Matthew Walenski, PhD
Associate Professor
walenskim21@ecu.edu
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Allied Health Sciences
East Carolina University
3310Y Health Sciences Building
Greenville, NC 27834
Dr. Matthew Walenski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at East Carolina University. He is the director of the Language, Memory, and Brain laboratory. His research examines language and its relation to memory systems and their roots in the brain, with a focus on the comprehension and production of words and sentences. He favors the use of temporally sensitive experimental methods to probe language processing as it unfolds in real time. He studies these issues in healthy adults and in adults with acquired neurogenic disorders.
Education
- PhD in Cognitive Science and Linguistics, University of California San Diego (San Diego, CA).
- MA in Linguistics, University of California San Diego (San Diego, CA).
- BA in Linguistics, Columbia University (NY, NY).
Areas of Interest
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
- Language and Memory
- Adult-onset language disorders
- Eyetracking
- Acquired Neurogenic disorders
- Sentence Comprehension and Production
- EEG
- Meta-analysis and systematic review
Teaching Areas
- Brain, Language, and Aphasia (CSDI 6110)