Presentations
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.
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.
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, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
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.
2024
Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2024, December). Emotional processing in post-stroke aphasia: Insights from moment-by-moment valence ratings during movie-watching. Platform, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention 2024, Seattle, WA.
Russell-Meill, M., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2024, December). Outcomes of semantic feature-based therapy in bilingual aphasia: Patterns of generalization across languages. Platform, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention 2024, Seattle, WA.
Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., Liebenthal, E., & Golby, A. (2024, October) Poster, Society for Neuroscience Conference 2024, Chicago, IL.
Kropp, E., Varkanitsa, M., Carvalho, N., Falconer, I., Billot, A., Al-Dabbagh, M., and Kiran, S. (2024, October). Using Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction to Identify Lesion Patterns Predictive of Post-Stroke Aphasia Severity. Poster, Society for the Neurobiology of Language 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia.
Russell-Meill, M., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2024, October). Beyond naming: Promoting generalization in bilingual aphasia with semantic feature-based treatment. Platform, Academy of Aphasia 62nd Annual Meeting, Nara, Japan.
Marte, M. J., Gillis, B., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2024, October). Dynamics of emotion processing in post-stroke aphasia: Insights from continuous valence ratings during naturalistic movie viewing. Poster, Society for Neuroscience Conference 2024, Chicago, IL.
Gillis, B., Marte, M. J., Galvin, C., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., Kiran, S., & Liebenthal, E. (2024, August). Language and emotion processing dynamics in post-stroke aphasia: Continuous and holistic valence ratings of naturalistic movie-viewing. Poster, Neuroscience of the Everyday World 2024, Boston, MA.
Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Russell-Meill, M., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2024, July 1-3). Patterns of language recovery following anomia treatment for bilinguals with aphasia. Platform, 2024 International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
S Sung, J. E., Scimeca, M., Li, R., & Kiran, S. (2024). Cross-linguistic and multicultural effects on animal fluency performance in persons with aphasia. Platform, 53rd Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Waikoloa Beach, HI, USA.
Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Russell, M., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2024, May). Assessing assessment in bilingual aphasia: Towards cultural-linguistic equity in clinical testing. Platform, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2024, Big Island of Hawai’i, HI.
Braun, E. J., Carpenter, E., Gao, Y., Marte, M. J., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2024, May 22-25). Cortical activation for conversational question responses in individuals with post-stroke aphasia: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study Platform, 13th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation, Vancouver, Canada.
Carpenter, E., Grasemann, U., Scimeca, M., Marte, M. J., Russell-Meill, M., Peñaloza, C., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2024, May 28-June 1). A randomized controlled trial examining the predictive power of computational simulations on treatment-induced naming outcomes in Spanish-English bilingual adults with aphasia Platform, 53rd Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Big Island of Hawai’i, HI, USA.
Carpenter, E., Grasemann, U., Scimeca, M., Marte, M. J., Russell-Meill, M., Peñaloza, C., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2024, May 22-25). Simulating therapy-induced recovery in bilingual aphasia via computational modeling and machine learning approaches Platform, 13th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation, Vancouver, Canada.
Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., & Kiran, S. (2024, March). Predicting language recovery for bilingual individuals with aphasia. Platform, Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts 2024 Conference, Marlborough, MA.
2023
Cordella, C., & Kiran, S. (2023). Profiling Temporal Patterns of Connected Speech in Post-Stroke Aphasia Using a Semi-Automated Approach. Talk presented at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2023 Convention, Boston, MA, USA.
Di Filippo, L., Kiran, S., & Cordella, C. (2023). Exploring Automated Approaches for Assessing Fluency in Post-Stroke and Progressive Aphasia: A Scoping Review. Poster presented at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2023 Convention, Boston, MA, USA.
Russell, M., & Pierce, J. (2023). Breaking Down Access Barriers for PWA using Digital Therapeutics. Seminar presented. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2023 Convention November 18, 2023, Boston, MA.
Sung, J. E., Scimeca, M.*, Li, R., & Kiran, S. (2023, November). Crosslinguistic and multicultural considerations in evaluating bilingual adults with aphasia [Oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2023 Convention, Boston, MA, United States.
Falconer, I., Billot, A., Varkanitsa, M., Carvalho, N., Jhingan, N., & Kiran, S. (2023) Variability of transient synchronizations and treatment-independent recovery in post-stroke aphasia. Society for Neuroscience, Network Models Nanosymposium, Washington, D.C.
Kiran, S., (November, 2023). Using AI/ML to predict recovery in post-stroke aphasia: moving towards precision medicine. American Speech Language and Hearing Convention, Boston, MA
Varkanitsa, M., Peñaloza, C., Falconer, I., Charidimou, A. & Kiran, S. (2023). Brain health and aphasia recovery: The role of cerebral small vessel disease and integrity of functional networks. 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Reading, UK
Blankenheim, S., Peñaloza, C., Kiran, S. & Varkanitsa, M. (2023). Semantic Processing in Bilingual People with Aphasia: An Eye-Tracking Study Looking at Semantic Facilitation and Interference. Poster, 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Reading, UK.
Carpenter, E., Braun, E. J., Marte, M. J., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D. A., Kiran, S. (2023). fNIRS Functional Connectivity in Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Pilot Study. Society for Neurobiology of Language. Marseille, France.
Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Scimeca, M., Russell, M., Falconer, I. F., Peñaloza, C., Kiran, S. (2023). Factors influencing language impairment in bilingual aphasia. 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Reading, UK
Kiran, S., (Sept, 2023). Using AI/ML to predict recovery in post-stroke aphasia: moving towards precision medicine. University of Michigan Seminar Series, Ann Arbor, MI
Kiran, S. (2023). Using Naturalistic Paradigms to Understand Language Processing and Language Disorder in Post-Stroke Aphasia. Presentation in Symposium titled Naturalistic Paradigms for Brain Mapping: Clinical Applications in Neurology and Psychiatry. Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, Canada
Falconer, I., Kiran, S. (2023). Variability of transient synchronizations is related to plasticity in post-stroke aphasia recovery. Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, Canada
Billot, A, Jhingan, N, Varkanitsa, N, Falconer, I, Combs, O, Small, H, Blank, I, Fedorenko, E, Kiran, S., (2023). Robust dissociation between the language and Multiple Demand networks in aging and after a stroke, Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, Canada
Braun, E. J., Carpenter, E., Gao, Y., Marte, M. J., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2023). Cortical activity patterns for narrative production in individuals with and without aphasia via functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2023, Atlantic City, NJ.
Marte, M. J., Addesso, D., & Kiran, S. (2023). Social determinants of health and poststroke communication difficulties in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adults. Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2023, Atlantic City, NJ.
2022
Falconer, I, Varkanitsa, M, and Kiran, S. People with post-stroke aphasia have reduced temporal variability of functional connectivity in the language network compared to healthy controls. (2022) In: 60th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting; 2022 Platform Presentation, Philadelphia, PA
Falconer I, Varkanitsa M, Kiran S. Dynamic resting state functional connectivity predicts treatment response in people with post-stroke aphasia. (2022) In: Organization for Human Brain Mapping; Glasgow, UK
Addesso, D., Marte, M. J., Abdollahi, F., & Kiran, S. (2022). Social determinants of health contributing to disparities in stroke-associated variables in Hispanic populations. 16th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders, Philadelphia, PA
Anderson, J. A., Rogers, D., Gao, Y., Farzam, P., Beeler, D., Braun, E. J., Butler, L., Carpenter, E., Girnis, J., Kaplan, R., Mukadam, N., Tripathi, V., Wilson, J., Somers, D. C., Cronin-Golomb, A., Kiran, S., Ellis, T. D., Boas, D. A., Yücel, M. A. (2022). Quantification of the diverse effect of hair and skin properties on fNIRS signal quality. Accepted for poster presentation at the Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy fNIRS 2022 Conference, Boston, MA.
Billot A., Varkanitsa M., Falconer I., Kiran S., (2022) Investigating the influence of structural damage on the synchronization between the language and MD networks in post-stroke aphasia. Science of Aphasia. Bordeaux, FR
Billot A., Varkanitsa M., Falconer I., Kiran S. (2022) Temporal stroke damage predicts synchronization between the language and multiple demand networks in individuals with aphasia. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Glasgow, UK
Braun, E. J., Carpenter, E., Gao, Y., Cronin-Golomb, A., Ellis, T., Somers, D. C., von Lühmann, A., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2022). Neuroscience in the everyday world: Brain correlates of naturalistic discourse in individuals with aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy fNIRS 2022 Conference, Boston, MA. Poster
Carpenter, E., Braun E. J., Marte, M. J., Scimeca, M., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2022). Neuroscience in the everyday world: Cortical activation during computer-based conversation tasks using integrated fNIRS-EEG. Accepted for poster presentation at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2022 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Chennuri S., Billot A., Lai S., Ishwar P., Betke M., and Kiran S. (2022). Feature Analysis and Extraction for Post Aphasia Recovery Prediction. 26th UK Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA). Cambridge, UK
Cordella, C., Liu, H., Ishwar, P., Betke, M., & Kiran, S. (2022). Toward personalized treatment recommendations: The promise of data-driven approaches in speech language pathology. Accepted for presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, USA
Cordella., C. & Kiran, S.. (2022). Practice patterns in self-managed speech-language therapy: Investigating components of cumulative intervention intensity in a real-world mHealth dataset. Submitted for presentation at the 12th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation, Vienna, Austria.
Marte, M.J., Scimeca, M., Addesso, D., Abdollahi, F., & Kiran, S. (accepted). Hispanic Stroke Care in the United States: Insights from Epidemiology, Health Disparity, and Clinical Practice. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention 2022, New Orleans, LA
Marte, M. J., Addesso, D., Abdollahi, F., & Kiran, S. (2022). U.S. Hispanic ethnicity and stroke- and neurorehabilitation-associated outcomes: Disparity-driven heterogeneity. 16th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders, Philadelphia, PA
Marte, M.J., Billot, A., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic effects of a semantic treatment for anomia provided in three languages: Evidence from multilingual aphasia. International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference 2022, Philadelphia, PA
Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Combs, A., & Kiran, S. (2022, September 16-17). Enabling access to post-stroke rehabilitation in Hispanic bilinguals with aphasia: Lessons learned and challenges ahead. [Poster session]. 16th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., Carpenter, E., Marte, M. J., Falconer, I., Combs, A., Gray, T., Shamapant, S., & Kiran, S. (2022, December 14-17). Telerehabilitation for language deficits in Spanish-English individuals with post-stroke aphasia. [Submitted for oral presentation]. 12th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation, Vienna, Austria. (edited)
Xue, C., Karjadi, C., Miller, M., Cordella, C., Au, R., & Kolachalama, V. (2022). Association of acoustic perturbation measures with dementia status: A Framingham Heart Study. Presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. San Diego, CA, USA.
2021
Abdollahi, F., Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C. & Kiran, S. (2021, November). Confronting health disparities for bilinguals with aphasia. Accepted for oral presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Washington, D.C., USA.
Billot A., Lai S., Varkanitsa M., Braun E. J., Gu Y., Bahrani M., Bighetto J., Rapp B., Parrish T. B., Caplan D., Thompson C. K., Ishwar P., Betke M., Kiran S. (2021, October) Predicting post-stroke aphasia recovery from multimodal neuroimaging data. Accepted for oral presentation at the 11th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. (held virtually)
Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M. & Kiran, S. (2021). Investigating dosage frequency effects on therapy outcomes following self-managed telerehabilitation. Poster presented at: Academy of Aphasia, virtual.
Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M. & Kiran, S. (2021). Patient-level predictors of therapy outcomes following self-managed telerehabilitation. Paper presented at: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, virtual.
Gilbert, C., Citorik, A., Gilmore, N., Kiran, S. (2021, November). 2009V: Getting our CCC’s: Cognitive and Communication Rehabilitation, COVID-19, and Continuity of Care Through Telepractice. Proposal accepted for 1 hour pre-recorded oral seminar for the Hybrid 2021 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Washington, D.C.
Gilbert, C., Gilmore, N., Kiran, S. (2021, March). Enabling Functional Outcomes Through Educational Rehabilitation. Oral presentation at the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts 39th Annual Brain Injury Conference. (Delivered Virtually).
Gilbert, C. (2021, March). Aphasia: Who, What, When, Where, Why, & How. Continuing education presentation on Aphasia to the John Hancock Financial Services Clinical Team. (Delivered Virtually).
Cordella, C., Munsell, M., Godlove, J., Anantha, V., Advani, M. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Investigating dosage frequency effects on therapy outcomes following self-managed telerehabilitation. Accepted for poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Virtual.
Falconer, I., Varkanitsa, M. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Pre-treatment graph measures of resting-state functional connectivity predict language treatment outcome in aphasia. Accepted for slide slam presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Virtual)
Carpenter, E., Peñaloza, C., Rao, L., & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Clustering and switching in verbal fluency across different language contexts: Evidence from bilingual aphasia. Accepted for pre-recorded oral presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. (held virtually).
Varkanitsa, M., Peñaloza, C., Charidimou, A., Caplan, D. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Cerebral small vessel disease burden: A biomarker for post-stroke aphasia recovery. Accepted for poster presentation at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Online
Dekhtyar, M., Mukadam, N., Braun, E. J., Zheng, H., Genovese, A., & Kiran, S. (2021, November). C.H.A.T.: Communication through Health, Art and Technology, A support group for individuals with aphasia. One-hour talk accepted at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, D.C.
Braun, E. J. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Influence of stimulus- and patient-level factors on naming treatment outcomes in individuals with aphasia. Accepted for 20-minute Platform presentation at the 59th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, Virtual.
Braun, E. J. & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Influence of item- and individual-level semantic and phonological characteristics on word production in individuals with aphasia. Accepted for Slide Slam presentation at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual.
Lai, S., Billot, A., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E. J., Rapp, B., Parrish T. B., Kurani, A. S., Higgins, J., Caplan, D., Thompson, C. K., Kiran, S., Betke, M., & Ishwar, P. (2021, June). An exploration of machine learning methods for predicting post-stroke aphasia recovery. Paper presented at PETRA ’21: The 13th PErvaseive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA), Corfu, Greece. DOI: 10.1145/3453892.3461319
Marte, M.J., & Kiran, S. (2021, October). Influences on cognate facilitation in healthy bilinguals and bilinguals with aphasia. Accepted as slide slam presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.
2020
Billot A., Lai S., Varkanitsa M., Braun E. J., Gu Y., Bahrani M., Bighetto J., Rapp B., Parrish T. B., Caplan D., Thompson C. K., Ishwar P., Betke M. & Kiran S. (oral presentation, 2020) Predicting post-stroke aphasia recovery from multimodal neuroimaging data. 11th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. (held virtually)
Scimeca, M., Peñaloza, C., Gaona, A., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., Gray, T., Shamapant, S. & Kiran, S. (2020, November). A telerehabilitation protocol for word retrieval impairment in bilingual aphasia: Implementation and insights. Accepted for oral presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. San Diego, CA, USA (Convention canceled).
Peñaloza, C., Scimeca, M., Gaona, A., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., Gray, T., Shamapant, S. & Kiran, S. (2020, October). Feasibility and reliability of teletherapy for word-retrieval deficits in bilingual aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. Paris, France (held virtually).
Gilmore, N., Li, X., Yücel, M. & Kiran, S. (2020, February). Examining the neural substrates of language and cognitive processing in young adults with acquired brain injury using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Accepted as oral presentation at ABI2020 15th Annual Conference on Brain Injury. New Orleans, LA, USA.
Gilmore, N., Li, X., Yücel, M., Kiran, S., & Boas, D. (2020, January). Investigating the Neural Bases of Language and Cognitive Processing in Healthy Adults Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Accepted for poster presentation at Neurophotonics Center’s 3rd Annual Symposium. Boston, MA, USA.
2019
Faroqi-Shah Y, Milman L and Li R (2019). Comparing language performance in bilinguals and monolinguals: some measures are more equal than others. Front. Hum. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 57th Annual Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2019.01.
Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Foo, L., Billot, A., & Kiran, S. (accepted oral presentation, 2019,
November). Tele-assessment with the Western Aphasia Battery – Revised in adults with aphasia.
Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.
Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Foo, L., & Kiran, S. (2019, May). Validating the Western Aphasia Battery –Revised through tele-assessment for individuals with aphasia. Talk presented at the 1 st
International Conference on Teleneurorehabilitation, Crotone, Italy.
Dekhtyar, M., Braun, E. J., Foo, L. Kiran, S. (2019, May). Validating the Western Aphasia Battery –
Revised through tele-assessment for individuals with aphasia. Poster presented at the 49 th Annual
Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Whitefish, Montana.
Butler, L. K., Kiran, S. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (accepted poster presentation, 2019) A Systematic
Review of fNIRS Studies With People With Communication Disorders. 2019 American Speech-
Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. Orlando, FL, USA
Peñaloza, C. (oral presentation, 2019). Computational modeling of lexical access deficits and
treatment outcomes in bilingual aphasia. Clinical forum at MultiLing, Center for Multilingualism
in Society Across the Lifespan. Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University
of Oslo. Oslo, Norway.
Peñaloza, C. (oral presentation, 2019). Language recovery and prediction of treatment outcomes
in people with aphasia. Neurovascular conference series, Boston Medican Center, Boston, MA,
USA.
Gilmore, N., Foo, L. & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2019). Reframing the Continuum of Care for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. 2019 American Speech-Language
Hearing Association Convention. Boston, MA, USA.
Antonucci, S. & Gilmore, N. (round table discussion, 2019). Do aphasia core outcome sets require core analysis sets: Where do we go from here in single subject design research? The 2019 Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Whitefish, Montana, USA.
Gilmore, N., Foo, L. & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2019). A Ramp to College: Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire. 36th Annual Brain Injury
& Stroke Conference. Concord, NH, USA.
Foo, L., Gilmore, N. & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2019). Reshaping Cognitive-Linguistic Rehab for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). 2019 MIT BrainTrust Symposium. Cambridge, MA, USA.
2018
Kiran, S. (November, 2018). Neuroplasticity and language recovery in aphasia. 2018 Annual Research Symposium, American Speech Language and Hearing Association, Boston, MA.
Kiran, S. (November, 2018). Functional reorganization of the language system in aphasia. Annual Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences. Boston, MA.
Kiran, S. (June, 2018). Optimizing the Intensity of Aphasia Therapy. NeuroRehabilitation 2019. Waltham, MA.
Kiran, S. (April, 2018). Understanding and predicting aphasia recovery and after rehabilitation. Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery, Columbia, SC.
Kiran, S. (2018). Understanding neuroplasticity, Baycrest Speech Pathologist Conference, Toronto, CA.
Kiran, S. (2018). How Can Technology Enable Rehabilitation in Chronic Aphasia. Baycrest Speech Pathologist Conference, Toronto, CA.
Kiran, S. (2018). Understanding how big data analyses can inform theories of rehabilitation. Baycrest Speech Pathologist Conference, Toronto, CA.
Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2018, October). The utility of lesion classification models in predicting language abilities and treatment outcomes in persons with aphasia.56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.
Kiran, S., Meier, E., Johnson, J., Pan, Y., El Guindy, S., & Bohland, J. (2018, October). Functional networks, language impairment and recovery after treatment in aphasia. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada
Angelopolou, G., Kiran, S., Kasselimis, D., Meier, E., Pan, Y., Varkanitsa M., Tsolakopoulos, D., Papageorgiou, G., Goutsis, D., Evdokimidis, I &Potagas, C. (2018, October). Speech errors patterns in post-stroke aphasia: cross-linguistic evidence from two elicitation tasks. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.
Ryskin, R., Gibson, E., & Kiran, S. (2018, October). Adaptation to the noise in aphasic sentence comprehension. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.
Campbell, R., Ryskin, R., & Kiran, S. (2018, October). A novel eye tracking paradigm for assessing semantic and phonologic activation in aphasia. 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, Canada.
Gilmore, N., Foo, L, & Kiran, S. (oral presentation, 2018). Filling the Gap: Cognitive Rehab for College-Bound Young Adults with Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of Vermont Annual Brain Injury Conference. Waterbury, VT.
2017
Peñaloza, C., Rao, L., Kate Barrett, & Kiran, S. (2017, November). The association between language exposure and proficiency and L2 performance in bilingual adults with aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, MD.
Peñaloza, C., Grasemann, U., Miikkulainen, R., Dekhtyar, M., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). A computational account of word representation and processing in bilingual individuals. Accepted for poster presentation at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
Quillen, I.A., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). Effects of Lexical Stress on Noun and Verb Production in Aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, MD
Chaturvedi, S., Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Geng, Y., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). Changes in neural activity during a semantic verification task as a result of treatment in persons with aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 9thAnnual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
Gilmore, N., Johnson, J.P., Meier, E.L., Des Roches, Carrie & Kiran, S. (2017, November). The multidimensional nature of aphasia: Using factors beyond language to predict treatment outcomes. Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Gilmore, N., Johnson, J., Meier, E., Cardullo,S., & Kiran, S. (2017). The Multidimensional Nature of Aphasia: Using Factors beyond Language to Predict Treatment Outcomes. Aphasia Research Laboratory Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts.
Johnson, J.P., Des Roches, C., Meier, E.L., Gilmore, N., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). The multidimensional nature of aphasia: Predicting and documenting treatment outcomes with linguistic and cognitive measures. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention; Los Angeles, CA.
Johnson, J.P., Meier, E.L., Gilmore, N., Des Roches, C., Kiran, S. (2017, October). Predicting gains from aphasia rehabilitation using measures of language and cognition. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) 94th Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Geng, Y., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). White matter matters in the recovery of language in post-stroke aphasia. Accepted for poster presentation at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
Meier, E.L., Johnson, J.P., & Kiran, S. (2017, November). A clinician’s guide to neuroimaging techniques for acquired brain injury. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention; Los Angeles, CA.
Peñaloza, C., Rao, L. and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). The association between language use/proficiency and L2 performance in bilingual adults with aphasia. Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, MD.
Peñaloza, C., Grasemann, U., Miikkulainen, R., and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). A computational account of word representation and processing in bilingual individuals. Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
Ross, N., Ross, K., Gilmore, N., Des Roches, C. & Kiran, S. (2017). A Novel Approach to Intensive Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation for Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. 12th World Congress on Brain Injury. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Niziolek, C.A., Quillen, I.A., Lin, K.R., Beach, S.D., and Kiran, S. (March, 2017). Cognitive interference modulates speech acoustics in a vowel-modified Stroop task. 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society; San Francisco, CA.
Niziolek, C.A., Lin, K.R., Beach, S.D., Quillen, I.A., and Kiran, S. (June, 2017). Speech acoustics are modulated by cognitive interference in a vowel-modified Stroop task. 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; Boston, MA.
Beach, S.D., Niziolek, C.A., and Kiran, S. (September, 2017). Neural decoding of word identity and acoustic prototypicality during speech perception in listeners with and without aphasia. Sixth International Conference on Auditory Cortex; Banff, Canada.
Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). Cortical sensitivity to spoken acoustic variability in persons with aphasia: an MEG study. Seminar at the Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting; Baltimore, MD.
Niziolek, C.A., Beach, S.D., and Kiran, S. (November, 2017). Decoding the cortical sensitivity of spoken acoustic variability in persons with aphasia. Society for the Neurobiology of Language; Baltimore, MD.
2016
Ross, K., Kiran, S., Johnson, J.P., Ramesh, S., & Zedan, M. (November, 2016). A novel scoring system to analyze reading and writing errors. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention; Philadelphia, PA.
Gilmore, N., Dwyer, M. and Kiran, S. (December, 2016). A Systematic Review of Outcome Measures Utilized in Aphasia Treatment Research, including a Meta-analysis. International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference; London, England, UK.
Gilmore, N., Meier, E., Johnson, J., Cardullo, S. and Kiran, S. (December, 2016). Treatment and Generalization Effects of Training Atypical Exemplars of Well-Defined Categories for Patients with Chronic Aphasia.International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference; London, England, UK.
Kiran, S. & Godlove, J., (2016, December). Big-Data driven approaches to clinical decision making in aphasia rehabilitation. International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, London, UK
Centeno, J., Kiran, S., Munoz, M. (November, 2016). Contemporary Approaches to Assessment & Intervention with Bilingual Speakers with Aphasia. American Speech language and Hearing Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
Max, L., Behroozmand, R., Daliri, A., Hammer, M.J. and Niziolek, C.A. (2016, November). Modulation of sensory systems before & during speech production: typical & disordered speech. Seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2016, October). Behavioral and neural measures of error detection and correction in persons with aphasia. Seminar at the Academy of Aphasia 54th Annual Meeting; Llandudno, Wales, UK.
Johnson, J.P., Ross, K., & Kiran, S. (2016, October). Multi-Step Treatment for Acquired Alexia and Agraphia: Treatment Effects, Generalization, and Response to Individual Therapy Tasks. Poster 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, Llandudno, Wales.
Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2016, September). Assessing speech error detection and correction abilities in patients with aphasia: MEG and behavioral evidence. Presentation at the 11th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Cognitive Neuroscience Conference; Philadelphia, PA.
Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2016, August). Assessing error detection and correction abilities in patients with aphasia: MEG and behavioral evidence. Presentation at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language; London, UK.
Niziolek, C.A. (2016, August). Speech error detection and correction in persons with aphasia. Oral presentation at the Sensorimotor Speech Processing Symposium; London, UK.
Kasdan, A., & Kiran, S. (2016, July). Please don’t stop the music: Song completion in patients with aphasia. 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA.
Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2016, June). Treatment-induced changes in anatomical and functional regions of interest in people with aphasia. Poster presentation at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Geneva, Switzerland.
Meier, E. L., Johnson, J.P., Villard, S., & Kiran, S. (2016, May). Does naming therapy make ordering in a restaurant easier?: Dynamics of co-occurring change in cognitive-linguistic and functional communication skills in aphasia. Oral presentation at the 46th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Charlottesville, VA.
Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2016, May). Effects of semantic feature-based naming therapy on anatomical and functional regions of interest in people with aphasia. Oral presentation at 46th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Charlottesville, VA.
Johnson, J.P., Ross, K., & Kiran, S. (2016). Evaluating responsiveness to treatment and generalization in patients with acquired reading and writing deficits. Poster at the 44th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society; Boston, MA.
2015
(INVITED) Kiran, S (2015). Principles of Neuroplasticity in Aphasia. Advances in our current understanding. Braintree Neurorehabilitation conference. Boston, MA. 4.
(INVITED) Kiran, S (2015). Using big data to understand and improve rehabilitation in aphasia. Braintree Neurorehabilitation conference. Boston, MA 5.
Villard, S. & Kiran, S. (2016, February, upcoming). Between-Session and Within-Session Intra-Individual Variability in Attention in Aphasia. Presentation at the International Neuropsychological Society; Boston, MA.
Kastenbaum, J., Kiran, S., Vallila-Rohter, S., Pena, E., Bedore, L., & Sheng, L. (2015, September). The influence of language combination and proficiency on bilingual lexical access. Paper presentation at the American Speech-Language & Hearing Association; Denver, Colorado.
Villard, S. & Kiran, S. (2015, October). Now you’re with me, now you’re not: Between-session and within-session intra-individual variability in attention in aphasia. Presentation at the Academy of Aphasia; Tucson, Arizona
Meier, E., Kushal, K., & Kiran, S. (2015, October). Effective connectivity of the naming network in post-stroke chronic aphasia. The Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, IL.
Kastenbaum, J., Kiran, S., Vallila-Rohter, S., Pena, E., Bedore, L., & Sheng, L. (2015, September). The influence of language combination and proficiency on bilingual lexical access. Poster to be presented at the International Symposium of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Crete, Greece.
Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2015, September). Mechanisms of language control and cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Crete, Greece.
Kiran, S., Kapse, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Effective connectivity analysis of language networks in healthy adults and in chronic aphasia. NeuroHam, Boston, MA.
Kiran, S., Johnson, J.P., Kapse, K., Martin, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Task-Based Reorganization of Function after Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Aphasia. NeuroHAM, Boston, MA.Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015, March).
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 NeuroHam Conferences, Boston, MA.
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.
Kiran, S., Kapse, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Effective connectivity analysis of language networks in healthy adults and in chronic aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, HI.
Kiran, S., Johnson, J.P., Kapse, K., Martin, K., & Meier, E. (2015, June). Task-Based Reorganization of Function after Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Aphasia. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, HI.
Vallila-Rohter, S., Des Roches, C., Villard, S., Tripodis, Y., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2015, May). Evaluating treatment and generalization patterns of two theoretically motivated sentence comprehension therapies. Platform presentation at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Monterey, CA.
2015
Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2015, March). Control mechanisms in bilingual aphasia. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Des Roches, C., Mitko, A., & Kiran, S. (2015, May). Relationship between levels of assistance and changes in treatment performance in individuals with aphasia: Understanding individual responsiveness to rehabilitation. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Monterey, CA.
2014
Bohland, J., Kapse, K., & Kiran, S. (2014, October) Graph analytic characterization of resting state networks in post-stroke Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia, Miami, FL.
Sandberg, C., Bohland, J & Kiran, S. (2014, October). Changes in Functional Connectivity Associated with Direct Training and Generalization Effects of a Theory-Based Generative Naming Treatment. Academy of Aphasia, Miami, FL.
Krishan, G., Tiwari, S., Kiran, S., Chengappa, S., (2014, May). Cross-linguistic generalization of semantic treatment in aphasia: Evidence from the Indian context. Poster at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, St. Simons Island, Georgia.
2013
Villard, S., & Kiran, S. Consistency of Sustained and Focused Non-Linguistic Attention in Aphasia. 51st Academy of Aphasia, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2013, November). Neural activations during nonlinguistic category learning in individuals with aphasia. 2013 Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.
Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2013, May). Changes in Functional Connectivity Associated with Direct Training and Generalization Effects of a Theory-Based Generative Naming Treatment. Platform presented at the 43rd Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Tuscon, AZ.
Gray, T. & Kiran, S. (2013, March). Cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. Poster presented at the annual Boston University Scholar’s Day, Boston, MA.
2012
Gray T., Kiran S. (2012). Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Interference Suppression in Bilingual Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia. San Francisco, USA
Kiran S., Balachandran I., Lucas J., Gray T. (2012). The Nature of Lexical Semantic Access in Bilingual Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia. San Francisco, USA
Vallila, S., & Kiran, S. (2012). Exploration into feedback and nonfeedback based learning in aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Chicago, IL
Gray, T., & Kiran, S. (2012). A theoretical account of lexical semantic naming deficits in bilingual aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Chicago, IL
2011
Kiran, S., Obler, L., Ansaldo, A., Goral, M., Tainturier, M.-J., & Roberts, P. (2011). What Do We Know about Impairment and Recovery of Language in Bi-Multilingual Aphasia? Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, CA
Kiran, S., & Roberts, P. (2011). Training the Weaker Language to Examine Between-Language Transfer in Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation. Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, CA
Vallila, S., & Kiran, S. (2011). Exploration into Feedback and Non-feedback Based Learning in Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia. Montreal, CA
Kiran, S., Sandberg, C., Glynn, P., Ul-Haq, I., & Richardson, J., (2011). What is the role of the right hemisphere in the recovery of language in aphasia? Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City, CA.
Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2011). Neural correlates of treatment effects on abstract and concrete words in aphasia: A pilot study. Organization on Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City, Canada.
Kiran, S., Caplan, D., Sandberg, C., Levy, J., & Berardino, A. (2011) Development of a theoretically based treatment for sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia. Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Hoover, E., Waters, G., Levy, J., Caplan, D., Kiran. S., Berardino, A., & Sandberg , C., (2011). Effects of Syntactic Complexity in Discourse Comprehension. Clinical Aphasiology Conference. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2011). Abstract and concrete word processing in patients with aphasia. International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA.
2010
Kiran, S., Caplan, D., Sandberg, C., Levy, J., Berardino, A., & Simms, M. (2010). Development of a Theoretically Based Treatment For Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia, Athens Greece.
Levy, J., Kiran, S., Caplan., Berardino, A., & Sandberg., C. (2010). Development of a Test of Effects of Syntactic Comprehension Disorders on Discourse Comprehension. Academy of Aphasia, Athens Greece.
Kiran, S., Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C. & Miikkulianen, R. (2010). Simulating Bilingual Aphasia: A Novel Computational Model. Academy of Aphasia, Athens Greece.
Kiran, S., Cabral, F., Sandberg, C., & Tripodis, Y. (2010). Analysis of language errors as function of treatment reveals mechanisms in bilingual aphasic lexical access. Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian Spain.
Kiran, S., Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C. & Miikkulianen, R. (2010). Simulating bilingual aphasia Rehabilitation: A novel computational model. Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian Spain.
Kiran, S., Pena, E., Bedore, L., & Sheng, L. (2010). Evaluating the relationship between category generation and language use and proficiency. Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian Spain.
Bose, A., Durda, K., Kiran, S., & Buchannan, L. (2010). Verbal fluency in aphasia: word frequency and semantic similarity. 7th International conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Canada.
Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C., Kiran, S., and Miikkulainen, R. (2010). Rehabilitation and cross-language transfer in bilingual aphasia: Towards a computational model. Abstract presented at the Computation and Neural Systems Conference CNS*10, San Antonio, TX.
Roberts, P., & Kiran, S. (2010). Efficacy of semantic feature analysis in two bilingual adults treated in their weaker language. 14th International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Grasemann, U., Sandberg, C., Kiran, S., and Miikkulainen, R. (2010). Rehabilitation and cross-language transfer in bilingual aphasia: Towards a computational model. Abstract presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, ICCNS-10, Boston, MA.
Sebastian, R. & Kiran, S. (2010). Task Modulated activation patterns in chronic stroke patients with aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona Spain.
Sandberg, C. & Kiran, S. (2010). Abstract and Concrete Noun Processing in Healthy Older Adults using fMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal Canada.
Sebastian, R. & Kiran, S. (2010). Task Modulated Neural Activation Patterns in Chronic Stroke Participants with Aphasia.Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal Canada.
Book Chapters
1. Ramage, A, Kiran, S. & Robin, D. (October 2007). Has imaging advanced the science in aphasiology? A critical review of neuroimaging research in acquired adult language disorders. In R Ingham (Ed.). Neuroimaging in Communication Sciences and Disorders. San Diego, Plural Publishing.
2. Roberts, P. & Kiran, S. (2007). Assessment and treatment of bilingual aphasia and bilingual anomia. A. Ardila & E. Ramos (Eds.) Speech and Language Disorders in Bilinguals. Nova Science Publishers. New York, NY, pp 109-131.
3. Kiran, S. (2010). Exemplar. In P.C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
4. Mavis, I. & Kiran, S. (2009). Semantic relatedness judgments in normal and aphasic bilinguals. Seyhun Topbaş and Mehmet Yavaş (Eds.) Communication Disorders in Turkish in monolingual and multilingual settings. Series Editors: Nicole Mueller & Martin Ball. “Communication Disorders Across Languages”, Multilingual Matters.
6. Kiran, S., & Roberts, P (to appear). What do we know about assessing language impairment in bilingual aphasia? In M. Gitterman, L. Obler, & M. Goral (Eds). Multilingual Matters: Multilingual Aphasia.
Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings/Conference Abstracts
Kiran, S., Obler, L., Ansaldo, A., Goral, M., Tainturier, M.-J., & Roberts, P. (2011). What Do We Know about Impairment and Recovery of Language in Bi-Multilingual Aphasia? Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23(0), 10-11. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.145
Kiran, S., & Roberts, P. (2011). Training the Weaker Language to Examine Between-Language Transfer in Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23(0), 18-19. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.149
Vallila, S., & Kiran, S. (2011). Exploration into Feedback and Non-feedback Based Learning in Aphasia. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23(0), 116-117. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.197
Grasemann, U., Kiran, S., Sandberg, C., & Miikkulainen, R. (2010). Simulating Bilingual Aphasia: A Novel Computational Model. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6(0), 202-203. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.101
Levy, J., Kiran, S., Caplan, D., AlexBerardino, & Sandberg, C. (2010). Development of a Test of Effects of Syntactic Comprehension Disorders on Discourse Comprehension. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6(0), 164-165. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.081
Kiran, S., Caplan, D., Sandberg, C., Levy, J., Berardino, A., & Simms, M. (2010). Development of a Theoretically Based Treatment For Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6(0), 237-238. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.119