Open Resources & Materials

 

all Publications

with open source text links

  1. Alexander, JM*; Hedrick, T^; Stark, BC (accepted at Frontiers in Psychology). Inner speech in the daily lives of people with aphasia. Preprint: https://osf.io/gbw3t/

  2. Stark, BC & Oeding, G^ (2024). Demographic, neuropsychological, and speech variables that impact iconic and supplementary-to-speech gesturing in aphasia. Gesture, Feb 9. Doi: 10.1075/gest.23019.sta. Preprint and data: https://osf.io/nkbs2

  3. Alexander, JM*; Langland-Hassan, P; Stark, BC (2023). Measuring Inner Speech Objectively and Subjectively in Aphasia. Aphasiology, 0(0), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2023.2235761, preprint: Measuring Inner Speech Objectively and Subjectively in Aphasia.

  4. Matchin, W., den Ouden, D.-B., Basilakos, A., Stark, B. C., Fridriksson, J., & Hickok, G. (2023). Grammatical Parallelism in Aphasia: A Lesion-Symptom Mapping Study. Neurobiology of Language, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00117 (open access).

  5. Gallée, J., Tilton-Bolowsky, V. E., & Stark, B. C. (2023). The Communication Success Screener: A Preliminary Investigation of Perceived Communicative Success Across Modalities, Environments, and Demands. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 13 Nov. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00171. Preprint/free: The Communication Success Screener (COMSS): a pilot study of perceived communicative success across modalities, environments, and demands.

  6. Stark, B. C., Alexander, J. M.*, Hittson, A.,^ Doub, A.^, Igleheart, M.*, Streander, T.*, & Jewell, E*. (2023). Test–Retest Reliability of Microlinguistic Information Derived From Spoken Discourse in Persons With Chronic Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(7), 2316–2345. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00266. Preprint: Reliability of spoken discourse in speakers with aphasia

  7. Xiong, Y; Khlif, M; Egorova, N; Brodtmann, A; BC Stark (accepted at NeuroImage: Clinical). Neural correlates of verbal fluency revealed by longitudinal non-diffusion-weighted imaging in stroke

  8. Dalton, SG; Stark, BC; Fromm, D; Apple, K; MacWhinney, B; Rensch, A; Rowedder, M (2022). Validation of an Automated Procedure for Calculating Core Lexicon From Transcripts. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00473

  9. Dutta, M; Murray, LL; Stark, B.C. (2022). Assessing the integrity of executive functioning in chronic aphasia. Aphasiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2022.2049675

  10. Stark, BC & Bryant, L; Themistocleous, C; den Ouden, DB; Roberts, AC (2022). Best Practice Guidelines for Reporting Spoken Discourse in Aphasia and Neurogenic Communication Disorders. Aphasiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2022.2039372. All data and files available on OSF.

  11. Matchin, W; Basilakos, A; den Ouden, DB; Stark, BC; Hickok, G; Fridriksson, J (2021). Functional differentiation in the language network revealed by lesion-symptom mapping. NeuroImage, 247: Feb. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118778

  12. Gleichgerrcht, E., Roth, R., Fridriksson, J., den Ouden, D., Delgaizo, J., Stark, B.C., Hickok, G., Rorden, C., Wilmskoetter, J., Hillis, A., & Bonilha, L. (2021). Neural bases of elements of syntax during speech production in patients with aphasia. Brain and Language, 222, 105025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105025

  13. Stark BC, Clough, S, Duff, MC. Suggestions for Improving the Investigation of Gesture in Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Oct. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00125 Preprint

  14. Stark, BC; Dutta, M*; Murray, LL; Fromm, D; Bryant, L; Harmon, T; Ramage, AE; Roberts, A. (2021). Spoken Discourse Assessment and Analysis in Aphasia: An International Survey of Current Practices. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 23 Sept. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00708. Paper

  15. Yourganov, G; Stark, BC; Fridriksson, J; Bonilha, L; Rorden, C. (2021). Effect of stroke on contralateral functional connectivity. Brain Connectivity.  Mar 24. doi: 10.1089/brain.2020.0901. Online ahead of print.. Paper

  16. Doub, A*; Hittson, A* & Stark BC (2021). Conducting a virtual study with special considerations for working with persons with aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. May;1-9, doi: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00392. Paper

  17. Stark BC and Cofoid, C (2021). Task-specific iconic gesturing during spoken discourse in aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 1-18. doi: 10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00271. Paper

  18. Stark BC and Fukuyama, J (2020). Leveraging big data to understand the interaction of task and language during monologic spoken discourse in speakers with and without aphasia. Journal of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2020.1862258 Paper

  19. Stark BC, Dutta M, Murray LL, et al (2020). Standardizing assessment of spoken discourse in aphasia: A working group with deliverables. Am. J. Speech-Language Pathol. doi: 10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00093. Paper

  20. Matchin WM, Basilakos A, Stark BC, den Ouden DB, Fridriksson J, Hickok G (2020). Agrammatism and paragrammatism: a cortical double dissociation revealed by lesion-symptom mapping. Neurobiology of Language, 1(2), 208-225. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00010 Paper

  21. Spell LA, Richardson JD, Basilakos A, Stark BC, Teklehaimanot A, Hillis AE, et al. Developing, Implementing, and Improving Assessment and Treatment Fidelity in Clinical Aphasia Research. Am. J. Speech-Language Pathol. 2020: 1–13 Paper

  22. Wilmskoetter J, Marebwa B, Basilakos A, Fridriksson J, Rorden C, Stark BC, et al. Long-range fibre damage in small vessel brain disease affects aphasia severity. 2019. Paper

  23. Kristinsson S, Yourganov G, Xiao F, Bonilha L, Stark BC, Rorden C, et al. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Genotype – Specific Differences in Cortical Activation in Chronic Aphasia. 2020; 62: 3923–3936. Paper

  24. Kristinsson S, Thors H, Yourganov G, Magnusdottir S, Hjaltason H, Stark BC, et al. Brain Damage Associated with Impaired Sentence Processing in Acute Aphasia. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2019: 1–16. Paper

  25. Wilmskoetter, J; Fridriksson, J; Gleichgerrcht, E; Stark, BC; Delgaizo, J; Hickok, G; Vaden, KI; Hillis, AE; Rorden, C; Bonilha, L. (2019). Neuroanatomical structures supporting lexical diversity, sophistication, and phonological word features during discourse. NeuroImage: Clinical. 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101961. Paper

  26. Basilakos, A; Stark, BC; Johnson, L; Rorden, C; Yourganov, G; Bonilha, L; Fridriksson, J (2019). Leukoaraiosis Is Associated With a Decline in Language Abilities in Chronic Aphasia. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 10.1177/1545968319862561. Paper; Free author’s copy

  27. Stark, BC (2019). A Comparison of Three Discourse Elicitation Methods in Aphasia and Age-Matched Adults: Implications for Language Assessment and Outcome. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 10.1044/2019_AJSLP-18-0265. Preprint

  28. Stark, BC; Basilakos, A; Hickok, G; Rorden, C; Bonilha, L; Fridriksson, J (2019). Neural organization of speech production: A lesion-based study of error patterns in connected speech. Cortex. 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.02.029. NIHMS Receipt (Free).

  29. Fridriksson, J; Elm, J; Basilakos, A; Stark, BC; Rorden, C; Sen, S; George, MS; Bonilha, L. (2018). Brain Stimulation. Transcranial direct current stimulation to treat aphasia: Longitudinal analysis of a randomized controlled trial, 10.1016/j.brs.2018.09.016. OA Paper, IUScholarWorks

  30. Fridriksson, J; Elm, J; Stark, BC; Basilakos, A; Rorden, C; Sen, S; George, MS; Bonilha, L. (2018). Brain Stimulation. BDNF Genotype and tDCS Interaction in Aphasia Treatment. ePub ahead of print, 10.1016/j.brs.2018.08.009. OA Paper, IUScholarWorks

  31. Yourganov, G; Fridriksson, J; Stark, BC; Rorden, C (2018). Removal of artifacts from resting-state fMRI data in stroke. NeuroImage: Clinical, 17, 297-305, 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.10.027. OA Paper, IUScholarWorks

  32. Feenaughty, L; Basilakos, A; Bonilha, L; den Ouden, D; Rorden, C; Stark, BC and Fridriksson, J (2018). Non-fluent speech following stroke is caused by impaired efference copy. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 10.1080/02643294.2017.1394834. NIHMS Public Access

  33. Stark, BC; Geva, S and Warburton, EA (2017). Inner Speech's Relationship with Overt Speech in Post-Stroke Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, 60(9), doi:10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0270. Author’s Copy

  34. Stark, BC and Warburton, EA (2016). “Language Outcomes After 4 Weeks of Self-delivered iPad-based Speech Therapy.” Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2016.1146150. Author’s Copy

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Recorded Talks / Lectures

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Dr. Stark gives invited lecture for the Australia Center for Research Excellence in Aphasia on the topic of inner speech!

“Inner Speech in Aphasia: Considerations for measurement, and implications for understanding daily life with aphasia, the language system, and response to therapy.” The concept of “inner speech” was introduced, as well as operational definitions that the aphasiology field, and other fields, have used. Different ways of measuring inner speech were introduced. Then, the talk focused on several studies conducted in Dr. Stark’s lab, comparing/contrasting inner speech measurement, evaluating inner speech in the daily lives of adults with aphasia, and evaluating inner speech as a mechanism spurring recovery after language therapy.

Test-retest reliability of, and importance of task on, linguistic information from spoken discourse in persons with chronic aphasia.

A virtual talk for FOQUSAphasia (www.foqusaphasia.com) on several studies in the lab! Slides can be found here.

Free, introductory lectures on aphasia and neuroscience of aphasia and aphasia recovery.

Dr. Stark makes free, introductory lectures for ENIGMA-U, a free online school focused on neuroscience, neuropsychology, and basic science literacy. You can find her four-part lecture series there, as well as here, for free!

Dr. Stark is interviewed by Aphasia Access.

During this episode, Dr. Janet Patterson, Research Speech-Language Pathologist at the VA Northern California Healthcare System, speaks with Dr. Brielle Stark about the Distinguished Aphasia Scholar USA Award from the Tavistock Trust, technology, and aphasia rehabilitation, measuring discourse, and FOQUSAphasia.



Language production & communication "in the wild"

Invited talk

UCLA Cognitive Psychology Colloquium
December 2020

Dr. Stark gives an invited talk for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute 2023 Annual meeting.

Dr. Stark presents on the potential to use lexical access during discourse as a means of differentiating latent aphasia and mild cognitive impairment from neurotypical language, and its potential to be a sensitive indicator of early impairment.

Dr. Stark is hosted as a Distinguished Speaker at Aphasia Access

Dr. Stark chats with Aphasia Access members about her research on discourse, highlighting the contribution of FOQUSAphasia (www.foqusaphasia.com).



CUNY 2020 INTRO TO APHASIABANK

A talk for the virtual CUNY 2020 conference on using AphasiaBank

Spring 2020


From a single word to many words: analyzing connected speech in aphasia

Invited talk

Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery
February 2019

Reliability of behavior performance and functional activation in aphasia

Invited talk

Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery
November 2016


See our talk series from FOQUSAphasia HERE

 

Didactic Teaching

Below are overviews of the courses that I reach. Please reach out for syllabi and materials!


Cognition and Communication in Aging

Undergraduate Course

Dr. Stark has taught this course since 2018.

Primary text: Yochim, B & Woodhead, E (2017). Psychology of Aging: A Biopsychosocial Perspective. Springer Publishing Company.

Course Description

This course covers aspects of cognition and communication associated with normal aging and with diseases/disorders prevalent in the aging population. Also, this course includes methodological issues in research with the elderly and information for maximizing communication with the aging population.

Course Learning Outcomes

All of which will be met via lectures as well as by assignments and in-class activities.

1.     Synthesize information pertaining to typical psychobiosocial processes in aging

2.     Explain typical cognitive and communicative changes in typical and atypical aging

3.     Differentiate between typical and atypical brain changes in this population

4.     Summarize core identifying features of common pathological disorders in the aging population

5.     Explain role of health professional in working with cognitive and communicative needs of aging population


Neuroanatomical and Physiological Substrates of Speech-Language Pathology

Master’s in Speech Language Pathology Course

Course Description

This course serves as an introduction to the neural bases of human communication. The goal of the course is to develop the skills to relate neurological function to anatomical structure. Case examples will be presented, as possible, to help you relate the neural structures to issues of communication disorders. Topics include functional neuroanatomy of the central and peripheral nervous systems; neural substrates of speech and language particularly as they relate to normal and disordered communication function; and neuroimaging techniques as a means of understanding information presented in medical reports. Units often will be discussed relative to neurological cases with the use of PowerPoint slides; in-class group assignments; videos and class discussion. Reading assignments will supplement class discussions by helping you visualize where nervous system structures are located and what pathways connect regions of the nervous system. Homework quizzes will assess your knowledge of nervous system structures and pathways.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1.  Integrate information pertaining to normal and abnormal neural development across the life span

  2. Interpret information relating basic neuroanatomy to neurophysiology and neurological disorders

  3.  Explain brain-behavior interactions by means of the neural substrates of speech, swallowing, hearing and language

  4. Outline the etiology of neurologically-based communication disorders


Aphasia

Master’s in Speech Language Pathology Course

Course Description

This course will introduce aphasia, a language disorder, through the lens of its neural underpinnings, the extent to which it affects communication, and the specific disruptions to unique aspects of the linguistic system. We will focus on the individual with aphasia, discussing assessment and remediation of language and communication, as well as other related areas of recovery, such as psychological, activities, and participation. Case studies will be used throughout, as will audio and video samples of individuals with aphasia. The ultimate goal of this course is to enable students to sensitively and accurately evaluate the presence, characteristics, and severity of aphasia, and to use this information to create a remediation plan that enables the individual with aphasia to recover lost functions (e.g., language, psychological, cognitive). We will also discuss the importance of cultural and linguistic sensitivity, approaching this with a lens of humility, curiosity, and understanding. We are constantly learning about aphasia and the far-reaching impacts that it has on the individual as well as their loved ones and community. Join me in growing our knowledge about this disorder, which affects over two million in the USA alone.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand the cognitive architecture of language

  2. Quantify and qualify linguistic deficits associated with aphasia, including lexical- semantic, morphosyntactic, and discourse processing problems

  3. Compare and contrast different types and severities of aphasia, as well as bilingual and progressive aphasias using linguistic and neural information

  4. Identify cultural and linguistic variables that are important for understanding aphasia assessment and treatment

  5. Describe common motor, sensory, cognitive, and emotional concomitant symptoms

  6. Identify and describe common causes of as well as means to prevent aphasia

  7. Summarize methods used to document neurological and cardiovascular damage in individuals with aphasia

  8. Identify test batteries and tests of specific perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, and emotional functions for assessing the effects of aphasia and concomitant symptoms on individuals with aphasia and their caregivers

  9. Identify cultural and linguistic variables that are important during assessment/diagnostics and remediation

  10. Identify positive and negative prognostic indicators of aphasia and rehabilitation outcomes.

  11. Design and describe specific treatment approaches for addressing the linguistic, cognitive, and emotional problems of individuals with aphasia, or for meeting the needs of these individuals’ caregivers

  12. Identify impact of cultural and linguistic variables of themselves and its relationship to service administration

  13. Examine impact of these variables as it relates to client care delivery;

  14. Discuss interaction of cultural and linguistic variables between provider, caregiver, and client;

  15.  Understand social determinants of health and other factors for clients;

  16. Discuss impact of multiple languages on assessment and intervention approaches