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Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

  • *Kiran, S., Sandberg, C., & Abbott, K. (in press). Treatment for lexical retrieval using abstract and concrete words in patients with aphasia: Effect of complexity. Aphasiology.
  • * Kiran, S. & Roberts, P. (in press). Semantic feature analysis treatment in Spanish-English and French-English bilingual aphasia, Aphasiology.
  • *Edmonds, L., Nadeu, S., & Kiran, S. (in press).Effect of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) on Sentence Production in Persons with Aphasia. Aphasiology
  • * Kiran, S. (2008). Typicality of Inanimate Category Exemplars in Aphasia Treatment: Further Evidence for Semantic Complexity. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 51, 1550-1568.
  • * Kiran, S., & Johnson, L. (2008). Semantic complexity in treatment of naming deficits in aphasia: Evidence from well-defined categories. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 17, 389-400.
  • *Pena, E., & Kiran, S. (2008). In Defense of Cookbooks: From Novice to Competent Clinician. Topics in Language Disorders.28 (3), 239-255
  • *Harris, J., Kiran, S. Marquardt, T. & Fleming. V. (2008). Communication Wellness Check-up: Age related changes in communicative abilities. Aphasiology, 22 ( 7-8), 813-825
  • *Kiran, S., & Viswanathan, M. (2008, March).Effect of model based treatment on oral reading abilities in severe alexia: A case study. Journal of Medical Speech Pathology.
  • *Kiran, S., & Bassetto, G. (2008). Evaluating the effectiveness of semantic based treatment for naming deficits in aphasia: what works? Seminars in Speech and Language, 29(1), 71-82.
  • *Kiran, S., & Lebel, K. (2007). Crosslinguistic Semantic and Translation Priming in Normal Bilingual Individuals and Bilingual Aphasia. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 4, 277-303.
  • *Kiran, S., Ntourou, K., & Eubanks, M (2007). Effects of typicality on category verification in inanimate categories in aphasia. Aphasiology, 21 (9). 844-867
  • *Kiran, S. (2007). Semantic complexity in the treatment of naming deficits. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 16(Feb), 18-29.
  • *Edmonds, L., & Kiran, S. (2006). Effect of semantic naming treatment on crosslinguistic generalization in bilingual aphasia. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 49 (4), 729-748.
  • *Kiran, S. & Tuctenhagen, J. (2005).Imageability Effects in Normal Bilingual Adults and in Aphasia: Evidence from Naming to Definition and Semantic Priming Tasks. Aphasiology, 19(3/4/5), 315-325.
  • *Kiran, S. (2005). Effect of training phoneme to grapheme conversion to improve written and oral deficits: A model based approach. Aphasiology, 19 (1), 53-76.
  • *Edmonds, L., & Kiran, S. (2004). Confrontation naming and semantic relatedness judgments in Spanish/English bilinguals. Aphasiology. 18 (5/6/7), 567-579
  • *Kiran, S. & Thompson, C. K. (2003) The role of semantic complexity in treatment of naming deficits: Training categories in fluent aphasia by controlling exemplar typicality. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 46, 608-622
  • *Kiran, S., & Thompson, C. K. (2003) Effect of typicality on online category verification of animate category exemplars in aphasia. Brain and Language, 85, 441-450.
  • *Thompson, C. K. Shapiro, L. P., Kiran, S., & Sobecks, J. (2003). The role of syntactic complexity in treatment of sentence deficits in agrammatic aphasia: The complexity account of treatment effects (CATE). Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 46, 607
  • *Kiran, S., Thompson, C.K., & Hashimoto, N. (2001). Effect of training grapheme to phoneme conversion in patients with severe oral reading and naming deficits: A model based approach. Aphasiology, 15 (9), 855 – 876.
  • *Kiran, S., & Larson, C. R. (2001). Effect of duration of pitch-shifted feedback on vocal responses in Parkinson’s disease patients and normal controls. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 44 (5), 975-988.
  • *Hain, T.C., Burnett, T.A., Larson, C.R., & Kiran, S.& Hain, T.C. (2001). Effects of delayed auditory feedback (daf) on the pitch-shift reflex. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America., 109 (5), 2146-2152.
  • *Larson, C. R., Burnett, T. A., Bauer, J. J., Kiran, S., & Hain, T. C. (2001). Comparison of voice Fo responses to pitch-shift onset and offset conditions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110 (6), 2845-2848.
  • *Larson, C. R., Burnett, T. A., Kiran, S., & Hain, T. C. (2000). Effects of pitch-shift velocity on voice Fo Responses. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107 (1), 559-564.
  • *Hain, T. C., Burnett, T. A., Kiran, S., Larson, C. R., Singh, S., & Kenny, M. (2000). Instructing participants to make a voluntary response reveals the presence of two components to the audio-vocal reflex. Experimental Brain Research, 130, 133-141.
  • *Kiran, S., & Chengappa, S. C. (1994). Learning disability and some concurrent factors: an exploratory study. Journal of All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, 24, 1-13.

* Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal articles under review/submitted

  • Sebastian, R. & Kiran, S. (submitted). Neural Correlates of Lexical Semantic Processing in Hindi-English and Spanish-English Bilinguals: The Role of Language Proficiency and Use.
  • Sebastian, R., & Kiran, S. (submitted). Meta-analysis of the neural representation of first language and second language.

Book Chapters

  • Ramage, A, Kiran, S. & Robin, D. (October 2007). Has imaging advanced the science in aphasiology? A critical review of neuroimaging research in acquired adult language disorders. In R Ingham (Ed.). Neuroimaging in Communication Sciences and Disorders. San Diego, Plural Publishing.
  • Roberts, P. & Kiran, S. (2007). Assessment and treatment of bilingual aphasia and bilingual anomia. A. Ardila & E. Ramos (Eds.) Speech and Language Disorders in
  • Bilinguals. Nova Science Publishers. New York, NY, pp 109-131.
  • Kiran, S. (March 2008). Exemplar. In P.C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mavis, I. & Kiran, S. (to appear). Semantic relatedness judgments in normal and aphasic bilinguals. Seyhun Topbaş and Mehmet Yavaş (Eds.) Communication
  • Disorders in Turkish in monolingual and multilingual settings. Series Editors: Nicole Mueller & Martin Ball.”Communication Disorders Across Languages”, Multilingual Matters.

Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings/Conference Abstracts

  • Kiran, S. (2007). Recovery from brain damage: Role of exemplar typicality within categories. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI-07, Nashville, TN, p 201). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Kiran. S. (2007). Effect of semantic based treatment on naming in bilingual aphasia: A follow up study. Special Symposium on Communication Disorders in bilingual speakers. International Bilingualism Symposium. Hamburg, Germany.
  • Kiran, S. & Lebel. S. (2007). Crosslinguistic semantic and translation priming in normal bilingual individuals and bilingual aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
  • Kiran, S. Shamapant, S., DeLyria. (2006). Typicality within well defined categories in aphasia. Brain and Language, 99, 149-151.
  • Kiran, S, Ntourou, K., Eubank, S., & Shamapant, S. (2005). Typicality of inanimate category examples in aphasia: Further evidence for the semantic complexity effect. Brain and Language, 95 (1), 178-180.
  • Kiran, S., & Edmonds, (2004). Effect of semantic naming treatment on crosslinguistic generalization in bilingual aphasia. Brain and Language, 91, 75-77.
  • Kiran, S., Tuchtenhagen, J., & Spelman. (2003). Effect of training phoneme to grapheme conversion to improve written and oral deficits. Brain and Language, 87, 139-141
  • Kiran, S., Thompson, C. K., & Medin, D. L. (2001). Effect of exemplar typicality of naming deficits in aphasia. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI-01, Edinburgh, UK), 528-533). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Kiran, S., & Thompson, C.K. (2001). Typicality of category examples in aphasia. Evidence from reaction time and treatment data. Brain and Language ,79 (10), pp 27-31.
  • Kiran, S., & Thompson, C.K. (2000). Grapheme to phoneme conversion treatment in patients with severe oral reading and naming deficits. Brain and Language, 74 (3), pp 452-457.
  • Kiran, S., & Thompson, C. K. (1998). Lexical activation of polysemous word meanings in normal young and elderly individuals. Brain and Language, 65 (1)pp. 87-90.