Goals of these studies: These studies aim to better understand how bilingual speakers manage and switch between two languages. Some of these studies aim to improve language and cognitive assessment for bilingual speakers, because most assessments used in the United States have been developed for monolingual speakers.

Go to Spanish-English bilingual assessment project

Sample publications

Goals of these studies: These studies aim to better understand how language is instantiated in the brain both in neurologically healthy individuals and those with aphasia. In persons with aphasia, we aim to understand how brain structure and function changes with language therapy. 

Sample publications

Goals of these studies. These studies aim to improve our understanding of language and cognitive challenges of persons with aphasia and in aging individuals. Participation typically involves 1-2 sessions, after which we compare the findings across groups. We use the findings of these studies to inform and improve language re-training for persons with aphasia and to better understand aging.

Sample publications

This study found that processing speed and cognitive control predict how quickly older adults retrieve words. Persons with aphasia have slower processing speed. 

This study found that scores on a standard aphasia assessment are strongly associated with short term memory scores 

Goals of these studies: These studies aim to improve communication outcomes for persons with aphasia. We focus mostly on improving sentence production. Participation in these studies involves therapy for multiple sessions, and the total duration of the study is about one month (although this differs slightly across the specific study). You will also be scheduled for  follow-up tests approximately one and two months after the end of therapy to measure the maintenance of therapy gains. 

You DO NOT have to pay for the therapy.

Sample publications

This study found that training to produce sentences with irregular verbs (went, drank, etc.) produces better outcomes with both regular and irregular verbs compared to training that uses regular verbs.