Article on sentence comprehension therapy and generalization to discourse in Aphasiology
Our latest article on sentence comprehension therapy and its generalization to discourse is now available in Aphasiology. It is part of a special issue on generalization in aphasia rehabilitation. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02687038.2014.997182#.Veg3EflViko
Our new paper in Bilingualism Language and Cognition- Language and Cognitive Control in Bilingual Aphasia
Our latest paper is out on language control and cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=9704440&jid=BIL&volumeId=-1&issueId=-1&aid=9704435&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession=
Our Lab has four presentations at the upcoming Clinical Aphasiology Conference
Relationship between levels of assistance and changes in treatment performance in individuals with aphasia-‐Understanding individual responsiveness to rehabilitation: Des Roches, Mitko & Kiran Evaluating treatment and generalization patterns of two theoretically motivated sentence comprehension therapies; Vallila-‐Rohter, Des Roches, Tripodis, Caplan, & Kiran Understanding semantic and phonological processing deficits in adults with aphasia: Effects of category and typicality. Erin Meier, Melody Lo and Swathi Kiran Domain general vs. […]
Sofia Vallila-Rohter’s new paper accepted in JSLHR
Congratulations to Sofia Vallila-Rohter for her paper “An examination of strategy implementation during abstract nonlinguistic category learning in aphasia” accepted to JSLHR!
Aphasia Lab presents three posters at #OHBM
Aphasia Lab will present three posters on brain mapping and connectivity at the annual human brain mapping #OHBM in Hawaii in June. Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015, June). Neural activations during feedback-based and paired associate category learning in aphasia. Poster to be presented at the annual Organization for Human Brain Mapping Meeting, Honolulu, HI. […]
Lab Member Anna Kasdan gives TEDxBU talk
Anna Kasdan an undergraduate student in neuroscience and an Aphasia Lab for the last three years gave a talk at TedxBU. Check out her talk here!! http://livestream.com/tedx/TEDxBU/videos/82788728
Our article in Aphasiology
Find the full article by following the link below, which will be published in a special issue of Aphasiology examining generalization following intervention. Kiran, S., Des Roches, C., Villard, S., & Tripodis, Y. (2015). The effect of a sentence comprehension treatment on discourse comprehension in aphasia. Aphasiology.
Our lab paper one of the most read in 2014 Neurocase
http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/beh/behavioral-sciences-most-read?utm_source=author%20included%20email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Behavioral%20Sciences%20Most%20Read
Congratulations Dr. Chaleece Sandberg!
Chaleece Sandberg successfully defended her PhD thesis and is off to Penn State University for a faculty position! Congratulations!
Upcoming conference presentations from the lab
Academy of Aphasia, Oct 28-Oct 30th, San Francisco, CA. Effects of Training Sentence to Picture Matching and Object Manipulation to Improve Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia: Acquisition and Generalization Kiran S.a, Caplan D.b, Villard S.a, Ascenso E.a, Waters G.a a Speech and Hearing Sciences, Boston University b Massachusetts General Hospital Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Interference Suppression in […]