Academic and Professional Appointments

• Assistant Professor, Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh
• Psychology (Cognitive division), University of Pittsburgh
• Research Health Scientist, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Biographical Profile

Michael Walsh Dickey was trained as a linguist and psycholinguist at the University of Massachusetts and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholingusitics. He was cross-trained in aphasiology and adult neurogenic language disorders as a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in the Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Lab at Northwestern University. His research centers on sentence comprehension and production in adults and its impairment in aphasia, as well as in traumatic brain injury and right-hemisphere damaged populations. He is also actively interested in using linguistic theory and psycholinguistic methodology to formulate and test novel treatment protocols for adult language disorders.

Education

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Lab, Northwestern University
• PhD, Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• BA, Linguistics and Spanish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill  

Awards and Honors

• Pre-doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1996-1999.
• NIH Pre-doctoral Trainee in Psycholinguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997-1998.
• Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993-1995.  

Academic Interests

• Sentence comprehension and production in adults
• Acquired neurogenic speech and language disorders in adults
• Grammatical language treatment
• Semantic and discourse comprehension  

Recent Publications : Refereed Articles

• 2009 M.W. Dickey and C.K. Thompson. “Automatic processing of wh- and NP-movement in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking.” Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 563-583.
• 2009 J.E. Sung, M.R. McNeil, S.R. Pratt, M.W. Dickey, W.D. Hula, N.J. Szuminsky, and P.J. Doyle. “Verbal working memory and its relationship to sentence-level reading and listening comprehension in persons with aphasia.” Aphasiology, 23, 1040-1052.
• 2009 L.G. Lederer, A.G. Scott, C.A. Tompkins, and M.W. Dickey. “Imageability effects on sentence judgment by right brain-damaged adults.” Aphasiology, 23, 1005-1015.
• 2009 Y. Faroqi-Shah and M.W. Dickey. “On-line processing of tense and temporality in agrammatic aphasia.” Brain and Language, 108, 97-111.
• 2009 K. Carlson, M.W. Dickey, L. Frazier and C. Clifton. “Information structure expectations in sentence comprehension.”Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 114-139.
• 2008 L.H. Milman, M.W. Dickey and C.K. Thompson. “A psychometric analysis of functional category production in English agrammatic narratives” Brain and Language, 105, 18-31.
• 2008 M.W. Dickey, L.H. Milman and C.K. Thompson. “Judgment of functional morphology in agrammatic Broca’s aphasia.” Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21, 35-65.
• 2007 M.W. Dickey and C.K. Thompson. “The relation between syntactic and morphological recovery in agrammatic aphasia: A case study.” Aphasiology, 21, 604-616.
• 2007 M.W. Dickey, J.J. Choy and C.K. Thompson. “Real-time comprehension of wh- movement in aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking while listening.” Brain and Language, 100, 1-22.
  Recent Publications : Book Chapters and Other
• 2009 T. Warren and M.W. Dickey. “On-line costs for predicting upcoming syntactic structure.” In University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics: On Ellipsis Processing, M. Grant and J. Harris (eds.). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
• 2008 M.W. Dickey and C.K. Thompson. “Neurolinguistic evidence for the (non-)unity of wh- structures.” In Proceedings of CLS 43.
• 2007 Y. Faroqi-Shah, M.W. Dickey, and M. Sampson. “On-line processing of tense and temporality in agrammatic aphasia.” Brain and Language, 103, 27-28.
• 2007 C.K. Thompson, M.W. Dickey, J. Lee, S. Cho, and Z.M. Griffin. “Verb argument structure encoding during sentence production in agrammatic aphasic speakers: An eye-tracking study.” Brain and Language, 103, 24-26.
 

Key Publications

• 2008 M.W. Dickey, L.H. Milman and C.K. Thompson. “Judgment of functional morphology in agrammatic Broca’s aphasia.” Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21, 35-65.
• 2007 M.W. Dickey and C.K. Thompson. “The relation between syntactic and morphological recovery in agrammatic aphasia: A case study.” Aphasiology, 21, 604-616.
• 2007 M.W. Dickey, J.J. Choy and C.K. Thompson. “Real-time comprehension of wh- movement in aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking while listening.” Brain and Language, 100, 1-22.
• 2004 M.W. Dickey and C.K. Thompson. “The resolution and recovery of filler-gap dependencies in aphasia: Evidence from on-line anomaly detection.” Brain and Language, 88, 108-127.
• 2005 K. Carlson, M.W. Dickey and C. Kennedy. “Structural economy in the processing and representation of gapping sentences.” Syntax, 8, 208-228.
• 2001 M. W. Dickey. The Processing of Tense: Psycholinguistic Studies on the Interpretation of Tense and Temporal Relations. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Kluwer Academic Publishers.  

Courses Recently Taught

• CSD 1022 Transcription Phonetics
• CSD 1230 Introduction to Speech-Language Pathology
• CSD 2250 Child Language Disorders 2
• CSD 3479 Seminar in Speech-Language Pathology
• Externally Funded Projects
• Language comprehension following mild TBI. VA Stars and Stripes Healthcare Network, 2009-2010. Michael Walsh Dickey, PI.  

Service

• Reviewer, Aphasiology, Brain and Language, Cognition, Cortex, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Neurolinguistics,
• Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Language, Language and Cognitive Processes, Lingua, Memory and Cognition,
• Neurology India, and Neuropsychologia; CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cognitive Science Society
• Program committee, Clinical Aphasiology Conference (2007, 2010)
• Director of Continuing Education, Dept. of Communication Science & Disorders
• Continuing Education Administrator, American Speech Language and Hearing Association