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Braun, E. J., Carpenter, E. A., Gao, Y., Yücel, M. A., Boas, D. A., & Kiran, S. (2026). Cortical activity for conversational responses in young neurotypical individuals, older neurotypical individuals, and individuals with aphasia: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Imaging Neuroscience, 4, IMAG.a.1125. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1125

Liebenthal, E., Marte, M., Gillis, B., Wei, X., Galvin, C. P., Rigolo, L., Tie, Y., & Kiran, S. (2026). Evidence for impaired emotional reactivity in aphasia during naturalistic movie-viewing. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8477032/v1

Liu, H., Betke, M., Ishwar, P., & Kiran, S. (2026). Machine Learning Driven ‘Therapy Calculator’ for Self-Managed Digital Speech-Language Therapy for Individuals with Post-stroke Aphasia. MedRxiv, 2026.01.22.26344656. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.22.26344656

Russell-Meill, M., Marte, M. J., Carpenter, E., & Kiran, S. (2025). Navigating the Complexity of Bilingual Aphasia: Current Insights and Future Directions. Brain Sciences, 15(9), 989. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15090989

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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100370

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. (2025). (2025). Quantifying the impact of hair and skin characteristics on fNIRS signal quality for enhanced inclusivity. Nature Human Behaviour 2025, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02274-7

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