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Kropp, E., Varkanitsa, M., Carvalho, N., Falconer, I., Billot, A., Al-Dabbagh, M., & Kiran, S. (2025). Using unsupervised dimensionality reduction to identify lesion patterns predictive of post-stroke aphasia severity. Cortex, 188, 25–41. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.04.015

Braun, E., Carpenter, E., Gao, Y., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2025, April 21). Cortical activity for conversational responses in young neurotypical individuals, older neurotypical individuals, and individuals with aphasia: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/r2aks_v1

Marte, M. J., Carpenter, E., Scimeca, M., Russell-Meill, M., Penaloza, C., Grasemann, U., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2025). Machine Learning Predictions of Recovery in Bilingual Poststroke Aphasia: Aligning Insights With Clinical Evidence. Stroke, 56(2), 494-504. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.047867

Prabhakaran, D., Grasemann, U., Kiran, S., & Miikkulainen, R. (2025). How the Stroop Effect Arises from Optimal Response Times in Laterally Connected Self-Organizing Maps. ArXiv. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39975444

Ryskin, R., Gibson, E., & Kiran, S. (2025). Noisy-channel language comprehension in aphasia: A Bayesian mixture modeling approach. Psychon Bull Rev. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02639-z

Li, R., Chen, S., & Kiran, S. (2025). The Active Ingredients of Semantic Naming Treatment: Evidence From Mandarin-English Bilingual Adults With Aphasia. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 68(1), 216-233. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00705

Billot, A., Jhingan, N., Varkanitsa, M., Blank, I., Ryskin, R., Kiran, S., & Fedorenko, E. (2024). The language network ages well: Preserved selectivity, lateralization, and within-network functional synchronization in older brains. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.23.619954

Chen, Z., Varkanitsa, M., Ishwar, P., Konrad, J., Betke, M., Kiran, S., & Venkataraman, A. (2024). A Lesion-aware Edge-based Graph Neural Network for Predicting Language Ability in Patients with Post-stroke Aphasia. ArXiv. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39279836

Fyndanis, V., Burgio, F., Buivolova, O., Danesin, L., Gardner, Q., Kalpakidi, T., Scimeca, M., Soilmezidi, M., Kiran, S., & Dragoy, O. (2024). Teasing apart time reference-related encoding and retrieval deficits in aphasia: Evidence from Greek, Russian, Italian and English. Aphasiology, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2415927

Reilly, J., Shain, C., Borghesani, V., Kuhnke, P., Vigliocco, G., Peelle, J. E., Mahon, B. Z., Buxbaum, L. J., Majid, A., Brysbaert, M., Borghi, A. M., De Deyne, S., Dove, G., Papeo, L., Pexman, P. M., Poeppel, D., Lupyan, G., Boggio, P., Hickok, G., . . . Vinson, D. (2024). What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychon Bull Rev. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02556-7

Saxena, R., Gilbert, C., Kiran, S., & Cordella, C. (2024). Measuring Impairment-Specific Gains in Individual Cognitive Rehabilitation Through a Systematic Therapy Protocol. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 33(6), 3069-3081. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00421

Cordella, C., Marte, M. J., Liu, H., & Kiran, S. (2024). An Introduction to Machine Learning for Speech-Language Pathologists: Concepts, Terminology, and Emerging Applications. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_PERSP-24-00037

Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2024). Multilevel factors predict treatment response following semantic feature-based intervention in bilingual aphasia. Bilingualism (Cambridge, England)27(2), 246–262. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728923000391

Li, R., Gilmore, N., O’Connell, M., & Kiran, S. (2024) Evolution of speech errors after complexity-based semantic naming treatment in individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2377325

Sung, J. E., Scimeca, M., Li, R., & Kiran, S. (2024). Cross-Linguistic and Multicultural Considerations in Evaluating Bilingual Adults With Aphasia. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 33(6), 2716-2731. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00496

Calabria, M., Gallo, F., & Kiran, S. (2024). Introduction: Clinical aspects of bilingualism research in adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–2. doi:10.1017/S136672892400004X

Beach, S. D., Tang, D. L., Kiran, S., & Niziolek, C. A. (2024) Pars opercularis underlies efferent predictions and successful auditory feedback processing in speech: Evidence from left-hemisphere stroke [10.1162/nol_a_00139]. Neurobiology of Language, 1-74. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00139

Billot, A., & Kiran, S. (2024). Disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms in post-stroke language recovery. Brain and Language, 251, 105381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105381.

Angelopoulou, G., Kasselimis, D., Varkanitsa, M., Tsolakopoulos, D., Papageorgiou, G., Velonakis, G., Meier, E., Karavassilis, E., Pantoleon, V., Laskaris, N., Kelekis, N., Tountopoulou, A., Vassilopoulou, S., Goutsos, D., Kiran, S., Weiller, C., Rijntjes, M., & Potagas, C. (2024). Investigating silent pauses in connected speech: integrating linguistic, neuropsychological, and neuroanatomical perspectives across narrative tasks in post-stroke aphasia. Front Neurol, 15, 1347514. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2024.1347514

Cordella, C., Di Filippo, L., Kolachalama, V. B., & Kiran, S. (2024). Connected Speech Fluency in Poststroke and Progressive Aphasia: A Scoping Review of Quantitative Approaches and Features. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 33(4), 2091-2128. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00208

Cordella, C., & Kiran, S. (2024). Quantifying Dosage in Self-Managed Speech-Language Therapy: Exploring Components of Cumulative Intervention Intensity in a Real-World Mobile Health Data Set. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/doi:10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00285

Falconer, I., Varkanitsa, M., & Kiran, S. (2024). Resting-state brain network connectivity is an independent predictor of responsiveness to language therapy in chronic post-stroke aphasia. Cortex, 173, 296-312. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.022