Contact Details
email: vania.de.aguiar[at]rug.nl
Thesis Details
Enhancement of verb retrieval: Neuromodulation, repetition priming, and aphasia rehabilitation,
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Miceli, University of Trento
Prof. Dr. Roelien Bastiaanse, University of Groningen
Prof. Dr. Lyndsey Nickels, Macquarie University
Dr. Paul Sowman
Now
Assistant Professor in Neurolinguistics and Language Development at the University of Groningen
Selected Publications
Book chapters
de Aguiar, V. & Rofes, A. (2018). Afasias não fluentes: da teoria à práctica. In Fonseca, J. (Ed.) Afasia e comunicação após lesão cerebral: definição, classificação e reabilitação. Lisboa: Papa-Letras.
Peer-reviewed publications
Rofes, A., Mandonnet, E., de Aguiar, V., Rapp, B., Tsapkini, K., Miceli, G. (2018). Language processing from the perspective of electrical stimulation mapping. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 2018(1), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2018.1485636
Rofes, A., Zakariás, L., Ceder, K., Lind, M., Blom Johansson, M., de Aguiar, V., … Howard, D. (2017). Imageability ratings across languages. Behavior Research Methods, online first. doi:10.3758/s13428-017-0936-0
Rofes, A., Mandonnet, E., Godden, J., Baron, M.H., Colle, H., Darlix, A., de Aguiar, V., … Wager, M. (2017). Survey on current cognitive practices within the European Low-Grade Glioma Network: towards a European assessment protocol. Acta Neurochirurgica, 159(7), 1167-1178.doi:10.1007/s00701-017-3192-2
Regan, J., Lawson, S., & de Aguiar, V. (2017). The Eating Assessment Tool-10 Predicts Aspiration in Adults with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Dysphagia, 32(5), 714-720. doi: 10.1007/s00455-017-9822-2
de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., & Miceli, G. (2016). Improving production of treated and untreated verbs in aphasia: A meta-analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 468. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00468
de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Capasso, R., Gandolfi, M., Smania, N., Rossi, G., & Miceli, G. (2015). Can tDCS enhance item-specific effects and generalization after linguistically motivated aphasia therapy for verbs? Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 190. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00190
Rofes, A., de Aguiar, V., & Miceli, G. (2015). A minimal standardization setting for language mapping tests: an Italian example. Neurological Sciences, 36, 1113-1119. doi:10.1007/s10072-015-2192-3
de Aguiar, V., Paolazzi, C., Miceli, G. (2015). tDCS in post-stroke aphasia: The role of stimulation parameters, behavioral treatment and patient characteristics, Cortex, 63, 296-316,doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.08.015.
Martínez-Ferreiro, S., de Aguiar, V., Rofes, A. (2015). Non-fluent
aphasia in Ibero-Romance: Morphosyntactic deficits. Aphasiology, 29(1), 101-126, doi:10.1080/02687038.2014.958915
Under review
de Aguiar, V., Ficek, B., Webster, K., Wendt, H., Frangakis, C., Caffo, B., Hillis, A., Rapp, B., & Tsapkini, K. (submitted). Cognitive and language performance predicts effects of spelling intervention and tDCS in Primary Progressive Aphasia.
de Aguiar, V., Zhao, Y., Faria, A., Ficek, B., Webster, K., Wendt, H., Wang, Z., Hillis, A., Frangakis, C., Caffo, B., & Tsapkini, K. (submitted). Brain volumes as predictors of tDCS effects in primary progressive aphasia.
de Aguiar, V., Rofes, A., Wendt, H., Ficek, B., Webster, K., & Tsapkini, K. (submitted). Treating lexical retrieval using letter fluency and tDCS in primary progressive aphasia – a single case study.
Proceedings
de Aguiar, V., Zhao, Y., Ficek, B., Wenster, K., Wang, Z., Hillis, A., Frankagis, C., Caffo, B., Tsapkini, K. (2018). The relation between baseline brain volumes and response to tDCS in individuals with Primary Progressive Aphasia. Front. Psychol. Language Sciences Conference Abstract: 56th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting.
de Aguiar, V., Ficek, B., Wenster, K., Hillis, A., Tsapkini, K. (2017). Predicting improvement in spelling after written naming/spelling treatment and tDCS in primary progressive aphasia: a machine learning approach. Front. Psychol. Conference Abstract: 55th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting.
de Aguiar, V., Rofes, A., Bastiaanse, B., Capasso, R., Gandolfi, M., Smania, N., Rossi, G., Miceli, G. (2017). Effects of morphosyntactic therapy and tDCS on the connected speech of individuals with aphasia. Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference proceedings.
de Aguiar, V., Rofes, A., Lingnau, A. & Miceli, G. (2016). The effects of training action naming: a BOLD fMRI study. Front. Psychol. Conference Abstract: 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. doi:10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00096
de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Capasso, R., Gandolfi, M., Iellici, E., Smania, N., & Miceli, G. (2015). Effects of tDCS and morpho-syntactic therapy in lexical retrieval of treated and untreated verbs. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. 20(2015), 4-7. doi: 32.8310/supplement/1914
de Aguiar, V., & Miceli, G. (2015). Can pre-treatment scores predict treatment success and failure? The case of verb therapies. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. 20(2015), 122-125. doi: 32.8310/supplement/1914
de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Odorizzi, F., & Miceli, G. (2014). Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tDCS. Society for the neurobiology of language, conference proceedings. http://www.neurolang.org/programs/SNL2014_Program_with_Abstracts.pdf
de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Miceli, G. (2014). Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tDCS. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. 19(2014), 131-134. doi: 32.8310/supplement/1914
de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Reis, A. & Dragoy, O. (2013). Event related potentials of the processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. 18(S01), 8-12. doi: 32.8310/S01/1813-8