Professor Helen Chenery
Research Interests
My major areas of research examine the nature of language
processing in both healthy and neurologically-involved populations
based on the integration of detailed models of language processing
within a neurobiological framework. The research is underpinned by
a detailed understanding of the processes involved in the
moment-by-moment integration of information during on-going
language comprehension and by the investigation of the component
processes involved in language production. The work involves the
use of a number of 'on-line' or 'real-time' measures of processing
(including reaction-time and ERP) to examine both the behavioural
details and the brain-areas involved in language processing. The
behavioural and neurobiological bases of language disorders are
investigated in both non neurologically impaired people and people
with acquired neurological disorders including people with
subcortical aphasia, bilingual people with aphasia subsequent to
stroke, people with Parkinson's disease, adults and children with
language impairment following traumatic brain injury, people with
schizophrenia and healthy people scoring highly on ratings of
dimensions of schizotypy. My research involves collaborations with
psychiatrists, neurologists, electrical engineers, psychologists,
linguists, and computer scientists.
Secondary area of interest is in health workforce,
interprofessional learning, ehealth competency and health career
frameworks.
Research Projects
Title: An efficacy study of a
cognitive-communicative intervention to improve transition to
residential care in dementia. Fundors: National
Health And Medical Research Council Duration: 2008
- 2011
Title: Enhancing transition from home to
residential care in dementia Fundors: The JO and
JR Wicking Trust Duration: 2007 - 2010
Title: Mapping health workforce competencies
and developing taxonomy for competency-based standards in health
Fundors: National Health Workforce Taskforce
(Planning & Research) Duration: 2009
-2010
Title: Evidence-based options for
competency-based health career framework/s in Australia
Fundors: National Health Workforce
Duration: 2009 - 2010
Title: Complexity-based indicators for deep
brain signature detection Fundors: First Link
UQ Date: 2009
Title: Development and Implementation of a
generic Health Sciences professional practice eportfolio template.
Fundors: UQ Teaching and Learning Strategic Grants
Scheme Date: 2009
Title: Evaluation of Interprofessional
Learning Activities for All Students with the Faculty of Health
Sciences Fundors: UQ Teaching and Learning
Strategic Grants Scheme Date: 2009
Key Words
Medical: Speech Pathology, Medical: Communicative Disorders,
Speech, Medical: Neurological Disorders, Medical: Neurophysiology,
Medical: Neuropharmacology, Medical: Neural Stimulation, Medical:
Parkinson's Disease, Medical: Dementia
Co-Investigators
- Dr Anthony Angwin
- Dr Andrew Bradley (BEng (hons) PhD CEng MIEE SMIEEE)
- Assoc
Prof Gerard Byrne (BSc(Med) MBBS PhD FRANZCP)
- Professor
Stanley Catts
- Dr
Jonathan Chalk
- Dr David Copland
- Professor
Darrell Crawford
- Dr Ross Darnell
- Dr Greig De Zubicaray
- Professor Cindy Gallois
- Professor Michael Humphreys
- Dr John Ingram
- Professor Bruce Murdoch
- Assoc Prof Nancy Pachana
- Assoc Prof Sylvia Rodger
- Dr David Rooney
- Dr Andrew Smith
- Professor Bill Vicenzino (BPhty, GradDipSportsPhty, MSc,
PhD)
- Dr Brooke-Mai Whelan
- Professor Janet Wiles
- Dr Wayne Wilson
Co-Authors
- Dr Anthony Angwin
- Dr Wendy Arnott
- Dr Rosemary Baker
- Dr Andrew Bradley (BEng (hons) PhD CEng MIEE SMIEEE)
- Dr Elizabeth Cardell
- Dr
Jonathan Chalk
- Dr David Copland
- Dr Ross Darnell
- Dr Greig De Zubicaray
- Dr Jennifer Hallinan
- Dr Fiona Hinchliffe
- Ms Anna Holmes
- Dr John Ingram
- Dr Joseph Kei
- Professor John McGrath
- Dr Katie McMahon
- Professor Bruce Murdoch
- Dr Peter Silburn
- Professor Janet Wiles
- Assoc Prof Stephen Wilson
