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
All (95) Journal Article (93) Book (1) Other Outputs (1)

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2007

Journal Article

What is involved and what is necessary for complex linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory processing: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and lesion data

Dick, Frederic, Saygin, Ayse Pinar, Galati, Gaspare, Pitzalis, Sabrina, Bentrovato, Simone, D'Amico, Simona, Wilson, Stephen, Bates, Elizabeth and Pizzamiglio, Luigi (2007). What is involved and what is necessary for complex linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory processing: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and lesion data. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 (5), 799-816. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.5.799

What is involved and what is necessary for complex linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory processing: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and lesion data

2006

Journal Article

Neural responses to non-native phonemes varying in producibility: evidence for the sensorimotor nature of speech perception

Wilson, Stephen M. and Iacoboni, Marco (2006). Neural responses to non-native phonemes varying in producibility: evidence for the sensorimotor nature of speech perception. NeuroImage, 33 (1), 316-325. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.05.032

Neural responses to non-native phonemes varying in producibility: evidence for the sensorimotor nature of speech perception

2006

Journal Article

Congruent embodied representations for visually presented actions and linguistic phrases describing actions

Aziz-Zadeh, Lisa, Wilson, Stephen M., Rizzolatti, Giacomo and Iacoboni, Marco (2006). Congruent embodied representations for visually presented actions and linguistic phrases describing actions. Current Biology, 16 (18), 1818-1823. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.060

Congruent embodied representations for visually presented actions and linguistic phrases describing actions

2006

Journal Article

Beyond a single area: Motor control and language within a neural architecture encompassing Broca's area

Iacoboni, Marco and Wilson, Stephen M. (2006). Beyond a single area: Motor control and language within a neural architecture encompassing Broca's area. Cortex, 42 (4), 503-506. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70387-3

Beyond a single area: Motor control and language within a neural architecture encompassing Broca's area

2004

Journal Article

Point-light biological motion perception activates human premotor cortex

Saygin, Ayse Pinar, Wilson, Stephen M., Hagler, Donald J. , Bates, Elizabeth and Sereno, Martin I. (2004). Point-light biological motion perception activates human premotor cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 24 (27), 6181-6188. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.0504-04.2004

Point-light biological motion perception activates human premotor cortex

2004

Journal Article

Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production

Wilson, Stephen M., Saygin, Ayşe Pinar, Sereno, Martin I. and Iacoboni, Marco (2004). Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production. Nature Neuroscience, 7 (7), 701-702. doi: 10.1038/nn1263

Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production

2004

Journal Article

Left hemisphere motor facilitation in response to manual action sounds

Aziz-Zadeh, Lisa, Iacoboni, Marco, Zaidel, Eran, Wilson, Stephen and Mazziotta, John (2004). Left hemisphere motor facilitation in response to manual action sounds. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19 (9), 2609-2612. doi: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03348.x

Left hemisphere motor facilitation in response to manual action sounds

2004

Journal Article

Grammaticality judgment in aphasia: deficits are not specific to syntactic structures, aphasic syndromes, or lesion sites

Wilson, Stephen M. and Saygin, Ayşe Pinar (2004). Grammaticality judgment in aphasia: deficits are not specific to syntactic structures, aphasic syndromes, or lesion sites. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 (2), 238-252. doi: 10.1162/089892904322984535

Grammaticality judgment in aphasia: deficits are not specific to syntactic structures, aphasic syndromes, or lesion sites

2004

Journal Article

Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates

Saygin, Ayşe Pinar, Wilson, Stephen M., Dronkers, Nina F. and Bates, Elizabeth (2004). Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates. Neuropsychologia, 42 (13), 1788-1804. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.016

Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates

2003

Journal Article

Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping

Bates, Elizabeth, Wilson, Stephen M., Saygin, Ayse Pinar, Dick, Frederic, Sereno, Martin I., Knight, Robert T. and Dronkers, Nina F. (2003). Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping. Nature Neuroscience, 6 (5), 448-450. doi: 10.1038/nn1050

Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping

2003

Journal Article

Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds: evidence from aphasia

Saygin, Ayşe Pinar, Dick, Frederic, Wilson, Stephen M., Dronkers, Nina F. and Bates, Elizabeth (2003). Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds: evidence from aphasia. Brain, 126 (4), 928-945. doi: 10.1093/brain/awg082

Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds: evidence from aphasia

2003

Journal Article

Lexically specific constructions in the acquisition of inflection in English

Wilson, Stephen (2003). Lexically specific constructions in the acquisition of inflection in English. Journal of Child Language, 30 (1), 75-115. doi: 10.1017/s0305000902005512

Lexically specific constructions in the acquisition of inflection in English

2003

Journal Article

A phonetic study of voiced, voiceless and alternating stops in Turkish

Wilson, Stephen M. (2003). A phonetic study of voiced, voiceless and alternating stops in Turkish. CRL Newsletter, 15 (1), 3-13.

A phonetic study of voiced, voiceless and alternating stops in Turkish

1999

Book

Coverbs and complex predicates in Wagiman

Wilson, Stephen (1999). Coverbs and complex predicates in Wagiman. Stanford, CA, United States: CSLI Publications.

Coverbs and complex predicates in Wagiman

1998

Other Outputs

Wakgala mahan matjjin Wagiman: Stories in the Wagiman language of Australia's Northern Territory

Wilson, Stephen (1998). Wakgala mahan matjjin Wagiman: Stories in the Wagiman language of Australia's Northern Territory. Katherine, NT, United States: Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation.

Wakgala mahan matjjin Wagiman: Stories in the Wagiman language of Australia's Northern Territory

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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Supervision history

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