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Click on me to return to MGH Neurology's Home Page.John Lester (lester@helix.mgh.harvard.edu).
B.S., Humanities & Science,1968, MIT, Cambridge MA Ph.D., Linguistics,1971,MIT, Cambridge MA MD, CM, Medicine, 1975, McGill University, Montreal
1972 Research Elective, MRC Language and Communication Unit, Edinburgh; J.C. Marshall, Supervisor 1973 Research Elective, Aphasic Unit, Hopital Hotel Dieu, Montreal; A.R. Lecours, Supervisor
1975-1976 Intern in Medicine, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal 1976-1979 Resident in Neurology, Longwood Area Program, Boston MA (Boards in US & Canada)
1988- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 1990- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Boston University 1990- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Boston University
1968-1969 Doctoral Fellowship, Province of Quebec 1969-1971 Doctoral Fellowship, Canada Council 1972-1974 University Fellowship, McGill University 1974 Quebec Medical Research Council Student Grant 1980 Medical Research Council of Canada Scholar (Awarded) 1982-1983 Killiam Fellow (Neurology), Montreal Neurological Institute 1983-1984 McGill Research Scholarship 1984-1988 FRSQ Chercheur-Boursier Award, Senior Level
1985-88 Committee on Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Fonds de Recherche en Sante du Quebec, Quebec 1989-92 Behavoural Science Review Committee, Medical Research Council of Canada 1991- Initial Review Group (Sensory Disorders and Language), NIH 1994 Expert Panel; Strategic Research Plan Development, NIDCD
1987-1994 Editorial Board, Language and Cognitive Processes 1987- Editorial Board, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 1993- Editorial Board, Journal of Neurolinguistics 1995- Action Editor, Language and Cognitive Processes
1987- Cognitive Science Society 1993- Psychonomics Society 1994- American Psychological Society 1993- American Association for the Advancement of Science 1995- Member at Large, Linguistics and Language Section, AAAS
1984-1988 Director, Speech Pathology Services, Montreal Neurological Hospital 1988- Director, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital 1988- Director, Reading Disabilities Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital 1990- Director, Behavioral/Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital 1994- Member, Subcommitee for Review of Research Proposals, Massachusetts General Hospital
Panel Member, Fonds de Recherche en Sante du Quebec, Post- Doctoral Fellowship Committe, 1985-88 Panel Member, Behavoural Sciences Review Committee, MRC, Canada, 1989-1992 Panel Member, IRG (Sensory Disorders and Language), NIH, Ad hoc: 1990-1992; Regular 1992-1996 Reviewer of grants for NIH (USA), MRC (Canada), Learned Societies (Canada), NSF (USA), Australian Medical Research Council. Reviewer for professional journals (Neuropsychologia, Cognitive Neuropschology, etc).
Waters, G.S., Rochon, E., and Caplan, D.: The role of high-level speech planning in rehearsal: evidence from patients with apraxia of speech, Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 54-73, 1992 Caplan, D., Rochon, E., and Waters, G.S.: Articulatory and phonological determinants of word length effects in span tasks, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 44A, 177-192, 1992 Chertkow H, Bub D, and Caplan D: Constraining theories of semantic memory: Evidence from dementia, Cognitive Neuropsychology, 9, 327-365, 1992. Caplan, D., and Aydelott-Utman, J.: Selective Acoustic phonetic impairment and lexical access in an aphasic patient, Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 95, 512-517, 1994. Rochon, E., Waters, G.S., and Caplan, D.: Sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's Disease, Brain and Language, 46, 329-349, 1994 Caplan, D., and Waters, G.S.: Articulatory and phonological determinants of word length effects in span tasks: A reply to Baddeley and Andrade, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47A,1055-1062, 1994. Caplan, D., Hildebrandt, N., & Waters, G.S.: Interaction of verb selectional restrictions, noun animacy and syntactic form in sentence processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 9, 549-585, 1994 Caplan, D., Gow, D., and Makris, N.: Analysis of Lesions by MRI in Stroke Patients with Acoustic-Phonetic Processing Deficits, Neurology, 45, 293-298, 1995 Caplan, D. and Waters, G.S.: On the nature of phonological output planning and verbal rehearsal: Evidence from aphasia, Brain and Language, 48, 191-220, 1995. Waters, G.S., Caplan, D., and Rochon, E.:Processing capacity and sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's Disease, Cognitive Neuropsychology,12, 1-30, 1995 Stromswold, K., Caplan, D., Alpert, N., and Rauch, S.: Localization of syntactic comprehension by positron emission tomography, Brain and Language, 52, 452-473, 1996.
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John Lester (lester@helix.mgh.harvard.edu).