Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Dr Stephane Dufau is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive neuroscience within the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. Stephane is a Senior Research Fellow at Mater Research (Mater Epilepsy Unit Research group). He worked as a Research Engineer at CNRS, France (currently on unpaid leave).
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Available for supervision
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I am a cognitive neuroscientist with a research focus on the neural basis of language. My research is focused on three related questions:
How is language processed in the brain?
How does brain damage affect language processing in individuals with aphasia, i.e. acquired language disorders?
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.
