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Gwenda Schmidt PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007 - 2009
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Department of Neurology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Supervisors: Dr. Anjan Chatterjee/Dr. Sharon Thomson-Schill
Conducting research on the neural correlates of figurative language using imaging and patient methods.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship 2006 - 2007
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Supervisors: Dr. Timothy Roberts/Dr. Anjan Chatterjee
Conducting research on language processing in autism using magnetoencephalography.
- PhD in Psychology 2006
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Dissertation title: Extending local-global processing to the semantic domain: The role of stimulus context.
Advisor: Dr. Carol A. Seger
Specialization: Cognitive Neuroscience
- MS in Psychology 2003
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Thesis title: Metaphor processing as an indicator of coarse semantic processing in the right hemisphere.
Advisor: Dr. Carol A. Seger
Specialization: Cognitive Psychology
- Honors BA in Linguistics 1991
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Graduated Cum Laude
Research Interests
- Semantic processing
- Neural correlates of language processing
- Role of the right hemisphere in language processing
- Figurative language processing
- Language and figurative language deficits in autism
- Schmidt-eeg-lab.htm
Contact Information
Dr. Gwenda Schmidt
Hope College Psychology Department
Schaap Science Center 1159
35 East 12th Street
Holland, MI 49422-9000
email: schmidtg@hope.edu
phone: 616-395-7723
fax: 616-395-7163
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