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Stephen M. Wilson is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a distinct focus on cognitive neuroscience. Subfields of particular interest include developmental and educational psychology, rehabilitation, epidemiology, and artificial intelligence.

Their main topics of study center around neurobiology of language and bilingualism, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, reading and literacy development, acute ischemic stroke management, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, language development and disorders, and biblical studies and interpretation.

Wilson's recent scholarly articles include the following:

  • Recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke, 2022, Brain
  • Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Functional Imaging Studies of Reorganization of Language Processing, 2020, Neurobiology of Language

Wilson frequently publishes alongside several co-authors, notably:

  • Deborah F. Levy
  • Sarah M. Schneck
  • Marianne Casilio
  • Michael de Riesthal
  • Anna Kasdan

The scientist's work is often featured in several academic venues. These include:

  • Neurobiology of Language
  • Cortex
  • Brain
  • Journal of neurosurgery
  • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups

Best Publications

  • Voxel-based lesion–symptom mapping

    Elizabeth Bates;Stephen M. Wilson;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Frederic Dick

  • Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production.

    Stephen M Wilson;Ayşe Pinar Saygin;Martin I Sereno;Marco Iacoboni

  • Congruent embodied representations for visually presented actions and linguistic phrases describing actions

    Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Stephen M. Wilson;Giacomo Rizzolatti;Marco Iacoboni

  • Connected speech production in three variants of primary progressive aphasia.

    Stephen M. Wilson;Maya L. Henry;Max Besbris;Jennifer M. Ogar

  • Point-Light Biological Motion Perception Activates Human Premotor Cortex

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Stephen M. Wilson;Donald J. Hagler;Elizabeth Bates

  • The Essential Role of Premotor Cortex in Speech Perception

    Ingo G. Meister;Stephen M. Wilson;Choi Deblieck;Allan D. Wu

  • Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration

    Suzee E. Lee;Gil D. Rabinovici;Mary Catherine Mayo;Stephen M. Wilson;Stephen M. Wilson

  • Typical and atypical pathology in primary progressive aphasia variants.

    Edoardo G. Spinelli;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Zachary A. Miller;Miguel A Santos-Santos

  • White matter damage in primary progressive aphasias: a diffusion tensor tractography study

    Sebastiano Galantucci;Maria Carmela Tartaglia;Stephen M. Wilson;Stephen M. Wilson;Maya L. Henry

  • Beyond Superior Temporal Cortex: Intersubject Correlations in Narrative Speech Comprehension

    Stephen M. Wilson;Istvan Molnar-Szakacs;Marco Iacoboni

  • Syntactic processing depends on dorsal language tracts

    Stephen M. Wilson;Sebastiano Galantucci;Maria Carmela Tartaglia;Kindle Rising

  • Neural responses to non-native phonemes varying in producibility: Evidence for the sensorimotor nature of speech perception

    Stephen M. Wilson;Marco Iacoboni

  • Language networks in semantic dementia

    Federica Agosta;Roland G. Henry;Raffaella Migliaccio;Raffaella Migliaccio;John Neuhaus

  • The salience network causally influences default mode network activity during moral reasoning

    Winston Chiong;Winston Chiong;Stephen M. Wilson;Mark D’Esposito;Andrew S. Kayser;Andrew S. Kayser

  • Detecting Sarcasm from Paralinguistic Cues: Anatomic and Cognitive Correlates in Neurodegenerative Disease

    Katherine P. Rankin;Andrea Salazar;Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini;Marc Sollberger

  • Left hemisphere motor facilitation in response to manual action sounds.

    Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Marco Iacoboni;Eran Zaidel;Stephen Wilson

  • Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds Evidence from aphasia

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Frederic Dick;Stephen W. Wilson;Nina F. Dronkers

  • Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman

    Stephen Wilson

  • Neural Correlates of Syntactic Processing in the Nonfluent Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Stephen M. Wilson;Nina F. Dronkers;Nina F. Dronkers;Jennifer M. Ogar;Jung Jang

  • Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates.

    Ayşe Pınar Saygın;Stephen M. Wilson;Nina F. Dronkers;Elizabeth Bates

  • Convergence of spoken and written language processing in the superior temporal sulcus

    Stephen M. Wilson;Alexa Bautista;Angelica McCarron

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini University of California, San Francisco
Maya L. Henry
Maya L. Henry The University of Texas at Austin
Nina F. Dronkers
Nina F. Dronkers University of California, Davis
Jennifer M. Ogar
Jennifer M. Ogar University of California, San Francisco
Pélagie M. Beeson
Pélagie M. Beeson University of Arizona
Marco Iacoboni
Marco Iacoboni University of California, Los Angeles
Ayse Pinar Saygin
Ayse Pinar Saygin University of California, San Diego
Frederic Dick
Frederic Dick Birkbeck, University of London
Maria Luisa Mandelli
Maria Luisa Mandelli University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego

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