Lecture Series
The C-STAR lecture series offers biweekly talks by members and guests of the Center. All talks are accessible online, via Zoom (each presentation has its own link, in the tables below). The series include lectures on aphasia, rehabilitation after stroke, neuroimaging and neurostimulation methodology, and the neurobiology of language. For more information, or if you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact Dr. Dirk den Ouden, denouden@sc.edu, 803-777-9241.
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.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Join/View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, August 23, 2024 | Steven Bedrick | Oregon Health & Science University | Computational analysis of aphasic narrative speech: Are we there yet? |  |
| Friday, September 6, 2024 | Sophie Arheix-Parras | University of South Carolina | How can repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation be individualized for post-stroke aphasia recovery? | |
| Friday, October 4, 2024 | Stephanie Riès | San Diego State University | Controlled aspects of language production | |
| Friday, November 8, 2024 | Jeremy Yeaton | University of California, Irvine | Attempting to quantify expressive syntactic competence | |
| Friday, November 15, 2024 | Anne Billot | Harvard University | Leveraging Precision fMRI and TMS for Understanding and Modulating Brain Network Plasticity | |
| Friday, January 10, 2025 | Grant Walker | University of California, Irvine | Short-Form Naming Tests for Assessing Relative Linguistic Impairment in Chronic or Progressive Aphasias |  |
| Friday, January 24, 2025 | Samaneh Nemati | University of South Carolina | On the relation between hearing loss and cognitive decline | |
| Friday, February 7, 2025 | TBA | TBA | |
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| Friday, February 21, 2025 | Stephanie Forkel | Radboud University | TBA | |
| Friday, March 7, 2025 | Danielle Fahey | University of Montana | Syntactic processing in bilingual aphasia | |
| Thursday, March 20, 2025 6 pm ET (10pm UTC) | Miranda Rose | La Trobe University | Mining for diamonds: refining treatment effectiveness outcomes though multi-prong analyses of the COMPARE dataset. | |
| Friday, March 28, 2025 | Katie Strong | Central Michigan University | TBA | |
| Friday, April 4, 2025 | Jiyeon Lee | Purdue University | Structural Priming in Aphasia | |
| Friday, April 18, 2025 | Ellyn Riley | Syracuse University | The impact of post-stroke fatigue on recovery | |
| Friday, May 2, 2025 | Rajani Sebastian | Johns Hopkins University | TBA | |
| Friday, May 9, 2025 | Mackenzie Fama | The George Washington University | Using inner speech to predict naming treatment outcomes in aphasia | |
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
Lecture Series 2021-2022
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 | |