Welcome Drs. Yungjung Kim, Amber DeJohn, and Sladjana Lukic to join ISL as new Faculty Affiliates!! We are excited to have you!
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Dr. Yunjung Kim?is a professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders and directs the FSU Motor Speech Laboratory. Her primary research interests lie in the transformation from a talker’s articulatory behavior to listeners’ reaction. Specifically, her work has focused on identifying acoustic and articulatory characteristics of speech produced by people with neurologic conditions that negatively impact their speech intelligibility. For this, she uses a wide methodological toolkit including acoustic analysis software, electromagnetic articulography (EMA), and ultrasound imaging. Recent work in the lab has focused on developing speech rehabilitation models for linguistically and culturally minor groups (e.g., foreign born immigrants) in international, multidisciplinary collaboration with experts in rehabilitation psychology, business, computer engineering, and clinical care.
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Dr. Amber DeJohn?is a health geographer studying the interaction between built environments, technology, and their impact on loneliness and health, particularly among older adults. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including Fitbit data, surveys, interviews, and time-use data, Dr. DeJohn’s research focuses on how urban environments affect social interactions and healthy aging. Recent work has examined the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant older adults in the Greater Toronto Area, contributing to the understanding of mobility and technology’s roles in socializing within urban spaces. Since joining FSU, Dr. DeJohn has focused on Florida’s unique context, collecting data on older adults’ mobility and social isolation, with plans for future studies on extreme heat coping behaviors and the ethics of care in nursing homes.
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Dr.?Sladjana?Lukic?is a?language neuroscientist with multidisciplinary expertise in formal linguistics, stroke and primary progressive aphasias, and neuroimaging. She is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders at FSU and Director of NoLaB Lab, where her work focuses on?disentangling linguistic (dis)abilities in people with aphasia and uncovering their underlying neuroanatomical correlates using?both?structured language tests?and?naturalistic speech?measures.?Her research also explores linguistic processes in the context of degeneration and development, from which she has developed her new line of work investigating how language shapes behavior.?She received her PhD and MA from Northwestern University under the supervision of Dr. Cynthia Thompson and completed postdoctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
