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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... More
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
BU Today featured an article on one of our studies
Check it out at the link below: http://www.bu.edu/today/2015/the-upside-of-screen-time/
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!
Dr. Swathi Kiran, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Healthcare Startup Constant Therapy, Named ASHA Fellow
http://www.enhancedonlinenews.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20131114005122&newsLang=en&permalinkExtra=iPad-tools/traumatic-brain-injury/personal-therapy
Congratulations to Dr. Sofia Vallila-Rohter!
Dr Sofia Vallila Rohter succesfully defended her PhD on Oct 10th, 2013. Congratulations!
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Lab Director, Swathi Kiran named ASHA fellow
Aphasia Research Laboratory's lab director, Dr Swathi Kiran has been named one of 2013 Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association. Fellowship is one of the highest forms of recognition given by ASHA of an individual’s accomplishments, and is public declaration of Dr Kiran's outstanding professional achievements. More
BU Aphasia Lab part of $12 million Center to examine Neuroplasticity
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-75708996/
Congratulations to Zach Smith- for going on to Graduate School!
Our very own Zach Smith is going to have a nice choice of graduate programs to pick from! Congratulations Zach!
Our article in Bilingualism Language and Cognition
Our computational modeling article was highlighted as one of six key papers showing the breadth of the journal Bilingualism language and cognition!! http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialArticle?jid=BIL&bespokeId=4836&j=3033357&e=swathi.kiran374@gmail.com&l=173039_HTML&u=42933641&mid=1021741&jb=0
Recent Awards In The Lab
Congratulations to Sofia Vallila for receiving one of the 2012 New Century Doctoral Scholarships. Congratulations to Teresa Gray for receiving one of the 2012 ASHA convention travel scholarships
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... More