Presentations

Serrichio, C. A., Varkanitsa, M., Kiran, S. (2026, May). Hippocampal Volume as a Predictor of Associative Memory and Language Performance in Aphasia. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. 

Dunne, M., Miller K., Serrichio, A., Kiran, S. (2026, May). Development of an Aphasia- Friendly AI Chatbot. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2026, Pittsburg, PA. 

Dunne, M., Irby, K., Silverman, M., Hinckley, J., Kiran, S. (2026, May). Applying the Patient- Centered Core Impact Sets Framework to Aphasia: A Qualitative Meta- Synthesis. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. 

Wang, S., Lee, S. H., Varkanitsa, M., Kiran, S. (2026, May). Automated Macrolinguistic Discourse Analysis for Transdiagnostic Detection of Language Impairment. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. 

Lee, S. H., Wang, S., Varkanitsa, M., Kiran, S. (2026, March). Automated Main Concept Analysis in Narrative Speech for Detecting Linguistic Impairments. Poster, 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA. 

Sullivan, J., Kropp, E., Varkanitsa, M., Kiran, S. (2026, March). Syntactic Parsing in Post- Stroke Aphasia: The Role of Cerebellar- Cerebral Functional Connectivity. Platform, 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA. 

Carpenter, E., Russell- Meill, M., Scimeca, M. (2026, March). Neuroplasticity in Post- Stroke Aphasia: Mechanisms and Clinical Applications. Platform, Brain Injury Association, Boston, MA. 

Kropp, E., Carvalho, N., Sebastian, R., Kiran, S., Varkanitsa, M. (2026, February). Right Cerebellar Connectivity Enhances Prediction of Language and Cognitive Outcomes in Post- Stroke Aphasia. Poster, International Stroke Conference 2026, New Orleans, LA. 

Henderson, S., Kelley, S., Tellioglu, B., Shivers, E., Blans, H., Lee, H., Jiang, X., Hu, N., Palombizio, A., Hagan, B., Berenbaum, J., Xie, K., Buson, A., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D., Kiran, S. (2025, October). Characterizing neural signatures of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders using functional near infrared spectroscopy. Platform, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, California.

Scimeca, M.,Varkanitsa, M., Yu, I., Andre, A., Kiran, S. (2025, October). Real-time processing of semantic constraint during silent reading: Evidence from eye-tracking. Platform, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, California.

Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Goldin, K., Wei, X., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2025, October). Multimodal analysis of linguistic, emotional, and visual attention processing of naturalistic movie stimuli in persons with aphasia. Poster, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, California.

Shivers, E., Russell-Meill, M., Henderson, S., Fernández-Romero, L., Matias-Guiu, J. A., & Kiran, S. (2025, October). Comparison of picture-naming errors produced by individuals with post-stroke aphasia (PSA) and individuals with variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Poster, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, California.

Russell-Meill, M., Brady., M., Breitenstein, C., Hilari, K., & Kiran, S. (2025, October). Control Group Design Shapes Treatment Effects in Aphasia Randomized Controlled Trials: Insights from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Poster, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, California.

Magee, G., Colwell, J., Licata, J., Kelley, S., Tellioglu, B., Boas, D., Kiran, S., Varkanitsa, M., Meier, E., & Yücel, M. (2025, October). Interbrain synchrony as a potential biomarker of communicative success in aphasia: Preliminary evidence from fNIRS hyperscanning. Poster, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, California.

Kropp, E., Carvalho, N., Sebastian, R., Kiran, S., Varkanitsa, M. (2025, October). Right cerebellar functional connectivity predicts linguistic abilities in post-stroke aphasia. Poster, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, California.

Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Goldin, K., Wei, X., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2025, September). Multimodal signatures in aphasia: A convergent analysis of emotion, visual attention, and language during movie-viewing. Science of Aphasia 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Henderson, S. K., Kelley, S., Tellioglu, B., Shivers, E., Yucel, M., Boas, D., & Kiran, S. (2025, July). Characterizing neural signatures of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders using functional near infrared spectroscopy. Poster, Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference 2025, Boston, Massachusetts.

Henderson, S. K., Halai, A., Tsvetanov, K. A., Cope, T. E., Patterson, K. E., Rowe, J. B., & Lambon Ralph, M.A. (2025, July). Disentangling phonology from phonological short-term memory in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia and typical, amnestic Alzheimer’s disease. Poster, Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2025, Toronto, Canada.

Henderson, S. K., Murley, A. G., Cope, T. E., Bowns, L., Malpetti, M., Patterson, K. E., Rowe, J. B., & Lambon Ralph, M.A. (2025, July). Multidimensional cognitive deficits in the typical and atypical variants of Alzheimer’s disease. Poster, Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2025, Toronto, Canada.

Goldin, K., Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Wei, X., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2025, July). Errors in Automatic Speech Recognition Transcripts in Neurotypical Adults and Individuals with Post-Stroke Aphasia From a Naturalistic Experiment. Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference 2025, Boston, MA.

Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Goldin, K., Wei, X., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2025, July). Continuous Valence Ratings During Naturalistic Movie-Viewing Reveal Heterogeneous Language-Emotion Integration in Aphasia. Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference 2025, Boston, MA.

Penaloza, C., Varkanitsa, M., Charidimou, A., Roukens, V., Dacosta-Aguayo, R., Bermudo-Gallaget, A., Erickson, K., & Mataro, M. (2025, June). The moderating role of cerebral small vessel disease on the association between lifestyle and emotional wellbeing in healthy adults. Poster, Catalan Neuropsychological Society Spring Meeting 2025.  

Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Faris, R., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2025, June). The clinical utility of naturalistic movie-viewing: Combining emotional reactivity, gaze patterns, and contextual language processing. Poster, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2025 Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia.

Varkanitsa, M., Kurtz, J., & Kiran, S. (2025, May). Theory of mind deficits in people with post-stroke aphasia: Prevalence and links to aphasia severity and brain health. Platform, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2025, Albuquerque, NM.

Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Faris, R., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2025, May). Movie-viewing reveals novel patterns of emotional and visual processing in post-stroke aphasia. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2025, Albuquerque, NM.

Scimeca, M. & Kiran, S. (2025, May). Decoding bilingual reading impairment: A cross-linguistic perspective on alexia and aphasia. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2025, Albuquerque, NM.

Sung, J. E., Shin, J., Scimeca, M., García, A., & Kiran, S. (2025, May). Comparing Boston Naming Test performance between English and Korean speakers with aphasia. Platform, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2025, Albuquerque, NM.

Shin, J., García, A., Scimeca, M., Kiran, S., & Sung, J. E. (2025, May). Cross-cultural differences in animal fluency between Korean- and English-speaking individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2025, Albuquerque, NM.

Henderson, S. K., Rowe, J. B., & Lambon Ralph, M.A. (2025, May). Multidimensional cognitive deficits in the aphasic and amnestic variants of Alzheimer’s disease. Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2025, Albuquerque, NM.

Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Faris, R., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2025, March). Naturalistic movie-viewing paradigms reveal distinct patterns of cognitive-linguistic processing across clinical populations. Poster, Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2025 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.