Brielle Stark NEURAL Research Lab Indiana University Bloomington bcstark@iu.edu |
Participants: | 24 PWA, 24 control |
Type of Study: | protocol |
Location: | USA |
Media type: | video |
DOI: | doi:10.21415/V2A0-P495 |
The NEURAL Research Lab is located within Indiana University Bloomington's Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Department, and is directed by Dr. Brielle C. Stark. It was founded in 2018, and its main purpose is to characterize language and its neural underpinnings in individuals with neurogenic communication disorders, especially aphasia. The lab is primarily interested in spoken language, especially discourse (connected speech: language beyond a single word/clause and used for a specific purpose), and its intersection with multimodal communicative channels (especially gesture) and internal language/lived experience (inner speech).
The spreadsheet with demographic and test result data is included with the Downloadable transcripts. Basic demographic information is also included in the AphasiaBank demographic spreadsheets. PLEASE NOTE: The WAB AQ and aphasia type in the test results spreadsheet and in the Participant ID header tier of the CHAT transcripts are based on the WAB-R Bedside.
The full discourse protocol was administered to 23 of the 25 participants twice within a short period of time to examine the stability of discourse measures.
The full NEURAL protocol and best practices manual is available here.
This work was supported by an ASHA Foundation New Investigator Award.