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Overview

Loraine K. Obler is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research spans across the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Physiology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics including Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, Stuttering Research and Treatment, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Language Development and Disorders, and Second Language Acquisition and Learning.

Loraine K. Obler has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including:

  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Aphasiology

Their recent papers include:

  • Demographic Effects on Longitudinal Semantic Processing, Working Memory, and Cognitive Speed (2020) in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Strengthening the semantic verb network in multilingual people with aphasia: within- and cross-language treatment effects (2022) in Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Rehabilitating an attrited language in a bilingual person with aphasia (2022) in Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
  • Measuring treatment outcome in severe Wernicke's aphasia (2020) in Aphasiology
  • Focusing Our Attention on Socially Responsive Professional Education to Serve Ethnogeriatric Populations With Neurogenic Communication Disorders in the United States (2023) in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Frequent collaborators include Aviva Lerman, Mira Goral, Eve Higby, Lisa A. Edmonds, and Jet M. J. Vonk. Collaboration patterns indicate a focus on clinical and cognitive aspects of language disorders and bilingualism.

Best Publications

  • Right hemisphere emotional perception: evidence across multiple channels.

    Joan C. Borod;Barbara A. Cicero;Loraine K. Obler;Joan Welkowitz

  • Agrammatic aphasia : a cross-language narrative sourcebook

    Lise Menn;Loraine K. Obler;Gabriele Miceli;M. O'Connor

  • Empty speech in Alzheimer's disease and fluent aphasia.

    Marjorie Nicholas;Loraine K. Obler;Martin L. Albert;Nancy Helm-Estabrooks

  • The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism

    Martin L. Albert;Loraine K. Obler

  • Lexical retrieval in healthy aging.

    Marjorie Nicholas;Loraine Obler;Martin Albert;Harold Goodglass

  • Right hemisphere specialization for the identification of emotional words and sentences: evidence from stroke patients.

    Joan C. Borod;Fani Andelman;Loraine K. Obler;James R. Tweedy

  • Narrative Strategies of Aphasic and Normal-Speaking Subjects

    Jean Berko Gleason;Harold Goodglass;Loraine Obler;Eugene Green

  • Auditory comprehension and aging: Decline in syntactic processing

    Loraine K. Obler;Deborah Fein;Marjorie Nicholas;Martin L. Albert

  • Change in Object Naming Ability During Adulthood

    Lisa Tabor Connor;Avron Spiro;Loraine K. Obler;Martin L. Albert

  • The exceptional brain: Neuropsychology of talent and special abilities.

    Loraine K. Obler;Deborah Fein

  • Naming ability across the adult life span

    Rhoda Au;Philip Joung;Marjorie Nicholas;Loraine K. Obler

  • Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Aspects of acquisition, maturity, and loss

    Kenneth Hyltenstam;Loraine K. Obler

  • Naming Errors in Healthy Aging and Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

    Nancy L. Bowles;Loraine K. Obler;Loraine K. Obler;Martin L. Albert;Martin L. Albert

  • Semantic Degradation and Lexical Access in Age-Related Naming Failures*

    Barbara A. Barresi;Marjorie Nicholas;Lisa Tabor Connor;Loraine K. Obler

  • Exceptional language and linguistics

    Loraine K. Obler;Lise Menn

  • Relationships among facial, prosodic, and lexical channels of emotional perceptual processing

    Joan C. Borod;Joan C. Borod;Lawrence H. Pick;Susan Hall;Martin Sliwinski

  • Aphasia type and aging.

    Loraine K. Obler;Martin L. Albert;Harold Goodglass;D.Frank Benson

  • Speech monitoring skills in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and normal aging.

    Patrick McNamara;Patrick McNamara;Loraine K. Obler;Loraine K. Obler;Rhoda Au;Rhoda Au;Raymon Durso;Raymon Durso

  • Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: methodological issues.

    Loraine K. Obler;Robert J. Zatorre;Linda Galloway;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Language and the brain

    Loraine K. Obler;Kris GJerlow

  • The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism. Perspectives in Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics.

    Martin L. Albert;Loraine K. Obler

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin L. Albert
Martin L. Albert Boston University
Avron Spiro
Avron Spiro Boston University
Joan C. Borod
Joan C. Borod City University of New York
Lisa Tabor Connor
Lisa Tabor Connor Washington University in St. Louis
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University
Joan Welkowitz
Joan Welkowitz New York University
Martin J. Sliwinski
Martin J. Sliwinski Pennsylvania State University
Harold Goodglass
Harold Goodglass Boston University
David M. Schnyer
David M. Schnyer The University of Texas at Austin
Deborah Fein
Deborah Fein University of Connecticut

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