NNRG People - Swathi Kiran

Swathi Kiran

Collaborator

Swathi is an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory at Boston University. We have collaborated on computational modeling of bilingual lexicon, in particular on its impairment and rehabilitation in aphasia.

Email:

kirans [at] bu edu

Homepage:

http://www.bu.edu/aphasiaresearch/people/swathi-kiran/

Projects

Computational modeling of language impairment and control in bilingual individuals with post-stroke aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders	2023 - 2028
Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes In Bilingual Aphasia Using Computational Modeling	2016 - 2022
Organization and Disorders of the Mental Lexicon: The DISLEX System	1990 - 1999

Publications

Modeling Bilingualism as a Dynamic Phenomenon in Healthy and Neurologically Affected Speakers Across the Lifespan (Commentary)	Claudia Penaloza, Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Swathi Kiran	Language Learning, ., 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12566.	2023

Constructing Individualized Computational Models for Dementia Patients	Peggy Fidelman, Uli Grasemann, Claudia Penaloza, Michael Scimeca, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Swathi Kiran, Ri...	In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022.	2022

Predicting language treatment response in bilingual aphasia using neural network-based patient models	Uli Grasemann, Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Dekhtyar, Risto Miikkulainen, and Swathi Kiran	Scientific Reports, 11(10497):1-11, 2021.	2021

BiLex: A computational approach to the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure on bilingual lexical access	Claudia Peñaloza, Uli Grasemann, Maria Dekhtyar, Risto Miikkulainen, and Swathi Kiran	Brain and Language, 195(104643), 2019.	2019

Evolutionary Optimization of Neural-Network Models of Human Behavior	Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Dekhtyar, and Swathi Kiran	In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2019.	2019

A Computational Account of Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation	Swathi Kiran, Uli Grasemann, Chaleece Sandberg, and Risto Miikkulainen	Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16:325-342, 2013.	2013

Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model	Uli Grasemann, Swathi Kiran, Chaleece Sandberg and Risto Miikkulainen	In J Laaksonen and T. Honkela, editors, Proceedings of WSOM11, 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Ma...	2011

Modeling the Bilingual Lexicon of an Individual Subject	Risto Miikkulainen and Swathi Kiran	In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'09), Berlin, 2009. Springer.	2009

Software/Data

BiLex	Download at GitHub. A self-organizing map model of bilingual aphasia. ...	2021

DISLEX	This package contains the C-code and data for training and testing the DISLEX model of the lexicon, which is also par...	1994

Areas of Interest

Natural Language Processing (Cognitive) Cognitive Science Brain and Cognitive Disorders Computational Neuroscience