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Conference Presentations:

Wang, YS., Turkeltaub, P. E., & Riès, S. K. (2025, December). Using residualization to separate phonological and articulatory complexity in speech production [Poster Presentation]. 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Rishi, P., Wang, YS., Mu, E., Xi, Audrianna, Love, T., & Blumenfeld, H. K. (2025, October). The Lived Experiences of Chinese-Speaking Individuals with Aphasia: Implications for Clinical Practice [Poster Presentation]. The 2025 Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, USA.

Gálvez-McDonough, A. F., Wang, YS., Turkeltaub, P., & Riès, S. K. (2025, September). Neural correlates of non-linguistic cognitive control in left hemisphere stroke survivors [Poster Presentation]. The 2025 Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, USA.

Gálvez-McDonough, A. F., Wang, YS., Turkeltaub, P., & Riès, S. K. (2025, September). Investigating the neural correlates of nonlinguistic cognitive control in left hemisphere stroke survivors [Poster Presentation]. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 17th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA.

Andrade, K., Blumenfeld, H., Riès, S. (2025). Electrophysiological Signatures of Crosslinguistic Interference Resolution in Bilinguals With and Without Aphasia. Oral presentation at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.

Rishi, P., Wang, Y., Love, T., & Blumenfeld, H. (2025). Language proficiency and language learning history in sentence comprehension. Oral presentation at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Gálvez-McDonough, A., Blumenfeld, H.K., Barragan Diaz, A., Robinson Anthony, J.J.D., & Riès, S. (June 2025). Influence of language dominance on crosslinguistic and nonlinguistic interference resolution in bilinguals. To be presented as part of a symposium on The Role of Language Dominance and Experience in Bilinguals’ Single-Word and Sentence Processing, Presented at 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.

Riès, S., Wang, Y., Ashrafi, A., Ben-Haim, S., Shih, J. (2024). Cortical interactions supporting cognitive control in language production. Symposia at Society for the Neurobiology of Language 16th Annual Meeting. Brisbane, Australia.

Rishi, P., Anderson, E., Rodriguez, C., Chancellor, P., & Riès, S. (2024). Navigating semantic turbulence: The role of the left lateral prefrontal cortex in semantic interference resolution across individuals with and without aphasia. Poster presented at the 7th Annual California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, San Diego, CA.

Rishi, P., Anderson, E., Rodriguez, C., & Riès, S. (2024). Cognitive control involved in resolving semantic interference across individuals with and without left hemisphere stroke-induced aphasia. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Nara, Japan.

Anderson, E.J., Rishi, P., & Ries, S.K. (2024). Semantic context effects on word retrieval in individuals with left hemisphere stroke-induced aphasia. Presented at the 53rd annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Waikoloa, Hawai’i.

Andrade, K., Anderson, E.J., Wang,Y., Dickey, C., Kajfez, S., Rosen, B., McDonald, C., Lee, D., Kansal, L., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih, J., Beh-Haim, S., Halgren, E., & Riès, S.K. (2024). Cognitive Control Processes Supporting Lexical Retrieval: an iEEG study. Poster presented at the 16th Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France.

Anderson, E.J. & Riès, S.K. (2023). Speech error monitoring in individuals with left hemisphere stroke-induced lesions including or not including the posterior temporal cortex. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Reading, England.

Wang, YS., Anderson, E. J., Kajfez, S., McDonald, C. R., Lee, D. J., Kansal, L. R., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih, J. J., Ben-Haim, S., Halgren, E., Ashrafi, A., Riès, S. K. (2023). Functional connectivity underlying speech monitoring processes as revealed by Graph Signal Processing. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language 15th Annual Meeting. Marseille, France.

Anderson, E.J., Kajfez, S., Dickey, C., Andrade, K., Rosen, B., McDonald, C., Lee, D., Kansal, L., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih, J., Beh-Haim, S., Halgren, E., & Riès, S.K. (2023). Examining brain dynamics of control during language production in individuals with intractable epilepsy using intracranial electroencephalography. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France.

Andrade, K., Riès, S.K. (2023). Electrophysiological Signatures of Cross-Linguistic Interference Resolution in Bilinguals With and Without Aphasia. Poster presented at the 15th Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France.

Anderson, E.J., Dickey, C., Andrade, K., Rosen, B., McDonald, C., Lee, D., Kansal, L., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih, J., Beh-Haim, S., Halgren, E., & Riès, S.K. (2022). Intracranial electroencephalographic signatures of control during language production in individuals with intractable epilepsy. Poster presented at the 12th International Workshop on Language Production, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Andrade, K., Rosen, B., Rodriguez, C., McDonald, K., Lee, D., Yoshi-Contreras, J., Kansal, L., Shih, J., Ben-Haim, S., Halgren, E., Riès, S. (2022). Reengagement of the Middle Temporal Gyrus During Speech Monitoring as Revealed Through Intracranial Electroencephalography. Poster presented at the 12th International Workshop of Language Production, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hernandez, M., Barragan Diaz, A., Martinez, P., Robinson Anthony, J., Blumenfeld, H., Riès, S. (2021) Cognate and False Cognate Naming in Bilingual Adults Across the Lifespan: An Online Study. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, November 18-20 2021. Washington D.C.

Riès, S., Duffy, T. S., Fung, M. E., Sperling, C., Rosen, C. L., Shih J., Ben-Haim, S.,Halgren, E., McDonald, C. (2021) Picture Naming and Word Retrieval Deficits in Patients with Epilepsy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, October 24-26 2021. Online conference.

Anderson, E.J., Dickey, C., Andrade, K., McDonald, C., Lee, D.J., Kansal, L., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih, J., Ben-Haim, S., Halgren, E., Riès, S. (2021) Intracranial electroencephalographic signatures of word retrieval in individuals with intractable epilepsy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, October 5-8 2021. Online conference.

Andrade, K., Sperling, C., Toohey, O., McDonald, C., Lee, D.J., Kansal, L., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih, J., Ben-Haim, S., Halgren, E., Riès, S. (2021) Self-monitoring during speech production in a picture-naming and conflict-inducing spatial Stroop task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, October 5-8 2021. Online conference.

Meade, G., Andrade, K., Sperling, C., McDonald, C., Lee, D.J., Kansal, L., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih, J., Ben-Haim, S., Halgren, E., Riès, S. (2021) Spatio-temporal dynamics of phonological neighborhood effects in a picture-naming task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, October 5-8 2021. Online conference.

Mai, A., Riès, S., Ben-Haim, S., Shih, J., & Gentner, T. (2021) Phonemic category & higher-order acoustic features jointly drive neural response to speech. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, October 5-8 2021. Online conference.

Riès, S. (2021). Uncovering the spatio-temporal dynamics of language production. CuttingEEG, 5th Symposium on cutting-edge methods for EEG research. Aix-en-Provence, France, October 4-7th 2021.

Mai, A., Riès, S., Ben-Haim, S., Shih, J., & Gentner, T. (2021) Phonological contrasts are maintained despite neutralization: an intracranial EEG study. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, October 1-3 2021. Online conference hosted by the University of Toronto and York University.

Martinez, P., Barragan Diaz, A., Robinson Anthony, J., Blumenfeld, H., Riès, S. (2021) Poster presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, July 10-14 2021. Online conference.

Sperling, C., Andrade, K., Rosen, B., McDonald, C., Lee, D. J., Kansal, L., Yoshii-Contreras, J., Shih J., Ben-Haim, S.,  Halgren, E., Ashrafi, A., Riès, S. (2021) Detecting Interactive Speech Monitoring Activity During Speech Production: A Graph Signal Processing Approach. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 13-16 2021. [format changed to a virtual conference].

Anderson, E.J., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., Riès, S. (2020). Taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in picture naming. Poster to be presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, October 21-24 2020. Philadelphia, PA [format changed to a virtual conference].

Anderson, E., & Riès, S. (2020). Electroencephalographic signatures of word retrieval in patients with left anterior versus posterior stroke-induced lesions. Poster to be presented at the Academy of Aphasia on October 18th 2020. Philadelphia, PA [format changed to a virtual conference].

Riès, S., Nadalet, L., Garcia, V., Robinson Anthony, J. D., Love, T., Blumenfeld, H. K. (2020). Cross-linguistic Interaction During Word Retrieval in Bilingual Aphasia: A Case Study. Poster to be presented at the Academy of Aphasia on October 18th 2020. Philadelphia, PA [format changed to a virtual conference].

Blumenfeld, H.K., Robinson Anthony, J.J.D., Neely, B., Nguyen, C., Kim., A., & Riès, S. (2020). Crosslinguistic cognate word facilitation in bilinguals with aphasia: A systematic literature review). Poster to be presented at the Academy of Aphasia on October 18th 2020. Philadelphia, PA [format changed to a virtual conference].

Mickelsen, S., Nadalet, L., Mott, M., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., Emmorey, K., Riès, S. (2018). Language output monitoring in sign production: an electroencephalographic study. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27 2018. Boston, MA, USA.

Riès, S., Cavalea, A., Tengberg, C., Haaland, K.Y., Knight, R.T., Dronkers, N.F. (2018). Left temporal lesions and inner speech monitoring in language production: an electroencephalography and neuropsychological study.  Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27 2018. Boston, MA, USA.

Riès, S., Piai V., Perry D., Griffin S., Jordan, K., Knight R., Berger M. (2017). Dissociating the roles of ventral versus dorsal pathways in language production: an awake language mapping study. Annual meetings of the Academy of Aphasia and of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, November 5-11 2017, Baltimore, USA.

Riès, S., Mendoza, M., Knight, R. T. (2017). Investigating the link between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control in bilinguals. International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience, August 5-8 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mendoza, M., Riès, S. (2017). Investigating the link between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control in bilinguals. International Symposium on Bilingualism, June 11-15 2017, Limrick, Ireland.

Riès, S.*, Anders, R.*, van Maanen L., Alario, F.-X. (2016). Lesions to the Left Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Impair Decision Threshold Adjustment for Lexical Selection. Poster presented at the 9th International Workshop on Language Production, July 25-27/2016, La Jolla, California.
*co first authorship

Riès, S., Dhillon, R., Clarke, A., King-Stephens, D., Laxer, K. D., Weber, P. B., Kuperman, R. A., Auguste, K. I., Brunner, P., Schalk, G., Lin, J., Parvizi, J., Crone, N., Dronkers, N. F., and Knight, R. T. (2015). Spatio-temporal dynamics of the lexical selection network in speech production: Insights from electrocorticography. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, October 18-20, Tucson, Arizona.

Riès, S., King-Stephens, D., Laxer, K. D., Weber, P. B., Kuperman, R. A., Auguste, K. I., Brunner, P., Schalk, G., Parvizi, J., Crone, N., Dronkers, N. F., and Knight, R. T. (2015). Distinct temporal and prefrontal contributions to word retrieval in picture naming? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 10/15-17/2015.

Riès, S., Dhillon, R., Clarke, A., King-Stephens, D., Laxer, K. D., Weber, P. B., Kuperman, R. A., Auguste, K. I., Brunner, P., Schalk, G., Lin, J., Parvizi, J., Crone, N., Dronkers, N. F., and Knight, R. T. (2015). Spatio-temporal dynamics of the lexical selection network in speech production: Insights from electrocorticography. Talk given at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, September 17-20, Paphos, Cyprus.

Riès, S., Dhillon, R., Clarke, A., King-Stephens, D., Laxer, K. D., Weber, P. B., Kuperman, R. A., Auguste, K. I., Brunner, P., Schalk, G., Parvizi, J., Crone, N., Dronkers, N. F., and Knight, R. T. (2015). Spatio-temporal dynamics of the lexical selection network in speech production: Insights from electrocorticography. Poster and talk (in data blitz session) presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 28-31 2015, San Francisco.

Riès, S., Schendel, K., Dronkers, N. F., Turken, A. U. (2014). White matter pathways critical for language are also critical for resolving proactive interference in working memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Miami, Florida, USA, 10/5-7/2014.

Riès, S., Dhillon, R., King-Stephens, D., Laxer, K.D., Weber, P.B., Kuperman, R.A., Auguste, K.I., Parvizi, J., Dronkers, N.F., and Knight, R.T. (2014). Spatio-temporal dynamics of the lexical selection network in speech production: Insights from electrocorticography. Poster presented the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 08/27-29/2014.

Riès, S., de Zubicaray, G.I., Fraser, D., and McMahon, K.L. (2014). An electrophysiological investigation of the distractor frequency effect in picture-word interference. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 08/27-29/2014.

Riès, S., Greenhouse I., Dronkers, N., Haaland, K. and Knight, R. T. (2014). Double dissociation of the roles of the left and right prefrontal cortices in anticipatory regulation of action. Poster presented at the International Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (ICON) in Brisbane, Australia, 07/27-31/2014.

Riès, S., Xie, K., Haaland, K., Dronkers, N. and Knight, R. T. (2013). Distinct networks are involved in speech versus non-speech monitoring. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience, San Diego, California, 11/9-13/2013. Presentation 848.05/BBB8.

Riès, S., Xie, K., Haaland, K., Dronkers, N. and Knight, R. T. (2013). Distinct networks involved in speech versus non-speech monitoring. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, San Diego, California, 11/6-8/2013.

Riès, S. & Fisher-Baum, S. Cross-domain approaches to the language puzzle. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Lucerne, Switzerland, 10/20-22/2013. Abstract in press in Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Riès, S., Dronkers, N.F., Knight, R.T. Left Fronto-Posterior interactions underlie lexical selection in speech production: Neuropsychological and EEG evidence. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Francisco, California, 10/28-30/2012. Abstract published in Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 47-49. WoS:000321555700025

Riès, S., Dronkers, N.F., Knight, R.T. Left Fronto-Posterior interactions underlie lexical selection in speech production: Neuropsychological and EEG evidence. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, 10/13-17/2012. Presentation 595.12.

Llorens, A., Trebuchon, A., Riès, S., Alario, F.-X., Liegeois-Chauvel, C. Spatiotemporal dynamics of picture naming: Elusive semantic effects but clear protocol modulations. 7th international workshop on language production, New York City, 07/18-20/2012.

Kaltwasser, L., Riès, S., Sommer, W., Knight, R. & Willems, R. Independence of valence and reward in emotional word processing. 1st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Marseille, France, 05/09-12/2012.

Riès, S., Janssen, N., Alario, F.-X. and Burle, B. About to speak…: Spatio-temporal brain dynamics of word production. 1st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Marseille, France, 05/09-12/2012.

Llorens, A., Trebuchon, A., Riès, S., Alario, F.-X., Liegeois-Chauvel, C. Spatiotemporal dynamics of picture naming: Elusive semantic effects but clear task modulations during word production. 3rd annual neurobiology of language conference, Annapolis, 11/10-11/2011.

Riès, S., Burle, B., and Alario, F.-X. Electrophysiology of speaking: Spatio-temporal dynamics of word selection. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 04/2-5/2011.

Riès, S., Burle, B., and Alario, F.-X. Electrophysiology of speaking: Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of word selection. 2nd annual neurobiology of language conference, San Diego, 11/11-12/2010.

Riès, S., Legou, T., Malfait, N., Burle, B., and Alario, F.-X. Why is Naming Longer than Reading? Contribution of Articulatory Processes. [Pourquoi dénommer des dessins prend plus de temps que de lire des mots? Contribution des processus articulatoires.] Invited Presentation at the 52nd Congress of the French Society for Psychology, Lille, France. 09/7-9/2010.

Riès, S., Burle, B., and Alario, F.-X. Spatio-temporal dynamics of contextual semantic interference in picture naming. 6th International workshop in language production, Edinburgh, 09/2-4/2010.

Riès, S., Janssen, N., Dufau, S., Alario, F.-X., and Burle, B. Characterization of electroencephalographic (EEG) components elicited by overt speech production in the picture naming task: A Laplacian ERP study. 49th Annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Research (SPR). Berlin, Germany. 10/21-24/2009.

Riès, S., Janssen, N., Dufau, S., Alario, F.-X. and Burle, B. An electroencephalographic study of speech monitoring. Talk given at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference (ESCoP) 2009. Krakow, Poland. 09/2-5/2009.

Riès, S., Janssen, N., Dufau, S., Alario, F.-X. and Burle, B. Speech monitoring vs. monitoring of speech: Electroencephalographic evidence for an aspecific monitoring process. Association for Psychological Science (APS) annual convention. San Francisco, USA. May, 22-25, 2009.

Riès, S., Janssen, N., Dufau, S., Alario, F.-X. and Burle, B. Characterization of electroencephalographic (EEG) components elicited by overt speech production in the picture naming task. 5th International Workshop on Language Production. Annapolis, Maryland, USA. July, 28-30, 2008.

Internal Conference Presentations:

Rishi, P., Anderson, E., Rodriguez, C., & Riès, S. (2024). Navigating semantic turbulence: The role of the left lateral prefrontal cortex in semantic interference resolution across individuals with and without aphasia. Oral presentation at the Joint Doctoral Program in Language & Communicative Disorders Colloquium, San Diego, CA.

Rodriguez, C., Andrade, K., Hodge, E., Axtell., E., Riès, S.K., Robinson Anthony J.J.D., Blumenfeld, H. (2023). Cross-Linguistic Interactions during Word Retrieval in Bilinguals with Aphasia: An Eye-Tracking Study. Poster presented at San Diego State University Student Symposium, San Diego, California.

Wang, YS., Riès, S. K., E., Ashrafi (2023). Functional connectivity underlying speech monitoring processes as revealed by Graph Signal Processing. Presented at the SDSU-UCSD JDP-LCD Annual Colloquium, San Diego, California.

Andrade, K., Blumenfeld, H., Riès, S.K. (2023). Brain Dynamics of Cross-Linguistic Interference Resolution in Spanish-English Bilinguals With and Without Aphasia. Oral presentation at San Diego State University Student Symposium, San Diego, California.

Ali, M., Ali, S., Dawson, H., Anderson, E.J., Rodriguez, C., & Riès, S.K. (2023). Acquiring normative verb generation data through online behavioral testing. Poster presented at the 16th annual SDSU Student Symposium, San Diego, California.

Rishi, P., Anderson, E.J., Rodriguez, C., & Riès, S.K. (2023). Facilitating picture naming in people with aphasia: Not all semantic cues are created equal. Talk presented at the 16th annual SDSU Student Symposium, San Diego, California.

Wang, YS., Riès, S. K., Love, T. (2023). White Matter Pathways Supporting Semantic Interference Resolution in Language Production. Oral presentation at 16th annual SDSU Student Symposium, San Diego, California.

Wang, YS., Riès, S. K., Love, T. (2022). How White Matter Pathways Support Semantic Interference Resolution in Language Production. Presented at the SDSU-UCSD JDP-LCD Annual Colloquium, San Diego, California.

Gálvez-McDonough, A., Sandoval, A., Barragan Diaz, A., Ruvalcaba, V., Shaw, S., Robinson Anthony, J.J.D., Blumenfeld, H.K., & Riès, S. (2022) Phonetic Variation During Speech Production in Spanish-English Bilingual Adults: An online experiment. Talk presented at the SDSU Student Research Symposium, San Diego, California.

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