2025 Mentees:

MentorMentee 1Mentee 1 Presentation TitleMentee 2Mentee 2 Presentation Title
Danielle FaheyPeng ZhangWho Benefits from Structural Priming? The Role of Cognition and Language Severity in AphasiaAlex SwiderskiEvaluating Conceptual Models of Meaning in Semantic Feature Analysis: Evidence from fMRI and Representational Similarity Analysis
Maria IvanovaIsabella HuynhDemocratizing Lesion Symptom Mapping in Aphasia Research with Manual Lesion Segmentation Training Tammar TruzmanAutomated Lesion Segmentation Using Acute and Chronic Stroke MRI with nnU-Net
Mira GoralYingxue TianNaming treatment in aphasia: How individual differences and error types predict response to retrieval practice and errorless learningonse to retrieval practice and errorless learning Catherine PhamSyntactic Organization in Aphasia: Insights from Individual-Level Network Analyses of Connected Speech
Swathi KiranLoreece G HaddadSemantic relatedness and underlying sources of progressive anomia due to Alzheimer’s Disease versus FTLD-TDP-CJieun KimInvestigating Speech Pauses and Rhythm in Aphasia: A Usage-Based Approach
Denise HarveyAndrea EscotéAssessing the cognate facilitation effect in anomia therapy: Evidence from two Spanish-Catalan bilinguals with aphasiaShalom HendersonCharacterizing neural signatures of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders using functional near infrared spectroscopy
Jennifer MackSo-Eun KimA Time-Efficient Naming Assessment for Korean Speakers with Aphasia Using the Rapid Naming TestAlton ChaoLanguage experience and prediction across age groups: evidence from diachronic fine-tuning of language models
Jet VonkErin YiDemocratizing Lesion Symptom Mapping in Aphasia Research with Manual Lesion Segmentation Training Courtney JewellThe Impact of Communication Events on Communicative Stress in People with Aphasia: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
Adria RofesDaniel GutsteinIdentifying Neuropathological Disease in Primary Progressive Aphasia through Analysis of Spontaneous Speech: A Matter of Artificial IntelligenceJeremy YeatonOverarching paragrammatism: Shared circuitry for paragrammatism and syntactic comprehension deficits in post-stroke aphasia
Stephanie GrassoOona CromheeckeLanguage Follow-Up and Intervention in Different Stages of Alzheimer’s DiseaseParisa OsfooriEffect of Forced Prediction on Syntactic Priming in Neurologically Intact Middle-aged and Older Adults
Bri StarkManuel Jose MarteMultimodal analysis of linguistic, emotional, and visual attention processing of naturalistic movie stimuli in persons with aphasiaCatherine WangLanguage impairment profile of a polyglot following neurosurgical resection: a case report
Haley DresangJerry TangMapping and decoding semantic representations in aphasia after strokeGrace Terry“Overwhelmed But Curious” Care Partner Perspectives on Education, Resources, and Coping after Aphasia Diagnosis Based on Preliminary Data
Ariana LaCroixLuke SippelReducing the Need for Cueing: The Impact of tDCS on Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia Sapna ChokshiDistributional semantic similarity enhances noun-verb priming for neurotypicals, but reduces it for people with aphasia
Anthony Pak-Hin KongJiminCross-linguistic and cross-cultural effects on picture description in Korean and English individuals with and without aphasiaBobbi AubreyLeft frontal and prefrontal regions support globally coherent discourse in aphasia
Catherine OffYae Rin YooAutomated Scoring of Story Retelling Performance in People with Aphasia Using Large Language Models Andrea SuazoTheory of Mind Predicts Effective Conversation in Early Right Hemisphere Stroke
Silvia Martinez FerreiroZoe EzzesQuick Aphasia Battery in Primary Progressive AphasiaShanhua HuReplicable Error Coding: a Large-scale Automated Coder for Coding Errors in Word Production Tasks
Chris SalisFaranak KianfarThe Development of Stimuli for Bilingual Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training (BAbSANT) for Persian Persons with AphasiaChristie Carroll-DuhiggExploring Brain Electric Fields in Primary Progressive Aphasia Therapy
Ellyn RileyWenfu BaoThe Contribution of Bilingualism to Cognitive Reserve in Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence from Neuropsychological Functioning and Biomarkers Marissa Russell-MeillControl Group Design Shapes Treatment Effects in Aphasia Randomized Controlled Trials: Insights from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Chaleece SandbergKENNETH CHIEDOZIE OPARAJIBRAIN MRI FINDINGS AMONG PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS AT A NIGERIAN TERTIARY HEALTH CARE FACILITY.Ioulia AgrotouRetrieval and Conjugation of Adjectives in Spanish-English Speakers with Aphasia
William GravesOlivia Olley"It's My Life to Take Care of Her": Perspectives on Caregiving for People with AphasiaMei-Hua LiUsing Semantic Networking Strategies, Habit Formation, and Prompt Fading to Improve Anomia for Aphasic Individuals
Yasmeen Faroqi ShahGiselle YoshimotoRESPALDO: a Psychosocial Education Program for Latino/Hispanic Care Partners of People with Progressive Aphasia
Nichol CastroLynn KurteffMapping of critical prosodic and phonetic networks in post-stroke apraxia of speech
Priyanka Shah-BasakIhintza MalharinFirst steps towards simulating aphasia in a neural network of human speech processing Manon SpigarelliIntermittent Theta Burst Stimulation and Its Influence on Video Action Naming in Individuals With Post-Sroke Aphasia
Jee-Eun SungBiraj BhattaraiConversation-Based Therapy for Aphasia: Neural Reorganization and Behavioral Outcomes from a Storytelling Intervention
Tyson HarmonLogan GaudetState-of-the-art analyses of fluency tasks in healthy and neurological populationsZeinab Khoshhal MollasaraeiDevelopment and Validation of the Animated Sentence Production Test for Aphasia
Jean GordonSonia-Karin Marqués KiderleInternational Practices of Speech-Language Pathologists Working with Bilingual Speakers with Primary Progressive AphasiaMarzieh AlidadiPredicting anomia trial-to-trial treatment accuracy and learning retention via performance factor analysis
Dirk Den OudenAxel Fernandez ZaionzTraining word retrieval in aphasia through two semantic feature tasks: a case study Viktoria ZilkovaMapping Cerebellar Volume Patterns in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Its Underlying Neuropathologies
Nadine MartinMia ParkesActing vs. Cinderella Retelling: Individual Differences in Syntax Errors Between Primed and Discourse TasksAnum AminCognitive and Cognitive-Linguistic Interventions in Aphasia Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review of Treatment Approaches and Outcomes
Maya HenryGuanyu WeiSpeech-language treatment for non-progressive aphasia in people who speak tone languages
Heather DialMichael ScimecaReal-time processing of semantic constraint during silent reading: Evidence from eye trackingAlexis L. PracarSinging supports motor speech and syntax production: evidence from aphasia
Mike DickeyKathleen Bradbury-JohnTest-retest reliability of TRF-derived measures of cortical tracking of speech in individuals with aphasia
Tatiana SchnurYuval Z. KatzIn which cases are prepositions difficult to judge? Disentangling impairments in word order and functional elements in agrammatic aphasiaLauren HammondSocial Network Composition Influences Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery