Research
Cross-Site Publications:
- Higgins, J., Wang, X., Barbieri, E., Mack, J., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., Rapp, B., Thompson, C.K., Zinbarg, R., & Parrish, T. (submitted). Reliability of BOLD signals in chronic stroke-induced aphasia.
- Kiran, S., & Thompson, C.K. (2019). Neuroplasticity of Language Networks in Aphasia: Advances, Updates, and Future Challenges. Frontiers in Neurology: Stroke, 10, 295. PDF
- Thompson, C.K., Walenski, M., Chen, Y.F., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., Rapp, B., Grunewald, K., Nunez, M., Zinbarg, R.E., & Parrish, T.B. (2017). Intrahemispheric perfusion in chronic stroke-induced aphasia. Neural Plasticity, 2017, 1-15. PMCID: PMC5357554. DOI:10.1155/2017/2361691. PDF
- Lukic, S., Barbieri, E., Wang, X., Caplan, D., Kiran, S., Rapp, B., Parrish, T., & Thompson, C. K. (2017). Right Hemisphere Grey Matter Volume and Language Recovery in Stroke Aphasia. Neural Plasticity, 2017, 1-14. PMCID: PMC5441122. DOI: 10.1155/2017/5601509. PDF
- Crinion, J., Holland, A.L., Copland, D.A., Thompson, C.K., & Hillis, A.E. (2013). Neuroimaging in aphasia treatment research: Quantifying brain lesions after stroke. Neuroimage, 73, 208-214. PMCID: PMC3534842. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.044. PDF
- Kiran, S., Ansaldo, A., Bastiaanse, R., Cherney, L.R., Howard, D., Faroqi-Shah, Y., Meinzer, M., & Thompson, C.K. (2013). Neuroimaging in aphasia treatment research: Standards for establishing the effects of treatment. Neuroimage, 76, 428-435. PMCID: PMC3552150. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.011. PDF
- Meinzer, M., Beeson, P., Cappa, S., Crinion, J, Kiran, S., Saur, D., Parrish, T., Crosson, B., & Thompson, C.K. (2013). Neuroimaging in aphasia treatment research: Consensus and practical guidelines for data analysis. Neuroimage, 73, 215-224. PMCID: PMC3416913. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.058. PDF
- Rapp, B., Caplan, D., Edwards, S., Visch-Brink, E., & Thompson, C.K. (2013). Neuroimaging in aphasia treatment research: Issues of experimental design for relating cognitive to neural changes. Neuroimage, 73, 200-207. PMCID: PMC3600065. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.007.
The Neurobiology of Recovery of Sentence Processing in Agrammatic Aphasia
Northwestern University
Publications
- Barbieri, E., Mack, J., Chiappetta, B., Europa, E., & Thompson, C.K. (in press). Recovery of offline and online sentence processing in aphasia: Language and domain-general network neuroplasticity. Cortex.
- Lukic, S., Meltzer-Asscher, A., Higgins, J., Parrish, T. B., & Thompson, C.K. (2019). Neurocognitive correlates of ambiguous verb processing: Single versus separate lexical entries. Brain and Language. PMID: 31103888. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
bandl.2019.04.005 PDF - *Europa, E., Kiran, S., Gitelman, D., & Thompson, C.K. (2019). Neural Connectivity in Syntactic Movement Processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 1-15. PDF
- Barbieri, E., Brambilla, I., Thompson, C.K., & Luzzatti, C. (2019). Verb and sentence processing patterns in healthy Italian participants: insight from the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS). Journal of Communication Disorders. PDF
- Walenski, M., Europa, E., Caplan, D., & Thompson, C.K. (2019). Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: An ALE‐based meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies. Human Brain Mapping. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24523 PDF
- Hsu, C., & Thompson, C.K. (2018). Manual Versus Automated Narrative Analysis of Agrammatic Production Patterns: The Northwestern Narrative Language Analysis and Computerized Language Analysis. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 61(2). DOI:10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-17-0185. PDF
- Mack, J.E., Nerantzini, M., & Thompson, C.K. (2017). Recovery of Sentence Production Processes Following Language Treatment in Aphasia: Evidence from Eyetracking. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017(11). PMCID: PMC5346573 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00101. PDF
- Mack, J. E. & Thompson, C. K. (2017). Recovery of online sentence processing in aphasia: Eye movement changes resulting from Treatment of Underlying Forms. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-17. PMCID: PMC Journal – In Process. DOI: 10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-16-0108. PDF
- Schuchard, J., & Thompson, C.K. (2017). Sequential learning in individuals with agrammatic aphasia: evidence from artificial grammar learning. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1-14. PMCID: PMC5499680. DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2017.1293065. PDF
- Cho-Reyes, S., Mack, J., & Thompson, C.K. (2016). Grammatical Encoding and Learning in Agrammatic Aphasia: Evidence from Structural Priming. Journal of Memory and Language. PMCID: PMC5600488. NIHMS845653. DOI:10.1016/j.jml.2016.02.004. PDF
- Mack, J.E., Zu-Sern Wei, A., Gutierrez, S., & Thompson, C.K. (2016). Tracking sentence comprehension: Test-retest reliability in people with aphasia and unimpaired adults. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 40, 98-111. PMCID: PMC5113948. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.06.001. PDF
- Schuchard, J., Nerantzini, M., & Thompson, C.K. (2016). Implicit learning and implicit treatment outcomes in individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology. PMCID: PMC5461970. DOI:1080/02687038.2016.1147526. PDF
- Wang, H., & Thompson, C.K. (2016). Assessing Syntactic Deficits in Chinese Broca’s aphasia using the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences-Chinese (NAVS-C). Aphasiology, 30(7), 815-840. PMC4955954. DOI:10.1080/02687038.2015.1111995. PDF
- Lee, J., Yoshida, M., & Thompson, C.K. (2015). Grammatical planning units during real-time sentence production in agrammatic aphasia and healthy speakers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. PMID: 25908309. DOI:10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0250. PDF
- Riley, E., & Thompson, C.K. (2015). Training Pseudoword Reading in Acquired Dyslexia: A Phonological Complexity Approach. Aphasiology, 29(2), 129–150. PMCID: PMC4467909. DOI: 1080/02687038.2014.955389. PDF
- Meltzer-Asscher, A., Barbieri, E., Mack, J., & Thompson, C.K. (2015). How the brain processes different dimensions of argument structure complexity: Evidence from fMRI. Brain and Language, 142, 65-75. PMCID: PMC4336802. NIHMSID 653537. DOI:10.1016/j.bandl.2014.12.005. PDF
- Thompson, C.K. (2015). Establishing the effects of treatment for aphasia using single-subject-controlled experimental designs. Aphasiology, 29(5), 588-597. PMCID: PMC1847620. DOI:10.1080/02687038.2014.987043. PDF
- Schuchard, J., & Thompson, C.K. (2014). Implicit and explicit learning in individuals with agrammatic aphasia. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43(3), 209-224. PMCID: PMC3766481. DOI:10.1007/s10936-013-9248-4. PDF
- Mack, J.E., Meltzer-Asscher, A., Barbieri, E., & Thompson, C.K. (2013). Neural correlates of processing passive sentences. Brain Sciences. 3(3), 1198-1214. PMCID: PMC4061884. DOI:10.3390/brainsci3031198. PDF
- Wang, H., Yoshida, M., & Thompson, C.K. (2013). Parallel functional category deficits in clauses and nominal phrases: The case of English agrammatism. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 27(1), 75 – 102. PMC4569143. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2013.09.001.
Imaging and Data Analysis Core
Northwestern University
Publications:
- Wang, B., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Katsaggelos, A., & Parrish T.B. (Submitted). An automated segmentation pipeline for chronic stroke lesion with new evaluation metrics. Neuroimage Clinical.
- Ingo, C., Sui, Y., Chen, Y.F., Parrish, T.B., Webb, A.G., & Ronen, I. (2015). Parsimonious continuous time random walk models and kurtosis for diffusion in magnetic resonance of biological tissue. Frontiers in Biomedical Physics 3(11). PMCID: PMC5365033. DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2015.00011. PDF
- Alpert, K., Kogan, A., Parrish, T.B., Marcus, D., & Wang, L. (2015). The Northwestern University Neuroimaging Data Archive (NUNDA). Neuroimage, 124 (B), 1131-6. PMCID: PMC4651782. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.060. PDF
- Ingo, C., Magin, R.L., & Parrish, T.B. (2014). New insights into the fractional order diffusion equation using entropy and kurtosis. Entropy, 16(11), 5838-5852. PMCID: PMC5365032. DOI: 3390/e16115838. PDF
The Neurobiology of Recovery of Spoken Naming in Aphasia
Boston University/Massachusetts General Hospital
Publications:
- Gilmore, N., Johnson, J.P., Meier, E.L., & S. (under revision). Non-linguistic cognitive factors predict treatment-induced recovery in chronic post-stroke aphasia. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
- Gilmore, N., Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. (2018). Typicality-based semantic treatment for anomia results in multiple levels of generalization. Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 1-27.
- Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. (2018). Frontotemporal effective connectivity during semantic feature judgments in patients with aphasia versus healthy controls. Cortex. PDF
- Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Villard, S., & Kiran, S. (2017). Does Naming Therapy Make Ordering in a Restaurant Easier? Dynamics of Co-Occurring Change in Cognitive-Linguistic and Functional Communication Skills in Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(2), 266-280. PMCID: PMC5544360. DOI:10.1044/2016_AJSLP-16-0028 PDF
- Meier, E. L., Kapse, K. J., & Kiran, S. (2016). The relationship between frontotemporal effective connectivity during picture naming, behavior, and preserved cortical tissue in chronic aphasia. Hum. Neurosci., 10, 109. PMCID: PMC4792868. DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00109. PDF
- Meier, E. L., Lo, M., & Kiran, S. (2016). Understanding semantic and phonological processing deficits in adults with aphasia: Effects of category and typicality. Aphasiology, 30(6), 719-749. PMCID: PMC4811611. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2015.1081137. PDF
- Sims, J., Kapse, K., Glynn, P., Sandberg, C., & Kiran, S. (2016). The Relationships between the Amount of Spared Tissue, Percent Signal Change, and Accuracy in Semantic Processing in Aphasia. PubMed PMID: 26775192. PDF
- Kiran, S., Meier, E., Kapse, K., & Glynn, P. (2015). Changes in task-based effective connectivity in language networks following rehabilitation in post-stroke patients with aphasia. Hum. Neurosci., 9, 316.
PMCID: PMC4460429. DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00316. PDF
The Neurobiology of Recovery of Written Naming in Acquired Dysgraphia
Johns Hopkins University
Publications:
- Purcell, J.J., Wiley, R.W., and Rapp, B. (under review). Increased differentiation of neural representations supports post-stroke language recovery.
- Ellenblum, G., Purcell, J., Song, S-W, & Rapp, B. (revision invited). Understanding orthographic processing networks: Evidence from resting state fMRI. Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Tao, Y. & Rapp, B. (under review). The role of modularity in the neuroplastic changes that support recovery from brain lesions.
- Rapp, B. (in press). Disgrafia: Bases neurales y cognitivas. In, E. Labos & J.L. Nespoulous (Eds.), Neuropsicologinuistica: Recorrido clinic, elementos conceptuales y perspectivas. Editorial Akadia, Buenos Aires.
- Rapp, B. (in press). Writing research in the 21st In, C. Perret and T. Olive (Eds.), Writing words: Psychological and neuropsychological approaches. Leiden: Brill.
- Purcell, J. & Rapp, B. (in press). Disorders of written expression. Wenzel, A. (Ed.). In, Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
- Tsapkini, K., Webster, K.T., Ficek, B.N., Desmond, J.E., Onyike, C.U., Rapp, B., Frangakis, C.E., Hillis, A.E. (2018). Electrical brain-stimulation in different variants of primary progressive aphasia: a randomized clinical trial. Alzheimer’s & Dementia; Translational Research and Clinical Interventions. PDF
- Rofes, A., Mandonnet, E., de Aguiar, V., Rapp, B., Tsapkini, K., Miceli, G. (2018). Language processing from the perspective of electrical stimulation mapping. Cognitive Neuropsychology. PDF
- Breining, B., Nozari, B & Rapp, B. (2018). Learning in complex, multi-component cognitive systems: Different learning challenges within the same system. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.
- Wiley, R. & Rapp, B. (2018). Statistical analysis in small-n designs: Using linear mixed-effects modeling for evaluating intervention effectiveness. Aphasiology, 1-30. PDF
- Purcell, J. J., & Rapp, B. (2018). Local response heterogeneity indexes experience-based neural differentiation in reading. NeuroImage, 183, 200-211. PDF
- Tsapkini, K., Webster, K., Ficek, B. N., Desmond, J., Onyike, C., Rapp, B., … & Hillis, A. E. (2017). Transcranial direct current stimulation in primary progressive aphasia: Whom does it help?. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation, 10(4), e40. PDF
- Rapp, B. & McCloskey, M. (2017). Developmental Dysgraphia and the Acquisition of Spelling and Writing. Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology.
- Hepner, C., McCloskey, M., & Rapp, B. (2017). Do reading and spelling share orthographic representations? Evidence from developmental dysgraphia. Cognitive neuropsychology, 34(3-4), 119-143. PDF
- McCloskey, M., & Rapp, B. (2017). Developmental dysgraphia: An overview and framework for research. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 34(3-4), 65-82. PDF
- Breining, B. & Rapp, B. (2017; online). Investigating the mechanisms of written word production: Insights from the written blocked cyclic naming paradigm. Reading and Writing, 1-30. DOI: 10.1007/s11145-017-9742-4 PDF
- Rothlein, D. & Rapp, B. (2017). The role of allograph representations in font-invariant letter identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(7), 1411-1429. PMCID: PMC5481478. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000384 PDF
- Nozari, N., Freund, M. Breining, B., Rapp, B. & Gordon, B. (2016). Cognitive control during selection and repair in word production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 7, 886-903. PMCID: PMC5268164. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1157194 PDF
- Wiley, R., Wilson, C. & Rapp, B. (2016). The effects of alphabet and expertise on letter perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42 (8), 1186-120. PMCID: PMC4980158. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000213. PDF
- Rapp, B., Purcell, J., Hillis, A. B. Capasso, R., & Miceli, G. (2016). Neural bases of orthographic long-term memory and working memory in dysgraphia. Brain, 139(pt2), 588-604. PMCID: PMC4805091. DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv348 PDF
- Nickels, L., Rapp, B., & Kohnen, S. (2015). Challenges in the use of treatment to investigate cognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 32 (3/4), 91-104. PMCID: PMC4746100. DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2015.1056652 PDF
- Breining, B., Nozari, B. & Rapp, B. (2015). Does segmental overlap help or hurt? Evidence from blocked cyclic naming in spoken and written production. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23 920, 500-506. PMCID: PMC4715795. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0900-x. PDF
- Rapp, B., Fischer-Baum, S. & Miozzo, M. (2015). Modality and morphology: What we write may not be what we say. Psychological Science. PMCID: PMC4418216. DOI: 10.1177/0956797615573520. PDF
- Purcell, J., Shea, J. & Rapp, B. (2014). Beyond the VWFA: The semantics-orthography interface in spelling and reading. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 31, 5-6, 482-510. PMCID: PMC4108522. DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2014.909399 PDF
- Fischer-Baum, S. & Rapp, B. (2014).The analysis of perseverations in acquired dysgraphia reveals the internal structure of orthographic representations. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 31(3), 237-265. PMCID: PMC4016131. NIHMSID: NIHMS554792. DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2014.880676. PDF
- Rothlein, D. & Rapp, B. (2014).The similarity structure of distributed neural responses reveals the neural representations of letters. NeuroImage, 89, 331-344. PMCID: PMC3980450. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.054 PDF
- Tainturier, M.J., Bosse, M-L, Roberts, D.J., Valdois, S. & Rapp, B. (2013). Lexical neighbourhood effects in pseudoword spelling. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 28 November 2013. PMCID: PMC3842689. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00862. PDF
- Purcell, J. & Rapp, B. (2013). Identifying functional reorganization of spelling networks: An individual peak probability comparison approach. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 25 December 2013. PMCID: PMC3872307. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00964. PDF
- Dufor, O. & Rapp, B. (2013). Letter representations in writing: an fMRI adaptation approach. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 4, 1-14. PMCID: PMC3809555. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00781. PDF