Dr Tammar Truzman
Dr. Tammar Truzman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, working under the supervision of Professor Matt Lambon Ralph and Dr. Ajay Halai.
She is a licensed speech-language pathologist with a long-standing clinical and academic focus on aphasia, stroke rehabilitation, and brain plasticity. Her research integrates clinical insight with advanced neuroimaging and machine learning techniques to investigate how language recovers after stroke and how therapy reshapes brain networks.
Tammar holds a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology and Communication Sciences from the University of Haifa, where she studied the effects of morphology-based language therapy on neural reorganization. Her postdoctoral work leverages large neuroimaging datasets and automated lesion segmentation tools to predict linguistic outcomes in people with aphasia.
In addition to her research, Tammar is an active contributor to academic communities. She serves as the Web Officer for the Academy of Aphasia and as a committee member for postdoctoral affairs at the University of Cambridge. She also hosts the WLTS seminar series at the MRC CBU and acts as the Community Manager for Health Professionals within the ScienceAbroad organization.
Select publications
- Truzman, T. et al. (Under internal review). Automated Lesion Segmentation Using Acute and Chronic Stroke MRI with nnU-Net.
- Truzman, T. et al. (In prep). Morphological Errors in Hebrew-Speaking People with Aphasia: Implications for Therapy.
- Truzman, T. et al. (In prep). Neural Correlates of a Hebrew Morpho-phonological Therapy for Aphasia.
- Truzman, T. et al. (2023). A Novel Morphology-Based Naming Therapy for People with Aphasia, Aphasiology.
- Truzman, T. et al. (2021). Simultaneous Normalization and Compensatory Changes in RH Connectivity During Aphasia Therapy, Brain Sciences.
- Bitan, T. et al. & Truzman, T. (2020). Morphological Decomposition and Phonological Decoding in Hebrew Dyslexic Readers, Cortex.
- Velan, B. et al. & Truzman, T. (2022). Disaffiliation from Ultra-Orthodox Communities: Cultural Fluidity and Alterity, Contemporary Jewry.
Select awards
- The Blavatnik Cambridge Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024–2026)
- ISEF Postdoctoral Fellowship for Young Scientists (2023–2025)
- NIDCD Academy of Aphasia Fellowship (2021)
- Presidential Merit Scholarship, University of Haifa (2017–2021)