Vânia de Aguiar Curriculum Vitae: September 2014

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1 Vânia de Aguiar Curriculum Vitae: September 2014 CeRiN (Center for Neurocognitive Rehabilitation) Università degli studi di Trento Via Matteo del Ben 5b Rovereto (TN) - Italy vania.deaguiar@unitn.it Research Interests - Clinical and neurolinguistics (morphosyntactic deficits in aphasia; aphasia assessment and rehabilitation with a cognitive neuropsychological and linguistic approach; neuromodulation rehabilitation techniques; neural substrates of language recovery after stroke). - Psycholonguistics (discourse processing, in particular, time reference and anaphoric dependencies). Current work PhD Candidate at Universität Potsdam/ Università Degli Studi di Trento. Erasmus Mundus PhD Program International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain (IDEALAB). Supervisors: Gabriele Miceli, Lyndsey Nickels, Roelien Bastiaanse Thesis title: Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs Memberships - Collaboration of Aphasia trialists (Management Committee representative from Portugal and chair of Working Group 3 - Prognosis and predictors of recovery). - Society for the Neurobiology of Language - ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD). Education 2012-present PhD International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain (IDEALAB). Universität Potsdam, Università degli studi di Trento, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and Macquarie University. Supervisors: Gabriele Miceli, Lyndsey Nickels, Roelien Bastiaanse 1

2 MSc European Master's in Clinical Linguistics. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and Universität Potsdam. Thesis title: Event related potentials of the processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations. Supervisors: Roelien Bastiaanse, Olga Dragoy, Alexandra Reis Specialization in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, University of Algarve, Portugal BA in Speech and Language Therapy, University of Algarve, Portugal Clinical experience 2012-present Clinical research in assessment and treatment of patients with language disorders after stroke SLT experience in neurological rehabilitation: assessment and rehabilitation of patients (adults) with speech, language or swallowing impairments, caused by stroke, traumatic brain injury or other neurological conditions, at Centro de Medicina Física de Reabilitação do Sul (Portugal). Speech and Language Department head during organization for CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) accreditation SLT experience with developmental speech and language disorders: assessment and intervention with patients (children) with speech or language impairment, either developmental or acquired, in private clinical practice (Portugal). Professional development 2014 Training in Tractography. Dr. Marco Catani, Dr. Flavio Dell'Acqua, Dr. Sanja Budisavljevic. University of Padova, Padova, Italy [19 hours] 2013 Theoretical and practical course about transcranial electrical stimulation (tdcs, tacs, trns). Dr, Carlo Miniussi. IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefrattelli Non-invasive electrical brain stimulation (tdcs, tacs, trns) Basic and Applied Research. Dr, Carlo Miniussi, Dr. Michela Balconi, Dr. Masta Bartoletto. IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefrattelli. 2

3 2011 Seminar Neural Basis of Sentence Comprehension Universität Potsdam. Golm, Germany. Prof. Angela D. Friederici 2009 Course MAKATON vocabulary language program. Committee MAKATON Portugal [42 hours] 2009 Workshop Presentation software, organized by the Cognitive Neuroscience research group at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of University of Algarve [9 hours] Awards, Scholarships, Grants, and Honors 2013 MACCS POSTGRADUATE GRANT "Training verb production with tdcs: neurophysiological effects of naming facilitation via repetition priming" ($6000) Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJDs) grant, in the IDEALAB PhD program (International Doctorate in Experimental Approaches to Language And the Brain) ( ) - em-idealab.com Erasmus Mundus Master Course (EMMCs) grant, in the EMCL program (European Master in Clinical Linguistics) ( ) - emcl-mundus.com Submitted articles (under review): 2014 de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Reis, A. & Dragoy, O. Event related potentials of the processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations. Manuscript submitted for publication. [Journal of Psycholinguistic Research] 2014 Rofes, A., de Aguiar, V., & Miceli, G. A minimal standardization setting for picture naming tests in awake surgery. Manuscript submitted for publication. [Behavior Research Methods] Published articles: 2015 de Aguiar, V., Paolazzi, C., Miceli, G. tdcs in post-stroke aphasia: The role of stimulation parameters, behavioral treatment and patient characteristics, Cortex (2015), doi: /j.cortex

4 2014 Martínez-Ferreiro, S., de Aguiar, V., Rofes, A. Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero- Romance: Morphosyntactic deficits. Aphasiology (2014), doi: / Proceedings: 2014 de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Odorizzi, F., & Miceli, G. (2014). Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs. Society for the neurobiology of language, conference proceedings de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Miceli, G. (2014, in press) Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie (proceedings of the 2014 Science of Aphasia Conference) 2013 de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Reis, A. & Dragoy, O. (2013). Event related potentials of the processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. 18(S01), doi: /S01/ Conference presentations/posters: 2014 de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Odorizzi, F., & Miceli, G. (2014). Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs. Society for the neurobiology of language, conference proceedings. [poster] 2014 de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Odorizzi, F., Capasso, R., & Miceli, G. (2014). Reabilitação afasia com uma perspectiva linguística e o papel da tdcs. I Jornadas em Comunicação Linguagem e fala, June 20-21st, Faro, Portugal [talk] 2014 de Aguiar, V. on behalf of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (2014). Fostering a collaborative international aphasia research network. I Jornadas em Comunicação Linguagem e fala, June 20-21st, Faro, Portugal [talk] 2014 Miceli, G., & de Aguiar, V. (2014). La tdcs nella rieducazione dei disturbi del linguaggio. Workshop: Stimolazione e Training Cognitivi nelle Malattie Neurologiche. May 15th, Brescia, Italy [talk] 2014 de Aguiar, V., Nickels, L., Miceli, G., Sowman, P. (2014) Language facilitation via repetition priming and neurostimulation. Rovereto Workshop on 4

5 Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and neural perspectives. May 8-11th, 2014, Rovereto, Italy [poster] 2013 de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Miceli, G. (2014) Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs. ARC Centre of excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) Annual workshop. Sydney. November 27th-28th, [poster] 2013 de Aguiar, V., Bastiaanse, R., Reis, A. & Dragoy, O. Event related potentials of the processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations. Science of Aphasia (SOA). Brussels. September 20-25, [talk] Invited talks: 2014 Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs. Centro di Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva, at University of Trento. Rovereto. March 13th, Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs. Aphasia research group, ARC Centre of excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) at Macquarie University. Sydney. November 13th, Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tdcs. University of Verona Neurorehabilitation Unit, University Hospital. Verona. August 9th de Aguiar, V. Speech therapy in stroke patients. 1st Health Meeting at ESSAF, University of Algarve, Portugal [talk] Supervision of Students 2014/2015 Eloisa Iellici (MSc. thesis, co-supervisor with Prof. Gabriele Miceli) 2013/2014 Elena Facci (MSc. thesis, co-supervisor with Prof. Gabriele Miceli) 2013/2014 Francesca Odorizzi (MSc. thesis, co-supervisor with Prof. Gabriele Miceli) 2012/2014 Rita Gonçalves (MSc. thesis, co-supervisor with Prof. Alexandra Reis) 5

6 Organization of conferences and workshops 2012 Local Organization Team. XIII Science of Aphasia Conference, Sep Groningen 2011 EMCL group representative for assessment of University of Potsdam Participation on the Health Faculty pedagogic council and the University Senate, as the spokeswoman for Speech Therapy students, at the University of Algarve. Technical skills and competences Equipment Scripting Statistics Speech Typesetting Active Two EEG system, NeuroConn tdcs stimulator, Neuroelectrics StarStim MATLAB (basic), Psychtoolbox, ASF, Presentation, Fieldtrip MATLAB, SPSS, R CLAN, PRAAT Office package Languages Native Fluent Fieldwork Portuguese English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian Italian, Portuguese, English 6

7 References Gabriele Miceli Professor of Neurology/Neurolinguistics CeRiN (Center for Neurocognitive Rehabilitation) CiMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences Università degli studi di Trento Via Matteo del Ben 5b Rovereto (TN) - Italy gabriele.miceli@unitn.it Roelien Bastiaanse Professor of Linguistics Rijksuniversiteit Gronignen Department of Linguistics P.O. Box AS Groningen - The Netherlands y.r.m.bastiaanse@rug.nl Lyndsey Nickels Professor and Research Speech Pathologist ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Aphasia Rehabilitation, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW Australia lyndsey.nickels@mq.edu.au 7