Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Ph.D.

Portrait of Matthew Brook O'Donnell
Research Assistant Professor, Communication Neuroscience Lab

O'Donnell's research background includes corpus linguistics, natural language processing and data mining with a focus on extracting linguistic patterns and networks from large textual databases (or corpora). He is interested in combining linguistic analyses of media language and persuasive discourse with behavioral and neuroscience approaches.

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Matt O'Donnell is a research scientist at the Annenberg School for Communication's Communication Neuroscience Lab.

Email: 
mbod@asc.upenn.edu

O'Donnell's Network

  • Communication Neuroscience
  • Health Communication
  • Media and Communication Effects
  • Communication Neuroscience Lab