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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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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Vânia Marisa Correia de Aguiar

Nomes de citação

  • de Aguiar, Vânia

Identificadores de autor

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

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Médicas e da Saúde - Medicina Básica - Neurociências
  • Humanidades - Línguas e Literaturas - Linguística
  • Ciências Médicas e da Saúde - Medicina Clínica - Neurologia Clínica
  • Ciências Sociais - Psicologia - Psicologia Especial

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Português (Idioma materno)
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Espanhol; Castelhano Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador independente (B2) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador independente (B2)
Italiano Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador independente (B2) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador independente (B2)
Catalão Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador independente (B1)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2012/09/10 - 2015/11/10
Concluído
 International Doctorate in Experimental Approaches to Language and the Brain (IDEALAB) (Doutoramento)
Especialização em Cognitive Neuroscience
Universität Potsdam, Alemanha

Università degli Studi di Trento, Itália

Macquarie University, Austrália

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Países Baixos

Newcastle University, Reino Unido
"Enhancement of verb retrieval: Neuromodulation, repetition priming, and aphasia rehabilitation" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2010/09/01 - 2012/08/31
Concluído
 European Masters in Clinical Linguistics (Mestrado)
Universität Potsdam, Alemanha

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Países Baixos

Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Finlândia
"An ERP study on co-reference: processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 A (excellent)
2009/09/15 - 2010/07/15
Concluído
 Neurociências Cognitivas e Neuropsicologia (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
 17
2004/09/15 - 2008/07/15
Concluído
 Terapêutica da Fala (Licenciatura)
Especialização em Terapêutica da Fala
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
"O impacto da patologia vocal na qualidade de vida dos professores" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 16
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2017/09/01 - 2018/08/31 Pós-doutorado (Investigação) Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Estados Unidos
2012/09/01 - 2015/08/31 Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação) Università degli Studi di Trento, Itália
2010/09/01 - 2012/08/31 Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Países Baixos

Docência no Ensino Superior

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2019/03/01 - 2019/05/31 Professor Auxiliar (Docente Universitário) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Países Baixos
2015/09/15 - 2017/07/31 Professor Auxiliar (Docente Universitário) Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda

Outras Carreiras

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
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
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2017/12/01 - Atual Predicting therapy effects in people with Alzheimer's disease using tDCS
GBHI_ALZ-18-534977
Investigador
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Estados Unidos
 Alzheimer's Association
Em curso
2017/09/01 - Atual Effects of tDCS on spoken and written production in Primary Progressive Aphasia
1R01DC014475
Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Estados Unidos
 National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Em curso
2017/09/01 - Atual Neurolinguistic approaches to the assessment of language learning aptitude
16CYY024
Investigador
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
 National Social Science Fund
Em curso
2012/09/01 - 2015/09/01 Enhancement of verb retrieval: neuromodulation, repetition priming, and aphasia rehabilitation studies
FPA 2012-0025; cohort 2012-1713 (2012)
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Países Baixos

Università degli Studi di Trento, Itália

Universität Potsdam, Alemanha

Macquarie University, Austrália

Newcastle University, Reino Unido
European Commission
Concluído
2013/09/01 - 2014/03/15 Training verb production with tDCS: neurophysiological effects of naming facilitation via repetition priming
postgraduate grant
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Macquarie University, Austrália
 Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science
Concluído

Outro

Designação Financiadores
2017/10/01 - Atual Scientific Competences of Portuguese Speech and Language Therapists
not currently funded
Investigador responsável
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em conferência
  1. 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.". Trabalho apresentado em cademy of Aphasia 56th Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2018.
    Publicado • 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00096
  2. 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.". Trabalho apresentado em Clinical aphasiology conference, Texas, 2018.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.34478.82244
  3. 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.". Trabalho apresentado em Global brain health conference, Buenos Aires, 2018.
    Publicado
  4. 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.". Trabalho apresentado em Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2017.
    Publicado • 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00107
  5. 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.". Trabalho apresentado em 9th Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, 2017.
    Publicado
  6. de Aguiar, Vânia; Rofes, A.; Lingnau, A.; Miceli, G.. "The effects of training action naming: a BOLD fMRI study.". Trabalho apresentado em 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, Llandudno, 2016.
    Publicado • 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00096
  7. de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Miceli, G.. "Verb retrieval in aphasia: predictors and mechanisms of recovery for item-specific improvement and generalization.". Trabalho apresentado em 30th World Congress of the International Association for Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Dublin, 2016.
    Publicado
  8. 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.". Trabalho apresentado em Science of aphasia, Aveiro, 2015.
    Publicado
  9. de Aguiar, Vânia; Miceli, G.. "Can pre-treatment scores predict treatment success and failure? The case of verb therapies.". Trabalho apresentado em Science of aphasia, Aveiro, 2015.
    Publicado • 32.8310/supplement/1914
  10. de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Miceli, G.. "Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tDCS.". Trabalho apresentado em Science of aphasia, Venice, 2014.
    Publicado
  11. de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Odorizzi, F.; Miceli, G.. "Aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tDCS". Trabalho apresentado em 6th meeting of the Society for the neurobiology of language, Amsterdam, 2014.
    Publicado
  12. de Aguiar, Vânia; Bastiaanse, R.; Reis, A.; Dragoy, O.. "Event related potentials of the processing of reflexives, pronouns and referential violations.". Trabalho apresentado em Science of aphasia, Brussels, 2013.
    Publicado
Artigo em revista
  1. 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):
    No prelo
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
Capítulo de livro
  1. de Aguiar, Vânia; Rofes, A.. "Afasias não fluentes: da teoria à práctica.". In Afasia e comunicação após lesão cerebral: definição, classificação e reabilitação, editado por José Fonseca, 79-100. Lisbon, Portugal: Papa-letras, 2018.
    Publicado

Outros

Outra produção
  1. ACTIE! (v1.3). 2016. Aguiar, Vânia.
Atividades

Orientação

Título / Tema
Papel desempenhado 		Curso (Tipo)
Instituição / Organização
2016/09/01 - 2017/09/01 Interventions for PPA: a scoping review
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Mestrado)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2016/09/01 - 2017/09/01 Personally and Functionally Relevant Vocabulary in Aphasia Treatment: Perspectives of Speech and Language Therapists
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31 Speech and Language Therapist's practices in addressing psychological well-being in people with aphasia after stroke
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31 Treatments for Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Scoping Review
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
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
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31 Treatment Documentation in Aphasia: Speech and Language Therapy Practice in Ireland
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31 An Exploration of the Portrayal of Aphasia in Irish Newspapers (1995-2014).
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
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?
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
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
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
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?
Orientador
 Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2014/09/01 - 2015/08/31 Morphosyntactic therapy and effects of tDCS in chronic aphasia: 2 case studies
Coorientador
 Neuroscience (Mestrado)
Università degli Studi di Trento, Itália
2013/09/01 - 2014/08/31 Reabilitation of verb and sentence production in chronic aphasia: language therapy and tDCS
Coorientador
 Neuroscience (Mestrado)
Università degli Studi di Trento, Itália
2013/09/01 - 2014/08/31 Effects of tDCS and Verb and Sentence training on the language of individuals with aphasia
Coorientador
 Neuroscience (Mestrado)
Università degli Studi di Trento, Itália
2012/09/01 - 2014/08/31 Study of the correlation between working memory and discourse processing
Coorientador
 Neurociências Cognitivas e Neuropsicologia (Mestrado)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação) 		Instituição / Organização
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)
Encontro (Coorganizador)
 Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Países Baixos
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)
Conferência (Coorganizador)
 Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
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)
Simpósio (Coorganizador)
 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)
Encontro (Coorganizador)
 Tampereen yliopisto, Finlândia
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)
Encontro (Coorganizador)
 INTO City University London, Reino Unido
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)
Encontro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
 Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, França

Arbitragem científica em conferência

Nome da conferência Local da conferência
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

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2017/10/01 - Atual Sociedade Portuguesa de Terapia da Fala Member of Comissão de Inovação e Desenvolvimento
2016/10/01 - Atual Academy of aphasia Member
2014/01/01 - Atual Society for the neurobiology of language Member
2007/07/15 - Atual 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

Membro de comissão

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de participação 		Instituição / Organização
2013/06/01 - Atual Collaboration of aphasia trialists - member of management committee (representative of Portugal)
Membro
2016/09/01 - 2017/07/31 Member of Safety Committee of School of Linguistic, Speech, and Communication Sciences
Membro
 Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2015/09/01 - 2017/07/31 Member of the Research Ethics Committee
Membro
 Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2015/09/01 - 2017/07/31 Member of School Committee of School of Linguistic, Speech, and Communication Sciences
Membro
 Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda
2015/09/01 - 2016/07/31 Member of the Curriculum Development Committee
Membro
 Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences, Irlanda

Outro júri / avaliação

Descrição da atividade Instituição / Organização
2015/03/01 - 2017/03/01 Grant reviewer for Short term scientific missions, funded by the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists
Distinções

Prémio

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