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Overview

Lyndsey Nickels is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research portfolio encompasses a significant body of work focused on neuroscience and psychology, particularly emphasizing cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. Their contributions span across experimental and cognitive psychology, rehabilitation, and language and linguistics.

The main topics addressed in Nickels' research include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Nickels has published extensively in a variety of academic journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Aphasiology
  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias®
  • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
  • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Significant recent papers include:

  • "Single case studies are a powerful tool for developing, testing and extending theories" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Results of the COMPARE trial of Constraint-induced or Multimodality Aphasia Therapy compared with usual care in chronic post-stroke aphasia" (2022), published in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • "Speech and language therapy in primary progressive aphasia: a critical review of current practice" (2021), published in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
  • "Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia: Practical Recommendations for Treatment from 20 Years of Behavioural Research" (2021), published in Brain Sciences
  • "Primary Progressive Aphasia Education and Support Groups: A Clinical Evaluation" (2020), published in American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias®

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Solène Hameau
  • David A. Copland
  • Karen Croot
  • Marcus Meinzer
  • Cathleen Taylor-Rubin

Best Publications

  • The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement†

    Robyn L. Tate;Michael Perdices;Ulrike Rosenkoetter;William Shadish

  • Therapy for naming disorders: Revisiting, revising, and reviewing

    Lyndsey Nickels

  • Cumulative semantic inhibition in picture naming: experimental and computational studies

    David Howard;Lyndsey Nickels;Max Coltheart;Jennifer Cole-Virtue

  • Aphasic naming: What matters?

    Lyndsey Nickels;David Howard

  • Fell primes fall, but does bell prime ball? Masked priming with irregularly-inflected primes

    Davide Crepaldi;Kathleen Rastle;Max Coltheart;Lyndsey Nickels

  • The autocue? Self-generated phonemic cues in the treatment of a disorder of reading and naming

    L. Nickels

  • Spoken Word Production and Its Breakdown In Aphasia

    Lyndsey Nickels

  • A frequent occurrence? factors affecting the production of semantic errors in aphasic naming

    Lyndsey Nickels;David Howard

  • Therapy for naming disorders (Part I): Principles, puzzles and progress

    Lyndsey Nickels;Wendy Best

  • Therapy for naming disorders (Part II): Specifics, surprises and suggestions

    Lyndsey Nickels;Wendy Best

  • Phonological Errors in Aphasic Naming: Comprehension, Monitoring and Lexicality

    Lyndsey A. Nickels;David Howard

  • Improving word finding: Practice makes (closer to) perfect?

    Lyndsey Nickels

  • Dissociating effects of number of phonemes, number of syllables, and syllabic complexity on word production in aphasia: It's the number of phonemes that counts

    Lyndsey Nickels;David Howard

  • Impairment‐ and activity/participation‐directed interventions in progressive language impairment: Clinical and theoretical issues

    Karen Croot;Lyndsey Nickels;Felicity Laurence;Margaret Manning

  • Replicating therapy for mapping deficits in agrammatism: Remapping the deficit?

    Sally Byng;Sally Byng;Sally Byng;Lyndsey Nickels;Lyndsey Nickels;Lyndsey Nickels;Maria Black

  • Optimising the design of intervention studies: critiques and ways forward

    David Howard;Wendy Best;Lyndsey Nickels

  • Context effects on orthographic learning of regular and irregular words.

    Hua Chen Wang;Anne Castles;Lyndsey Nickels;Kate Nation

  • Getting it right? Using aphasic naming errors to evaluate theoretical models of spoken word recognition

    Lyndsey Nickels

  • Effective intervention for expressive grammar in children with specific language impairment

    Karen M. Smith-Lock;Suze Leitao;Lara Lambert;Lyndsey Nickels

  • Separating input and output phonology: semantic, phonological, and orthographic effects in short-term memory impairment.

    David Howard;Lyndsey Nickels

Frequent Co-Authors

Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
David Howard
David Howard Newcastle University
Leanne Togher
Leanne Togher University of Sydney
Miranda Rose
Miranda Rose La Trobe University
Anne Castles
Anne Castles Macquarie University
Genevieve McArthur
Genevieve McArthur Macquarie University
Robyn L. Tate
Robyn L. Tate University of Sydney
Roelien Bastiaanse
Roelien Bastiaanse University of Groningen
David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University
David L. Gast
David L. Gast University of Georgia

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