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About<\/strong>
\nSharon Wang is a behavioral neuroscience PhD student at the Center for Brain Recovery. She is broadly interested in improving assessment strategies in patients with cognitive-linguistic impairments. One project she has been working on is developing a fully automated pipeline to generate speech features from discourse audio samples. Additionally, she is broadly interested in the predictors of aphasia recovery and how this work can translate to the clinic to provide patients with a better estimation of their recovery trajectory.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong>
\nAutomated cognitive\/linguistic assessment, particularly with discourse analysis and predictors of aphasia recovery<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Projects
\n<\/strong>Automated detection of aphasia project, Machine learning neuroimaging project<\/span><\/p>\n

Peer-Reviewed Publications<\/h4>
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Dubbelman, M. A., Elias, U., Palmer, P., Dafni-Merom, A., Gazit, L., Udeogu, O. J., Wang, S.<\/strong>, Papp, K. V., Amariglio, R. E., Arzy, S., & Marshall, G. A. (2025). Investigating the associations between tau and mental orientation among cognitively unimpaired individuals. Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, 13872877251334781. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13872877251334781 <\/span><\/p>\n

Wang, S.<\/strong>, Mimmack, K., <\/span>Cacciamani, F., Elnemais Fawzy, M., Munro, C., Gatchel, J., Marshall, G. A., Gagliardi, G., & Vannini, P. (2024). Anosognosia is associated with increased prevalence and faster development of neuropsychiatric symptoms in mild cognitive impairment. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 16. https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnagi.2024.1335878 <\/span><\/p>\n

Schnur, T. T., & Wang, S.<\/strong> (2023). Differences in Connected Speech Outcomes Across Elicitation Methods. Aphasiology, 1\u201322. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02687038.2023.2239509 <\/span><\/p>\n

Gonzalez, C., Mimmack, K. J., Amariglio, R. E., Becker, J. A., Chhatwal, J. P., Fitzpatrick, C. D., Gatchel, J. R., Johnson, K. A., Katz, Z. S., Kuppe, M. K., Locascio, J. J., Udeogu, O. J., Papp, K. V., Premnath, P., Properzi, M. J., Rentz, D. M., Schultz, A. P., Sperling, R. A., Vannini, P., Wang, S.<\/strong>, Marshall, G. A. (2023). Associations of the Harvard Automated Phone Task and Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Pathology in Cognitively Normal Older Adults: Preliminary Findings. Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, 94(1), 217\u2013226. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3233\/JAD-220885 <\/span><\/p>\n

Willey, B., Mimmack, K., Gagliardi, G., Dossett, M. L., Wang, S.<\/strong>, Udeogu, O. J., Donovan, N. J., Gatchel, J. R., Quiroz, Y. T., Amariglio, R., Liu, C. H., Hyun, S., ElTohamy, A., Rentz, D., Sperling, R. A., Marshall, G. A., & Vannini, P. (2022). Racial and socioeconomic status differences in stress, posttraumatic growth, and mental health in an older adult cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic. EClinicalMedicine, 45, 101343. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eclinm.2022.101343<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conference Presentations<\/h4>
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Lee, S., Wang, S.<\/strong>, Varkanitsa, M., Kiran S. (2026). Automated main concept analysis in narrative speech for detecting linguistic impairments at the Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 26-28, 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n

Wang, S.<\/strong>, Gagliardi, G., Mimmack, K., Cacciamani F., Elnemais M., Munro C., Gatchel J., Marshall G.A., Vannini P. (2023). Anosognosia is associated with increased prevalence and faster development of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Selected for poster session at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Conference, July 19, 2023. <\/span><\/p>\n

Wang, S.<\/strong> & Schnur, T.T. (2021). Differences in connected speech outcomes across elicitation methods. Selected for platform oral presentation at the Academy of Aphasia, October 24 -26, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Appointments\/ Past Roles<\/h4>
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Clinical Research Coordinator at the Harvard Aging Brain Study at MGH from 2021-2024. From 2018-2021, I worked as a research assistant with Dr. Tatiana Schnur at Baylor College of Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Academic Honors\/ Awards<\/h4>
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Cognitive Sciences Distinction in Research and Creative Works at Rice<\/p>\n

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