Sarah Brown-schmidt
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Vanderbilt research discovers new brain injury impairments to everyday communication skills
In two recent studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, moderate-severe TBI was associated with difficulties in communication, namely remembering spoken language and integrating information in gesture with speech. Both impairments can inhibit a person’s ability to understand and effectively communicate with others, but the research teams hope the studies’ findings could pave the way for improved therapies and assessments to help people with TBI communicate more easily in their daily lives. Read MoreMar 24, 2025
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Brown-Schmidt’s study shows benefits, limits of contemporaneous notetaking on memory for conversation
By Jenna Somers Sarah Brown-Schmidt, professor of psychology and human development In the first four months of Donald Trump’s presidency, leading up to Trump firing FBI director James Comey on May 9, 2017, they met privately nine times. Alarmed by how these meetings broke with traditional boundaries between… Read MoreApr 28, 2023
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Brown-Schmidt receives NSF grant to study how cognitive processes guide interactive conversation
Sarah Brown-Schmidt, professor of psychology and human development, recently received a three-year $382,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for her research project, “Perspective-taking in Conversation,” to understand the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to engage in everyday conversation. Read MoreDec 8, 2022