Uttam Kumar
Postdoctoral Scholaror
I earned my Ph.D. in Neurolinguistics from the University of Lucknow in India in 2006. I worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the National Brain Research Center in India where I used fMRI to understand the cortical organization of language in monolinguals and bilinguals, including the roles of different cognitive abilities (phonological processing, orthographical processing, and semantic processing).
I am currently a postdoctoral scholar in the CNL, and I am working on a monolingual/bilingual fMRI study in an attempt to assess the neuro-correlates of language learning. My major research interest is in the neural underpinnings of language and reading development in monolingual and bilingual children and adults. I investigate these issues using a variety of behavioral and brain imaging methods (fMRI, PET, and ERP). I am also interested in clinical research regarding different forms of language disorders (dyslexia, specific impairment, and aphasia).
Publications:
Kumar U (in press). Neural network of reading. Journal of Linguistics Society of India.
Kumar U (in press). Understanding sub-cortical language mechanism. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Kumar U, Das T, Bapi RS, Padakannaya P, Joshi M, & Singh NC (2010). Reading different orthographies: an fMRI study of
phrase reading in Hindi-English bilinguals. Reading and Writing 23: 239-255.
Kumar U & Pandey V (2009). Neural representation of native and second language in bilinguals. International Journal of Dravidian
Linguistics 38: 177-189.
Das T, Kumar U, Bapi RS, Padakannaya P, & Singh NC (2009). Neural representation of an alphasyllabary script - the Devanagari story.
Current Science 97: 1033-1038.
Kumar U (2006). Evaluating language skills of dyslexic children: semantic and syntactic context. Share and Care 12: 30-35.
Kumar U (2006). Voice performance of the deaf children: spectrographic analysis. Share and Care 12: 21-28.
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