Positions

Associate Dean, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences

Contact Info

wrighth@ecu.edu

(252)744-6088

Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Heather Wright

member of

selected publications

article
- Measuring Speech Accommodation for Older Adults: A Scoping Review
  . Journal of Language and Aging Research. 3:5-47. 2025
- Tamoxifen Effects on Cognition and Language in Women with Breast Cancer. Seminars in Speech and Language. 44:189-202. 2023
- Light verb production in healthy ageing and dementia. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 2022
- Quality of Measurement in Core Lexicon Measures. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 65:2919-2930. 2022
- Effects of tamoxifen on cognition and language in women with breast cancer: A systematic search and a scoping review. Psycho-oncology. 2021
- Eye Tracking Measures for Studying Language Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia: A Systematic Search and Scoping Review. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 64:1008-1022. 2021
- Marginal assessment of the cost and benefits of aphasia treatment: Evidence from community-based telerehabilitation treatment for aphasia. Journal of telemedicine and telecare. 1357633-20982773. 2021
- A Compendium of Core Lexicon Checklists. Seminars in Speech and Language. 41:45-60. 2020
- A Tutorial on Core Lexicon: Development, Use, and Application. Seminars in Speech and Language. 41:20-31. 2020
- Development of a measure of function word use in narrative discourse: core lexicon analysis in aphasia. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 2020
- Improving Discourse following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Tale of Two Treatments. Seminars in Speech and Language. 41:365-382. 2020
- Rapid automatized naming (RAN): effects of aging on a predictor of reading skill. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition. 1-13. 2020
- Concurrent Validity and Reliability of the Core Lexicon Measure as a Measure of Word Retrieval Ability in Aphasia Narratives. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 1-10. 2019
- Gender differences in aphasia outcomes: evidence from the AphasiaBank. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 54:806-813. 2019
- Measuring word retrieval in narrative discourse: core lexicon in aphasia. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 54:62-78. 2019
- Modeling confrontation naming and discourse informativeness using structural equation modeling. Aphasiology. 33:544-560. 2019
- Discourse measurement in aphasia research. Aphasiology. 32:472-474. 2018
- Discourse-based treatment in mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of Communication Disorders. 76:47-59. 2018
- Introducing the New Fifth Issue of Seminars. Seminars in Speech and Language. 39:397-398. 2018
- Working memory and aphasia: Peeling the onion. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 48:117-132. 2018
- Next Generation SSL. Seminars in Speech and Language. 38:1-2. 2017
- Semantic Knowledge Use in Discourse: Influence of Age. Discourse processes. 54:670-681. 2017
- Working Memory in Aphasia: Considering Discourse Processing and Treatment Implications. Seminars in Speech and Language. 38:40-51. 2017
- Coherence, Cognition, and Psychosocial Processes in the Older Adult. Cognitive Aging Conference. 2016
- Global coherence during discourse production in adults: a review of the literature. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 51:359-67. 2016
- Lexical Ambiguity Resolution Using Discourse Contexts in Persons With and Without Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 25. 2016
- Lexical access in anomic aphasia: The effects of connection strength in discourse.. Clinical Aphasiology Conference. 2016
- Microlinguistic processes that contribute to the ability to relay main events: influence of age. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition. 23:445-63. 2016
- Semantic Knowledge Use in Discourse Produced by Individuals with Anomic Aphasia. Aphasiology. 30:1012-1025. 2016
- Verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs: The core lexicon in aphasia narratives. Clinical Aphasiology Conference. 2016
- Psychometric Evaluation of Lexical Diversity Indices: Assessing Length Effects. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 58:840-52. 2015
- Global coherence in younger and older adults: Influence of cognitive processes and discourse type. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition. 21:174-96. 2014
- Quantifying the effort individuals with aphasia invest in working memory tasks through heart rate variability. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 23. 2014
- Does length matter? Using lexical diversity to quantify dynamics of discourse. academy of aphasia. 2013
- Effort invested in cognitive tasks by adults with aphasia: A pilot study. Clinical Aphasiology Conference. 2013
- Evaluating measures of global coherence ability in stories in adults. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 48:249-56. 2013
- Measuring lexical diversity in narrative discourse of people with aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 22. 2013
- Attention and Off-Topic Speech in the Recounts of Middle-Age and Elderly Adults: A Pilot Investigation. Contemporary issues in communication science and disorders : CICSD. 39:105-112. 2012
- Conceptualizing and Measuring Working Memory and its Relationship to Aphasia. Aphasiology. 26:258-278. 2012
- Considering a multi-level approach to understanding maintenance of global coherence in adults with aphasia. Aphasiology. 26:656-672. 2012
- Lexical diversity for adults with and without aphasia across discourse elicitation tasks. Aphasiology. 25:1414-1430. 2011
- Productive vocabulary across discourse types. Aphasiology. 25:1261-1278. 2011
- Story processing ability in cognitively healthy younger and older adults. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 54:900-17. 2011
- Using semantic feature analysis to improve contextual discourse in adults with aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 17:161-72. 2008
- Developing a clinician-friendly aphasia test. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 16:295-315. 2007
- Processing distinct linguistic information types in working memory in aphasia. Aphasiology. 21:802-813. 2007
- CIU and main event analyses of the structured discourse of older and younger adults. Journal of Communication Disorders. 38:431-44. 2005
- Working memory in aphasia: theory, measures, and clinical implications. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 14:107-18. 2005
- Inference revision processing in adults with and without aphasia. Brain and Language. 89:450-63. 2004
- Age-related differences in inference revision processing. Brain and Language. 80:226-39. 2002
review
- Effects of Tamoxifen on Cognition and Language in Women with Breast Cancer: A Systematic Search and a Scoping Review 2021

presentations

presentation

principal investigator on

Tamoxifen Effects for Cognition and Language in Breast Cancer awarded by UNCCH - Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) 2019 - 2020
Reading: effects of aging on the interplay of knowledge and processing awarded by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) 2014 - 2017
Discourse Processing in Healthy Aging awarded by NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) 2013
Discourse and Cognitive Database Across the Lifespan awarded by GOV-National Institute on Aging (NIA) 2012 - 2013
Discourse Processing in Healthy Aging awarded by GOV-National Institute on Aging (NIA) 2012

co-principal investigator on

The Effects of Lab Instruction on the Knowledge and Self-Perceptions of Anatomy & Physiology Skill in juniors in the Communication Sciences & Disorders Major. awarded by Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) 2015

professional service activities

Seminars in Speech and Language 2015 - 2024
American Journal of Speech Language Pathology 2010 - 2013
Aphasiology 2012
Steering Committee, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2012

education and training

B.A. in Hearing & Speech Science, University of Maryland
M.A. in Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Georgia
Ph.D. in Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Georgia

awards and honors

Fellow, conferred by American Speech Language Hearing Association, 2015

preferred title

Professor and Associate Dean for Research

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