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Cynthia K. Thompson is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their work spans Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. They also have research activity in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Rehabilitation, and General Health Professions.

Their research covers topics such as Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, Language Development and Disorders, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Among recent publications by Cynthia K. Thompson are:

  • Nosology of Primary Progressive Aphasia and the Neuropathology of Language, 2021, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
  • Neuropathological Fingerprints of Survival, Atrophy and Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia, 2021, Brain
  • Common and Distinct Neural Substrates of Sentence Production and Comprehension, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Stable Brain Loci for the Processing of Complex Syntax: A Review of the Current Neuroimaging Evidence, 2021, Cortex
  • Modularity and Granularity Across the Language Network-A Primary Progressive Aphasia Perspective, 2021, Cortex

Frequent co-authors in Cynthia K. Thompson's publications include:

  • Elena Barbieri
  • Matthew Walenski
  • Sandra Weintraub
  • Swathi Kiran
  • Brenda Rapp

Key venues where Cynthia K. Thompson commonly publishes are:

  • Cortex
  • Journal of Neurolinguistics
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Aphasiology

Best Publications

  • A novel frontal pathway underlies verbal fluency in primary progressive aphasia

    Marco Catani;Marsel M. Mesulam;Estrid Jakobsen;Farah Malik

  • Functional Assessment of Communication Skills for Adult

    C. Frattali;C. K. Thompson;A. L. Holland;C. B. Wohl

  • Primary progressive aphasia and the evolving neurology of the language network

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Emily J. Rogalski;Christina Wieneke;Robert S. Hurley

  • Patterns of Comprehension and Production of Nouns and Verbs in Agrammatism: Implications for Lexical Organization☆

    Mikyong Kim;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Quantitative classification of primary progressive aphasia at early and mild impairment stages

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Christina Wieneke;Cynthia Thompson;Emily Rogalski

  • The role of syntactic complexity in treatment of sentence deficits in agrammatic aphasia: the complexity account of treatment efficacy (CATE).

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Swathi Kiran;Jana Sobecks

  • The Role of Semantic Complexity in Treatment of Naming Deficits: Training Semantic Categories in Fluent Aphasia by Controlling Exemplar Typicality.

    Swathi Kiran;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Agrammatic and non-brain-damaged subjects' verb and verb argument structure production

    C. K. Thompson;K. L. Lange;S. L. Schneider;L. P. Shapiro

  • QUANTITATIVE TEMPLATE FOR SUBTYPING PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA

    Marsel Mesulam;Christina Wieneke;Emily Rogalski;Derin Cobia

  • Verb deficits in Alzheimer’s disease and agrammatism: Implications for lexical organization

    Mikyong Kim;Cynthia K Thompson

  • Unaccusative verb production in agrammatic aphasia: the argument structure complexity hypothesis

    Cynthia K Thompson

  • The Wernicke conundrum and the anatomy of language comprehension in primary progressive aphasia

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Cynthia K. Thompson;Sandra Weintraub;Emily J. Rogalski

  • Neural correlates of verb argument structure processing

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Borna Bonakdarpour;Stephen C. Fix;Henrike K. Blumenfeld

  • Anatomy of Language Impairments in Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Emily J. Rogalski;Derin Cobia;Theresa M. Harrison;Christina Wieneke

  • Neuroplasticity of Language Networks in Aphasia: Advances, Updates, and Future Challenges.

    Swathi Kiran;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Words and objects at the tip of the left temporal lobe in primary progressive aphasia

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Christina Wieneke;Robert Hurley;Alfred Rademaker

  • Translational Research in Aphasia: From Neuroscience to Neurorehabilitation

    Anastasia M. Raymer;Pelagie Beeson;Audrey Holland;Diane Kendall

  • Verb and sentence production and comprehension in aphasia: Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS).

    Soojin Cho-Reyes;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Early lexical development in English- and Korean-speaking children: language-general and language-specific patterns

    Mikyong Kim;Karla K. McGREGOR;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Treating agrammatic aphasia within a linguistic framework: Treatment of Underlying Forms

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro

  • The northwestern anagram test: measuring sentence production in primary progressive aphasia.

    Sandra Weintraub;M.-Marsel Mesulam;Christina Wieneke;Alfred Rademaker

Frequent Co-Authors

M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Sandra Weintraub
Sandra Weintraub Northwestern University
Swathi Kiran
Swathi Kiran Boston University
Todd B. Parrish
Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University
Emily Rogalski
Emily Rogalski Northwestern University
Brenda Rapp
Brenda Rapp Johns Hopkins University
David Caplan
David Caplan Harvard University
Darren R. Gitelman
Darren R. Gitelman Northwestern University
Linda Worrall
Linda Worrall University of Queensland
Roelien Bastiaanse
Roelien Bastiaanse University of Groningen

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