Communication Sciences and Disorders

Dirk B. den Ouden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Neurolinguistics Laboratory
Neurolinguistics Lab

University of South Carolina
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Discovery I, 202C
915 Greene Street
Columbia, SC 29208

Phone: 803-777-9241
Fax: 803-777-4750
E-mail: denouden@sc.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

neural correlates of language representation and use
aphasia, stroke
phonology, apraxia of speech
syntax, verbs, sentence production/processing
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalograhy (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

RESEARCH

From a background in formal phonology and syntax, I investigate how the brain supports language functions in healthy and aphasic speakers. One goal of my research is to improve treatment outcomes through a neurophysiological approach to stroke-induced deficits (cortical stimulation), in combination with behavioral language training. I maintain an interest in linguistic theory, as well as in neural correlates of lexical representation/access and sentence production. Along the way, I have used various experimental methods, such as fMRI, EEG and reaction time tasks.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Den Ouden, D.B., Saur, D., Mader, W., Schelter, B., Lukic, S., Wali, E., Timmer, J. & Thompson, C.K. (2011) Network modulation during complex syntactic processing. Neuroimage. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.057

Den Ouden, D.B. (2011) Phonological Disorders. In: B. Botma, N.C. Kula & K. Nasukawa (Eds.) Continuum Companion to Phonology (Continuum), pp. 320-340.

Thompson, C.K., Den Ouden, D.B., Bonakdarpour, B., Garibaldi, K & Parrish, T.B. (2010) Neural plasticity and treatment-induced recovery of sentence processing in agrammatism. Neuropsychologia, 48, 11, 3211-3227.

Den Ouden, D.B. & Bastiaanse, R. (2009) The electrophysiological manifestation of Dutch Verb Second violations. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 38, 3, 201-219.

Den Ouden, D.B., Fix, S., Parrish, T.B. & Thompson, C.K. (2009) Argument structure effects in action verb naming in static and dynamic conditions. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 2, 196-215.

Thompson, C.K. & Den Ouden, D.B. (2008) Neuroimaging and Recovery of Language in Aphasia. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 8, 6, 475-83.

Den Ouden, D.B., Hoogduin, H., Stowe, L.A. & Bastiaanse, R. (2008) Neural correlates of Dutch Verb Second in speech production. Brain & Language, 104, 122-131.

Den Ouden, D.B. & Bastiaanse, R. (2005) Phonological encoding and conduction aphasia. In: R.J. Hartsuiker, R. Bastiaanse, A. Postma &.N.K. Wijnen (Eds.) Phonological Encoding and Monitoring in Normal and Pathological Speech (Psychology Press), pp. 86-101.

Den Ouden, D.B. (2004) Multi-level OT: An argument from speech pathology. In: L. Cornips & J. Doetjes (Eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, 21 (John Benjamins), pp. 146-157.

Den Ouden, D.B. & Bastiaanse, R. (2003) Syllable structure at different levels in the speech production process: Evidence from Aphasia. In: J. van de Weijer, V. J. van Heuven & H. van der Hulst (Eds.) The Phonological Spectrum. Vol. II: Suprasegmental Structure. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 234 (John Benjamins), pp. 81-107.

Den Ouden, D.B. (2002) Phonology in Aphasia: Syllables and segments in level-specific deficits. Doctoral Dissertation, GRODIL 39, University of Groningen (http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/238793923).

Den Ouden, D.B. (2002) Segmental vs positional markedness in syllables: Deletion errors in the paraphasias of fluent and non-fluent aphasics. In: E. Fava (Ed.) Clinical Linguistics: Theory and Applications in Speech Pathology and Therapy. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 227 (John Benjamins), pp. 23-45.

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