Lauren Cloutman

Biography

I completed my PhD in 2005 in the field of cognitive neuropsychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where I also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology. My doctoral thesis examined the effects of semantic context on word retrieval performance in aphasia. Following my PhD, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria for Dr. Carolyn Wilshire, exploring the underlying deficits responsible for non-fluent aphasia. In 2007, I took up a 2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with Dr. Argye Hillis in the Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. My research with Dr. Hillis focused around the exploration of a number of acquired language deficits in acute stroke including single word production, sentence comprehension, dyslexia, dysgraphia, and acute recovery of verbal production deficits following stroke.

Qualifications

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand:
BSc Hons (2000)
PhD in Psychology (2005)
Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology (Pass with Distinction; 2005).