{"id":8224,"date":"2025-01-27T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbr\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:13:08","slug":"cbr-seminar-series-sofia-vallila-rohter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbr\/2025\/01\/27\/cbr-seminar-series-sofia-vallila-rohter\/","title":{"rendered":"CBR Seminar Series: Sofia Vallila Rohter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701.925\" height=\"394.284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8j_90IwglWo?si=DkercE8X4V55_NGv\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>CBR Seminar Series: Sofia Vallila Rohter, January 27, 2025<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Rehabilitation as Learning: Examining learning and strategy use in people with aphasia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Linguistic deficits are central to the diagnosis and treatment of aphasia, yet there is increasing recognition of the cognitive processes that contribute to rehabilitation outcomes, particularly the role of learning. Our lab&#8217;s research is grounded in the hypothesis that optimizing outcomes for individuals with aphasia requires an understanding of the mechanisms underlying learning and of the individualized learning profiles that might inform tailored intervention. This presentation will highlight recent work from our lab investigating the effects of different instructional approaches \u2014 errorless versus errorful learning, observational versus rule-based learning \u2014 and their impact on outcomes. We will present findings from a study investigating the processing of immediate and delayed feedback. Additionally, we will share results from a pilot treatment study that integrated metacognitive strategy training to support people with aphasia to better understand the \u201cwhy\u201d of therapy and promote generalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Education<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em>BA, Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC<br \/>\nMS, Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC<br \/>\nPhD, Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Current Position<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Co-Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Group.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Areas of Interest<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em>Aphasia Rehabilitation, Category Learning, Feedback-based learning, Feedback processing, Executive Functions, Strategy Development, Individual Differences, Neural organization of language, Neural substrates of learning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff CBR Seminar Series: Sofia Vallila Rohter, January 27, 2025 Title: Rehabilitation as Learning: Examining learning and strategy use in people with aphasia Abstract: Linguistic deficits are central to the diagnosis and treatment of aphasia, yet there is increasing recognition of the cognitive processes that contribute to rehabilitation outcomes, particularly the role of learning. 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