Swathi Kiran
Collaborator
Swathi is an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory at Boston University. We have collaborated on computational modeling of bilingual lexicon, in particular on its impairment and rehabilitation in aphasia.
Homepage:
http://www.bu.edu/aphasiaresearch/people/swathi-kiran/
Publications
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Predicting Bilingual Aphasia Treatment Outcomes Using Digital Twins: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial 2026
Swathi Kiran, Erin Carpenter, Uli Grasemann, Michael Scimeca, Manuel J. Marte, Marissa Russell-Meill, Claudia Penaloza, Yorghos Tripodis, and Risto Miikkulainen, npj Digital Medicine (2026).
Simulating bilingual naming in laterally-connected self-organizing maps 2026
Divya Prabhakaran, Uli Grasemann, Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2026), September 2026.
Machine learning predictions of recovery in bilingual post-stroke aphasia: Aligning insights with clinical evidence 2025
Manuel Marte, Erin Carpenter, Michael Scimeca, Marissa Russell-Meill, Claudia Peñaloza, Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, and Swathi Kiran, Stroke, Vol. 56 (2025), pp. 494-504.
Gaining Insight into Brain Damage and Rehabilitation through Digital Twins 2025
Risto Miikkulainen and Swathi Kiran, In Proceedings of the AI for Accelerated Research Symposium, pp. 3:108-112, 2025.
How the Stroop Effect Arises from Optimal Response Times in Laterally Connected Self-Organizing Maps 2025
Divya Prabhakaran, Uli Grasemann, Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen, CogSci 2025 (2025).
Modeling Bilingualism as a Dynamic Phenomenon in Healthy and Neurologically Affected Speakers Across the Lifespan (Commentary) 2023
Claudia Penaloza, Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Swathi Kiran, Language Learning, Vol. . (2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12566.
Constructing Individualized Computational Models for Dementia Patients 2022
Peggy Fidelman, Uli Grasemann, Claudia Penaloza, Michael Scimeca, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022.
Predicting language treatment response in bilingual aphasia using neural network-based patient models 2021
Uli Grasemann, Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Dekhtyar, Risto Miikkulainen, and Swathi Kiran , Scientific Reports, Vol. 11, 10497 (2021), pp. 1-11.
BiLex: A computational approach to the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure on bilingual lexical access 2019
Claudia Peñaloza, Uli Grasemann, Maria Dekhtyar, Risto Miikkulainen, and Swathi Kiran, Brain and Language, Vol. 195, 104643 (2019).
Evolutionary Optimization of Neural-Network Models of Human Behavior 2019
Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Dekhtyar, and Swathi Kiran, Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (2019).
A Computational Account of Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation 2013
Swathi Kiran, Uli Grasemann, Chaleece Sandberg, and Risto Miikkulainen, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Vol. 16 (2013), pp. 325-342.
Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model 2011
Uli Grasemann, Swathi Kiran, Chaleece Sandberg and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of WSOM11, 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, LNCS 6731, J Laaksonen and T. Honkela (Eds.), pp. 207--217, Espoo, Finland 2011. Springer Verlag.
Modeling the Bilingual Lexicon of an Individual Subject 2009
Risto Miikkulainen and Swathi Kiran, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'09), Berlin 2009. Springer.
Projects
Computational modeling of language impairment and control in bilingual individuals with post-stroke aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders 2023 - 2028
Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes In Bilingual Aphasia Using Computational Modeling 2016 - 2022
Organization and Disorders of the Mental Lexicon: The DISLEX System 1990 - 1999
Areas of Interest
Brain and Cognitive Disorders Cognitive Science Computational Neuroscience Natural Language Processing (Cognitive)
Software/Data
BiLex Download at GitHub.

A self-organizing map model of bilingual aphasia. ...

2021
DISLEX

This package contains the C-code and data for training and testing the DISLEX model of the lexicon, which is also par...

1994
Labs
Currently affiliated with Neural Networks