Summer 2023 news!
Frontiers for Young Minds
Katherine Andrade published a paper titled “How do we keep our tongue from slipping?” with Frontiers for Young Minds, making our neuroscience research in speech monitoring more accessible for young audiences. Check the paper out here: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.798279
Presentations
Dr. Stephanie Ries presented on “Why we should care about the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex in language production” at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCLB) in Spain as well as the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain in Marseille, France. Take a look at her abstract below:
“The dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), including the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas as well as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, has been a region of interest in studies of cognitive control and other areas of neuroscience for many years. Yet, traditional models of language production do not typically include this brain region, and its potential role in language and speech production has therefore only been more recently investigated. In this talk, I will review evidence from several research groups (including but not limited to my own) using fMRI, brain stimulation, and scalp and intracranial EEG in “monolinguals” and bilinguals with and without neurological damage that suggest that the dmPFC may play a bigger role than we previously had thought in language production. In particular, it seems likely involved in a response selection mechanism potentially taking place separately from lexical selection, in addition to speech monitoring. The implications of these findings for traditional cognitive models of language production will be discussed.”
Summer 2022 news!
Poster: We had some great poster presentations at iWOLP this summer. Check them out here:
Outreach: As part of our outreach efforts, the LBDL visited Murray Manor Elementary to talk about the brain and engage in a sheep brain activity with a kindergarten class. Check out these great pictures from this amazing day!
Spring 2022 news!
SDSU Student Research Symposium
We had some great presentations at this year’s SRS! Andrea Galvez and Adelaida Sandoval presented a talk on “Phonetic Variation During Speech Production in Spanish-English Bilingual Adults – An online experiment.”. Coral Rodriguez, Kayla Herbert, and Hallie Dawson presented a poster on “Speech-Monitoring in Overt Language Production: Patients with Epilepsy vs Control Participants”
Fall 2021 news!
Dr. Stephanie Ries has presented at this year’s CuttingEEG conference. You can watch her talk here: Uncovering the spatio-temporal dynamics of language production.
We have had some great new conference presentations this year. Head over to Publications to check them out!
Summer 2021 news!
Dr. Stephanie Ries has been interviewed for Science magazine. Out this week: “Brain signals converted into words ‘speak’ for person with paralysis”. Check out the full news story here!
Out in Neuron: “Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions”. Dr. Stephanie Ries was one of many contributors on this article that identifies many aspects and consequences of gender bias in academia and leading up to it, but also points to many existing solutions to identify and address gender imbalance throughout career stages to build a more equitable future. Read the full news story here!
Spring 2021 news!
New Members (Spring 2021)!
Head over to Our Team to check out all of our new members/ students working in the lab.
Poster: We have had some great poster presentations to kick off the spring season this 2021 year. Check them out here:
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
SDSU Student Research Symposium
Spring TALKS: Tune in to Dr. Stephanie Ries-Cornou, Assistant Professor at the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, and Dr. Ashkan Ashrafi, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at SDSU Mind and Brain Colloquium talk scheduled for, February 26, 2021 at noon.
October 2020:
New Members (Fall 2020)!
Head over to Our Team to check out all of our new members/ students working in the lab.
Spring 2020 news!
Similar Brain Glitch found in Slips, Signing. Check out the news story (English and German) with the links below:
https://newscenter.sdsu.
Ein ähnlicher Gehirnfehler wurde bei Ausrutschern beim Sprechen festgestellt:
October 2019: Stephanie Ries Speaks at The Academy of Aphasia in Macau
We all know the feeling of tripping over our words- we start to say one word but catch ourselves and correct it mid speech. Sometimes it can be funny, you might wonder how that particular word popped out instead. Other times it can be a little more upsetting. People with aphasia resulting from a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain aren’t always able to catch these small mistakes! Dr. Ries’ presented findings that show that medial frontal inner speech monitoring mechanisms are affected by lesions to the left posterior temporal cortex in people with aphasia. Read more about it here!
New Members!
We have lots of new research assistants this semester, check out Our Team to get to know everyone!
September 2019: Stephanie Ries receives funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders!
Dr. Stephanie Ries was awarded a grant to fund her research on lexical retrieval for patients with left hemisphere lesions that were caused by strokes. Read more about it on SDSU’s SLHS site here!
March 2019: Stephanie Ries speaks at San Diego Nerd Nite!
It’s on the tip of my tongue! Or is it?
We all know this frustrating feeling. We know what it is, what we can do with it, or the movie we saw that actor in, but we just can’t pin down the name! Word retrieval is a complex set of processes that allows us to fetch the words we are looking for from among over 50,000 words in our mental dictionaries. We are usually really good at this, as healthy adult speakers normally utter 2 to 3 words per second, and only slip about once every 1,000 words. How is it that we can accomplish this feat so efficiently?
March 2019: New paper published in Frontiers for Young Minds!
Jan. 2019: New paper accepted in Brain and Language!
Ries 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
Jan. 2019: Stephanie Ries was interviewed by Science Magazine on current advances in speech decoding, read article here!
Epilepsy patients with electrode implants have aided efforts to decipher speech. WENHT/ISTOCK.COM
Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech
By Kelly ServickJan. 2, 2019 , 1:30 PM
Nov. 2018: Stephanie Ries awarded a New Century Scholars Research Grant by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation! SDSU news post here
Grant entitled: Word retrieval in Spanish-English bilinguals after stroke. Award period: January 2019 – December 2020. Co-investigators: Dr. Henrike Blumenfeld, and Dr. Tracy Love.
Nov. 2018: Stephanie Ries gave a talk at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, Nov. 2018
The talk was entitled: “Brain dynamics supporting lexical retrieval in language production”. It was part of the symposium co-chaired by Nitin Tandon and Stanislas Deheane which was entitled: “Language Networks Derived From Direct Intracranial Recordings in Humans.”
Aug. 2018: LBDL at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in Quebec City, 2018
- Ries, S., Nadalet, L., Mickelsen, S., Mott, M., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., Emmorey, K. (2018). Language output monitoring in sign production: an electroencephalographic study. Annual meeting of the Neurobiology of Language, August 16-18 2018, Quebec City, Canada.
- Pinet, S., Nozari, N., Knight, R.T., Ries, S. (2018). Overcoming the challenges of electrophysiology recordings during multi-word speech production. Annual meeting of the Neurobiology of Language, August 16-18 2018, Quebec City, Canada.
May 2018: Stephanie Ries gave a talk at the “Progress in Decoding Speech Processes Using Intracranial Signals” workshop
The talk was entitled: “What can we learn about word retrieval in speech production from intracranial electroencephalography?” and it was held at the Brain-Computer Interface meeting in Pacific Grove, California, May 21-25 2018.
March 2018: LBDL at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2018
- Mickelsen, S., Nadalet, L., Mott, M., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., Emmorey, K., Ries, 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.
- Ries, 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.
March 2018: LBDL at Student Research Symposium 2018
We presented 3 posters at the Student Research Symposium 2018 held at San Diego State University on 2nd – 3rd March 2018.
- Electrophysiological correlates of error monitoring and awareness in stroke-induced aphasia
- Language output monitoring in sign production: an electroencephalography study
- Using smartphones to train cognitive control processes: will we promote aphasia recovery?
June 2017: SDSU news story on recent ECoG paper: Illuminating Speech’s Path from Brain to Tongue
SDSU neuroscientist Stephanie Ries explores the complex brain connections employed during word retrieval.
Author: Michael Price SDSU News Center
http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76798
June 2017: Stephanie Ries interviewed by MedicalResearch.com: How Do We Retrieve Speech From Our 50,000 Word Mental Dictionary?
Dr. Stephanie Ries Interview. MedicalResearch.com