Matthew started following the work of Kevin Niall Dunbar, University of Maryland, Human Development.
Matthew started following the work of Tanya Denmark, University College London, Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre.
Matthew started following the work of Sherman Wilcox, The University of New Mexico, Linguistics.
Matthew is figuring out how a proposal for research on deafness can be successfully directed away from NIDCD ... I'm too 'experienced' for an R03 at NIDCD =(
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Member, Speech and Hearing Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Human Perception and Performance
Assistant Professor
College of Applied Health Sciences
About
My research focuses upon the effects of altered sensory experience on the development of visual cognition skills. In particular, I ask how the absence of a sensory modality (as in deafness) affects the remaining senses and impacts upon cognitive processes. In the visual domain, by comparing control groups of children and adults with those who were deafened from birth, I have been characterizing the normal path of visual cognitive development and trying to understand which parts of that development are plastic and susceptible to modification as a result of experience. In addition to studying deaf populations, I have also studied the impact of enhanced visuo-motor experience on visual and attentional performance. Children and adults who play action video games serve as tools that allowed me to assess the impact of a visually complex and cognitively demanding experience.
Contact Information
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| Address: | 901 S. Sixth Street, MC-482 |
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217-244-2546 |
| IM: | skype: englishmatt |
