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INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2018

  1. Thompson, C.K.(November 2018). Research symposium: Advances in modeling neural correlates of treatment-related recovery & controversies in aphasia rehabilitation. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual convention, Boston, MA.
  2. Thompson, C.K.(November 2018). Research symposium: Biomarkers of language recovery in chronic aphasia. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual convention, Boston, MA.
  3. Thompson, C.K.(November 2018). Research symposium: Advances in modeling neural correlates of treatment-related recovery and controversies in aphasia rehabilitation. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual convention, Boston, MA.
  4. Thompson, C.K.(November 2018). Seminar. Translating neuroscience to neurorehabilitation in aphasia: 10 years later. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual convention, Boston.
  5. Thompson, C.K. (September 2018). The role of linguisitic and psycholinguistic models in rehabilitation of language disorders. 13th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience & Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders, Philadelphia.
  6. Thompson, C.K., & Barbieri, E.B. (September 2018). Workshop on adult language intervention: Application of linguistic models to aphasia rehabilitation. 13th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience & Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders, Philadelphia.
  7. Thompson, C. K.(April 27, 2018). Grammatical impairments in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Advances in assessment and treatment. Keynote talk presented at the Arizona Speech, Language, and Hearing Association Annual meeting, Tucson, Arizona.

 International

  1. Thompson, C.K. (October 2018). The Neurobiology of Language Recovery. Keynote Speech presented at the 2ndChina (Beijing) International Language and Culture Expo, Beijing, China.
  2. Thompson, C.K.(August 2018). Neurobiology of recovery in chronic aphasia. Keynote. Workshop on Language Processing, Qiqihar, China.
  3. Thompson, C.K.(August 2018). Principles of stroke-induced aphasia recovery and treatment. Workshop on Language Processing, Qiqihar, China.
  4. Thompson, C. K.(April 2, 2018). Neural mechanisms of language recovery. Keynote Speech presented at the Workshop on Language Processing, Sichuan Rehabilitation Hospital, ChengDu City, China 
  5. Thompson, C. K. (April 3 , 2018). The Neurology of Aphasia. Paper presented at Sichuan Foreign Study University, ChengDu City, China

 

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL MEETINGS (* = student research)

2018

Local

  1. Litcofsky, K.A., Mack, J.E., Walenski, M., & Thompson, C.K. (November 2018). An eye-movement study of verb-based structural planning. Flash talk presented at Sentence PROcessing: Computation, Experiments & Theory meeting, Evanston, IL.
  2. Litcofsky, K.A., Xie, K., Walenski, M., Mack, J.E., & Thompson, C.K. (November 2018). Verb, thematic mapping, and morphosyntactic processing in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Flash talk presented at Sentence PROcessing: Computation, Experiments & Theory meeting, Evanston, IL.
  3. Walenski, M., Barbieri, E., Chiappetta, B. & Thompson, C.K. (June 2018). Verb-argument integration in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from event-related potentials. Second annual Chicago-area Sentence Processing Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
  4. Barbieri, E., Walenski, M., Litcofsky, K.A., Hsu, C-J.,Chiappetta, B., Mesulam, M-M., & Thompson, C.K. (June 2018). On-line sentence processing in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Second annual Chicago-area Sentence Processing Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
  5. Thompson, C.K. (April 2018). Primary Progressive Aphasia: Research to clinical practice. 2018 CSD Connect Conference, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL, USA.
  6. Barbieri, E., Walenski, M., Litcofsky, K., Chiappetta, B., Hsu, C-J., Mesulam, M-M., & Thompson, C.K. (May 2018). On-line sentence processing in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Annual Northwestern Alzheimer’s Day. Chicago, IL, USA.
  7. Mack, J.M. & Thompson, C.K. (May 18-20, 2018). Syntactic and thematic mechanisms of subject-verb integration in aphasia and typical sentence comprehension. Lynschrift18, a conference in honor of the retirement of Professor Lyn Frazier from the Umass Department of Linguistics. Amherst, MA, USA.

National

  1. *Lu, J., Yoshida, M., Thompson, C.K. (October 2018). Examining argument-adjunct asymmetry of island effect in Mandarin Chinese. The 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Ithaca, NY, USA.
  2. Barbieri, E., Mack, J., Dougherty, B., Europa, E., & Thompson, C.K. (March 2018). Mechanisms of neural plasticity during recovery from sentence processing deficits in chronic stroke-induced aphasia: an fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS). Boston, MA, USA.
  3. Barbieri, E., Walenski, M., Litcofsky, K.A., Chiapetta, B., Hsu, C-J., Mesulam, M.M., Thompson, C.K. (May 2018). On-line sentence processing in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). Austin, TX, USA.
  4. Mack, J.E., Barbieri, E., Mesulam, M-M., & Thompson, C.K. (May 2018). Quantifying grammatical impairments in primary progressive aphasia: Structured language tests and narrative language production. Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). Austin, TX, USA.
  5. Walenski, M., Barbieri, E., Chiappetta, B., Thompson, C.K. (May 2018). Verb-argument integration in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from event-related potentials. Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). Austin, TX, USA.
  6. Hsu, C-J., & Thompson, C.K. (May 2018). Online dependency formation in agrammatic aphasia: ERP evidence for syntactic prediction impairments. Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). Austin, TX, USA.
  7. *Meier, E., Kiran, S., Kurani, A., Higgins, J., Parrish, T., Rapp, B., Caplan, D., Thompson, C.K. (May 2018). Changes in white matter integrity following sentence processing, naming and spelling treatment for patients with chronic aphasia. Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). Austin, TX, USA.
  8. *Meier, E., Pan, Y., Higgins, J.P., Kurani, A., Parrish, T., Thompson, C.K.,& Kiran, S. (May 2018). Structural predictors of naming therapy outcomes in persons with aphasia. Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). Austin, TX, USA.

International

  1. Barbieri, E., Mack, J.E., Chiappetta, B., Europa, E., & Thompson, C.K. (October 2018). Neurocognitive sequela of non-canonical sentence comprehension in chronic agrammatic aphasia: Eye movment and fMRI correlates of behavioral recovery. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
  2. Walenski, M., Barbieri, E., Chiappetta, B., & Thompson, C.K. (October 2018). Verb-argument integration in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from event-related potentials. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
  3. Thompson, C.K., Walenski, M., Europa, E., & Caplan, D. (October 2018). Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: an ALE-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
  4. Barbieri, E., Mack, J.E., Chiappetta, B.., Europa, E., & Thompson, C.K. (August 2018). Neural plasticity and right hemisphere contributions to recovery of sentence comprehension in aphasia: Evidence from sentence processing treatment. The 10th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Meeting. Quebec City, Canada.
  5. *Lu, J., Walenski, M., & Thompson, C.K. (August 2018). EEG evidence for different syntactic expectations in parsing Chinese subject and object-relative clauses. The 10th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Meeting. Quebec City, Canada.
  6. Mack, J.E., & Thompson, C.K. (August 2018). Syntactic and thematic mechanisms of subject-verb integration in aphasia and typical sentence comprehension. The 10th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Meeting. Quebec City, Canada.
  7. *Lu, J., Yoshida, M., & Thompson, C.K. (September 2018). Chinese wh-in-situ and islands: A formal judgement study. The 24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Berlin, Germany.
  8. Walenski, M., Barbieri, E., Chiappetta, B., & Thompson, C.K. (October 2018). Verb-argument integration in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from event-related potentials. The 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
  9. Thompson, C.K., Walenski, M., Europa, E., & Caplan, D. (October 2018). Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: an ALE-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. The 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. Montreal, Canada.