
Positions
- Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences
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Matthew Walenski
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Publications
selected publications
presentations
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Event related potentials to noun and verb production
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On the acceptability of short passive sentences with and without thematic violations
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Semi-automated measurement of vowel formant centralization to assess acquired apraxia of speech from narrative samples
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Decoding benefactive and dative structures in agrammatic aphasia using eye tracking
, CAHS Student Research Day 2025 - Administering an Aphasia Test Battery, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2025
- Analysis of pauses in the narrative speech of healthy speakers and speakers with aphasia, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2025
- Event related potentials to noun and verb production, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2025
- Semi-automated measurement of vowel formant centralization to assess acquired apraxia of speech from narrative samples, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2025
- The production and comprehension of reversible dative and benefactive sentences, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2025
- Processing and analysis of eye-tracking data in language-impaired populations, Love Data Week 2025
- Aphasia Treatment: Improving Fluency, 2024 Aphasia Workshop 2024
- Basic knowledge of aphasia, The Second Annual Academic Conference on Language, Cognition, and Intelligence Development 2024
- Translating online research into assessment tools, 2024 Aphasia Workshop 2024
- What can we learn from narrative samples?, 2024 Aphasia Workshop 2024
- What does it mean to become non-fluent?, The Second Annual Academic Conference on Language, Cognition, and Intelligence Development 2024
- "Examining the impact of intergenerational accommodation on language processing in older adults using eye tracking.", 3rd Annual Symposium for Learning about Alzheimer's disease-related Medical Research at Duke & UNC 2024
- Does elderspeak facilitate comprehension in older listeners? Evidence from eye-tracking., Healthy Aging Symposium 2024
- Adjective Comprehension in aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking., ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2024
- Comprehension of verb tense in aphasia: Evidence from event-related potentials., ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2024
- Event-related Potentials to an Auditory Lexical Decision Task in Agrammatic Aphasia, CAHS Student Research Day 2024
- Event-related potential (ERP) measurement of noun and verb production in aphasia., ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2024
- Source Localization of Event-related Components for Lexical Decision Tasks., CAHS Student Research Day 2024
- Aphasia., Seminar presentation. 2024
- Recent advances in aphasia research., Seminar presentation. 2023
- Comprehension of Verb Tense in People with Agrammatic Aphasia, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention 2023
- Event-related Potentials to an Auditory Lexical Decision Task in Agrammatic Aphasia, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention 2023
- A Novel 3D Visualization for Event-Related Potential Data., Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting 2023
- Aphasia subsequent to stroke in adults with atypical neurocognitive development (Williams syndrome or Autism): Where are the cases?, CAHS Student Research Day 2023
- Setting Up an EEG Laboratory for Language Research., ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2023
- Sentence comprehension and treatment in agrammatic aphasia., [The 18th Conference on Speech Disorders and Dysphagia (The 2nd Conference on Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology in the Assessment and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Disorders.)] 2022
- Thematic Integration during sentence comprehension in agrammatic aphasia: Theory and Measurement with event-related potentials., 7th Second Language Acquisition Forum 2022
- Online comprehension of verbal time reference in primary progressive aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking, 13th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2021
- Adjective use by individuals with agrammatic primary progressive aphasia, 26th Annual Alzheimer's Day 2020
- Verb Processing across primary progressive aphasia variants, Twenty-sixth annual Alzheimer's Day 2020
- Complex questions at the intersection of linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience., International Brain and Syntax Think Tank 2019
- EEG Evidence for Different Syntactic Expectations in Parsing Chinese Subject and Object-relative Clauses., International Brain and Syntax Think Tank 2019
- Perilesional perfusion in chronic stroke-induced aphasia before and after behavioral treatment interventions, 57th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting 2019
- Musical and linguistic syntactic processing in agrammatic aphasia: An ERP study., Science of Aphasia XX 2019
- Treatment-induced changes in the local heterogeneity of neural responses to a sentence comprehension task in individuals with agrammatic aphasia, 3rd annual Chicago Area Sentence Processing and Experimental Research (CASPER) Meeting 2019
- Sentence Processing Impairments in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Preliminary Findings, 25th Annual Alzheimer's Day 2019
- Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: an ALE-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies, 26th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2019
- An eye-movement study of verb-based structural planning, Sentence Processing: Computation, Experiments & Theory meeting 2018
- Verb, thematic mapping, and morphosyntactic processing in Primary Progressive Aphasia, Sentence Processing: Computation, Experiments & Theory meeting 2018
- Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: an ALE-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies, 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting 2018
- Verb-argument integration in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from event-related potentials, 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting 2018
- EEG Evidence for Different Syntactic Expectations in Parsing Chinese Subject and Object-relative Clauses, Tenth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2018
- On-line sentence processing in primary progressive aphasia, 48th annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2018
- How (and when) does sentence comprehension go wrong in agrammatic primary progressive aphasia?, Talks in Linguistics Seminar Series. University of Illinois at Chicago 2018
- An ALE-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of sentence comprehension, Ninth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2017
- Comprehension of sentences with structurally defined gaps in agrammatic primary progressive aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking, Ninth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2017
- Speeded grammatical processing in children with Tourette syndrome, Ninth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2017
- Test-retest reliability of language evoked potentials, Ninth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2017
- Electrophysiological responses to linguistic and non-linguistic tasks in Primary Progressive Aphasia, First Decennial PPA Fest meeting: Celebrating 10 years of progress by the Northwestern PPA Programs 2017
- Phonological Facilitation and Semantic Interference in PPA, First Decennial PPA Fest meeting: Celebrating 10 years of progress by the Northwestern PPA Programs 2017
- The comprehension of sentences with structurally defined gaps in agrammatic primary progressive aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking, Twenty-third annual Alzheimer Day meeting 2017
- What the eyes tell us about sentence processing in PPA, First Decennial PPA Fest meeting: Celebrating 10 years of progress by the Northwestern PPA Programs 2017
- A comprehensive examination of language in Parkinson's disease: Evidence from syntax, morphology, and lexical processing, 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2017
- Speeded phonological processing in children with Tourette syndrome, 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2017
- Electrophysiological signatures of semantic and syntactic processing in Primary Progressive Aphasia: integration and re-analysis processes during auditory sentence comprehension, 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting 2016
- Recovery of sentence production following language treatment in aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking, 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting 2016
- Event-related potentials (ERP) in healthy young and older participants: semantic integration, verb argument structure, and morphosyntactic processing, Eighth annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2016
- Language treatment improves online sentence production processes in aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking, International Workshop on Language Production 2016
- Semantic organization of words and environmental sounds in 20-month olds: An ERP study, XX Biennial International Congress of Infant Studies 2016
- Neural response to spoken words and environmental sounds in toddlers and adults, Boston University Conference on Language Development 39th annual meeting 2014
- The organization of words and environmental sounds in memory, 44th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2014) 2014
- The Impact of Similarity-Based Interference in Processing Wh-Questions in Aphasia, Fifty-second annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia 2014
- The Time-course of Lexical Reactivation of Unaccusative Verbs in Broca's Aphasia, Fifty-second annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia 2014
- Structure-behavior Correspondences for Canonical Sentence Comprehension in Broca's Aphasia, Sixth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2014
- The Ontogeny of Differential Sound Processing: ERP Evidence from Infants and Adults, XIX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies 2014
- The Auditory Comprehension of Unaccusative Verbs in Aphasia, Forty-fourth annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2014
- Seniors' Comprehension of Syntactic Complexity Utilizing the SOAP Battery Across English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Tagalog Speakers, Student Research Symposium, San Diego State University 2014
- Neural Correlates of the Effect of Speech Rate on Lexical Access and Syntactic Dependencies during Sentence Comprehension, Fifth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2013
- Online processing of unaccusative verbs in individuals with aphasia, Fifth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2013
- The auditory comprehension of Who and Which-NP questions in aphasia: Support for the Intervener Account, Fifth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2013
- Sex differences in Farsi past-tense formation in patients with Parkinson's disease, 5th International Conference of Cognitive Science 2013
- The auditory comprehension of Who and Which-NP questions in people with aphasia: Which account do the data support?, Forty-third annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2013
- Associative vs. Repetition Priming in Aphasia, Student Research Symposium, San Diego State University 2013
- Attention and Language in Children with Specific Language Impairment, Student Research Symposium, San Diego State University 2013
- Idiom comprehension in children with autism, 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics 2013
- The auditory comprehension of Who and Which-NP questions: Which account do the data support?, 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics 2013
- What big eyes you have! Using pupillometry to measure online sentence processing in monolinguals and bilinguals, 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics 2013
- Structure-function correspondences in Broca's aphasia: Evidence from MRI and comprehension of verb phrase ellipsis constructions, Forty-second annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2012
- Canonical Processing in Aphasia: A Dissociation Between Real Time and Metalinguistic Performance, Second Annual Southern California Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting 2012
- The Rate-tuning Hypothesis of Auditory Language Comprehension, Second Annual Southern California Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting 2012
- Atypical lexical access during sentence comprehension in agrammatic aphasia, Forty-ninth annual Academy of Aphasia Conference 2011
- A Neuroimaging Investigation of Idiom Comprehension in Auditory Sentences, Second annual Neurobiology of Language Conference 2010
- Functional MRI of a child with Alice in Wonderland syndrome during an episode of micropsia, 7th Annual Residents, Fellows, and Alumni Meeting. UCSD Shiley Eye Center 2010
- A Link Between Grammar and Dyspraxia in Boys with Autism, Eighth International Meeting For Autism Research 2009
- Fast Cognitive Processing in Tourette's Syndrome, Cognition - Brain - Development - Disorders Colloquium 2009
- Children's computation and representation of past tense, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2008
- Grammatical difficulties in autism as revealed by a sentence-picture matching task, Fifteenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2008
- Interactions between language and memory in Tourette's Syndrome: New evidence, Fifteenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2008
- Brain potentials in formal semantics: Licensed versus non-licensed negative polarity items (NPIs), Fourteenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007
- Enhanced Picture Naming in Autism, Fourteenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007
- Speeded processing of grammar and tool knowledge in Tourette's syndrome, Fourteenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007
- Function Words and Logical Semantic Anomaly in the Temporal Dynamics of Language Comprehension: ERP Evidence, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT): "Little Words," 2007
- Rate of speech effects on the processing of overt anaphors in typical and atypical developing language populations, Twentieth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 2007
- Outliers and data analysis in special populations, UCSD and SDSU Joint Doctoral Program Seminar. University of California San Diego 2007
- Morphological Processing In Autism: Evidence From Past-Tense Production, Fifth International Meeting For Autism Research 2006
- A grammatical deficit in schizophrenia: Evidence from morphology, Thirteenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2006
- Morphological Computation in Autism, Second international workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Science: In Pursuit of Language-Brain Interactions: Language Acquisition, Sentence Processing, and Neurolinguistics 2005
- Fast grammatical computation in autism, Twelfth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005
- An Investigation of the role of the declarative and procedural memory systems in language using a dual-task paradigm, Tenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2003
- Event-related potentials of negative polarity items and other linguistic violations, Tenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2003
- Sex differences and the role of estrogen in the neurocognition of language, Tenth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2003
- The Processing of Infinitival Complements: Raising Issues of Competence and Performance, Seminar Talk, University of Maryland 2001
- Verb Frame Frequency as a Factor in the Processing of Infinitival Complements, Department of Linguistics Seminar Talk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2001
- A new method for investigating the real-time composition of complex linguistic forms, Fourteenth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 2001
- Evidence for abstract structure in quantified noun phrases, Fourteenth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 2001
- On the interpretation of Evidence for Psychologically Real Subject Gaps, Fourteenth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 2001
- Serial Effects in Parsing Temporarily Ambiguous Sentences, Fourteenth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 2001
- Interpreting Evidence for Subject Gaps, Seminar at CUNY Graduate Center 2001
- Information Structure in Language Processing: A Study of Topic, Focus, and Pronoun Anaphora, Thirteenth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 2000
- The Structure of Language and its Role in Language Comprehension, Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. 2000
- Conceptual combination during sentence comprehension, Twelfth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 1999
- Plausibility effects following clausally biased verbs: An ERP study, Twelfth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 1999
- Covert Raising Operations in the Processing of Quantified Noun Phrases, LIGN200 Colloquium, University of California San Diego 1998
- ERPs to grammatical and ungrammatical wh-questions in English and German, 9th World Congress of Psychophysiology 1998
- Brain Potentials to English and German Questions, Fifth annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting 1998
- Processing of Grammatical Information in Jabberwocky Sentences: An ERP Study, Tenth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 1997
- The Sentence Memory Task: A Methodological Investigation, Tenth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 1997
- On the Syntactic Status of Passive NP-trace: A Methodological Investigation, Ninth annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 1996
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Service
professional service activities
- ad hoc review Brain Communications 2023