Publications

Breining, B. L., Faria, A. V., Tippett, D. C., Stockbridge, M. D., Meier, E. L., Caffo, B., Herrmann, O., Friedman, R., Meyer, A. M., Tsapkini, K., & Hillis, A. E. (2023). Association of regional atrophy with naming decline in primary progressive aphasia. Neurology, 100(6). https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000201491

Busby, N., Hillis, A. E., Bunker, L., Rorden, C., Newman-Norlund, R., Bonilha, L., Meier, E., Goldberg, E., Hickok, G., Yourganov, G., & Fridriksson, J. (2023). Comparing the brain-behavior relationship in acute and chronic stroke aphasia. Brain Communications, 5(2), fcad014. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad014

Sharif, M., Goldberg, E. B., Walker, A., & Hillis, A. E., & Meier, E. L. (2022). The contribution of white matter pathology, hypoperfusion, lesion load, and stroke recurrence to language deficits following acute subcortical left hemisphere stroke. PLOS One, 17(10), e0275664. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275664

Braun, E. J., Billot, A., Meier, E., Pan, Y., Kurani, A., Parrish, T., & Kiran, S. (2022). White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia. Brain and Language, 232, 105163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105163

Meier, E.L., Kelly, C. R., & Hillis, A. E. (2022).Dissociable language and executive control deficits and recovery in post-stroke aphasia: An exploratory observational and case series study. Neuropsychologia, 172, 108270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108270

Bunker, L., Walker, A., Meier, E. L., Goldberg, E., Leigh, R., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). FLAIR hyperintense vessels predict variability in right- and left-hemisphere acute ischemic stroke. NeuroImage: Clinical, 34, 102991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.102991

Sheppard, S. M., Goldberg, E. B., Sebastian, R., Walker, A., Meier, E. L., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Transcranial direct current stimulation paired with verb network strengthening treatment improves verb naming in primary progressive aphasia: A case series. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(4), 1736-1754. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-21-00272

Sheppard, S. M., Meier, E. L., Kim, K. T., Breining, B. L., Keator, L. M., Tang, B., Caffo, B., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study. Brain and Language, 225, 105068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105068

Meier, E. L., Kelly, C. R., Goldberg, E. G., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Executive control deficits and lesion correlates in acute stroke survivors with and without aphasia. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 16(2), 868-877. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-021-00580-y

Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Goldberg, E. B., Kelly, C. R., Walker, A., Ubellacker, D. M., Ruch, K., Vitti, E., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Dysfunctional tissue correlates of unrelated naming errors in acute left hemisphere stroke. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(3), 330-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1980593

Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2021). Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy. Brain and Language, 223, 105042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105042

Sheppard, S. M., Meier, E. L., Durfee, A. Z., Walker, A., Shae, J., & Hillis, A. E. (2021). Characterizing subtypes and neural correlates of receptive aprosodia in acute right hemisphere stroke. Cortex, 141, 36-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.003

Keser, Z., Meier, E. L., Stockbridge, M. D., Breining, B. L., Sebastian, R., & Hillis, A. E. (2021). Thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical pathways after left hemisphere stroke and their role in picture naming. Brain Connectivity, 11(7), 553-565. https://doi.org/10.1089/brain.2020.0831

Durfee, A. Z., Sheppard, S. M., Meier, E. L., Bunker, L., Ciu, E., Crainiceanu, C., & Hillis, A. E. (2021). Explicit training to improve affective prosody recognition in adults with acute right hemisphere stroke. Brain Sciences, 11(5), 667. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11050667

Breining, B. L., Faria, A. V., Caffo, B., Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Sebastian, R., Tippett, D. C., Hillis, A. E. (2021). Neural regions underlying object and action naming: Complementary evidence from acute stroke and primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 36(6), 732-760. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1907291

Goldberg, E. B., Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Breining, B. L., & Hillis, A. E. (2021). Stroke recurrence and its relationship with language abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(5), 2022-2037. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00347

Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Goldberg, E. G., Head, C. R., Ubellacker, D. M., Walker, A., & Hillis, A. E. (2020). Naming errors and dysfunctional tissue metrics predict language recovery after acute left hemisphere stroke. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107651

Keser, Z., Meier, E. L., Stockbridge, M. D., & Hillis, A. E. (2020). The role of microstructural integrity of major language pathways in narrative speech in the first year after stroke. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 29(9), 105078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.105078

Meier, E. L., Breining, B. L., Sheppard, S. M., Goldberg, E. B., Tippett, D. C., Tsapkini, K., Faria, A. V., & Hillis, A. E. (2020). White matter hyperintensities independently contribute to language deficits in primary progressive aphasia. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 33(3), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1097%2FWNN.0000000000000237

Keator, L. M., Faria, A. V., Kim, K. T., Saxena, S., Wright, A. E., Sheppard, S. M., Breining, B. L., Goldberg, E., Tippett, D. C., Meier, E., & Hillis, A. E. (2020). An efficient bedside measure yields prognostic implications for acute stroke patients. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 33(3), 192-200. https://doi.org/10.1097%2FWNN.0000000000000238

Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2020). Pre-treatment graph measures of a functional semantic network are associated with naming therapy outcomes in chronic aphasia. Brain and Language, 207, 104809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104809

Angelopoulou, G., Meier, E., Kasselimis, D…Potagas, C., & Kiran, S. (2020). Grey and white matter structural substrates of sex differences in the narrative abilities of healthy adults. Front. Hum. Neurosci, 13, 1424. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01424

Gilmore, N., Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. (2020). Typicality-based semantic treatment for anomia results in multiple levels of generalisation. Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 30(5), 802-828. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2018.1499533

Tippett, D. C., Breining, B. Goldberg, E., Meier, E., Sheppard, S. M., Sherry, E., Stockbridge, M., Suarez, A., Wright, A. E., & Hillis, A. E. (2019). Visuomotor figure construction and visual figure delayed recall and recognition in primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(12), 1456-1470. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1670330

Kiran, S., Meier, E. L., & Johnson, J. P. (2019). Neuroplasticity in aphasia: A proposed framework of language recovery. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(11), 3973-3985. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-RSNP-19-0054

Johnson, J. P., Meier, E. L., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2019). Treatment-related changes in neural activation vary according to treatment response and extent of spared tissue in patients with chronic aphasia. Cortex,121, 147-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.08.016 

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2019). A lesion and connectivity-based hierarchical model of chronic aphasia recovery dissociates subgroups of patients and healthy controls. NeuroImage: Clinical, 23, 101919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101919

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Pan, Y., & Kiran, S. (2019). The utility of lesion classification in predicting language and treatment outcomes in chronic stroke-induced aphasia. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 13(6), 1510-1525. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-019-00118-3

Gilmore, N., Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. (2019). Nonlinguistic cognitive factors predict treatment-induced recovery in chronic poststroke aphasia. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 100(7), 1251-1258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2018.12.024

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. (2018). Left frontotemporal effective connectivity during semantic feature judgments in patients with aphasia and age-matched healthy controls. Cortex, 108, 173-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.006

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Villard, S. & Kiran, S. (2017). Does naming therapy make ordering in a restaurant easier?: Dynamics of co-occurring change in cognitive-linguistic and functional communication skills in aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(2), 266-280. https://doi.org/10.1044/2016_AJSLP-16-0028

Meier, E. L., Kapse, K. J., & Kiran, S. (2016). The relationship between frontotemporal effective connectivity during picture naming, behavior, and preserved cortical tissue in chronic aphasia. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 10, 109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00109

Meier, E. L., Lo, M., & Kiran, S. (2016). Understanding semantic and phonological processing deficits in adults with aphasia: Effects of category and typicality. Aphasiology, 30(6), 719-749. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2015.1081137

Kiran, S., Meier, E., Kapse, K., & Glynn, P. (2015). Changes in task-based effective connectivity in language networks following rehabilitation in post-stroke patients with aphasia. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 9, 316. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00316