Lab News

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. We are actively recruiting people with aphasia for this study. Please email us at abclab@purdue.edu or call us at 765-496-2435 to learn more.

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.

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.

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