Lee X. Blonder, Ph.D.

(University of Pennsylvania, 1986)

Lee X. Blonder, Ph.D. Professor
Department of Behavioral Science and
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
301 Charles T. Wethington Health Sciences Building
900 S. Limestone St.
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40536-0200
Phone: Phone: (859) 257-9223
Fax: (859) 323-2623
Email: lxblond@email.uky.edu

Research Description

Dr. Blonder's research focuses on the neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processing in humans. She has studied the effects of right hemisphere stroke and the concomitant "flat affect" that is typically observed in association with strokes to the right hemisphere, on social behavior and marital interaction. Dr. Blonder is also collaborating with colleagues in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center at the University of Kentucky to study cognitive and emotional processing using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Dr. Blonder serves as Director of the Communication and Emotion Research laboratory (CERL), a facility devoted to the analysis of communicative and emotional behavior in a variety of subject populations.

Research Funding

Co-Investigator, "Detection of Presymptomatic Alzheimer Disease by fMRI," NINDS, 1997-2000.

Principal Investigator, "Neural Substrates of Facial and Lexical Emotion Using fMRI," NSF, 1997-2000.

Representative Publications

Langer, S.L., Pettigrew, L.C., Wilson, J.F., & Blonder, L.X. (2000). Channel-consistency following unilateral stroke: An examination of patient communication across verbal and non-verbal domains. Neuropsychologia, 38, 337-344.

Blonder, L.X., Hodes, J., Ranseen, J., & Schmitt, F. (1999). Neuropsychological outcome following gamma knife radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations: A Preliminary Report. Applied Neuropsychology, 6(3), 181-186.

Blonder, L.X. (1999). Brain and emotion relations in culturally diverse populations. In A.L. Hinton (Ed.), Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 274-296.

Langer, S.L., Pettigrew, L.C., Wilson, J.F., & Blonder, L.X. (1998). Personality and social competency following unilateral stroke. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 4, 447-455.

Smith, C.D., Anderson, A.H., Chen, Q., Blonder, L.X., Kirsch, J.E., & Avison, M.J. (1996). Cortical activation in visual confrontation naming. Neuro Report, 7, 781-785.

Blonder, L.X., Kort, E.D., & Schmitt, F.A. (1994). Conversational discourse in patients with Alzheimer?s disease. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 4(1), 50-71.

Blonder, L.X., Bowers, D., & Heilman, K.M. (1991). The role of the right hemisphere in emotional communication. Brain, 114(3), 1115-1127.

Blonder, L.X., Gur, R.E., & Gur, R.C. (1989). The effects of right and left hemiparkinsonism on prosody. Brain and Language, 36(2), 193-207.

Communication and Emotion Research Laboratory