Lecture Series

C-STAR Lecture Series, 2024-2025

Fridays @ 11.30am, USA Eastern Time (4.30pm UTC)

Please note that some lectures may require a password for access and/or will be held at different times. This will be posted in the tables below. The virtual lecture room is only open during the lectures.

Past lectures, including abstracts and links to the recordings:

Lecture Series 2023-2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Thursday, August 24, 2023	Erin Meier	Northeastern University	Understanding aphasia recovery through Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Thursday, September 7, 2023	Andrew De Marco	Georgetown University	Functional anomaly mapping and perilesional neuroplasticity in post-stroke aphasia
Thursday, September 21, 2023	Pélagie (Pagie) Beeson & Kindle Rising	University of Arizona	The Benefit of Strengthening Phonological Skill in Aphasia/Alexia/Agraphia
Thursday, October 19, 2023	Charles Ellis	University of Florida	The interrelationship between the Social Determinants of Health and Aphasia Outcomes
Thursday, November 2, 2023	Karim Johari	Louisiana State University	Bilateral subthalamic nucleus neurons differently encode speech production vs. limb movement
Thursday, November 16, 2023 2PM US Eastern Time!	Cathy Price & Thomas Hope	University College London	Celebrating 10 years of CATs (Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists): 10 years of methodological advances in aphasia research	Link upcoming
Thursday, November 30, 2023	Laura Giglio	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour	Spatial and temporal neural dynamics for sentence production and comprehension
Thursday, January 18, 2024	Nicholas Riccardi	University of South Carolina	Mapping taxonomic and thematic naming errors post-stroke
Thursday, February 1, 2024 4PM US Eastern Time! (9pm UTC)	Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky	University of South Australia	Unravelling the mystery of the Nun Study: the interplay between active inference, neural noise and linguistic complexity
Thursday, February 15, 2024	Alex Teghipco	University of South Carolina	Enhancing prediction of language impairment from neuroimaging data
Thursday, February 29, 2024	Blaise Morrison	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Psychosocial Aspects of LIVING with Aphasia: Promoting Quality of Life Beyond Language
Thursday, March 14, 2024	Jeff Binder	Medical College of Wisconsin	Recent Evidence on the Neurobiology of Concept Representation
Thursday, March 21, 2024	Vitória Piai	Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen	What in the brain does the speaking?
Thursday, April 11, 2024	Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Will Hula, and Grant Walker	Portland State University University of Pittsburgh University of California, Irvine	Item Response Theory models for outcome measures in aphasia
Thursday, April 25, 2024	Michael Ullman	Georgetown University	The neurocognition of developmental language disorder

Lecture Series 2022-2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Friday, September 9, 2022	Stephen Wilson	Vanderbilt University	Neural Correlates of Recovery from Aphasia after Stroke
Friday, September 30, 2022	William Matchin	University of South Carolina	The Wernicke Conundrum Revisited
Friday, October 14, 2022	Brady Williamson	University of Cincinnati	Optimal grading and segmentation of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces (EPVS): Applications in Chronic Stroke
Friday, November 11, 2022	Michael Seaman	University of South Carolina	Hiding Under a Hat: Soft Science and the Nature of Statistical Inference
Friday, December 16, 2022	Michael A. Long	New York University	Neural mechanisms of interactive communication
Friday, January 13, 2023	Katarina Haley	University of North Carolina	What to do with the AOS syndrome?
Friday, January 27th, 2023	Elena Barbieri	Northwestern University	Neuroimaging investigations of recovery from sentence processing deficits in aphasia
Friday, February 10, 2023	Lynsey Keator	University of Delaware	Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation as an Adjuvant for Aphasia Therapy
Friday, February 24, 2023	Will Evans	University of Pittsburgh	Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in aphasia: modeling approaches and clinical implications
Friday, March 10, 2023	Evelina Fedorenko	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The utility of large language models in understanding the human language system
Friday, March 24, 2023	Heather Dial	University of Houston	Assessment of speech perception and language comprehension in aphasia using temporal response function modeling
Friday, April 7, 2023	Jacqueline Hinckley	Nova Southeastern University	The Scientific Basis for Contextualized Treatment
Friday, April 21, 2023	Malathi Thothathiri	George Washington University	Cognitive Control and Sentence Processing: For Whom and For What?
Friday, May 5, 2023	Julie Wambaugh	The University of Utah	Error Awareness in Acquired Apraxia of Speech: A Missing Element of Assessment and Treatment
Friday, May 19, 2023	Haley Dresang	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Employing neuromodulation to predict and enhance language recovery in aphasia

Lecture Series 2021-2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Thursday, August 26th, 2021	Sigfus Kristinsson	University of South Carolina	Towards Understanding Therapy Response in Chronic Aphasia
Thursday, September 9th, 2021	Lisa Johnson	University of South Carolina	Neural Synchrony During Naturalistic Perception is Associated with Comprehension Scores in Listeners with Aphasia
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021	Jennifer Mack	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Exploring the impact of aphasia self-disclosure on non-aphasic listeners
Thursday, October 21st, 2021	Stefano Cappa	University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS-Pavia)	Primary progressive aphasia: a different window into brain and language
Thursday, November 4th, 2021	Maya Menahemi-Falkov	La Trobe University	Intensive Aphasia Interventions: Do they work? If yes, for how long? New insights from Individual Response Analysis
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021	Adeen Flinker	New York University	Intracranial electrophysiology of speech perception and production
Thursday, December 16th, 2021	Greg Hickok	University of California Irvine	Beyond Broca: Architecture and Evolution of a Dual Speech Control Model
Thursday, January 13th, 2022	Natalie Busby	University of South Carolina	Exploring the role of brain health in stroke aphasia
Thursday, January 27th, 2022	Wolfram Ziegler	Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München	Adaptation to others' speech: Evidence from patients with neurological conditions
Thursday, February 10th, 2022	Sofia Vallila Rohter	Harvard University	Exploring the role of learning in rehabilitation and communication
Thursday, February 24th, 2022	Lisa Edmonds	Columbia University	Translating research for implementation: Exploring the theoretical and clinical principles behind Verb Network Strengthening Treatment’s (VNeST) protocol to promote individualization of treatment
Thursday, March 24th, 2022	Rebecca Jackson	University of Cambridge	Reverse-Engineering the Cortical Architecture for Controlled Semantic Cognition
Thursday, April 7th, 2022	Chaleece Sandberg	The Pennsylvania State University	Toward equitable language therapy in aphasia
Thursday, April 21st, 2022	Sladjana Lukic	Adelphi University	The Neurobiology of the Lexical System: What kind of data is actually missing?
Thursday, May 5th, 2022	Roy Hamilton	University of Pennsylvania	Stimulating Conversations: Employing Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Technologies to Characterize and Enhance Language Processing in Persons with Aphasia

Lecture Series 2020-2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Thursday, August 27th, 2020	Alexandra Basilakos & Sigfus Kristinsson	University of South Carolina	Predictors of Response to Semantic and Phonological Treatment for Aphasia
Thursday, September, 24th, 2020	Evelina Fedorenko	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The neural mechanisms of language processing and their relationship to executive function mechanisms
Thursday, October 8th, 2020	Joseph Duffy	Mayo Clinic	Primary progressive apraxia of speech: What is it and what is it teaching us?
Thursday, October 29th, 2020, @ 7pm ET (USA)	Lucy Bryant	University of Technology Sydney	Implementing Spoken Discourse Analysis in Clinical Aphasia Practice: A Virtual Future
Thursday, November 19th, 2020	Haris Themistokleous	Johns Hopkins University	Automatic analysis of speech communication: How Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning can contribute to clinical research
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020	Roelien Bastiaanse	University of Groningen	Presurgical language mapping: what are we testing?
Thursday, December 17th, 2020	Gesa Hartwigsen	Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig	Plasticity and short-term reorganization in the language network
Thursday, January 14th, 2021	David Eagleman	Stanford University	Brain plasticity and what we can do with it
Thursday, January 28th, 2021	Elisabeth Marsh	Johns Hopkins University	Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) to Understand Post-Stroke Cognitive Processing Deficits: Implications for Prognosis and Treatment
Thursday, February 25th, 2021	Jean Neils-Strunjas	University of South Carolina	Aging Gracefully with Exercise and Social Engagement
Thursday, March 11th, 2021	C-STAR event FOR speakers with Aphasia	Debra Meyerson and her husband, Steve Zuckerman will be speaking about their book, Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke.	Virtual Aphasia Community Event
Thursday, March 25th, 2021	Michal Ben-Shachar	Bar-Ilan University	Multiple white matter pathways for language processing in the human brain
Thursday, April 8th, 2021	Davida Fromm & Brian MacWhinney	Carnegie Mellon University	Data-Sharing to Understand Aphasia
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021	Gyorgy Buzsaki	New York University	Ways to think about the brain
Thursday, May 6th, 2021	Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah	University of Maryland	Grammatical Encoding in Aphasia: What do we know and how do we move forward?

Lecture Series 2019-2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Thursday, September 12, 2019	Greg Hickok	University of California, Irvine	Neuro-Architectural Homologies for Language in the Human and Non-Human Primate Brain
Thursday, September 26, 2019	Malcolm McNeil	University of Pittsburgh	The task impurity problem in Aphasia testing: Search for the cognitive deficits subtending language performance in Aphasia
TUESDAY, October 15, 2pm ET, 2019	Thomas Hope	University College London	Lesion-symptom models: Where we are and what’s next
Thursday, November 7, 2019	Janina Wilmskoetter	Medical University of South Carolina	Residual white matter integrity predicts post-stroke aphasia severity and recovery: the importance of long-range fibers and indirect pathways
Thursday, November 21, 2019	Gerasimos Fergadiotis	Portland State University	Assessment of anomia: Improving efficiency and utility
Thursday, December 5, 2019	Grant Walker	University of California, Irvine	Squeezing Information from Picture Naming Errors: A Cognitive Psychometric Approach
WEDNESDAY, December 18, 2019	Linda Worrall	The University of Queensland	Curing Aphasia: Part 1. The Social Cure
Thursday, February 13, 2020	Argye Hillis	Johns Hopkins University	Networks Critical for Production and Recognition of Emotional Prosody after Right Hemisphere Stroke
Tuesday, February 25, 2020	Julius Fridriksson	University of South Carolina	Special Event, hosted by Aphasia Access: "Curing Aphasia: Part 2, The Neurobiological Cure"
Thursday, February 27, 2020 @ 11am ET	Maya Henry	University of Texas at Austin	Finding words: Speech-language intervention in primary progressive aphasia
WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2020	Peter Hagoort	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen	Beyond the Language Given: Language Processing from an Embrained Perspective
Thursday, April 9, 2020	Simon Fischer-Baum	Rice University	Bridging cognitive and neural theories of reading and its recovery with representational similarity analysis
Thursday, April 16, 2020	Dorothee Saur	University of Leipzig	Neural mechanisms of language reorganization
Tuesday, May 12, 2020	(1) Greg Hickok & (2) David Poeppel	(1) University of California at Irvine (2) New York University	SPECIAL EVENT: Hosted by Dr William Matchin (UofSC), Drs Gregory Hickok and David Poeppel have a retrospective discussion on the dual stream model (Hickok & Poeppel, 2000; 2004; 2007). They discuss their pathways in science and thoughts on a host of topics, including assessments of the field, the role of linguistics in neuroscience, and more.
Thursday, May 14, 2020	Jamie Reilly	Temple University	Cursing in Aphasia and other Neurological Disorders: Synthesis and New Directions
Thursday, May 21, 2020	Maria Ivanova	University of California Berkeley	Advancing our understanding of lesion symptom mapping tools: An empirical comparison of univariate versus multivariate methods
Thursday, June 11, 2020	Borna Bonakdarpour	Northwestern University	Perturbations of the Language Network in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Thursday, June 18, 2020	Aimee Dietz	University of Cincinnati	The Role of AAC in the Post-Stroke Language Recovery Process

Lecture Series 2018-2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Thursday, August 30, 2018	William Matchin	University of South Carolina	The cortical organization of syntax
Thursday, September 27, 2018	Paul Corballis	The University of Auckland	Color Envisioned: Concepts of Colour in the Blind, Colorblind, and Sighted
Thursday, October 18, 2018	Rutvik Desai	University of South Carolina	Semantic Impairments in Stroke
Thursday, October 25, 2018	John Krakauer	Johns Hopkins University	Motor recovery after stroke: conceptual puzzle, pragmatic challenge
Thursday, November 8, 2018	Julius Fridriksson	University of South Carolina	Biographical, behavioral, and neurological predictors of aphasia treatment outcome
Thursday, November 29, 2018	Melissa Duff	Vanderbilt University	The role of hippocampus in language use and processing
Thursday, December 13, 2018	William Hula	VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System; University of Pittsburgh	Language Connectivity Pathways and Neuroplasticity in Aphasia
Thursday, January 17, 2019	Brenda Rapp	Johns Hopkins University	Investigating the role of functional modularity in language recovery
Thursday, January 24, 2019	Argye Hillis	Johns Hopkins University	Vernberg Lecture 2019 (Arnold School of Public Health, USC): Mechanisms of Stroke Recovery: Evidence from Functional and Dysfunctional Imaging
Thursday, January 31, 2019	Corianne Rogalsky	Arizona State University	The role(s) of selective attention in speech comprehension & aphasia rehabilitation
Thursday, February 14, 2019	Brielle Stark	Indiana University Bloomington	From a single word to many words: analyzing connected speech in aphasia
Thursday, February 28, 2019	Nicole Pulia	University of Wisconsin	Can Implicit Gender Bias Influence Female Faculty Advancement in Communication Sciences and Disorders?
Thursday, April 11, 2019	Lorelei Phillip	University of South Carolina	Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of sensorimotor impairment in aphasia
Thursday, May 2, 2019	Gayle DeDe	Temple University	Conversation treatment for people with aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Lecture Series 2017-2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Thursday, August 31, 2017	Julius Fridriksson	University of South Carolina	The Anatomy of Aphasia Revisited
Thursday, September 14, 2017	Roozbeh Behroozmand	University of South Carolina	Behavioral and Neural Bases of Speech Sensorimotor Impairment in Aphasia
Thursday, September 28, 2017	Emilie McKinnon	Medical University of South Carolina	Advanced diffusion MRI methods for studying white matter integrity in aphasia
Thursday, October 12, 2017	Kyrana Tsapkini	Johns Hopkins University	Lessons from studying behavioral and neural effects of transcranial direct current stimulation in primary progressive aphasia
Thursday, October 26, 2017	Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht	Medical University of South Carolina	Neural basis of sentence structure complexity during speech production: Lessons from natural language processing and lesion mapping
Thursday, November 16, 2017	Sylvie Moritz-Gasser	Université Montpellier	Aphasia rehabilitation: what we learn from neurolinguistics
Thursday, November 30, 2017	Stephen Wilson	Vanderbilt University	Language mapping in aphasia
Thursday, December 14, 2017	Greg Hickok	University of California, Irvine	The Ventral Speech Stream Revisited
Thursday, January 11, 2018	Argye Hillis	Johns Hopkins University	Imaging and Medical Predictors of Naming Outcome after Left Hemisphere Stroke
Thursday, January 25, 2018	C-STAR workshop on Lesion-Symptom Mapping	10am - 4pm EDT	Workshop Program
Thursday, February 8, 2018	Mike Dickey	University of Pittsburgh	Predictors and mechanisms of naming treatment response in aphasia
Thursday, February 22, 2018	Bonnie Nozari	Johns Hopkins University	Investigating the origin of nonfluency in aphasia
Thursday, March 8, 2018	Alexandra Basilakos	University of South Carolina	Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Predictors of Long-Term Aphasia Outcomes
Thursday, March 22, 2018	Susan Duncan	Louisiana State University	Network correlates of aphasia recovery
Thursday, April 5, 2018	Swathi Kiran	Boston University	Understanding and predicting aphasia recovery and after rehabilitation
Thursday, April 19, 2018	Audrey Holland	University of Arizona	The Famous People Protocol (FPP) : A Functional Assessment Tool for Aphasia
Thursday, May 3, 2018	Julius Fridriksson	University of South Carolina	Effects of tDCS on Aphasia Treatment Outcomes: A Clinical Trial

Lecture Series 2016-2017

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Join/View
Thursday, September 8, 2016	Julius Fridriksson	University of South Carolina	Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR): A P50 Funded Research Program
Thursday, September 22, 2016	Leo Bonilha	Medical University of South Carolina	The human brain connectome applied to stroke rehabilitation research
Thursday, October 6, 2016	Grigori Yourganov	University of South Carolina	Multivariate analysis of neuroimaging data: applications for stroke research
Thursday, October 20, 2016	Brielle Stark	University of South Carolina	Reliability of behavior performance and functional activation in aphasia
Thursday, November 03, 2016	Grant Walker	University of California, Irvine	A cognitive psychometric model for assessment of picture naming errors
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2.30pm!	Cathy J. Price	Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging	Understanding functional reorganization to explain recovery of language after stroke
Thursday, December 01, 2016	Dorian Pustina	University of Pennsylvania	Predicting aphasia scores from multimodal neuroimaging: an integrated framework
Thursday, December 15, 2016	Rajani Sebastian	Johns Hopkins University	Cerebellar tDCS: A novel approach to augment aphasia treatment
Thursday, January 19, 2017	Greg Hickok	University of California, Irvine	The Dual Stream Model: Clarifications and Recent Progress
Thursday, February 02, 2017	Souvik Sen	University of South Carolina	Speech Disturbances in Stroke Mimics
Thursday, February 16, 2017	Chris Rorden & Grigori Yourganov	University of South Carolina	Resting state connectivity as a predictor of aphasia
Thursday, March 02, 2017	Argye Hillis	Johns Hopkins University	Was Wernicke Right?
Thursday, March 16, 2017	Alexandra Basilakos	University of South Carolina	Acoustic and Neuroanatomical Predictors of Acquired Apraxia of Speech
Thursday, April 6, 2017	Tom Broussard	Stroke Survivor and Neuroeducator	Aphasia Rehabilitation & Recovery from Novel Therapy; Click here for slides!
Thursday, April 13, 2017	Bonnie Breining	Johns Hopkins University	Deficits in Action and Object Naming: Evidence from Acute Stroke and Primary Progressive Aphasia
Thursday, April 27, 2017	Adam Buchwald	New York University	Motor speech production (but not phonological production) improves following motor training
Thursday, May 11, 2017	Dirk den Ouden	University of South Carolina	Neural Predictors of Agrammatic Performance in Aphasia