Manuel Jose Marte, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Manuel Jose Marte is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a certified speech-language pathologist. He completed his Ph.D. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Boston University, where his dissertation work used a movie-viewing paradigm to examine how language, emotion, and visual attention interact in naturalistic contexts in post-stroke aphasia (P.I.: Swathi Kiran; co-PI: Einat Liebenthal, McLean Hospital). Manuel received an M.S. in Communication Disorders from SUNY New Paltz and a B.A. in Speech and Hearing Science from the University at Buffalo. Before his doctoral training, he was a speech-language pathologist specializing in traumatic brain injury and stroke neurorehabilitation at the Northeast Center for Brain Injury and Rehabilitation.

Research

His research focuses on improving outcomes for adults with neurogenic language disorders by developing predictive models of recovery, designing naturalistic paradigms that capture real-world communication demands, and examining how theories of language disorders can better reflect multilingual populations. Methodologically, his work spans behavioral, physiological, and neuroimaging measures (e.g., eye-tracking, fMRI) and computational approaches including machine learning and natural language processing.

Publications