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2025

Hu, X., Varkanitsa, M., Kropp, E., Betke, M., Ishwar, P., & Kiran, S. (2025). Aphasia severity prediction using a multi-modal machine learning approach. NeuroImage, 317, 121300. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEUROIMAGE.2025.121300

Russell-Meill, M., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2025). Measurement of cross-language and cross-domain generalization following semantic feature-based anomia treatment in bilingual aphasia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2025.2522196

Peñaloza, C., Marte, M. J., Billot, A., & Kiran, S. (2025). Cross-language interaction during sequential anomia treatment in three languages: Evidence from a trilingual person with aphasia. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.017

Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., Carpenter, E. A., Marte, M. J., Russell-Meill, M., & Kiran, S. (2025). The evolution of word retrieval errors during semantic feature-based therapy in bilingual aphasia. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100370

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

Falconer, I., Varkanitsa, M., Billot, A., & Kiran, S. (2025). Temporal Variability of Dynamic Functional Connectivity as a Predictor of Network Changes and Recovery in Post-stroke Aphasia (P4-4.005). Neurology, 104(7_Supplement_1), 2947. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000210687

Sung, J.E., Shin, J., Scimeca, M., Li, R, & Kiran, S. (2025). Cross-Linguistic and Multicultural Effects on Animal Fluency Performance in Persons With Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00398

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

Marte, M. J., Russell-Meill, M., Carvalho, N., & Kiran, S. (2025). Charting the Course of Aphasia Recovery: Factors, Trajectories, and Outcomes. Annual Review of Linguistics, 11(Volume 11, 2025), 111–136. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011724-121245

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

Kiran, S., Varkanitsa, M., Billot, A., Carpenter, E., & Falconer, I. (2025). Individual differences in neuroplastic recovery. In J. H. Grafman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (Second Edition) (pp. 758–774). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820480-1.00206-0

2024

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

Yücel, M. A., Anderson, J. E., Rogers, D., Hajirahimi, P., Farzam, P., Gao, Y., Kaplan, R. I., Braun, E. J., Mukadam, N., Duwadi, S., Carlton, L., Beeler, D., Butler, L. K., Carpenter, E., Girnis, J., Wilson, J., Tripathi, V., Zhang, Y., Sorger, B., von Lühmann, A., Somers, D. C., Cronin-Golomb, A., Kiran, S., Ellis, T. D., Boas, D. A. (2024). Inclusivity in fNIRS Studies: Quantifying the Impact of Hair and Skin Characteristics on Signal Quality with Practical Recommendations for Improvement. BioRxiv, 2024.10.28.620644. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.28.620644

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

Li, R., Gilmore, N., O’Connell, M., & Kiran, S. (2024). Evolution of word production errors after typicality-based semantic naming treatment in individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology, 39(6), 772–797. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2377325

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

2023

Breitenstein, C., Hilari, K., Menahemi-Falkov, M., L. Rose, M., Wallace, S. J., Brady, M. C., Hillis, A. E., Kiran, S., Szaflarski, J. P., Tippett, D. C., Visch-Brink, E., & Willmes, K. (2023). Operationalising treatment success in aphasia rehabilitation [10.1080/02687038.2021.2016594]. Aphasiology, 37(11), 1693-1732. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02687038.2021.2016594

Barbieri, E., Thompson, C. K., Higgins, J., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., Rapp, B., & Parrish, T. (2023). Treatment-induced neural reorganization in aphasia is language-domain specific: Evidence from a large-scale fMRI study [10.1016/j.cortex.2022.11.008]. Cortex, 159, 75-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.11.008

Varkanitsa, M., Kiran, S. (2023) Insights gained over 60 years on factors shaping post-stroke aphasia recovery: A commentary on Vignolo (1964). Cortex. 2024 Jan;170:90-100. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.12.002. Epub 2023 Dec 6. PMID: 38123405.

Karjadi, C., Xue, C., Cordella, C., Kiran, S., Paschalidis, I.C., Au. R., Kolachalama, V.B. (2023). Fusion of Low-Level Descriptors of Digital Voice Recordings for Dementia Assessment. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023;96(2):507-514. doi: 10.3233/JAD-230560. PMID: 37840494; PMCID: PMC10657667.

Li, R., & Kiran, S. (2023). Treatment-Induced Recovery Patterns Between Nouns and Verbs in Mandarin-English Bilingual Adults With Aphasia. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00236

Chennuri S., Billot A., Lai S., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E., Venkataraman, A. Konrad, J., Kiran S. Ishwar P., Betke M., (2023). Fusion approaches to predict post-stroke aphasia recovery from multimodal neuroimaging data. International Conference on Computer Vision, Computer Vision for Automated Medical Diagnosis (ICCV-CVAMD) Workshop 2023

Marte, M. J., Addesso, D., & Kiran, S. (2024). Association Between Social Determinants of Health and Communication Difficulties in Poststroke U.S. Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Populations [10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00232]. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 33(1), 248-261. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00232

Peñaloza, C., Grasemann, U., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2023). Modeling Bilingualism as a Dynamic Phenomenon in Healthy and Neurologically Affected Speakers Across the Lifespan: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions” [10.1111/lang.12566]. Lang Learn, 73(Suppl 2), 78-82. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.12566

Scimeca, M, Peñaloza, C, Kiran, S. (2023). Multilevel factors predict treatment response following semantic feature-based intervention in bilingual aphasia. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 2023:1-17. doi:10.1017/S1366728923000391, NIHMSID 1897605

R. & Kiran, S. (2023) Noun and Verb Impairment in Single-Word Naming and Discourse Production in Mandarin-English Bilingual Adults with Aphasia, Aphasiology,DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2023.2189994; NIHMSID1881463

Marte MJ, Peñaloza C, Kiran S. (2023). The cognate facilitation effect on lexical access in bilingual aphasia: Evidence from the Boston Naming Test. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 26(5):1009-1025. doi:10.1017/S1366728923000251; NIHMS 1881239

Varkanitsa M, Peñaloza C, Charidimou A, Kiran S. (2023) Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden: An Independent Biomarker for Anomia Treatment Responsiveness in Chronic Stroke Patients With Aphasia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. S0003-9993(23)00341-6. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2023.05.008. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37290492.

Liu, H., Cordella, C., Ishwar, P., Betke, M., & Kiran, S. (2023). Consistent long-term practice leads to consistent improvement: Benefits of self-managed therapy for language and cognitive deficits using a digital therapeutic [Original Research]. Frontiers in digital health, 5.https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1095110/full https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1095110

Varkanitsa, M., Godecke, E., & Kiran, S. (2023). How Much Attention Do We Pay to Attention Deficits in Poststroke Aphasia? Stroke, 54(1), 55-66. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.037936 PMC36542078

Beach, S., Niziolek, C., & Kiran, S., (in press). Pars opercularis underlies efferent predictions and successful auditory feedback processing in speech: Evidence from left-hemisphere stroke, Neurobiology of Language. http://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00139

Billot, A., & Kiran, S., (in press). Disentangling Neuroplasticity Mechanisms in Post-Stroke Language Recovery. Keynote article, Brain and Language https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105381

Cordella, C., Di Filippo, L., Kolachalama, V.B., & Kiran, S. (in press). Connected speech fluency in post-stroke and progressive aphasia: a scoping review of quantitative approaches and features. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00208

Cordella, C., & Kiran, S. (in press). Quantifying dosage in self-managed speech-language therapy: Exploring components of cumulative intervention intensity in a real-world mHealth dataset, American Journal of Speech Language Pathology https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00285

Karjadi, C., Xue, C., Cordella, C., Kiran, S., Paschalidis, I., Au, R. Kolachalama, V. (accepted). Fusion of low-level descriptors of digital voice recordings for dementia assessment. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-230560

Cordella, C., Di Filippo, L., Kolachalama, V.B., & Kiran, S. (under revision). Connected speech fluency in post-stroke and progressive aphasia: a scoping review of quantitative approaches and features. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.

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

Li, R., & Kiran, S. (2023). Treatment-Induced Recovery Patterns Between Nouns and Verbs in Mandarin-English Bilingual Adults With Aphasia. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00236

Wallace, S. J., Worrall, L., Rose, T. A., Alyahya, R. S. W., Babbitt, E., Beeke, S., de Beer, C., Bose, A., Bowen, A., Brady, M. C., Breitenstein, C., Bruehl, S., Bryant, L., Cheng, B. B. Y., Cherney, L. R., Conroy, P., Copland, D. A., Croteau, C., Cruice, M., . . . Dorze, G. L. (2023). Measuring communication as a core outcome in aphasia trials: Results of the ROMA-2 international core outcome set development meeting. Int J Lang Commun Disord, 58(4), 1017-1028. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12840

2022

Braun, E. J., & Kiran, S. (2022). Stimulus- and Person-Level Variables Influence Word Production and Response to Anomia Treatment for Individuals With Chronic Poststroke Aphasia. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 65(10), 3854-3872. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00527

Braun, E. J., Billot, A., Meier, E. L., Pan, Y., Parrish, T. B., Kurani, A. S., & Kiran, S. (2022). White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia. Brain and Language, 232, 105163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105163

Billot, A., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Parrish, T. B., Thompson, C. K., Rapp, B., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2022). Structural disconnections associated with language impairments in chronic post-stroke aphasia using disconnectome maps. Cortex, 155, 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.06.016

Varkanitsa, M., & Kiran, S. (2022, May 23). Understanding, facilitating and predicting aphasia recovery after rehabilitation. International journal of speech-language pathology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2075036

Scimeca, M., Abdollahi, F., Penaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2022, Jul-Aug). Clinical perspectives and strategies for confronting disparities in social determinants of health for Hispanic bilinguals with aphasia. J Commun Disord, 98, 106231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106231

Marte, M. J., Carpenter, E., Falconer, I. B., Scimeca, M., Abdollahi, F., Penaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2022). LEX-BADAT: Language EXperience in Bilinguals With and Without Aphasia DATaset. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 875928. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875928

Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M., & Kiran, S. (2022, Jul 20). Dosage Frequency Effects on Treatment Outcomes Following Self-managed Digital Therapy: Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of medical Internet research, 24(7), e36135. https://doi.org/10.2196/36135

Gilmore, N., Mirman, D., & Kiran, S. (2022, Apr 4). Young Adults With Acquired Brain Injury Show Longitudinal Improvements in Cognition After Intensive Cognitive Rehabilitation. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 65(4), 1494-1520. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00324

Billot, A., Lai, S., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E. J., Rapp, B., Parrish, T. B., Higgins, J., Kurani, A. S., Caplan, D., Thompson, C. K., Ishwar, P., Betke, M., & Kiran, S. (2022, Jan 26). Multimodal Neural and Behavioral Data Predict Response to Rehabilitation in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia. Stroke, STROKEAHA121036749. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.036749

Walenski, M., Chen, Y., Litcofsky, K. A., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., Rapp, B., Parrish, T. B., & Thompson, C. K. (2022, May). Perilesional Perfusion in Chronic Stroke-Induced Aphasia and Its Response to Behavioral Treatment Interventions. Neurobiol Lang (Camb), 3(2), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00068

Gilbert, C., Mooradian, G., Citorik, A., Gilmore, N., & Kiran, S. (2022, Jan 28). Multi-level outcomes for young adults with acquired brain injury through a remote intensive cognitive rehabilitation approach: a pilot intervention study. Brain Inj, 36(2), 206-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2022.2034961

2021

Boyle, M., Gordon, J., Harnish. S., Kiran, S., Martin, N., Rose, M., Salis, C. (2021). Evaluating Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches to Interventions for Aphasia within the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Nov 23;. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.07.816. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34822844.

Fridriksson, J., Basilakos, A.,…Kiran, S., Martin, N. (2021) Demystifying the complexity of aphasia treatment: Application of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.08.025. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34748758.

Basilakos, A., Hula, W.D., Johnson, L.P., Kiran, S., Walker, G.M., Fridriksson, J.(2021). Defining the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Action in Aphasia Therapies: Applying the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System Framework to Research and Practice in Aphasia. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2021 Nov 5;. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.10.017. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34748759.

Hill, A.J., Paik, N.J., Kiran, S., Tonin, P. (2021) Editorial: Tele-NeuroRehabilitation. Frontier In Neurology12:761690. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.761690. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34867746; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8638739.

Johnson, J.P., Meier, E.L., Pan, Y., Kiran, S. (2021) Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy. Brain and Language Dec;223:105042. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105042. Epub 2021 Oct 22. PubMed PMID: 34695614

Gilmore, N., Yucel, M. A., Li, X., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2021). Investigating language and domain-general processing in neurotypicals and individuals with aphasia — a functional near-infrared spectroscopy feasibility study,Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, section Brain Imaging and Stimulation, 15:728151. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2021.728151, PubMed PMID: 34602997

Carpenter, E., Penaloza, C., Rao, L., & Kiran, S. (2021). Clustering and switching in verbal fluency across varying degrees of cognitive control demands: Evidence from healthy bilinguals and bilinguals with aphasia. Neurobiology of Language. doi:10.1162/nol_a_00053

Gilmore, N., Katz, D. I., & Kiran, S. (2021). Acquired Brain Injury in Adults: A Review of Pathophysiology, Recovery, and Rehabilitation. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. doi:10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00013

Peñaloza, C, Scimeca, M, Gaona, A, Carpenter, E, Mukadam N, Gray, T, Shamapant S and Kiran, S. (2021). Telerehabilitation for word retrieval deficits in bilinguals with aphasia: Effectiveness and reliability as compared to in-person language therapy. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 589330. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.589330

Li, R., Perrachione, T., Tourville, J., & Kiran, S. (2021). Representation of Semantic Typicality in Brain Activation in Healthy Adults and Individuals with Aphasia: a Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis. Neuropsychologia, 107893. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107893

Grasemann, U., Penaloza, C., Dekhtyar, M., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2021). Predicting language treatment response in bilingual aphasia using neural network-based patient models. Nature Scientific Reports, 11(1), 10497. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89443-6 PMC8131385

Kiran, S. (2021). A Virtual, Randomized, Control Trial of a Digital Therapeutic for Speech, Language, and Cognitive Intervention in Post-stroke Persons With Aphasia. Frontiers in Neurology, Neurorehabilitation 12(34). doi:10.3389/fneur.2021.62678

Iorga M, Higgins J, Caplan D, Zinbarg R, Kiran S, Thompson CK, Rapp B, Parrish TB. Predicting language recovery in post-stroke aphasia using behavior and functional MRI. Sci Rep. 2021 Apr 19;11(1):8419. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-88022-z

Braley, M., Pierce, J. S., Saxena, S., De Oliveira, E., Taraboanta, L., Anantha, V., . . . Kiran, S. (2021). A Virtual, Randomized, Control Trial of a Digital Therapeutic for Speech, Language, and Cognitive Intervention in Post-stroke Persons With Aphasia. Frontiers in Neurology, 12(34). doi:10.3389/fneur.2021.626780

von Lühmann, A., Zheng, Y., Ortega-Martinez, A., Kiran, S., Somers, D. C., Cronin-Golomb, A., . . . Yücel, M. A. (2021). Towards Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 100272. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobme.2021.100272

2020

Peñaloza C, Barrett K, Kiran S. The influence of prestroke proficiency on poststroke lexical-semantic performance in bilingual aphasia. Aphasiology. 2020;34(10):1223-1240. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2019.1666082.

Peñaloza, C., Dekhtyar, M., Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., & Kiran, S. (2020). Predicting treatment outcomes for bilinguals with aphasia using computational modeling: Study protocol for the PROCoM randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10(11), e040495. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040495

Lukic, S., Thompson, C. K., Barbieri, E., Chiappetta, B., Bonakdarpour, B., Kiran, S., . . . Caplan, D. (2020). Common and distinct neural substrates of sentence production and comprehension. Neuroimage, 224, 117374. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117374

Varkanitsa, M., Peñaloza, C., Charidimou, A., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2020). White Matter Hyperintensities Predict Response to Language Treatment in Poststroke Aphasia. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 34(10), 945–953. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968320952809

Butler, L. K., Kiran, S., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2020). Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Study of Speech and Language Impairment Across the Life Span: A Systematic Review. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 29(3), 1674-1701. doi:10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00050

Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2020). Pre-treatment graph measures of a functional semantic network are associated with naming therapy outcomes in chronic aphasia. Brain and Language, 207, 104809. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104809

Li R, Li W, Kiran S. Effect of Mandarin Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) in Mandarin-English bilinguals with aphasia: A single-case experimental design. Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2020 Jun 5:1-30. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2020.1773278.

Higgins, J., Barbieri, E., Wang, X., Mack, J., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., . . . Parrish, T. (2020). Reliability of BOLD signals in chronic stroke-induced aphasia. European Journal of Neuroscience doi:10.1111/ejn.14739

Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Billot, A., Foo, L., Kiran, S., (2020). Videoconference administration of the Western Aphasia Battery – Revised: Feasibility and Validity, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29, 673-687. DOI: 10.1044/2019_AJSLP-19-00023

Angelopoulou, G., Meier, E. L., Kasselimis, D., Pan, Y., Tsolakopoulos, D., Velonakis, G., . . . Kiran, S. (2020). Investigating Gray and White Matter Structural Substrates of Sex Differences in the Narrative Abilities of Healthy Adults. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13(1424).https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01424

Munsell, M., De Oliveira, E., Saxena, S., Godlove, J., & Kiran, S. (2020). Closing the Digital Divide in Speech, Language, and Cognitive Therapy: Cohort Study of the Factors Associated With Technology Usage for Rehabilitation. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(2), e16286. doi:10.2196/1628

Dekhtyar, M., Kiran, S., & Gray, T. (2020). Is bilingualism neuroprotective for patients with aphasia Neuropsychologia, 139, 107355. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107355

Sandberg C, Gray T, Kiran S. Development of a Free Online Interactive Naming Therapy for Bilingual Aphasia. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2020 Feb 7;29(1):20-29. doi: 10.1044/2019_AJSLP-19-0035.

Centeno, J. G., Kiran, S., & Armstrong, E. (2020). Aphasia management in growing multiethnic populations. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1314-1318. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1781420

Centeno, J. G., Kiran, S., & Armstrong, E. (2020). Epilogue: Harnessing the experimental and clinical resources to address service imperatives in multiethnic aphasia caseloads. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1451-1455. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1781421

Carpenter, E., Rao, L., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2020). Verbal fluency as a measure of lexical access and cognitive control in bilingual persons with aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1341-1362. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1759774

2019

Kiran S. Introduction to the 2018 Research Symposium Forum. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2019 Nov 22;62(11):3905-3906. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00297.

Kiran, S., Meier, E. L., & Johnson, J. P. (2019). Neuroplasticity in Aphasia: A Proposed Framework of Language Recovery. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 62(11), 3973-3985. doi:10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-RSNP-19-0054

Johnson JP, Meier EL, Pan Y, Kiran S. Treatment-related changes in neural activation vary according to treatment response and extent of spared tissue in patients with chronic aphasia. Cortex. 2019 Dec;121:147-168. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.08.016.

Meier EL, Johnson JP, Pan Y, Kiran S. A lesion and connectivity-based hierarchical model of chronic aphasia recovery dissociates patients and healthy controls. Neuroimage Clin. 2019;23:101919. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101919.

Peñaloza C, Grasemann U, Dekhtyar M, Miikkulainen R, Kiran S. BiLex: A computational approach to the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure on bilingual lexical access. Brain Lang. 2019 Aug;195:104643. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104643.

Meier EL, Johnson JP, Pan Y, Kiran S. The utility of lesion classification in predicting language and treatment outcomes in chronic stroke-induced aphasia. Brain Imaging Behav. 2019 Dec;13(6):1510-1525. doi: 10.1007/s11682-019-00118-3.

Kiran, S and Thompson CK (2019) Neuroplasticity of Language Networks in Aphasia: Advances, Updates, and Future Challenges. Front. Neurol. 10:295. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00295

Kastenbaum JG, Bedore LM, Peña ED, Sheng L, Mavis I, Sebastian-Vaytadden R, Rangamani G, Vallila-Rohter S, Kiran S. The influence of proficiency and language combination on bilingual lexical access. Biling (Camb Engl). 2019 Mar;22(2):300-330. doi: 10.1017/S1366728918000366.

Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M., Des Roches, C., & Kiran, S. (2019). Comparison of therapy practice at home and in the clinic: A retrospective analysis of the Constant Therapy platform data set. Frontiers in Neurology, Stroke. Neurol. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00140

Europa, E., Gitelman, D., Kiran, S., Thompson, C.K. (2019). Neural connectivity in syntactic movement processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00027

Gilmore N, Meier EL, Johnson JP, Kiran S. Nonlinguistic Cognitive Factors Predict Treatment-Induced Recovery in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Jul;100(7):1251-1258. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.12.024.

Gilmore N, Ross K, Kiran S. The Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation Program for Young Adults With Acquired Brain Injury. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2019 Mar 11;28(1S):341-358. doi: 10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0153.

Gilmore N, Dwyer M, Kiran S. Benchmarks of Significant Change After Aphasia Rehabilitation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Jun;100(6):1131-1139.e87. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.08.177.

2018

2017

Thompson, C. K., Walenski, M., Chen, Y., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., Rapp, B., … Parrish, T. B.(2017). Intrahemispheric Perfusion in Chronic Stroke-Induced Aphasia. Neural Plasticity, 2017, [2361691]. DOI 1155/2017/2361691

Des Roches, C., Mitko, A., & Kiran, S. (2017). Relationship between self-administered cues and rehabilitation outcomes in individuals with aphasia: Understanding individual responsiveness to a technology-based rehabilitation program. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11:7. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00007

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Villard, S., & Kiran, S. (2017). Does Naming Therapy Make Ordering in a Restaurant Easier? Dynamics of Co-Occurring Change in Cognitive-Linguistic and Functional Communication Skills in Aphasia. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 1044/2016_AJSLP-16-0028, 1-15. doi:10.1044/2016_AJSLP-16-0028

Bose A, Wood R, Kiran S. Semantic fluency in aphasia: clustering and switching in the course of 1 minute. Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2017 May;52(3):334-345. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12276.

Des Roches CA, Kiran S. Technology-Based Rehabilitation to Improve Communication after Acquired Brain Injury. Front Neurosci. 2017 Jul 28;11:382. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00382.

Lukic, S., Barbieri., E., Wang, X., Caplan, D., Kiran, S.,, B., Parrish, T., & Thompson, C. (2017). Right Hemisphere Grey Matter Volume and Language Recovery in Stroke Aphasia. Neural Plasticity. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5601509

Ross, K., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. (2017). Multi-step treatment for acquired alexia and agraphia (part II): a dual-route error scoring system. Neuropsychol Rehabil, 1080/09602011.2017.1311796, 1-40. doi:10.1080/09602011.2017.1311796

Johnson, J. P., Ross, K., & Kiran, S. (2017). Multi-step treatment for acquired alexia and agraphia (Part I): efficacy, generalisation, and identification of beneficial treatment steps. Neuropsychol Rehabil, 1080/09602011.2017.1311271, 1-31. doi:10.1080/09602011.2017.1311271

Blank, I. A., Kiran, S., & Fedorenko, E. (2017). Can neuroimaging help aphasia researchers? Addressing generalizability, variability, and interpretability. Cogn Neuropsychol, 34(6), 377-393. doi:10.1080/02643294.2017.1402756

Peñaloza, C. & Kiran, S. (2017). Neuroimaging evidence in the treatment of bilingual/multilingual adults with aphasia. Perspectives ASHA SIGs, 2 (SIG 2), 126–131. https://doi.org/10.1044/persp2.SIG2.126

Ripollés, P., Biel, D., Peñaloza, C., Kaufmann, J., Marco-Pallares, J., Noesselt, T., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2017). Strength of temporal white matter pathways predicts semantic learning success. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(46), 11101-11113. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1720-17.2017

2016

2015

Kiran, S., Des Roches, C., Villard, S. & Tripodis, Y. (2015). The effect of a sentence comprehension treatment on discourse comprehension in aphasia. Aphasiology. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2014.997182. NIHMS #648981

Sandberg CW, Bohland JW, Kiran S. Changes in functional connectivity related to direct training and generalization effects of a word finding treatment in chronic aphasia. Brain Lang. 2015 Nov;150:103-16. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.09.002.

Keane C, Kiran S. The nature of facilitation and interference in the multilingual language system: insights from treatment in a case of trilingual aphasia. Cogn Neuropsychol. 2015;32(3-4):169-94. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2015.1061982.

Kiran S, Meier EL, Kapse KJ and Glynn PA (2015) Changes in task-based effective connectivity in language networks following rehabilitation in post-stroke patients with aphasia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9:316. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00316

Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015). An examination of strategy implementation during abstract Nonlinguistic category-learning in aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, August 2015, Vol. 58, 1195-1209. doi:10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0257

Des Roches, C., Balachandran, I., Ascenso, E., Tripodis, Y., S. (2015). Effectiveness of an impairment-based individualized treatment program using an iPad-based software platform. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.01015

Villard, S., & Kiran, S. (2015). Between-session intra-individual variability in sustained, selective, and integrational non-linguistic attention in aphasia. Neuropsychologia. 66, 204-212, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.02

Edward Gibson, Chaleece Sandberg, Evelina Fedorenko, Leon Bergen & Swathi Kiran(2016)A rational inference approach to aphasic language comprehension,Aphasiology,30:11,1341-1360, DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2015.1111994

Meier, E. Lo, M., & Kiran, S., (2015). Understanding semantic and phonological deficits in aphasia: effects of category and typicality in semantic processing. Aphasiology, DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2015.1081137 NIHMSID 714642

Gray, T., & Kiran, S., (2015). The relationship between language control and cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 2-20; DOI: 10.1017/S1366728915000061

Johnson, J., & Kiran, S., (2015). Preserving the flexibility of single-subject experimental design—a commentary on “Optimising the design of intervention studies: critiques and ways forward”. Aphasiology. DOI: 1080/02687038.2014.987047

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2005 and Before

Swathi Kiran & Julie Tuchtenhagen (2005) Imageability effects in normal Spanish–English bilingual adults and in aphasia: Evidence from naming to definition and semantic priming tasks, Aphasiology, 19:3-5, 315-327, DOI: 10.1080/02687030444000778

Swathi Kiran (2005) Training phoneme to grapheme conversion for patients with written and oral production deficits: A model‐based approach, Aphasiology, 19:1, 53-76, DOI: 10.1080/02687030444000633

Edmonds, L., & Kiran, S. (2004). Confrontation naming and semantic relatedness judgments in Spanish/English bilinguals. Aphasiology. 18 (5/6/7), 567-579 DOI:10.1080/02687030444000057

Kiran, S., & Thompson, C. K. (2003). The role of semantic complexity in treatment of naming deficits: training semantic categories in fluent aphasia by controlling exemplar typicality. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 46(4), 773–787. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2003/061)

Kiran S, Thompson CK. (2003). Effect of typicality on online category verification of animate category exemplars in aphasia. Brain Lang. 2003 Jun;85(3):441-50. doi: 10.1016/s0093-934x(03)00064-6.

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 efficacy (CATE). Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 46(3), 591–607. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2003/047)

*Kiran S, Larson CR. Effect of duration of pitch-shifted feedback on vocal responses in patients with Parkinson’s disease. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2001 Oct;44(5):975-87. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2001/076).

*Hain TC, Burnett TA, Larson CR, Kiran S. Effects of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) on the pitch-shift reflex. J Acoust Soc Am. 2001 May;109(5 Pt 1):2146-52. doi: 10.1121/1.1366319.

*Larson CR, Burnett TA, Bauer JJ, Kiran S, Hain TC. Comparison of voice F0 responses to pitch-shift onset and offset conditions. J Acoust Soc Am. 2001 Dec;110(6):2845-8. doi: 10.1121/1.1417527.

*Larson CR, Burnett TA, Kiran S, Hain TC. Effects of pitch-shift velocity on voice Fo responses. J Acoust Soc Am. 2000 Jan;107(1):559-64. doi: 10.1121/1.428323.

*Hain TC, Burnett TA, Kiran S, Larson CR, Singh S, Kenney MK. Instructing subjects to make a voluntary response reveals the presence of two components to the audio-vocal reflex. Exp Brain Res. 2000 Jan;130(2):133-41. doi: 10.1007/s002219900237.

*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