William Matchin

University of South Carolina, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty Member

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I am an Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina. I received my Ph.D in Cognitive Neuroscience with Greg Hickok at UC Irvine in the dept. of Cognitive Sciences, finished a postdoc with Ellen Lau at the University of Maryland in Linguistics, and finished a second postdoc with Rachel Mayberry & Eric Halgren at UC San Diego in Linguistics & Neuroscience.

My work centers around integrating the insights of linguistic theory, particularly syntax, and psycholinguistics into cognitive neuroscience. My main goal is to develop an integrated framework of syntax, online sentence processing, and neuroscience (always aim high, right? ;) ).
Supervisors: Rachel Mayberry, Eric Halgren, Ellen Lau, Gregory Hickok, and Jon Sprouse
Address: Irvine, California, United States

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The Wernicke conundrum revisited: evidence from connectome-based lesion-symptom mapping in post-stroke aphasia

The classical assumption that word and sentence comprehension deficits in stroke aphasia follow f... more The classical assumption that word and sentence comprehension deficits in stroke aphasia follow from damage to Wernicke's area has been questioned following discrepant results in primary progressive aphasia. We tested the hypothesis of Mesulam et al. (2015; 2019) that word and sentence comprehension deficits in stroke aphasia result from 'double disconnection' due to white matter damage: word comprehension deficits resulting from disconnection of the anterior temporal lobe and sentence comprehension deficits resulting from disconnection of the frontal lobe. We performed lesion-deficit correlations, including connectome-based lesion-symptom mapping, in four large, partially overlapping groups of English-speaking chronic left hemisphere stroke survivors. After removing variance due to object recognition and associative semantic processing, the same middle and posterior temporal lobe regions were implicated both in word comprehension deficits (N = 180) and complex noncanoni...

One cat, two cats, red cat, blue cats: eliciting morphemes from individuals with primary progressive aphasia

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A double dissociation between plural and possessive “s”: Evidence from the Morphosyntactic Generation test

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Syntax-sensitive regions of the posterior inferior frontal gyrus and the posterior temporal lobe are differentially recruited by production and perception

Cerebral Cortex Communications

Matchin & Hickok (2020) proposed that the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus (PIFG) and the le... more Matchin & Hickok (2020) proposed that the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus (PIFG) and the left posterior temporal lobe (PTL) both play a role in syntactic processing, broadly construed, attributing distinct functions to these regions with respect to production and perception. Consistent with this hypothesis, functional dissociations between these regions have been demonstrated with respect to lesion-symptom mapping in aphasia. However, neuroimaging studies of syntactic comprehension typically show similar activations in these regions. In order to identify whether these regions show distinct activation patterns with respect to syntactic perception and production, we performed an fMRI study contrasting the subvocal articulation and perception of structured jabberwocky phrases (syntactic), sequences of real words (lexical), and sequences of pseudowords (phonological). We defined two sets of language-selective regions of interest (ROIs) in individual subjects for the PIFG and the P...

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