This post is written by PhD student Sigfus Kristinsson. Sigfus recently had a paper accepted by the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience about how the brain understands different types of sentences. Below is a preliminary summary of the article, which will be published...
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Processing audiovisual information in the brain
Recently, the C-STAR group, led by Dr. Greg Hickok, published an article in the journal Cortex. The article is titled, “Neural networks supporting audiovisual integration for speech: A large-scale lesion study.” This was the first study that included information from...
Predicting Aphasia Recovery: The Role of Brain Damage and SSRI Use
Below is a guest post by Lynsey Keator, MA, CCC-SLP. Lynsey is a speech-language pathologist who currently works with Dr. Argye Hillis at Johns Hopkins. She will be joining the USC Aphasia Lab in the Fall to begin her doctoral work. Her post summarizes a recently...
The Anatomy of Aphasia Revisited
This post is a summary of our recently published article, The Anatomy of Aphasia Revisited. This article appears in the March 2018 issue of the journal Brain. Link to full text here. In this study, we asked several questions that are very important to aphasia...
New research published by C-STAR
Hello, readers! As I said in my previous post, this section of the website is dedicated to discussion of ongoing work in the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR). But first, some background about our work: Here at C-STAR, our research focuses on...