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Roger D. Newman-Norlund

Cognitive Neuroscientist · University of South Carolina

Research Associate Professor · Dept. of Communication Sciences & Disorders · Columbia, SC

Brain Imaging Healthy Aging Aphasia Deep Learning tDCS / TMS Mirror Neurons

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88+ Peer-reviewed publications

2,300+ Citing researchers

20+ Years in neuroimaging

$6M+ Grant funding

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BLUM: Brain-LLM Unified Model

Do LLMs that make human-like speech errors also show human-like lesion patterns? BLUM trains Symptom-Lesion Models on aphasic speech error data and brain lesion loads, then applies them to LLM error profiles - bridging neuroscience and AI to test whether large language models produce anatomically consistent error patterns.

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Aging Brain Cohort

Director of USC's multimodal lifespan MRI database for studying brain aging.

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Research Areas

MRI, machine learning, aphasia recovery, brain age estimation, and more.

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Thoughts on neuroscience, aging, tech, and the academic life.