Stephanie Riès

Assistant Professor, Speech Language

Director, Laboratory for the Brain Dynamics of Language

Phone: (619) 594-2373
Office: SLHS 239
Email: sries@sdsu.edu

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Education

• B.S., Biology, University of Rennes 1, France
• M.S., Cognitive Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University, France
• Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University, France

Professional Memberships/Affiliations

• Academy of Aphasia
• Society for the Neurobiology of Language
• Society for Neuroscience
• European Society for Cognitive Psychology

Academic and Clinical Teaching Areas

• Introduction to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
• Neuroanatomy
• Electrophysiology
• Aphasia

Biography

I am a neuroscientist specializing in the cognitive neuroscience of human language. My areas of interest include neuroscience, psycholinguistics, speech and language disorders, and brain plasticity. I use different electrophysiology (surface and intracranial electroencephalography and electromyography) and brain imaging methods to study the brain dynamics of control processes in language production in healthy and impaired speakers. My work seeks to shed light on how the brain reorganizes in populations with brain disorders such as stroke, epilepsy, and brain tumors, and how cognitive control processes are engaged in compensatory processes for language recovery.

Selected Publications

• Riès, S., Dronkers, N., and Knight, R.T. (2016). Choosing words: left hemisphere, right hemisphere, or both? Perspective on the lateralization of word retrieval. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12993.
• Madec, S., Le Goff, K., Riès, S., Legou, T., Rousselet, G., Courrieu, P., Alario, F.-X., Grainger, J., and Rey, A. (2016). The time-course of visuo-phonological interactions in letter perception. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. PMID: 26742753
• Piai, V., Riès, S., & Swick, D. (2016). Lesions to lateral prefrontal cortex impair lexical interference control in word production. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00721
• Riès, S. (2015). Serial versus parallel neurobiological processes in language production: Comment on Munding, Dubarry, and Alario, 2015. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1117644
• Anders, R., Riès, S., van Maanen L., Alario, F.-X. (2015). Evidence accumulation as a model for lexical selection. Cognitive Psychology, 82:57-73. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2015.07.002.
• Riès, S., Karzmark, C., Navarrete, E., Dronkers, N., and Knight, R.T. (2015). Specifying the role of the left prefrontal cortex in word selection. Brain and Language, 149:135-47. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.07.007.
• Riès, S., Fraser, D., McMahon, K.L., and de Zubicaray, G.I. (2015). Early and late electrophysiological effects of distractor frequency in picture naming: Reconciling input and output accounts. Journal of Cogntive Neuroscience. PMID: 26042502
• Piai, V., Riès, S., and Knight, R.T. (2015). The electrophysiology of language production: what could be improved. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01560
• Van der Linden, L., Riès, S., Legou, T., Burle, B., Malfait, N. and Alario, A. (2014). A comparison of two procedures for verbal response time fractionation. Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences, 5: 1213. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01213
• Riès, S., Greenhouse I., Dronkers, N., Haaland, K., and Knight, R. T. (2014). Double dissociation of the roles of the left and right prefrontal cortices in anticipatory regulation of action. Neuropsychologia, 63C: 215-225. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.026.
• Llorens, A., Trebuchon, A., Riès, S., Alario, F.-X., and Liegeois-Chauvel, C. (2014). How familiarization and repetition modulate the picture naming network. Brain and Language, 133: 47-58. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.03.010
• Riès, S., Xie, K., Haaland, K., Dronkers, N., and Knight, R. T. (2013). Role of the lateral prefrontal cortex in speech monitoring. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00703
• Kaltwasser, K., Riès, S., Sommer, W., Knight, R. T., Willems, R.M. (2013). Independence of valence and reward in emotional word processing: Electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:168. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00168.
• Riès, S., Janssen, N., Burle, B., and Alario, F.-X. (2013). Response-locked brain dynamics of word production. Plos One, 8(3): e58197. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058197
• Riès, S., Legou, T., Burle, B., Alario, A. and Malfait, N. (2012). Why does picture naming take longer than word reading? The contribution of articulatory processes. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review, DOI 10.3758/s13423-012-0287-x. See also corrigendum here: doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0668-4
• Riès, S., Janssen, N., Dufau, S., Alario, F.-X., Burle, B. (2011). General purpose monitoring during speech production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 6, 1419-1436.
• De Vos, M., Riès, S., Vanderperren, K., Vanrumste, B., Alario, F.-X., Van Huffel, S., and Burle, B. (2010). Removal of muscle artifacts from EEG recordings of spoken language production. Neuroinformatics, 8, 135-150.

Publications

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