Arianna LaCroix
- Assistant Professor in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
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Pillars of Interdisciplinary Research Excellence
Preserving Cognitive Function
Preserving Cognitive Function
Education
PhD - Arizona State University - Speech and Hearing Science - 2019
Research Interests
Language and cognitive changes following brain injury (stroke, traumatic brain injury); changes in language and cognition observed in healthy aging
PhD - Arizona State University - Speech and Hearing Science - 2019
Research Interests
Language and cognitive changes following brain injury (stroke, traumatic brain injury); changes in language and cognition observed in healthy aging
Teaching Interests
Language and Cognitive Disorders in Adults, Research Methods
Language and Cognitive Disorders in Adults, Research Methods
Selected Grants
2025 - American Heart Association (PI)
2024 - National Institutes of Health (PI)
2023 - American Speech Language Hearing Foundation (PI)
2025 - American Heart Association (PI)
2024 - National Institutes of Health (PI)
2023 - American Speech Language Hearing Foundation (PI)
Selected Publications
Lenz, E. J. & LaCroix, A. N. (2026). Aphasia severity mediates the relationship between attention and sentence comprehension. Aphasiology, 1-22.
Vogt, A.R., Ratiu, I. & LaCroix A.N. (2026). Good Enough or Resource Reduction? Understanding Sentence Processing Challenges in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-20.
Ratiu, I. & LaCroix, A. N. (2026). List Length in Verbal and Nonverbal Memory Performance in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-14.
Gilman, C. & LaCroix A.N. (2026). The influence of aphasia type and severity on sentence comprehension after left hemisphere stroke. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 3: e70245. DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.70245
Han, T. & LaCroix, A.N. (2026). Testing the effect of stimulus onset asynchrony on auditory attention using the attention network test. Frontiers in Psychology. 17:1726700. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1726700
Kuptsova, S.V., LaCroix, A.N., Nikolsky, O.V., Grigorian, M.A., Petryshevskii, A.G., & Ivanova, M.V. (2025). Modality-Specific Sustained Attention Deficits in Aphasia: Task Performance and Lesion Analysis. Brain Communications, 7(6), fcaf479. DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf479
LaCroix, A. N. & Rogalsky, C. (2025). An exploratory study and new model of the role of implicit timing in sentence comprehension. Brain and Language, 270, DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105635
Brannick, S. F., & LaCroix, A. N. (2025). Blinking indexes dynamic attending during and after music listening. Scientific Reports., 15:27626. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-12200-6
LaCroix, A. N. & Sebranek, E. (2025). Initial evaluation of a new auditory attention task for assessing alerting, orienting, and executive control attention. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-12. DOI: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00513
Sebranek, E. & LaCroix, A. N. (2025). Music listening induces short-term changes in attention in post-stroke aphasia. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 1-12. DOI: 10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00461