Publications
- ***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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275664
- 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. (in press). Association of regional atrophy with naming decline in primary progressive aphasia. Neurology.
- Busby, N., Hillis, A. E., Bunker, L., Rorden, C., Newman-Norlund, R., Bonilha, L., Meier, E., Goldberg, E., Hickock, G., Yourganov, G., & Fridriksson, J. (in press). Comparing the brain-behavior relationship in acute and chronic post-stroke aphasia. Brain Communications.
- 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105042. 5-year impact factor: 2.563
- 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.003. 5-year impact factor: 3.569
- 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 10.1097/WNN.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. DOI: 10.1097/WNN.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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00316.