
Lynsey Keator
Speech Language Pathologist
Lynsey completed a double major during her undergraduate studies at the University of Delaware and graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science with a concentration in Speech Language Pathology (SLP) and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Studies. She graduated in 2016 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with an MA in Communication Disorders, concentration in Speech Language Pathology. As a master's graduate student at UMASS Amherst, Lynsey was funded as a DOE fellow for the REMOTE grant and an active research assistant in the REMOTE and BRoCA labs. Lynsey completed her clinical fellowship year in Speech Language Pathology before joining Dr. Hillis at Johns Hopkins University in the lab as a research SLP. Lynsey plans to continue her education and research by pursuing a PhD in the fall of 2018.
Lynsey's primary research interests include the interdisciplinary collaboration of speech language pathology and neuroscience in stroke rehabilitation and specifically, the implementation of neuroimaging to explore the recruitment of residual neural networks following a traumatic event, such as stroke. She is involved with a longitudinal language study to research language recovery and the associated neural changes.