Alycia B. Laks

Dispelling the Plateau Assumption: Case-Based Evidence for Language Recovery in Chronic-Post Stroke Aphasia

This study shows that language recovery in chronic post-stroke aphasia can continue for years, supported by neuroplastic changes, using longitudinal behavioral and fMRI assessments.

Meaning for reading pseudowords: errors reveal semantic influences on pseudoword reading after stroke

This study investigates how semantic and phonological processes contribute to pseudoword reading deficits in stroke patients, finding that both error types are influenced by distinct cognitive and neural mechanisms.

The Georgetown Reading in Aging Neuroimaging Dataset (GRAND): Reading and multimodal MRI data in older adults

The paper introduces a dataset of reading behavior and multimodal MRI data from older adults to study normative reading patterns and brain-behavior relationships.

Simulating the spectrum, not the syndrome: Large scale individualized modeling of oral reading in stroke aphasia

The paper develops individualized computational models of alexia by simulating phonological and semantic deficits in stroke survivors, showing strong correlations with measured deficits but also model limitations.