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Samira

Anderson

Associate Professor

Interests: 

EEG, Language Acquisition, Language Disorders, Speech Perception

Learning-Associated Neural Plasticity, Aging, Hearing Loss, Development

Units: 

Hearing and Speech Sciences, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., 2012, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University

Contact: 

sander22@umd.edu

301-405-4224

0119B Lefrak Hall

Role(s): 

Faculty

Website: 

Google Scholar Profile

Lab Website

About: 

Samira Anderson joined the faculty of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences in January of 2013.  She has a background in clinical audiology and she studies the neural processing of speech across the lifespan, with a particular interest in the ways processing impairments affect language acquisition in infants and speech perception in older adults. She uses electrophysiology as my primary research tool, but she also uses perceptual and imaging assessment techniques in collaboration with other faculty.  In 2017, she received the "Excellence in Teaching Award" for tenure-track faculty in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. She is a faculty member of the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, and the Language Science Center.  

Collaborators: 

Jonathan Simon

Sandra Gordon-Salant

Matthew Goupell

Stefanie Kuchinksy

Joshua Bernstein

Olga Stakhovskaya

Catherine Carr

Katherine McLeod

 

Current and Former Students: 

Alessandro Presacco

Jason Dunlap