The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
5848 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Office Phone: (773)702.1133
Office: AMB S239 (MC2030), (MC2026)
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Steven L. Small
Biography
Steven Small received his A.B. magna cum laude in Mathematics from
Dartmouth College in 1976, his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial
Intelligence and Cognitive Science) from the University of Maryland in
1980. His thesis was on "Word Expert Parsing: A Distributed Model of Natural Language Understanding." Following one year as a Fulbright Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the Université de Paris VIII, he joined the faculty of the University of Rochester, where he served as Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology. Professor Small became a member of the adjunct faculty to attend the University of Rochester School of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1987, and then trained in Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he finished his training as Chief Resident in 1991. He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, serving as Assistant Professor of Neurology, Intelligent Systems, Psychology, and Communication Sciences and Disorders until 1996, when he became Associate Professor of Neurology and Physiology at the University of Maryland. In 1999, Dr. Small joined the faculty of The University of Chicago to create a functional brain imaging facility, the Brain Research Imaging Center, which began operation in early 2001. He now serves as Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and the College, Member of the Committees on Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience, and Senior Fellow of the Computation Institute.
He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Brain and Language.
Research Interests
- Neurobiology of Human Language
- Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
- Neuroplasticity and Neurological Rehabilitation
Recent Publications
Burton, M. W., Small, S. L., & Blumstein, S. E. (2000). The Role of Segmentation in Phonological Processing: An fMRI Investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(4), 679-690.
Hlustik, P., Solodkin, A., Gullapalli, R. P., Noll, D. C., & Small, S. L. (2001). Somatotopy in human primary motor and somatosensory hand areas revisited. Cerebral Cortex, 11(4), 312-321.
Solodkin, A., Hlustik, P., Noll, D. C., & Small, S. L. (2001). Lateralization of motor circuits and handedness during finger movements. European Journal of Neurology, 8(5), 425-34.
Small, S. L., Hlustik, P., Noll, D. C., Genovese, C., & Solodkin, A. (2002). Cerebellar hemispheric activation ipsilateral to the paretic hand correlates with functional recovery after stroke. Brain, 125(Pt 7), 1544-1557.
Small, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2004). On the neurobiological investigation of language understanding in context. Brain and Language, 89(2), 300-311.
Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). Lending a helping hand to hearing: A motor theory of speech perception. In Arbib, M. A. (Ed.), Action To Language via the Mirror Neuron System (pp. 250-286). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Buccino, G., Solodkin, A., & Small, S. L. (2006). Functions of the mirror neuron system: implications for neurorehabilitation. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 19(1), 55-63.
Milton, J., Solodkin, A., Hlustik, P., & Small, S. L. (2007). The mind of expert motor performance is cool and focused. Neuroimage, 35(2), 804-813.
Chen, E. E., & Small, S. L. (2007). Test-retest reliability in fMRI of language: group and task effects. Brain and Language, 102(2), 176-185.
Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Brain networks subserving the extraction of sentence information and its encoding to memory. Cerebral Cortex.
Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Speech-associated gestures, Broca's area, and the human mirror system. Brain and Language, 101(3), 260-277.
Skipper, J. I., van Wassenhove, V., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Hearing lips and seeing voices: how cortical areas supporting speech production mediate audiovisual speech perception. Cerebral Cortex, 17(10), 2387-2399.
Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). A future course for imaging research: Improving the analysis, storage and sharing of fMRI data using relational databases and grid computing. Neuroimage, in press.
Courses
- Brain Imaging Roundtable: Thursdays 1:30 - 3 all quarters
- fMRI Methods: Occasional
