Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neuroscience
 

 

 

 

Brenda  Rapp, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Cognitive Sciences

Telephone Number:   (410) 516-5248

Fax Number:   (410) 516-8020

Johns Hopkins University

Dept. of Cognitive Sciences

3400 N. Charles St.

Baltimore, MD 21218

Room: 135 Krieger Hall

rapp@cogsci.jhu.edu

 

Cognitive Neuropsychology: Cognitive models of reading and spelling, disorders of written language

     My primary research interest lies in understanding the cognitive processes, mental representations and neural substrates that allow us to produce and understand written language. The fact that written language expertise is a highly sophisticated, learned skill for which there is, presumably, no specialized genetic basis raises a number of interesting questions regarding the cognitive and neural relationships between written language and related skills that do have a long evolutionary history: spoken language, object recognition and spatial representation and processing. Research methods include: case studies of adults with acquired neurological damage; the study of individuals with developmental deficits affecting their ability to acquire spoken languge, written langauge or visual/spatial skills; cognitive psychological experiments with neurologically intact adults; and fMRI investigations of both intact and neurologically injured adults. Secondary areas of research include: somatosensory plasticity, cross-modal attention and spoken language production.



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