Shiree graduated from the University of Queensland’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in 2007 with a first class honours degree in Speech Pathology. After successfully completing her degree, she commenced a PhD in 2008 investigating the neurocognitive substrates of naming facilitation in individuals with aphasia following stroke. Shiree’s PhD was awarded in July 2012 and she is currently a Postdoctoral Research Officer in the Language Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Clinical Research.

Current Projects
The neurocognitive substrates of naming facilitation in aphasia
  The control of language production and its neural substrates in Parkinson’s disease

Interests
Language neuroscience and psycholinguistics
  Acquired communication disorders: post-stroke aphasia, Parkinson’s disease
  Neuroimaging techniques: fMRI, diffusion imaging, EEG