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Citations
5091
World Ranking
6277
National Ranking
3001

Overview

Lewis P. Shapiro is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

The primary topics of Shapiro's research include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Shapiro's publication record illustrates a focus on language processing and cognitive function. Their recent work includes the paper titled Using lexical semantic cues to mitigate interference effects during real-time sentence processing in aphasia, published in 2023 in the Journal of Neurolinguistics.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Niloofar Akhavan
  • Henrike K. Blumenfeld
  • Tracy Love

The Journal of Neurolinguistics serves as a notable publication venue for their research contributions.

In terms of academic focus, Shapiro maintains a strong interdisciplinary approach by integrating aspects of:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study emphasize:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Best Publications

  • The role of syntactic complexity in treatment of sentence deficits in agrammatic aphasia: the complexity account of treatment efficacy (CATE).

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Swathi Kiran;Jana Sobecks

  • Agrammatic and non-brain-damaged subjects' verb and verb argument structure production

    C. K. Thompson;K. L. Lange;S. L. Schneider;L. P. Shapiro

  • Sentence processing and the mental representation of verbs.

    Lewis P. Shapiro;Edgar Zurif;Jane Grimshaw

  • Verb processing during sentence comprehension in aphasia.

    Lewis P. Shapiro;Lewis P. Shapiro;Beth A. Levine

  • Verb-Argument Structure Processing in Complex Sentences in Broca′s and Wernicke′s Aphasia

    L.P. Shapiro;B. Gordon;N. Hack;J. Killackey

  • Treating agrammatic aphasia within a linguistic framework: Treatment of Underlying Forms

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro

  • Complexity in Treatment of Syntactic Deficits

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro

  • Training and Generalized Production of wh- and NP-Movement Structures in Agrammatic Aphasia

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Kirrie J. Ballard;Beverly J. Jacobs

  • Verb processing during sentence comprehension: Contextual impenetrability

    Lewis P. Shapiro;Edgar B. Zurif;Jane Grimshaw

  • Training Wh-Question Production in Agrammatic Aphasia: Analysis of Argument and Adjunct Movement

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Mary E. Tait;Beverly J. Jacobs

  • Language and the brain : representation and processing

    Yosef Grodzinsky;Lewis P. Shapiro;David Swinney

  • Treatment of sentence production deficits in aphasia: A linguistic-specific approach to wh-interrogative training and generalization

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Michele M. Roberts

  • Agrammatic comprehension of simple active sentences with moved constituents: Hebrew OSV and OVS structures.

    Naama Friedmann;Lewis P. Shapiro

  • Analysis of Verbs and Verb-Argument Structure: A Method for Quantification of Aphasic Language Production

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Ligang Li;Lee Schendel

  • The Leaf Fell (the Leaf): The Online Processing of Unaccusatives

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  • The role of syntactic complexity in training wh- movement structures in agrammatic aphasia: Optimal order for promoting generalization

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Kirrie J. Ballard;Lewis P. Shapiro

  • Treatment of sound errors in aphasia and apraxia of speech: Effects of phonological complexity

    E. Maas;J. Barlow;D. Robin;L. Shapiro

  • “How to milk a coat:” The effects of semantic and acoustic information on phoneme categorization

    Susan Borsky;Betty Tuller;Lewis P. Shapiro

  • Real-time examinations of lexical processing in aphasics.

    Penny Prather;Lewis Shapiro;Edgar Zurif;Edgar Zurif;David Swinney

  • Preferences for a Verb′s Complements and Their Use in Sentence Processing

    Lewis P. Shapiro;H.Nicholas Nagel;Beth A. Levine

  • Processing distinct linguistic information types in working memory in aphasia

    Heather Harris Wright;Ryan A. Downey;Michelle Gravier;Tracy Love

  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY

    Dieuwke de Goede;Femke Wester;Dirk-Bart den Ouden;Roelien Bastiaanse

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia K. Thompson
Cynthia K. Thompson Northwestern University
Edgar Zurif
Edgar Zurif Brandeis University
David Swinney
David Swinney University of California, San Diego
Yosef Grodzinsky
Yosef Grodzinsky Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Naama Friedmann
Naama Friedmann Tel Aviv University
Roelien Bastiaanse
Roelien Bastiaanse University of Groningen
Donald A. Robin
Donald A. Robin University of New Hampshire
Kirrie J. Ballard
Kirrie J. Ballard University of Sydney
Susan Carey
Susan Carey Harvard University
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich

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