Rate My Professor Maaike Vandermosten

Her research centers on the neurobiological basis of language, with a focus on speech perception, reading, phonological processing, and disorders including developmental dyslexia and post-stroke aphasia. She employs psychophysical experiments, longitudinal neuroimaging techniques like diffusion MRI for white matter correlates, functional MVPA analyses, high-resolution structural imaging, and natural speech paradigms to study neuroplasticity, connectivity, and early biomarkers for language outcomes in children and stroke patients. Key publications include 'A qualitative and quantitative review of diffusion tensor imaging studies in reading and dyslexia' (2012), 'The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Phoneme Encoding in Aging and Aphasia' (2026, Journal of Neuroscience), 'Schooling shapes the brain: neural specialization for words and numbers in early childhood' (2026), 'Screening for Developmental Language Disorder in Bilingual Children Using an Iconic Gesture Comprehension Task' (2026, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools), and 'Behavioral constructs and neural correlates of descriptive and responsive speech in post-stroke aphasia' (2026, Cortex). Her contributions advance understanding of developmental and acquired language impairments through neuroimaging and behavioral measures.