Publications

Conferences 

Check our work at SNL 2024!

Dr. Lukic gave a talk at the symposium, titled “Towards modern, theory-driven approaches to grammar in aphasia,” where she provided a comprehensive overview of linguistic theories of syntax deficits and data gathered from both progressive and stroke aphasia patients.

Check our work at AOA 2024! 

Dr. Lukic presented the study titled “Neurocognitive patterns of verb production deficit therapy: a single case with logopenic variant Primary Progressive Aphasia.” This research focused on a treatment study in which she successfully identified both behavioral and neural changes following therapy using Verb Network Strengthening Treatment—a therapy aimed at improving noun-verb production as interconnected units, which makes this rare and unique attempt to observe generalizations in spontaneous speech.

Dr. Lukic presented the second study titled “The production of clitics in Serbian speakers with acquired aphasia”. This research explored the omission of clitics (function words) in the speech production of individuals with post-stroke aphasia. This study is particularly unique because it focuses on Serbian, a language with a rich system of clitics. Collaborating with Professor Vukovic from Serbia, Lukic examined how aphasia impacts clitic production, a phenomenon that has been widely studied in languages such as English, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, and Greek.

Check our work at AAP 2024!

In collaboration with Brown University, Dr. Lukic presented the work on neuropsychological and language patterns in bvFTD and nfvPPA, contributing to the current conceptualization of neurodegenerative-associated psychiatric syndromes. 

Check our work at the 20th Adelphi University Scholarship and Creative Work Conference 2023! 

Undergraduate student, Nicholas Strada,  presented our preliminary work on the neurocognitive patterns of verb production deficit therapy in a single case of logopenic variant PPA.  

Nicholas received one of the five Adelphi Summer Research and Creative Fellowships ($3000) to carry out this research and creative work during the summer of 2023 under the supervision of his mentor, Dr. Lukic.   

Come learn about research opportunities and our work at the CSD Research Open House 2022!

Check our work at SNL 2022! 

Dr. Lukic presented the work on the role of transitivity and finiteness in verb production in neurodegenerative disorders (i.e., PPA) and their relevant neuroanatomical correlates using Surface-based Morphometry. 

Check our work at Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center Spring Symposium 2022! 

Dr. Lukic presented the work on the individual differences in verbal memory capacity in neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., dyslexia) and their relevant neuroanatomical correlates using Surface-based Morphometry. 

Selected Publications

Published

1. Lukic, S., Jiang, F., Mandelli, M. L., Qi, T., Inkelis, S. M., Rosenthal, E., ... & Pereira, C. W. (2025). A semantic strength and neural correlates in developmental dyslexia. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1405425.

2. Lukic, S., Qi, T., Pereira, C. W., Mandelli, M. L., Bogley, R., Shabash, M., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2025). Verbal short-term memory in developmental dyslexia: the role of the temporoparietal area. Brain and Language, 265, 105570.

3. Lukic, S., Fan, Z., García, A. M., Welch, A. E., Ratnasiri, B. M., Wilson, S. M., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2024). Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech. Cortex, 173, 34-48. 

4. Barbieri, E., Lukic, S., Rogalski, E., Weintraub, S., Mesulam, M-M., Thompson, C.K. (2023). Neural mechanisms of sentence production: a volumetric study of primary progressive aphasia, Cerebral Cortex. bhad470, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad470

5. Lukic, S., Kosik, E. L., Roy, A. R., Morris, N., Sible, I. J., Datta, S.,... & Sturm, V. E. (2023). Higher emotional granularity relates to greater inferior frontal cortex cortical thickness in healthy, older adults. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-13. 

6. Lukic*, S., Krauska*, A., Yoshida, M., & Thompson, C. K. (2023). The role of category ambiguity in normal and impaired lexical processing: can you paint without the paint?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 188. 

7. Lorca-Puls, Gajardo-Vidal, Mandelli, Illán‑Gala, Ezzes, Wauters, Battistella, Bogley, Ratnasiri, Licata, Battista, García, Lead Tee, Lukic, Boxer, Rosen, Seeley, Grinberg, Spina, Miller, Miller, Henry, Dronkers, & Gorno-Tempini (2023). Neural basis of speech and grammar symptoms in nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum. BRAIN-2022-02396.R2

8. Mandelli, M. L., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Lukic, S., Montembeault, M., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Licata, A., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2023). Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, 2023-05. PDF

9. Lukic*, S., Licata*, A. E., Weis, E., Bogley, R., Ratnasiri, B., Welch, A., … Borghesani, V. (2022). Auditory verb generation performance patterns dissociate variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Frontiers in Psychology, 3091. PDF

10. García, A. M., Welch, A. E., Mandelli, M. L., Henry, M. L., Lukic, S., Prioris, M. J. T., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2022). Automated detection of speech timing alterations in autopsy-confirmed nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia. Neurology, 99(5), e500-e511. 

11. Tee, B. L., Watson Pereira, C., Lukic, S., Bajorek, L. P., Allen, I. E., Miller, Z. A., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2022). Neuroanatomical correlations of visuospatial processing in primary progressive aphasia. Brain communications, 4(2), fcac060. 

12. Shdo, S. M., Roy, A. R., Datta, S., Sible, I. J., Lukic, S., ... & Sturm, V. E. (2022). Enhanced positive emotional reactivity in frontotemporal dementia reflects left-lateralized atrophy in the temporal and frontal lobes. Cortex, 154, 405-420. 

13. Lukic, S., Borghesani, V., Weis, E., Welch, A., Bogley, R., Neuhaus, J., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2021). Dissociating nouns and verbs in temporal and perisylvian networks: Evidence from neurodegenerative diseases. Cortex, 142, 47-61. 

14. Lukic*, S., Thompson*, C. K., Barbieri, E., Chiappetta, B., Bonakdarpour, B., Kiran, S., ... & Caplan, D. (2021). Common and distinct neural substrates of sentence production and comprehension. NeuroImage, 224, 117374. 

15. Borghesani, V., Dale, C., Lukic, S., Hinkley, L., Lauricella, M., Shwe, W., Honma, S., Miller, Z., Miller, B. L., Houde, J., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., Nagarajan, S. S. (2021). Semantic categories in a faulty semanic system: evidence from semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia. eLife, 10:e63905 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.63905. 

16. Staffaroni, A. M., Weintraub, S., Rascovsky, K., Rankin, K. P., Taylor, J., Fields, J. A.,Casaletto, K. B., Hillis, A. E., Lukic, S.,... & Kramer, J. H. (2021). Uniform data set language measures for bvFTD and PPA diagnosis and monitoring. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 13(1), e12148. 

17. Stiver, J., Staffaroni, A. M., Walters, S. M., You, M. Y., Casaletto, K. B., Erlhoff, S. J., Possin, K.L., Lukic, S., ... & Kramer, J. H. (2022). The Rapid Naming Test: Development and initial validation in typically aging adults. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 36(7), 1822-1843. 

18. Lukic, S., Meltzer-Asscher, A., Higgins, J., Parrish, T. B., & Thompson, C. K. (2019). Neurocognitive correlates of category ambiguous verb processing: The single versus dual lexical entry hypotheses. Brain and language, 194, 65-76. 

19. Lukic, S., Mandelli, M. L., Welch, A., Jordan, K., Shwe, W., Neuhaus, J., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2019). Neurocognitive basis of repetition deficits in primary progressive aphasia. Brain and language, 194, 35-45. 

20. 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 Functions in Stroke Aphasia. Neural Plasticity, 1-114. 

21. Thompson, C. K., Lukic, S., King, M. C., Mesulam, M., & Weintraub, S. (2012). Verb and noun deficits in stroke-induced and primary progressive aphasia: The Northwestern Naming Battery. Aphasiology, 26: 632-655. 

22. Den Ouden, D. B., Saur, D., Mader, W., Schelter, B., Lukic, S., Wali, E., Timmer, J., & Thompson, C.K. (2012). Network modulation during complex syntactic processing. Neuroimage, 59: 815-823. 

Preprint/Under review

1. Lukic, S., Barbieri, E., Rogalski, E. J., Weintraub, S., Marsel-Mesulam, M., & Thompson, K. C. Neural correlates of transitive and finite verb production deficits in Primary Progressive Aphasia: the role of inferior parietal and frontal regions. 

Book Chapters

1. Lukic, S., & Borghensani, V. (In press, 2023). Organization and structure of the lexical system. Book chapter in The SAGE Handbook of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience (2 Vols.) Editor-in-Chief Gregory J. Boyle.  

2. Lukic, S., Borghensani, V., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., & Battistella, G. (2022). Voxel-Based Brain-Behavior Mapping in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Book chapter in Lesion-to-symptom mapping: Principles and tools. Edited by Dorian Pustina and Daniel Mirman. The Springer neuromethods. PDF

Recent Oral Presentations

1. Lukic, S. Language breakdowns in neurological disorders as a window into cognition. Invited research talk at the Haskins Laboratories Staff Talk (June 2, 2022).

2. Lukic, S. The Neurobiology of the Lexical System: What kind of data is actually missing? Invited research talk at the C-Star lecture series (April 21, 2022; https://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series)

3. Lukic, S. Investigating Auditory Verbal Short-Term Memory in Dyslexia. Invited research talks at Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center Spring Symposium (April 13, 2022; https://schwabcognitivediversity.ucsf.edu/content/spring-symposium-2022-bench-policy-and-practice)

4. Lukic, S. Language in healthy and diseased brains & the FTLD PALPA. Invited research talks at the The Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar at Columbia University (October 14 and November 18, 2021) 

5. Lukic, S., Borghensani, V., Shwe, W., Weis, L., Neuhaus, J., Jessica, Miller, Z., Miller, L. B., Drokers, N. F., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. Dissociating Grammatical Categories in Temporal and Perisylvian networks: Evidence from Neurodegenerative Disease. Platform talk at the Academy of Aphasia Conference (October 29, 2019)

6. Lukic, S., Kosik, J. Eena, Morris, N., Sible, I. J., Datta, S., Roy, A., Kramer, J. H., Miller, B. L., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Sturm, V. E. Emotional Granularity Reflects Cortical Thickness in Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Platform talk at the Bay Area Affective Science Conference (June 22, 2019)

7. Lukic, S., & Lindbergh, C.A. Neurobiology of Word Retrieval Difficulties in Aging and FTD: Compensation and Reorganization. Behavioral Neurology Journal Club at Memory and Aging Center (January 8, 2019)

Recent Poster Presentations

1. Lukic, S., Barbieri, E., Rogalski, E. J., Weintraub, S., Marsel-Mesulam, M., & Thompson, K. C (October 7, 2022). Neural correlates of transitive and finite verb production deficits in Primary Progressive Aphasia: the role of inferior parietal and frontal regions. The Society for Neurobiology of Language.

2. Lukic, S., Fan, Z., Welch, A., Miller, B., Wilson, S., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Garcia., A. (April, 19, 2021). Characterizing Morphosyntactic Deficits in Primary Progressive Aphasia using NLP: the bilateral inferior frontal lobe. The American Academy of Neurology 2021 Annual Meeting.

3. Lukic, S., Borghensani, V., Shwe, W., Weis, L., Neuhaus, J., Jessica, Miller, Z., Miller, L. B., Dronkers, N., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (August 20-22, 2019). Dissociating Grammatical Categories in Temporal and Perisylvian networks: Evidence from Neurodegenerative Disease. The Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

4. Lukic, S., Mandelli, M. L., Welch, A., Jordan, K., Cobigo, Y., Hubbard, I. H., & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (November 8-10, 2017). Sentence Repetition Impairment in Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Voxel- Based Morphometry (VBM) study. The Neurobiology of Language Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.