Recent Publications
Goldberg, E. B., Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Breining, B. L., & Hillis, A. E. (2021). Stroke recurrence and its relationship with language abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64, 2022-2037. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00347
Breining, B.L., Faria, A.V., Caffo, B., Meier, E.L., Sheppard, S.M., Sebastian, R., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. 2021). Neural regions underlying object and action naming: Complementary evidence from acute stroke and primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1907291
Zezinka Durfee, A., Sheppard, S.M., Blake, M.L., & Hillis, A.E. (2021). Lesion loci of impaired affective prosody: A systematic review of evidence from stroke. Brain and Cognition, 152, 105759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105759
Sheppard, S.M., Sebastian, R. (2021). Diagnosing and managing post-stroke aphasia. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 21(2), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2020.1855976
Sheppard, S.M., Meier, E.L., Zezinka Durfee, A., Walker, A., Shea, J., Hillis, A.E. (2021). Characterizing subtypes and neural correlates of receptive aprosodia in acute right hemisphere stroke. Cortex, 141, 36-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.003
Sheppard, S.M., Keator, L.M., Breining, B.L., Wright, A.E., Saxena, S., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). The right hemisphere ventral stream for emotional prosody identification: Evidence from acute stroke. Neurology, 94(10), e1013-e2020. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000008870
Tippett, D.C., Breining, B., Goldberg, E., Meier, E, Sheppard, S.M., Sherry, E., Stockbridge, M., Suarez, A., Wright, A.E., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). Visuomotor Figure Construction and Visual Figure Delayed Recall and Recognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(12), 1456-1470.
Odolil, A., Wright, A.E., Keator, L.M., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B.L., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). Leukoaraiosis severity predicts rate of decline in primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(3), 365-375. https:///doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1594152
Keator, L.M, Faria, A.V., Kim, K., Saxena, S., Wright, A., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B.L., Tippett, D.C., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). An Efficient Bedside Measure Yields Prognostic Implications for Individuals with Acute Stroke. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 33(3), 192-200.
Meier, E.L., Breining, B.L., Sheppard, S.M., Goldberg, E.B., Tippett, D.C., Tsapkini, K., Faria, A.V., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). White matter hyperintensities contribute to language deficits in primary progressive aphasia. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 33(3), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNN.0000000000000237
Meier, E.L., Sheppard, S.M., Goldberg, E.B., Head, C.R., Ubellacker, D.M., Walker, A., & Hillis, A.E. (2020). Naming errors and dysfunctional tissue metrics predict language recovery after acute left hemisphere stroke. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107651. https://10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107651
Sheppard, S.M., Love, T., Midgley, K.J., Shapiro, L.P., & Holcomb, P.J. (2019). Using prosody during sentence processing in aphasia: Evidence from temporal neural dynamics. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107197
Kim, K., Adams, L., Wright, A., Wright, A., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B.L., Rorden, C., Fridriksson, J., Bonilha, L., Rogalsy, C., Love, T., Hickok, G. & Hillis, A.E. (2019). Neural processing critical for distinguishing between speech sounds. Brain & Language, 197, 104677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104677
Keator, L.M., Wright, A.E., Saxena, S., Kim, K., Demsky, C., Sebastian, R., Sheppard, S.M., Breining, B., Hillis, A.E., & Tippett, D.C. (2019). Distinguishing logopenic from semantic and nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia: Patterns of linguistic and behavioral correlations. Neurocase, 25(3), 98-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2019.1625929
Wright A.E., Saxena, S., Sheppard, S.M., & Hillis, A.E. (2018). Selective impairments in components of affective prosody in neurologically impaired individuals. Brain and Cognition, 124, 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2018.04.001
Patel, S., Oishi, K., Wright, A., Sutherland-Foggio, H., Saxena, S., Sheppard, S.M., & Hillis, A.E. (2018). Right hemisphere regions critical for expression of emotion through prosody. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, 224. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00224
Sheppard, S.M., Midgley, K.J., Love, T., Shapiro, L.P., & Holcomb, P.J. (2018). Electrophysiological evidence for the interaction of prosody and thematic fit during sentence comprehension. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 33(5), 547-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1390143
Sheppard, S.M., Love, T., Midgley, K.J., Holcomb, P.J., & Shapiro, L.P. (2017). Electrophysiology of prosodic and lexical-semantic processing during sentence comprehension in aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 107, 9-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.023