Jennifer Mack

Jennifer Mack

Assistant Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Adult language disorders, neural basis of language, sentence comprehension and production, eye-tracking, MRI

Location

Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Building

358 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

Room #316

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My lab’s goal is to enhance communication partners’ comprehension of people with aphasia in order to improve real-life communication experiences. We do this by carefully investigating the processes that take place when communication partners listen to speakers with aphasia, and testing how to enhance these processes. We also investigate how people with aphasia can maximize the benefits of self-advocacy tools such as aphasia identification (ID) cards and spoken scripts in interactions with unfamiliar communication partners.  

 

Research Lab Website

Inclusive Research on Language Processes (IRL) Lab

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellowships, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Northwestern University
  • PhD, Yale University, 2010
  • MA, Yale University, 2006
  • BA, Rice University, 2004

Key Publications

Mack, J. E., Grossman, M., Ward, C. B., Bondar, M., & Ciulla, A. E. (2024) Listening to self-advocacy scripts produced by speakers with Broca’s aphasia and apraxia of speech: Thoughts and emotions reported by unfamiliar communication partners. Aphasiology, 1–26.

Ward, C. B. & Mack, J. E. (2022). The effect of an aphasia ID card on the processing of language produced by a speaker with nonfluent aphasia. Journal of Communication Disorders, 100, 106268.

Mack, J. E., Ward, C., & Stratford, S. (2021). Impact of the fMRI environment on eye-tracking measures in a linguistic prediction task. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 36 (6), 675-693.

Mack, J. E., Barbieri, E., Weintraub, S., Mesulam, M.-M., & Thompson, C. K. (2021). Quantifying grammatical impairments in primary progressive aphasia: Structured language tests and narrative language production. Neuropsychologia, 151, 107713.

Mack, J.E., Mesulam, M. M., Rogalski, E. J., & Thompson, C. K. (2019). Verb-argument integration in primary progressive aphasia: Real-time argument access and selection. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107192.

Mack, J. E., Nerantzini, M., & Thompson, C. K. (2017). Recovery of sentence production processes following language treatment in aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, Article 101. 

Mack, J. E. & Thompson, C. K. (2017). Recovery of online sentence processing in aphasia: Eye movement changes resulting from Treatment of Underlying Forms. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 1299-1315.