Biography
Mike Dickey’s research and teaching focus on adult language processing, adult language impairments (especially post-stroke aphasia) and the treatment and rehabilitation of adult language impairments. He holds appointments in the Communication Science and Disorders and Psychology Departments and at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. He also directs the Language and Brain Laboratory at SHRS. He loves language, sentences, meaning and memory, and using science to improve the lives of people with aphasia.
Education
- Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Spanish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Aphasia and Neurolinguistics, Northwestern University
Research Interests
- Aphasia
- Aphasia Treatment
- Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
Publications
- Dickey MW, Choy JJ, Thompson CK. Real-time comprehension of wh- movement in aphasia: evidence from eyetracking while listening. Brain Lang. 2007 Jan;100(1):1-22.
- Dickey MW, Warren T. The influence of event-related knowledge on verb-argument processing in aphasia. Neuropsychologia. 2015 Jan;67:63-81.
- Gravier ML, Dickey MW, Hula WD, Evans WS, Owens RL, Winans-Mitrik RL, Doyle PJ. What Matters in Semantic Feature Analysis: Practice-Related Predictors of Treatment Response in Aphasia. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2018 Mar 1;27(1S):438-453. “
Professional Organization Appointments
- Board of Governors, Academy of Aphasia
- Steering Committee, Clinical Aphasiology Conference
- Advisory Committee, Lessons for Success, American Speech Language and Hearing Foundation
