![]() ![]() ![]() She has been elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Linguistic Society of America, and the American Psychological Society. She has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institutes of Health, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, an Honorary Doctorate as well as the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, both from Brown University, and the Silver Medal in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America. She has served on a number of scientific review panels and boards for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the McDonnell Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. Blumstein’s research has focused on how the continuous acoustic signal is transformed by perceptual and neural mechanisms into the sounds of language, how speech sounds map on to the lexicon (mental dictionary), and how the mental dictionary is organized for the purposes of language comprehension and production. Her research is concerned with delineating the neural basis of language and the processes and mechanisms involved in speaking and understanding in aphasia and in neurotypical individuals. ![]() She received a BA from the University of Rochester in 1965 and a PhD from Harvard University in 1970, both in linguistics. Mead Professor Emerita of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Labeling Theory on Health and Illness Labeling theory is closely related to social. Structural functionalism reached the peak of its influence in the 1940s and 1950s, and by the 1960s was in rapid decline, replaced by conflict-oriented approaches in Europe and more recently by structuralism. Brain injury introduces ‘noise’ into the system affecting its efficiency but not its organizational principles – systematic patterns of errors occur, processing is slowed, and access to information is affected. This is the role of the medical profession. Evidence suggests that speech, lexical, and meaning components are neurally distributed networks with some elements of specialization that operate on commonĬomputational principles including graded activation, competition, and selection. Doehring Memorial Lectureīack to the Future: A Reconsideration of Language Deficits in Aphasia This talk will reconsider the last 50+ years of research in aphasia with the goal of providing a unified theory of language-brain relations that intersects the functional architecture of language (the theory of language) with the neural architecture (brain structures) involved in language processing. For most of the twentieth century the structural functional perspective (also called functionalism) was the dominant sociological approach in the US and Western Europe. Criticism: Conflict theories primary criticism is its emphasis on a two-group system, which is a system that is continually losing relevance. McGill’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders Structural functional theory holds that society is best understood as a complex system with various interdependent parts that work together to increase stability. ![]()
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