Lewis P. Shapiro

Bio

Dr. Lewis P. Shapirobegan his stint at SDSU in 1995. He investigates the linguistic, cognitive, and neuroscience underpinnings of language processing. His work has often focused on clinical populations, including adult stroke survivors who have aphasia. Dr. Shapiro has had continuous NIH funding since 1988 and is also PI on an NIH doctoral training grant since 2005. Dr. Shapiro’s impactful scientific contributions include the first online work on the role of predicate argument structure in sentence processing in both neurologically healthy individuals and those with aphasia, some of the first work examining the role of prosody in online sentence processing, work suggesting the separation of lexical from syntactic processing routines, and cutting-edge collaborative work examining the efficacy of a treatment approach for sentence production and comprehension deficits in aphasia. Dr. Shapiro has had various roles in the School, including as Director (2014-2016). Dr. Shapiro was awarded Fellow of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association in 2003, received the SDSU Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions for the College of Health and Human Services in 2005, and the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Florida in 2016.

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