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
- 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. 1-15. 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
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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