Connie A. Tompkins Professor, Communication Science and Disorders University of Pittsburgh Email: Tompkins@csd.pitt.edu Lab Website: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/csd/about/faculty/tompkins.html

Ph. D., University of Washington, Speech and Hearing Sciences Research Interests My major interests involve the cognitive underpinnings of neurologic communication disorders in adults. My primary research aims to understand communicative impairments that follow right hemisphere brain damage, drawing on constructs and models from cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. A secondary research interest focuses on psychosocial responses to neurologic conditions. I also have research and teaching interests in aphasia, other adult neurologic language disorders, and cognition and communication in normal aging. Recent Publications Baumgaertner, A. and Tompkins, C.A. (2002). Testing contrasting accounts of word meaning activation in Broca Tompkins, C.A. & Lehman, M.T. (1998). Interpreting intended meanings after right hemisphere brain damage: An analysis of evidence, potential account, and clinical implications. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 5, 29-47. Tompkins, C.A., Lehman-Blake, M., Baumgaertner, A. and Fassbinder, W. (2002). Characterizing comprehension difficulties after right brain damage: Attentional demands of suppression function. Aphasiology, 16, 559-572. Tompkins, C.A. and Lustig, A.P. (2001). Research principles for the clinician. In R. Chapey (Ed.), Language intervention strategies in adult aphasia (4th ed.; pp. 129-147). Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Tompkins, C.A., Lehman-Blake, M.T., Baumgaertner, A. and Fassbinder, W. (2001). Mechanisms of discourse comprehension impairment after right hemisphere brain damage: Suppression in inferential ambiguity resolution. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 400-415. Tompkins, C.A., Baumgaertner, A., Lehman, M.T. & Fassbinder, W. (2000). Mechanisms of discourse comprehension impairment after right hemisphere brain damage: Suppression in lexical ambiguity resolution. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43, 62-78. Tompkins, C.A., Lehman, M.T., Wyatt, A.D. & Schulz, R. (1998). Functional outcome assessment of adults with right hemisphere brain damage. Seminars in Speech and Language, 19, 303-321. Spencer, K.A., Tompkins, C.A. & Schulz, R. (1997). Assessment of depression in patients with brain pathology: The case of stroke. Psychological Bulletin, 122, 132-152.