evaluation of Research Opportunities and Needs of the NINCDS in the Neurological and Communicative Sciences, prepared for the Senate Committee on Appropriations, 1983; ad hoc reviewer, Communicative Sciences Study Section, 1981, ad hoc site-visit team, NIH, 1982; co-chair, Language Panel and member, Task Force to Develop National Strategic Research Plan, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, 1989; Advisory Council, National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders, 1989-93; Member of Program Committee, Academy of Aphasia, 1977-1978; Speech Technical Committee, Acoustical Society of America, 1981-1984; Nominating Committee, Acoustical Society of America, 1981-1982; Program Committee, Chair, Academy of Aphasia, 1985-87; National Task Force on the NIH Strategic Plan, Committee on Basic Research - Biology, 1992; Science Advisory Committee on Cognitive Neuroscience, McDonnell-Pew Foundations, 1989-1999 ; Board of Governors, Academy of Aphasia, 1978-1981, 1995-1998 ; Educational Policy Committee, Rhode Island School of Design, 1994-1996; Search Committee, Director of the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, 1997; Behavioral and Social Sciences Review Integration Meeting to reconfigure study sections, 5/98; NIH Study Section, Chair, Special Emphasis Panel and BBBP3 Study section 1998; affiliate of Linguistic Society of America to Section on Neuroscience, American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1999-2002; Chair-Elect, Chair, Steering Committee, Linguistics and Language Sciences (Section Z), AAAS, 1999-2001; External Advisory Board, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh), 1999-2002; BBBP3 Study Section, NIH, 2001-2003; Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate, NSF, 2001-2004; Academy of Aphasia, Membership Committee, 2006-; chair 2007.

Member, Community Roundtable of the Rhode Island Cancer Council, 2003-
Academy of Aphasia, member; Linguistic Society of America, member; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, member; Acoustical Society of America, member, fellow; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member, fellow; American Philosophical Society, member, fellow.

Outside reviewer of grants for NSF, NIH, and NICHD; outside reviewer of manuscripts submitted to MIT Press, Holt Rinehart & Winston, Scientific American, Singular Press, Blackwell Press and journals such as Brain and Language, Perception and Psychophysics, Science, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, Language and Speech, Neuropsychologia, Cortex, Behaviorial and Brain Sciences, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychological Sciences, Cerebral Cortex.

Community:
Member, Lifespan Board, 2001-2002.
Member, Community Roundtable of the Rhode Island Cancer Council, 2003-2004.
Board of Trustees, University of Rochester, 2003-2011; search committee for president of University of Rochester, 2004; search committee for provost of University of Rochester, 2006.
Trustee of the Barrington Public Library, 2003-2009; secretary 2004-2006; chair, 2006-2009.

Member, Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories, 2012-2022, Chair, Executive Committee, 2014-2015; Chair of the Board, 2016-2022.

 

All of the courses that I teach are highly interdisciplinary.

CLPS0020 is the introductory course in cognitive science offered by the department of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences. Its goal is to provide an introduction to the study of the
mind drawing from psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy and computer science. It focuses on such questions as how do we process information to recognize objects and faces, how do we know that a cup is not a bowl, how do we remember and learn, how do we speak and understand, and how can studying the brain inform us about the mind? The course examines these questions in the context of major themes in cognitive science including nature-nurture, categories and representations, and the nature of computations. Students are required to do four exercises/problems, write a term paper on a topic of their choice, and take a final (all essay).

CLPS1820 is an advanced undergraduate/graduate course on language and the brain. It examines the neural systems underlying language processing focusing on the effects of brain injury on speaking and understanding in left brain-damaged patients who have aphasia, right hemisphere-damaged patients, and split-brain patients. It draws from the methodologies, experimental findings, and theoretical insights of cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, neuropsychology, and cognitive psychology. Additional evidence from electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging in brain-injured and normal participants is also considered. Students are required to take a mid-term, write a research paper proposal, a 20-page research paper, and take a final essay exam.

CLPS1821 (Neuroimaging and Language) is designed to investigate the nature of the functional architecture of language and its neural substrates focusing primarily on neuroimaging techniques including fMRI, PET, TMS, and ERP. The course is organized as a seminar. After a broad overview of the neural systems underlying speech, lexical, syntactic and semantic processing, we focus on various topics such as
mirror neurons and language, multisensory integration, sensory-motor representation of words, neural plasticity in special populations (the deaf and blind), across the lifespan, and pursuant to brain injury. Each student is required to lead class discussion of several articles assigned throughout the semester. In addition, each writes a critical review of a research article of his or her own choice, writes a research proposal paper which includes the selection of a research topic, a summary of the background research motivating and leading up to the research question, a proposal of an experimental question including a design of a neuroimaging experiment to answer the question with examples of stimuli and stimulus conditions, methods, etc., and a description of hypothesized results and implications of findings.

My approach to teaching, no matter the course, is to have students learn how to critically evaluate experimental research and be able to integrate experimental findings within a theoretical framework. Thus, the students need to understand not only the state-of-the-art of the field but they also need to learn critical skills so that they can approach not just the course material but also in any area of study be able to critically assess ideas and arguments and propose alternative interpretations. In other words, I expect them to be 'active', critical, and engaged learners.

I actively use CANVAS in my courses and, in my view, it has enhanced the quality of my courses. It provides an organizational framework for the students as well as provides availability of the course slides (i.e. powerpoint presentations), course readings, demonstrations, and other materials for review on their own time. Students have a better opportunity to get fully engaged in the class and also to make use of all possible 'ways of learning'.