Associate Professor Stephen Wilson
Associate Professor

Stephen Wilson

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Background

I am a cognitive neuroscientist with a research focus on the neural basis of language. My research is focused on three related questions:

  1. How is language processed in the brain?
  2. How does brain damage affect language processing in individuals with aphasia, i.e. acquired language disorders?
  3. What brain mechanisms support the recovery of language processing in people with aphasia who improve over time?

To address these questions, my lab studies individuals with aphasia, as well as healthy participants with normal language, using a range of state-of-the-art functional and structural neuroimaging techniques. We combine our multimodal imaging approach with comprehensive language assessments designed to quantify deficits in different components of the language processing system, such as syntactic structure, word meanings, and the selection and assembly of speech sounds.

Language Neuroscience Laboratory

Availability

Associate Professor Stephen Wilson is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander linguistics and languages Allied health and rehabilitation science Biological psychology Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Cognitive and computational psychology Cognitive neuroscience Health Sciences Indigenous Studies Neurology and neuromuscular diseases Neurosciences Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension) Psychology Speech pathology

Research interests

  • Aphasia

  • Language and the brain

  • Cognitive neuroscience

Search Professor Stephen Wilson’s works on UQ eSpace

95 works between 1998 and 2025
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2025

Journal Article

A practical guide to translating scientific publications into aphasia-friendly summaries

Kasdan, Anna V., Levy, Deborah F., Pedisich, Isaac, Wilson, Stephen M. and Herrington, Dominique (2025). A practical guide to translating scientific publications into aphasia-friendly summaries. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 10 (3), 719-727. doi: 10.1044/2025_persp-24-00141

A practical guide to translating scientific publications into aphasia-friendly summaries

2025

Journal Article

Neural correlates of rhythm in post-stroke aphasia

Kasdan, Anna V., Casilio, Marianne, Bryan, Katherine M., Jacoby, Nori, Fram, Noah R., Walljasper, Lily, Levy, Deborah F., de Riesthal, Michael, Gordon, Reyna L. and Wilson, Stephen M. (2025). Neural correlates of rhythm in post-stroke aphasia. Neurobiology of Language, 6 nol.a.9, 1-60. doi: 10.1162/nol.a.9

Neural correlates of rhythm in post-stroke aphasia

2025

Journal Article

Four dimensions of naturalistic language production in aphasia after stroke

Casilio, Marianne, Kasdan, Anna V, Bryan, Katherine, Shibata, Kiiya, Schneck, Sarah M, Levy, Deborah F, Entrup, Jillian L, Onuscheck, Caitlin, de Riesthal, Michael and Wilson, Stephen M (2025). Four dimensions of naturalistic language production in aphasia after stroke. Brain, 148 (1), 291-312. doi: 10.1093/brain/awae195

Four dimensions of naturalistic language production in aphasia after stroke

2024

Journal Article

Situating word deafness within aphasia recovery: a case report

Casilio, Marianne, Kasdan, Anna V., Schneck, Sarah M., Entrup, Jillian L., Levy, Deborah F., Crouch, Kelly and Wilson, Stephen M. (2024). Situating word deafness within aphasia recovery: a case report. Cortex, 173, 96-119. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.12.012

Situating word deafness within aphasia recovery: a case report

2024

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Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech

Lukic, Sladjana, Fan, Zekai, García, Adolfo M., Welch, Ariane E., Ratnasiri, Buddhika M., Wilson, Stephen M., Henry, Maya L., Vonk, Jet, Deleon, Jessica, Miller, Bruce L., Miller, Zachary, Mandelli, Maria Luisa and Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa (2024). Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech. Cortex, 173, 34-48. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.12.013

Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech

2024

Journal Article

Multivariate lesion symptom mapping for predicting trajectories of recovery from aphasia

Levy, Deborah F., Entrup, Jillian L., Schneck, Sarah M., Onuscheck, Caitlin F., Rahman, Maysaa, Kasdan, Anna, Casilio, Marianne, Willey, Emma, Davis, L Taylor, de Riesthal, Michael, Kirshner, Howard S. and Wilson, Stephen M. (2024). Multivariate lesion symptom mapping for predicting trajectories of recovery from aphasia. Brain Communications, 6 (1) fcae024, fcae024. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae024

Multivariate lesion symptom mapping for predicting trajectories of recovery from aphasia

2023

Journal Article

Leukoaraiosis is not associated with recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke

Brito, Alexandra C., Levy, Deborah F., Schneck, Sarah M., Entrup, Jillian L., Onuscheck, Caitlin F., Casilio, Marianne, de Riesthal, Michael, Davis, L. Taylor and Wilson, Stephen M. (2023). Leukoaraiosis is not associated with recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke. Neurobiology of Language, 4 (4), 536-549. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00115

Leukoaraiosis is not associated with recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke

2023

Journal Article

Modality-Specificity of the Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Demand

Philips, Mackenzie, Schneck, Sarah M., Levy, Deborah F. and Wilson, Stephen M. (2023). Modality-Specificity of the Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Demand. Neurobiology of Language, 4 (4), 516-535. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00114

Modality-Specificity of the Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Demand

2023

Journal Article

Evaluating syntactic comprehension during awake intraoperative cortical stimulation mapping

Riva, Marco, Wilson, Stephen M., Cai, Ruofan, Castellano, Antonella, Jordan, Kesshi M., Henry, Roland G., Tempini, Maria Luisa Gorno, Berger, Mitchel S. and Chang, Edward F. (2023). Evaluating syntactic comprehension during awake intraoperative cortical stimulation mapping. Journal of Neurosurgery, 138 (5), 1403-1410. doi: 10.3171/2022.8.jns221335

Evaluating syntactic comprehension during awake intraoperative cortical stimulation mapping

2023

Journal Article

Apraxia of speech with phonological alexia and agraphia following resection of the left middle precentral gyrus: illustrative case

Levy, Deborah F., Silva, Alexander B., Scott, Terri L., Liu, Jessie R., Harper, Sarah, Zhao, Lingyun, Hullett, Patrick W., Kurteff, Garret, Wilson, Stephen M., Leonard, Matthew K. and Chang, Edward F. (2023). Apraxia of speech with phonological alexia and agraphia following resection of the left middle precentral gyrus: illustrative case. Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons, 5 (13) CASE22504, 13. doi: 10.3171/case22504

Apraxia of speech with phonological alexia and agraphia following resection of the left middle precentral gyrus: illustrative case

2023

Journal Article

Dissociation of Broca's area from Broca's aphasia in patients undergoing neurosurgical resections

Andrews, John P., Cahn, Nathan, Speidel, Benjamin A., Chung, Jason E., Levy, Deborah F., Wilson, Stephen M., Chang, Edward F. and Berger, Mitchel S. (2023). Dissociation of Broca's area from Broca's aphasia in patients undergoing neurosurgical resections. Journal of Neurosurgery, 138 (3), 847-857. doi: 10.3171/2022.6.jns2297

Dissociation of Broca's area from Broca's aphasia in patients undergoing neurosurgical resections

2022

Journal Article

Baseline structural imaging correlates of treatment outcomes in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

Dial, Heather R., Europa, Eduardo, Grasso, Stephanie M., Mandelli, Maria Luisa, Schaffer, Kristin M., Hubbard, H. Isabel, Wauters, Lisa D., Wineholt, Lindsey, Wilson, Stephen M., Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa and Henry, Maya L. (2022). Baseline structural imaging correlates of treatment outcomes in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Cortex, 158, 158-175. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.10.004

Baseline structural imaging correlates of treatment outcomes in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

2022

Journal Article

An Open Dataset of Connected Speech in Aphasia with Consensus Ratings of Auditory-Perceptual Features

Ezzes, Zoe, Schneck, Sarah M., Casilio, Marianne, Fromm, Davida, Mefferd, Antje S., de Riesthal, Michael and Wilson, Stephen M. (2022). An Open Dataset of Connected Speech in Aphasia with Consensus Ratings of Auditory-Perceptual Features. Data, 7 (11) 148, 148. doi: 10.3390/data7110148

An Open Dataset of Connected Speech in Aphasia with Consensus Ratings of Auditory-Perceptual Features

2022

Journal Article

Designing and implementing a community aphasia group: an illustrative case study of the Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee

Levy, Deborah F., Kasdan, Anna V., Bryan, Katherine M., Wilson, Stephen M., de Riesthal, Michael and Herrington, Dominique P. (2022). Designing and implementing a community aphasia group: an illustrative case study of the Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 7 (5), 1301-1311. doi: 10.1044/2022_persp-22-00006

Designing and implementing a community aphasia group: an illustrative case study of the Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee

2022

Journal Article

Adaptive language mapping paradigms for presurgical language mapping

Diachek, E., Morgan, V. L. and Wilson, S. M. (2022). Adaptive language mapping paradigms for presurgical language mapping. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 43 (10), 1453-1459. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.a7629

Adaptive language mapping paradigms for presurgical language mapping

2022

Journal Article

Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: a functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review

Kasdan, Anna, Burgess, Andrea N., Pizzagalli, Fabrizio, Scartozzi, Alyssa, Chern, Alexander, Kotz, Sonja A., Wilson, Stephen M. and Gordon, Reyna L. (2022). Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: a functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 136 104588, 104588. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104588

Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: a functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review

2022

Journal Article

Dysarthria subgroups in talkers with Huntington’s disease: comparison of two data-driven classification approaches

Kim, Daniel, Diehl, Sarah, de Riesthal, Michael, Tjaden, Kris, Wilson, Stephen M., Claassen, Daniel O. and Mefferd, Antje S. (2022). Dysarthria subgroups in talkers with Huntington’s disease: comparison of two data-driven classification approaches. Brain Sciences, 12 (4) 492, 1-19. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12040492

Dysarthria subgroups in talkers with Huntington’s disease: comparison of two data-driven classification approaches

2022

Journal Article

Recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke

Wilson, Stephen M, Entrup, Jillian L, Schneck, Sarah M, Onuscheck, Caitlin F, Levy, Deborah F, Rahman, Maysaa, Willey, Emma, Casilio, Marianne, Yen, Melodie, Brito, Alexandra C, Kam, Wayneho, Davis, L Taylor, de Riesthal, Michael and Kirshner, Howard S (2022). Recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke. Brain, 146 (3), 1021-1039. doi: 10.1093/brain/awac129

Recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke

2021

Journal Article

Distinct Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Demand

Quillen, Ian A., Yen, Melodie and Wilson, Stephen M. (2021). Distinct Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Demand. Neurobiology of Language, 2 (2), 202-225. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00031

Distinct Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Demand

2021

Journal Article

Unexpected absence of aphasia following left temporal hemorrhage: a case study with functional neuroimaging to characterize the nature of atypical language localization

Schneck, Sarah M., Entrup, Jillian L., Duff, Melissa C. and Wilson, Stephen M. (2021). Unexpected absence of aphasia following left temporal hemorrhage: a case study with functional neuroimaging to characterize the nature of atypical language localization. Neurocase, 27 (1), 97-105. doi: 10.1080/13554794.2021.1886309

Unexpected absence of aphasia following left temporal hemorrhage: a case study with functional neuroimaging to characterize the nature of atypical language localization

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2029
    A universal aphasia battery for assessing language disorders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who speak traditional languages and creoles
    NHMRC IDEAS Grants
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Neural Correlates of Recovery from Aphasia After Stroke (NIH grant administered by Vanderbilt University)
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Open grant

Availability

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  • Aphasia
  • Language and the brain

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