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Andrade, K. D.*, Blumenfeld, H. K., & Riès, S. K. (2025). Brain Dynamics of Crosslinguistic Interference Resolution in Spanish-English Bilinguals With and Without Aphasia. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi: 10.1017/S1366728925100461.

Wang, YS., Andrade, K. D., Anderson, E. J., Kansal, L., McDonald, C., Ben-Haim, S., … & Riès, S. K. (2025). Brain interactions underlying speech monitoring in language production. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 76, 101285.

Anderson, E. J., Love, T., & Riès, S. K. (2025). The role of the left posterior temporal cortex in speech monitoring. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 42(3–4), 79–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2025.2492038

Gálvez-McDonough, A., Blumenfeld, H. K., Barragán-Diaz, A., Robinson Anthony, J.J.D., and Riès, S.K. (2024). Influence of Language Dominance on Crosslinguistic and Nonlinguistic Interference Resolution in Bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000774

Mai, A., Riès, S. K., Ben-Haim, S., Shih, J. J., Gentner, T. Q. (2024) Acoustic and language-specific sources for phonemic abstraction from speech. Nature, Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44844-9

Andrade, K., Riès, S. K. (2023). How do we catch our tongue from slipping? Frontiers for Young Minds.   https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.798279

Soroush, P. Z., Herff, C., Riès, S. K., Shih, J. J., Schultz, T., Krusienski, D. J. (2023). The Nested Hierarchy of Overt, Mouthed, and Imagined Speech Activity Evident in Intracranial Recordings. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119913

Soroush, P. Z., Herff, C., Ries, S. K., Shish, J. J., Schultz, T., Krusienski, D. J. (2022). Contributions of Stereotactic EEG Electrodes in Grey and White Matter to Speech Activity Detection. 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), IEEE (2022), pp. 4789-4792. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871464

Anderson, E. J., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P. J., & Riès, S. K. (2022). Taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in picture naming as revealed by Laplacian‐transformed event‐related potentials. Psychophysiology, e14091. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14091

Mendoza, M.N., Blumenfeld, H.K., Knight, R.T., Riès, S. (2021). Investigating the link between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control in bilinguals using Laplacian-transformed event related potentials. Neurobiology of Language. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00056.

Llorens, A., Tzovara, A., Bellier, L., Bhaya-Grossman, I., Bidet-Caulet, A., Chang, W. K., Cross, Z., Domingues-Faus, R, Flinker, A., Fonken, Y., Gorenstein, A., Holdgraf, C., Hoy, C., Ivanova, M., Jimenez, R., Jun, S., Kam, J., Kidd, C., Marcelle., Marciano, D., Martin, S., Myers, N., Ojala, K., Parry, A., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Riès, S. K., Saez, I., Skelin, I., Slama, K., Staveland, B., Bassett, D., Buffalo, E., Fairhall, A., Kopell, N., Kray, L., Lin, J., Nobre, A., Riley, D., Solbakk, A., Wallis, J., Wang, X., Yuval-Greenberg, S., Kastner, S., Knight, R., & Dronkers, N. F. (2021). Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions. Neuron, 109(13), 2047-2074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.06.002

Riès, S. K., Pinet, S., Nozari, N., Knight, R.T. (2021). Characterizing multi-word speech production using event-related potentials. Psychophysiology. e13788. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13788.

Riès, S. K., Schendel, K., Herron, T., Dronkers, N.F., Baldo, J.V., Turken, A.U. (2021). Neural Underpinnings of Proactive Interference in Working Memory: Evidence from Patients with Unilateral Lesions. Frontiers in Neurology, section Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases for Research Topic: In Search of the Neural Underpinnings and a Functional Definition of the Elusive “Working Memory”. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.607273

Riès, S. K., Tavildar, S.*, Rohilla, R.*, Sperling, C.*, Ashrafi A. (2020). Patterns of cortical interactivity supporting speech production and lexical retrieval: A graph signal processing approach at the individual level. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 56, 100936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100936

Riès, S. K., Nadalet, L.*, Mickelsen, S.*, Mott, M.*, Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., and Emmorey, K. (2020). Pre-output language monitoring in sign production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 (6), 1079-1091. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01542

Riès S. K., Piai V., Perry D., Griffin S., Jordan, K.*, Henry, R., Knight R.T., Berger M. (2019). Roles of ventral versus dorsal pathways in language production: an awake language mapping study. Brain and Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.01.001

Anderson, E., and Riès, S. (2019) How do we use our brains to choose words when we speak? [Comment choisit-on les mots quand on parle ?] – Frontiers for Young Minds – Special French Edition. 7:36. doi: 10.3389/frym.2019.00036

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. J., Parvizi, J., Crone, N., Dronkers, N. F., and Knight, R. T. (2017). Spatio-temporal dynamics of word retrieval in speech production revealed by cortical high frequency band activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1620669114

Anders, R.*, Riès, S.*, van Maanen L., Alario, F.-X. (2017). Lesions to the Left Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Impair Decision Threshold Adjustment for Lexical Selection. Cognitive Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2017.1282447
*co first authorship

Riès, S., Dronkers, N., and Knight, R.T. (2016). Choosing words: left hemisphere, right hemisphere, or both? Perspective on the lateralization of word retrieval. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12993.

Madec, S., Le Goff, K., Riès, S., Legou, T., Rousselet, G., Courrieu, P., Alario, F.-X., Grainger, J., and Rey, A. (2016). The time-course of visuo-phonological interactions in letter perception. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. PMID: 26742753

Piai, V., Riès, S., & Swick, D. (2016). Lesions to lateral prefrontal cortex impair lexical interference control in word production. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00721 

Riès, S. (2015). Serial versus parallel neurobiological processes in language production: Comment on Munding, Dubarry, and Alario, 2015. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1117644

Anders, R., Riès, S., van Maanen L., Alario, F.-X. (2015). Evidence accumulation as a model for lexical selection. Cognitive Psychology, 82:57-73. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2015.07.002.

Riès, S., Karzmark, C., Navarrete, E., Dronkers, N., and Knight, R.T. (2015). Specifying the role of the left prefrontal cortex in word selection. Brain and Language, 149:135-47. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.07.007.

Riès, S., Fraser, D., McMahon, K.L., and de Zubicaray, G.I. (2015). Early and late electrophysiological effects of distractor frequency in picture naming: Reconciling input and output accounts. Journal of Cogntive Neuroscience. PMID: 26042502

Piai, V., Riès, S., and Knight, R.T. (2015). The electrophysiology of language production: what could be improved. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01560

Van der Linden, L., Riès, S., Legou, T., Burle, B., Malfait, N. and Alario, A. (2014). A comparison of two procedures for verbal response time fractionation. Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences, 5: 1213. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01213

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. Neuropsychologia, 63C: 215-225. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.026. 

Llorens, A., Trebuchon, A., Riès, S., Alario, F.-X., and Liegeois-Chauvel, C. (2014). How familiarization and repetition modulate the picture naming network. Brain and Language, 133: 47-58. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.03.010

Riès, S., Xie, K., Haaland, K., Dronkers, N., and Knight, R. T. (2013). Role of the lateral prefrontal cortex in speech monitoring. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00703

Kaltwasser, K., Riès, S., Sommer, W., Knight, R. T., Willems, R.M. (2013). Independence of valence and reward in emotional word processing: Electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:168. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00168.

Riès, S., Janssen, N., Burle, B., and Alario, F.-X. (2013). Response-locked brain dynamics of word production. Plos One, 8(3): e58197. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058197 

Riès, S., Legou, T., Burle, B., Alario, A. and Malfait, N. (2012). Why does picture naming take longer than word reading? The contribution of articulatory processes. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review, DOI 10.3758/s13423-012-0287-x. See also corrigendum here: doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0668-4 

Riès, S., Janssen, N., Dufau, S., Alario, F.-X., Burle, B. (2011). General purpose monitoring during speech production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 6, 1419-1436.  doi: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21467

De Vos, M., Riès, S., Vanderperren, K., Vanrumste, B., Alario, F.-X., Van Huffel, S., and Burle, B. (2010). Removal of muscle artifacts from EEG recordings of spoken language production. Neuroinformatics, 8, 135-150. doi: 10.1007/s12021-010-9071-0.

Riès, S.K., Schendel, K., Herron, T., Dronkers, N.F., Baldo, J.V., Turken, A.T. (2021). Neural Underpinnings of Proactive Interference in Working Memory: Evidence from Patients with Unilateral Lesions. Frontiers in Neurology, section Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Book Chapters:

Riès, S.K., Jordan, K., Knight, R.T., Berger, M. (2022). Lesion-Behavior Awake Mapping with Direct Cortical and Subcortical Stimulation. In: Pustina, D., Mirman, D. (eds) Lesion-to-Symptom Mapping. Neuromethods, vol 180. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2225-4_14
Ayora, P. and Riès, S. (2011). Comment fait-on pour aligner les mots et les faire rimer? [How do we align words and make them rhyme?]. In Alario A., Toutes les questions que vous vous posez sur votre cerveau [All the questions you ask yourself about your brain]. Paris: Odile Jacob Editions.

Riès, S., Alario, F.-X., and Burle, B. (2009). Electro- et Magnéto-encéphalographie de la parole [Electro- and Magneto-encephalography of speech]. In Marchal, A. and Cavé, C. (Eds.), Imagerie médicale pour l’étude de la parole [Medical Imaging for the Study of Speech]. Paris: Hermès Sciences Editions.

 

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