Vânia Marisa Correia de Aguiar (901A-716F-DC58)

Curriculum Vitae

Vânia Marisa Correia de Aguiar

I am a Cognitive Neuroscientist and Speech and Language Pathologist, specialized in Clinical Linguistics. I conduct research to understand the nature of impairments that lead to specific language symptoms in individuals with post-stroke aphasia and dementia. Furthermore, I study predictors and mechanisms of response to interventions in this population, including behavioral therapies and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). I conduct similar studies with healthy individuals, to understand the cognitive mechanisms that lead to practice effects, with the goal of translating this knowledge into the development of novel therapy programs. My research has led to ten articles in indexed journals, of which I first-authored 3 (one in Cortex), one book chapter, one published therapy programme, and 12 conference proceedings. Currently, I have three other first-authored articles submitted for publication, based on the work developed in the last year at Hopkins, and two another under preparation. I have given over 30 presentations in front of specialized audiences on matters related to my research.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Vânia Marisa Correia de Aguiar

Citation names

de Aguiar, Vânia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 901A-716F-DC58
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6196-4634

Websites

https://sites.google.com/site/vaniadeaguiar/home (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics
Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Clinical Neurology
Social Sciences - Psychology - Psychology, Special

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Italian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Catalan	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012/09/10 - 2015/11/10 Concluded	International Doctorate in Experimental Approaches to Language and the Brain (IDEALAB) (Doutoramento) Major in Cognitive Neuroscience Universität Potsdam, Germany Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy Macquarie University, Australia Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands Newcastle University, United Kingdom "Enhancement of verb retrieval: Neuromodulation, repetition priming, and aphasia rehabilitation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/09/01 - 2012/08/31 Concluded	European Masters in Clinical Linguistics (Mestrado) Universität Potsdam, Germany Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Finland "An ERP study on co-reference: processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	A (excellent)
2009/09/15 - 2010/07/15 Concluded	Neurociências Cognitivas e Neuropsicologia (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal	17
2004/09/15 - 2008/07/15 Concluded	Terapêutica da Fala (Licenciatura) Major in Terapêutica da Fala Universidade do Algarve, Portugal "O impacto da patologia vocal na qualidade de vida dos professores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/09/01 - 2018/08/31	Postdoc (Research)	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

2012/09/01 - 2015/08/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy

2010/09/01 - 2012/08/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/03/01 - 2019/05/31	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands

2015/09/15 - 2017/07/31	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2007/07/15 - 2012/08/31	Técnico de 2ª Classe (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Terapeuta da Fala)	Centro de Medicina de Reabilitação do Sul, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017/12/01 - Current	Predicting therapy effects in people with Alzheimer's disease using tDCS GBHI_ALZ-18-534977 Researcher Johns Hopkins Medicine, United States	Alzheimer's Association Ongoing
2017/09/01 - Current	Effects of tDCS on spoken and written production in Primary Progressive Aphasia 1R01DC014475 Post-doc Fellow Johns Hopkins Medicine, United States	National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Ongoing
2017/09/01 - Current	Neurolinguistic approaches to the assessment of language learning aptitude 16CYY024 Researcher Harbin Institute of Technology, China	National Social Science Fund Ongoing
2012/09/01 - 2015/09/01	Enhancement of verb retrieval: neuromodulation, repetition priming, and aphasia rehabilitation studies FPA 2012-0025; cohort 2012-1713 (2012) PhD Student Fellow Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy Universität Potsdam, Germany Macquarie University, Australia Newcastle University, United Kingdom	European Commission Concluded
2013/09/01 - 2014/03/15	Training verb production with tDCS: neurophysiological effects of naming facilitation via repetition priming postgraduate grant PhD Student Fellow Macquarie University, Australia	Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2017/10/01 - Current	Scientific Competences of Portuguese Speech and Language Therapists not currently funded Principal investigator

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	de Aguiar, Vânia; Rofes, A.. "Afasias não fluentes: da teoria à práctica.". In Afasia e comunicação após lesão cerebral: definição, classificação e reabilitação, edited by José Fonseca, 79-100. Lisbon, Portugal: Papa-letras, 2018. Published
Conference paper	de Aguiar, Vânia; Zhao, Y; Faria, A. V.; Ficek, B.; Webster, K.; Wendt, H.; Wang, Z.; et al. "The relation between baseline brain volumes and response to tDCS in individuals with Primary Progressive Aphasia.". Paper presented in cademy of Aphasia 56th Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2018. Published • 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00096 Rofes, Adrià; de Aguiar, V.; Ficek, B.; Wendt, H.; Webster, K.; Rapp, B.; Tsapkini, K.. "Word properties of fluency tasks in three variants of primary progressive aphasia.". Paper presented in Clinical aphasiology conference, Texas, 2018. 10.13140/RG.2.2.34478.82244 Beber, B.; Rofes, A.; de Aguiar, V.; Dolan, C.; Chaves, M.; Lawler, B.. "Awareness of Primary Progressive Aphasia amongst Brazilian Speech & Language Pathologists: a survey and an action plan.". Paper presented in Global brain health conference, Buenos Aires, 2018. Published de Aguiar, Vânia; Ficek, B.; Webster, K.; Hillis, A.; Tsapkini, K.. "Predicting improvement in spelling after written naming/spelling treatment and tDCS in primary progressive aphasia: a machine learning approach.". Paper presented in Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2017. Published • 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00107 de Aguiar, Vânia; Rofes, A.; Bastiaanse, R.; Capasso, R.; Gandolfi, M.; Smania, N.; Miceli, G.. "Effects of morphosyntactic therapy and tDCS on the connected speech of individuals with aphasia.". Paper presented in 9th Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, 2017. Published de Aguiar, Vânia; Rofes, A.; Lingnau, A.; Miceli, G.. "The effects of training action naming: a BOLD fMRI study.". Paper presented in 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, Llandudno, 2016. Published • 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00096 de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Miceli, G.. "Verb retrieval in aphasia: predictors and mechanisms of recovery for item-specific improvement and generalization.". Paper presented in 30th World Congress of the International Association for Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Dublin, 2016. Published de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Capasso, R.; Gandolfi, M.; Iellici, E.; Smania, N.; Miceli, G.. "Effects of tDCS and morpho-syntactic therapy in lexical retrieval of treated and untreated verbs.". Paper presented in Science of aphasia, Aveiro, 2015. Published de Aguiar, Vânia; Miceli, G.. "Can pre-treatment scores predict treatment success and failure? The case of verb therapies.". Paper presented in Science of aphasia, Aveiro, 2015. Published • 32.8310/supplement/1914 de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Miceli, G.. "Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tDCS.". Paper presented in Science of aphasia, Venice, 2014. Published de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Odorizzi, F.; Miceli, G.. "Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tDCS". Paper presented in 6th meeting of the Society for the neurobiology of language, Amsterdam, 2014. Published de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Reis, A.; Dragoy, O.. "Event related potentials of the processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations.". Paper presented in Science of aphasia, Brussels, 2013. Published
Journal article	Rofes, A.; de Aguiar, Vânia; Webster, K.; Tsapkini, K.. "The role of word properties in performance on fluency tasks in people with Primary Progressive Aphasia". Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (2019): In press Rofes, Adrià; Mandonnet, Emmanuel; de Aguiar, Vânia; Rapp, Brenda; Tsapkini, Kyrana; Miceli, Gabriele. "Language processing from the perspective of electrical stimulation mapping". Cognitive Neuropsychology (2018): 1-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2018.1485636. 10.1080/02643294.2018.1485636 Rofes, Adrià; Zakariás, Lilla; Ceder, Klaudia; Lind, Marianne; Johansson, Monica Blom; de Aguiar, Vânia; Bjekic, Jovana; et al. "Imageability ratings across languages". Behavior Research Methods 50 3 (2017): 1187-1197. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0936-0. 10.3758/s13428-017-0936-0 Regan, Julie; Lawson, Susan; De Aguiar, Vânia. "The Eating Assessment Tool-10 Predicts Aspiration in Adults with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease". Dysphagia 32 5 (2017): 714-720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00455-017-9822-2. 10.1007/s00455-017-9822-2 Rofes, Adrià; Mandonnet, Emmanuel; Godden, John; Baron, Marie Hélène; Colle, Henry; Darlix, Amelie; de Aguiar, Vânia; et al. "Survey on current cognitive practices within the European Low-Grade Glioma Network: towards a European assessment protocol". Acta Neurochirurgica 159 7 (2017): 1167-1178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00701-017-3192-2. 10.1007/s00701-017-3192-2 de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, Roelien; Miceli, Gabriele. "Improving Production of Treated and Untreated Verbs in Aphasia: A Meta-Analysis". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00468. 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00468 Rofes, A.; de Aguiar, V.; Miceli, G.. "A minimal standardization setting for language mapping tests: an Italian example". Neurological Sciences 36 7 (2015): 1113-1119. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84933679746&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s10072-015-2192-3 de Aguiar, V.; Bastiaanse, R.; Capasso, R.; Gandolfi, M.; Smania, N.; Rossi, G.; Miceli, G.. "Can tDCS enhance item-specific effects and generalization after linguistically motivated aphasia therapy for verbs?". Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9 JULY (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84940180551&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00190 Martínez-Ferreiro, S.; de Aguiar, V.; Rofes, A.. "Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: A review of morphosyntactic deficits". Aphasiology 29 1 (2015): 101-126. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84908550946&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1080/02687038.2014.958915 de Aguiar, V.; Paolazzi, C.L.; Miceli, G.. "tDCS in post-stroke aphasia: The role of stimulation parameters, behavioral treatment andpatient characteristics". Cortex 63 (2015): 296-316. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84908337422&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.08.015

Other

Other output

ACTIE! (v1.3). 2016. Aguiar, Vânia.

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016/09/01 - 2017/09/01	Interventions for PPA: a scoping review Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Master) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2016/09/01 - 2017/09/01	Personally and Functionally Relevant Vocabulary in Aphasia Treatment: Perspectives of Speech and Language Therapists Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31	Speech and Language Therapist's practices in addressing psychological well-being in people with aphasia after stroke Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31	Treatments for Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Scoping Review Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31	Comparing the Confidence Levels of Nurses working in an ICU and Stroke Unit, when Interacting with Patient's with Communication Difficulties Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31	Treatment Documentation in Aphasia: Speech and Language Therapy Practice in Ireland Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31	An Exploration of the Portrayal of Aphasia in Irish Newspapers (1995-2014). Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31	How do Primary School Teachers Perceive the Language Demand in Primary School Mathematics and its Implications for Children with Language Difficulties? Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31	A comparison of the language content and terminology of the Old Leaving Certificate Higher Level Mathematics examination and the New Project Mathematics Leaving Certificate Higher level examination Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31	“I was so shocked!”: how aware are Speech and Language Therapy Students of the Roles of the Speech and Language Therapist? Supervisor	Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Degree) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2014/09/01 - 2015/08/31	Morphosyntactic therapy and effects of tDCS in chronic aphasia: 2 case studies Co-supervisor	Neuroscience (Master) Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
2013/09/01 - 2014/08/31	Reabilitation of verb and sentence production in chronic aphasia: language therapy and tDCS Co-supervisor	Neuroscience (Master) Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
2013/09/01 - 2014/08/31	Effects of tDCS and Verb and Sentence training on the language of individuals with aphasia Co-supervisor	Neuroscience (Master) Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
2012/09/01 - 2014/08/31	Study of the correlation between working memory and discourse processing Co-supervisor	Neurociências Cognitivas e Neuropsicologia (Master) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2017/02/06 - 2017/02/07	Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists Working Group and Management Committee meetings in Rotterdam, NL. (2017/02/06 - 2017/02/07) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands
2016/08/22 - 2016/08/27	Organization of Intensive Program - a Speech and Language Therapy Summer School involving a network of 20 SLT-departments from 14 European and non-European countries (2018/08/22 - 2018/08/27) Conference (Co-organisor)	Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2016/04/06 - 2016/04/08	Training school. Statistics in aphasia research at University of Malta, Attard, Malta. Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (2016/04/06 - 2016/04/08) Symposium (Co-organisor)	University of Malta, Malta
2016/03/04 - 2016/03/05	Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists Working Group and Management Committee meetings in Tampere, Finland. (2016/03/04 - 2016/03/05) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Tampereen yliopisto, Finland
2015/03/04 - 2015/03/05	Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists Working Group and Management Committee meetings in London, UK (2015/03/04 - 2015/03/05) Meeting (Co-organisor)	INTO City University London, United Kingdom
2014/05/05 - 2014/05/06	Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists Working Group and Management Committee meetings in Nice, France. Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (2014/05/05 - 2014/05/06) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2017/10/01 - Current	Sociedade Portuguesa de Terapia da Fala	Member of Comissão de Inovação e Desenvolvimento
2016/10/01 - Current	Academy of aphasia	Member
2014/01/01 - Current	Society for the neurobiology of language	Member
2007/07/15 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Terapeutas da Fala
2014/05/05 - 2016/07/01	Deputy-lead of Working group 4 (Prognosis and predictors of recovery) - Collaboration of aphasia trialists	Deputy-lead
2012/09/01 - 2015/08/31	ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2013/06/01 - Current	Collaboration of aphasia trialists - member of management committee (representative of Portugal) Member
2016/09/01 - 2017/07/31	Member of Safety Committee of School of Linguistic, Speech, and Communication Sciences Member	Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2015/09/01 - 2017/07/31	Member of the Research Ethics Committee Member	Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2015/09/01 - 2017/07/31	Member of School Committee of School of Linguistic, Speech, and Communication Sciences Member	Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland
2015/09/01 - 2016/07/31	Member of the Curriculum Development Committee Member	Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Ireland

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2018/09/18 - 2018/09/22	Science of aphasia	Geneva University
2018/09/05 - 2018/09/07	International aphasia rehabilitation conference	Universidade de Aveiro
2017/05/25 - 2017/05/26	Irish association of speech and language therapy conference	Irish association of speech and language therapy
2016/08/21 - 2016/08/25	International association of logopedics and phoniatrics	Trinity College Dublin

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2015/03/01 - 2017/03/01	Grant reviewer for Short term scientific missions, funded by the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists

Distinctions

Award

2016	Best PhD dissertation in Cognitive and Brain Sciences Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy