Lori J. P. Altmann
Location:
University of Florida
Education:
| University of Southern California | Ph.D. in Motor Control, 1998 | ||
| California State University at Fullerton | M.A. in Physical Therapy, 1992 | ||
| McGill University | B.A. in Biology, 1977 |
Primary Academic Appointment:
University of Florida- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Program in Linguistics
Other Appointments:
VA RR&D Brain Rehabilitation and Research Center of Excellence
Research Interests:
Normal and pathological changes in language use in older adults. The effects of differences in working memory and semantic ability on language use, the speech production process, the grammaticalization process. Differences in the representations and use of content versus grammatical words. Semantic impairments. Developmental language impairments.
Recent Publications:
Del Toro, C. M., Altmann, L. J. P., Raymer, A. M., Leon, S., Blonder, L. X., Rothi, L. G. R. (in press). Changes in aphasic discourse after contrasting treatments for anomia. Aphasiology.
Altmann, L. J. P. & McClung, J. S. (in press). Effects of semantic impairment on language use in Alzheimer disease. Seminars in Speech, Language and Hearing.
Plummer-D'Amato, P., Altmann, L. J. P., Saracino, D., Fox, E., Behrman, A. L., & Marsiske, M. (in press). Interactions between cognitive tasks and gait after stroke: A dual task study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Puranik, C. S., Lombardino, L. J., & Altmann, L. J. P. (in press). Assessing the microstructure of written language using a retelling paradigm. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.
Altmann, L. J. P., Lombardino, L. J., & Puranik, C. S. (in press). Sentence production in students with dyslexia. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
Aphasia Work Group: Raymer, A.M., Beeson, P., Holland, A., Maher, L.M., Martin, N., et al. (2008) Translational research in aphasia: From neuroscience to neurorehabilitation. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
Puranik, C. S., Lombardino, L. J., & Altmann, L. J. P. (in press). Writing through retellings: An exploratory study of language-impaired and dyslexic populations. Reading and Writing, 20, 251-272.
Altmann, L. J. P., Saleem, A., Kendall, D., Heilman, K. M., & Gonzalez-Rothi, L., (2006). Orthographic directionality and thematic role illustration in English and Arabic. Brain and Language, 97, 306-316.
Altmann, L. J. P. & Kemper, S. (2006). Age differences in sensitivity to animacy and order of activation in sentence production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 21, 322-353.
Altmann, L. J. P. (2004). Constrained sentence production in probable Alzheimer disease. Applied Psycholinguistics, 25, 145-173.
Altmann, L. J. P., Kempler, D., & Andersen, E. S. (2001). Speech production in Alzheimer disease: Re-evaluating morphosyntactic preservation. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 1069-1082.
Contact Information:
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders & the Program in Linguistics, University of Florida
P.O. Box 117420, 336 Dauer Hall
Gainesville, FL 25191
Phone: (352) 392-2113 x279
E-mail: laltmann@ufl.edu