Dr. Lyndsey Nickels

Biography

Lyndsey Nickels has worked for many years as a Speech Therapist in hospitals in London. Her research career began at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she obtained her PhD in 1992. In 1996, she moved to Macquarie University, initially starting as a visiting Research Fellow through a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. She was awarded an Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship in 1999, and subsequently received an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship in 2006, and an ARC Future Fellowship in 2013. Her research can be broadly characterized as 'cognitive neuropsychology of language,' focusing on language impairments resulting from both developmental issues and acquired brain damage. Her work investigates the adequacy of cognitive models for language comprehension and production. Additionally, she is involved in understanding and remediating language impairments, particularly in acquired language impairment and aphasia, with a focus on word production and therapies for anomia. She is committed to researching the remediation of language disorders and collaborates with speech pathologists to achieve these goals. Lyndsey is also the Director of the International Doctorate Experimental Approaches to Language and the Brain (IDEALAB) program at Macquarie University.

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