Recent Publications
Kim, J. H., Cust, S., Lammers, B., Sheppard, S. M., Keator, L. M., Tippett, D. C., … Sebastian, R. (2024). Cerebellar tDCS enhances functional communication skills in chronic Aphasia. Aphasiology, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2328874
Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Sebastian, R., Berube, S., Goldberg, E. B., Shea, J., Stein, C. M., & Hillis, A. E. (2023). Resting state correlates of picture description informativeness in left vs. right hemisphere chronic stroke. Frontiers in neurology, 14, 1288801. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1288801
Sheppard, S. M., Nobles, S. L., Palma, A., Kajfez, S., Jordan, M., Crowley, K., & Beier, S. (2023). One Font Doesn’t Fit All: The Influence of Digital Text Personalization on Comprehension in Child and Adolescent Readers. Education Sciences, 13(9), 864. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13090864
Stockbridge, M. D., Elm, J., Breining, B. L., Tippett, D. C., Sebastian, R., Cassarly, C., Teklehaimanot, A., Spell, L. A., Sheppard, S. M., Vitti, E., Ruch, K., Goldberg, E. B., Kelly, C., Keator, L. M., Fridriksson, J., & Hillis, A. E. (2023). Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation in Subacute Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke, 54(4), 912–920. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.041557
Mefford, J. A., Zhao, Z., Heilier, L., Xu, M., Zhou, G., Mace, R., Sloane, K. L., Sheppard, S. M., & Glenn, S. (2023). Varied performance of picture description task as a screening tool across MCI subtypes. PLOS digital health, 2(3), e0000197. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000197
Minga, J., Sheppard, S. M., Johnson, M., Hewetson, R., Cornwell, P., & Blake, M. L. (2023). Apragmatism: The renewal of a label for communication disorders associated with right hemisphere brain damage. International journal of language & communication disorders, 58(2), 651–666. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12807
Liu, C. F., Hsu, J., Xu, X., Kim, G., Sheppard, S. M., Meier, E. L., Miller, M. I., Hillis, A. E., & Faria, A. V. (2023). Digital 3D Brain MRI Arterial Territories Atlas. Scientific data, 10(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01923-0
Beier, S., Berlow, S., Boucaud, E., Bylinskii, Z., Cai, T., Cohn, J., Crowley, K., Day, S. L., Dingler, T., Dobres, J., Healey, J., Jain, R., Jordan, M., Kerr, B., Li, Q., Miller, D. B., Nobles, S., Papoutsaki, A., Qian, J., . . . Wolfe, B. (2021). Readability Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach. ArXiv. /abs/2107.09615
Ruch, K., Stockbridge, M. D., Walker, A., Vitti, E., Shea, J., Sheppard, S., Pacl, A., Kim, H., Faria, A. V., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Enhanced Imaging and Language Assessments for Primary Progressive Aphasia. Neurology, 99(18), e2044–e2051. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000201040
Sheppard, S. M., Stockbridge, M. D., Keator, L. M., Murray, L. L., Blake, M. L., & Right Hemisphere Damage working group, Evidence-Based Clinical Research Committee, Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (2022). The Company Prosodic Deficits Keep Following Right Hemisphere Stroke: A Systematic Review. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS, 28(10), 1075–1090. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617721001302
Berube, S. K., Goldberg, E., Sheppard, S. M., Durfee, A. Z., Ubellacker, D., Walker, A., Stein, C. M., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). An Analysis of Right Hemisphere Stroke Discourse in the Modern Cookie Theft Picture. American journal of speech-language pathology, 31(5S), 2301–2312. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-21-00294
Stockbridge, M. D., Sheppard, S. M., Keator, L. M., Murray, L. L., Lehman Blake, M., & Right Hemisphere Disorders Working Group, Evidence-Based Clinical Research Committee and Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences (2022). Aprosodia Subsequent to Right Hemisphere Brain Damage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – CORRIGENDUM. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society: JINS, 28(9), 996. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617721001387
Sheppard, S. M., Goldberg, E. B., Sebastian, R., Walker, A., Meier, E. L., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Paired With Verb Network Strengthening Treatment Improves Verb Naming in Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Case Series. American journal of speech-language pathology, 31(4), 1736–1754. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-21-00272
Sheppard, S., Schneider, A. L. C., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Defining the Lesion for Lesion-Symptom Mapping. In Neuromethods (pp. 1-26). (Neuromethods; Vol. 180). Humana Press Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2225-4_1
Breining, B. L., Faria, A. V., Caffo, B., Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Sebastian, R., Tippett, D. C., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Neural regions underlying object and action naming: Complementary evidence from acute stroke and primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 36(6), 732–760. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1907291
Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Goldberg, E. B., Kelly, C. R., Walker, A., Ubellacker, D. M., Vitti, E., Ruch, K., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Dysfunctional Tissue Correlates of Unrelated Naming Errors in Acute Left Hemisphere Stroke. Language, cognition and neuroscience, 37(3), 330–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1980593
Sheppard, S. M., Meier, E. L., Kim, K. T., Breining, B. L., Keator, L. M., Tang, B., Caffo, B. S., & Hillis, A. E. (2022). Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study. Brain and language, 225, 105068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105068
Harvey, D. Y., & Hamilton, R. (2022). Noninvasive brain stimulation to augment language therapy for poststroke aphasia. Handbook of clinical neurology, 185, 241–250. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823384-9.00012-8
Goldberg, E. B., Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Breining, B. L., & Hillis, A. E. (2021). Stroke recurrence and its relationship with language abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64, 2022-2037. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00347
Breining, B.L., Faria, A.V., Caffo, B., Meier, E.L., Sheppard, S.M., Sebastian, R., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. 2021). Neural regions underlying object and action naming: Complementary evidence from acute stroke and primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1907291
Zezinka Durfee, A., Sheppard, S.M., Blake, M.L., & Hillis, A.E. (2021). Lesion loci of impaired affective prosody: A systematic review of evidence from stroke. Brain and Cognition, 152, 105759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105759
Sheppard, S.M., Sebastian, R. (2021). Diagnosing and managing post-stroke aphasia. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 21(2), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2020.1855976
Sheppard, S.M., Meier, E.L., Zezinka Durfee, A., Walker, A., Shea, J., Hillis, A.E. (2021). Characterizing subtypes and neural correlates of receptive aprosodia in acute right hemisphere stroke. Cortex, 141, 36-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.003
Sheppard, S.M., Keator, L.M., Breining, B.L., Wright, A.E., Saxena, S., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). The right hemisphere ventral stream for emotional prosody identification: Evidence from acute stroke. Neurology, 94(10), e1013-e2020. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000008870
Sebastian, R., Kim, J. H., Brenowitz, R., Tippett, D. C., Desmond, J. E., Celnik, P. A., & Hillis, A. E. (2020). Cerebellar neuromodulation improves naming in post-stroke aphasia. Brain communications, 2(2), fcaa179. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa179
Tippett, D.C., Breining, B., Goldberg, E., Meier, E, Sheppard, S.M., Sherry, E., Stockbridge, M., Suarez, A., Wright, A.E., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). Visuomotor Figure Construction and Visual Figure Delayed Recall and Recognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(12), 1456-1470.
Odolil, A., Wright, A.E., Keator, L.M., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B.L., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). Leukoaraiosis severity predicts rate of decline in primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(3), 365-375. https:///doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1594152
Keator, L.M, Faria, A.V., Kim, K., Saxena, S., Wright, A., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B.L., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). An Efficient Bedside Measure Yields Prognostic Implications for Individuals with Acute Stroke. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 33(3), 192-200.
Meier, E.L., Breining, B.L., Sheppard, S.M., Goldberg, E.B., Tippett, D.C., Tsapkini, K., Faria, A.V., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). White matter hyperintensities contribute to language deficits in primary progressive aphasia. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 33(3), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNN.0000000000000237
Meier, E.L., Sheppard, S.M., Goldberg, E.B., Head, C.R., Ubellacker, D.M., Walker, A., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). Naming errors and dysfunctional tissue metrics predict language recovery after acute left hemisphere stroke. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107651. https://10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107651
Sheppard, S.M., Love, T., Midgley, K.J., Shapiro, L.P., & Holcomb, P.J. (2019). Using prosody during sentence processing in aphasia: Evidence from temporal neural dynamics. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107197
Kim, K., Adams, L., Wright, A., Wright, A., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B.L., Rorden, C., Fridriksson, J., Bonilha, L., Rogalsy, C., Love, T., Hickok, G. & Hillis, A.E. (2019). Neural processing critical for distinguishing between speech sounds. Brain & Language, 197, 104677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104677
Keator, L.M., Wright, A.E., Saxena, S., Kim, K., Demsky, C., Sebastian, R., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B., Hillis, A.E., & Tippett, D.C. (2019). Distinguishing logopenic from semantic and nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia: Patterns of linguistic and behavioral correlations. Neurocase, 25(3), 98-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2019.1625929
Wright A.E., Saxena, S., Sheppard, S.M., & Hillis, A.E. (2018). Selective impairments in components of affective prosody in neurologically impaired individuals. Brain and Cognition, 124, 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2018.04.001
Patel, S., Oishi, K., Wright, A., Sutherland-Foggio, H., Saxena, S., Sheppard, S.M., & Hillis, A.E. (2018). Right hemisphere regions critical for expression of emotion through prosody. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, 224. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00224
Sheppard, S.M., Midgley, K.J., Love, T., Shapiro, L.P., & Holcomb, P.J. (2018). Electrophysiological evidence for the interaction of prosody and thematic fit during sentence comprehension. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 33(5), 547-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1390143
Sheppard, S.M., Love, T., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., & Shapiro, L.P. (2017). Electrophysiology of prosodic and lexical-semantic processing during sentence comprehension in aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 107, 9-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.023