Lab News

2025

Dr. LaCroix was awarded the American Heart Association Transformational Project Award in July. This grant will explore whether music-based intervention can be used to improve attention and language abilities for people with aphasia.

PhD Student Emily Lenz presented a paper at the 54th Clinical Aphasiology Conference titled, Attention in latent aphasia.

Vincent Miramontes-Andrade collaborated with the ABC Lab as a part of the Purdue Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP), where he presented a poster presentation titled Connectivity patterns Across Language and Attention Networks in Aphasia. Check out Vincent’s poster here!

PhD Student Addison Vogt presented a poster at the PULSe Spring Reception titled Error Patterns Differentiate Mild Traumatic Brain Injury from Neurotypical Controls. Check out Addison’s poster here!

2024

Undergraduate researcher, Abby DePaul, presented her research on sentence structure and prosody at the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) Research Day.

PhD student Emily Sebranek presented preliminary analysis from the Music Study virtually at Academy of Aphasia, & in person at the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC) and HHS Research Day.

Principal Investigator, Dr. Arianna LaCroix, gave a presentation at CALC titled, A consistent Rhythm engages neural resources outside of the core language network during sentence comprehension in People with aphasia.

Faculty members of Purdue’s Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department have developed the Aphasia & Dysphagia Data Repository (ADDR). The repository is a collaboration between the ABC Lab, Aphasia Research Lab, and I-EaT Lab and is focusing on stroke research.

You can view the lab newsletter for 2024 here!

2023

Dr. LaCroix was awarded a 2023 New Investigator’s Research Grant by the ASHFoundation in September. This grant will explore whether music listening can be used to improve attention and language abilities for people with aphasia.

Dr. LaCroix and two former students published a paper recently in Aphasiology, which took the first step towards developing an assessment that can be used to measure auditory attention in people with aphasia. Check out the paper here.

Dr. LaCroix and her colleagues published a new paper looking at how music listening interacts with attention. This study was lead by Dr. LaCroix’s former student, Nick Dovorany. Check out the paper here.