Education

Psychology Degree

Research interest

Aphasia, primary progressive aphasia, language learning, language deficit and recovery, cognitive impairment and decline, bilingualism and bilingual aphasia, cognitive neuropsychology

For more detailed information please visit my website: https://claudiapenaloza.wixsite.com/website

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

​Grasemann, U.†, Peñaloza, C.†, Dekhtyar, M., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2021). Predicting language treatment response in bilingual aphasia using neural network-based patient models. Scientific Reports, in press.

Peñaloza, C., Scimeca, M., Gaona, A., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., Gray, T., Shamapant, S., & Kiran, S. (2021). Telerehabilitation for word retrieval deficits in bilinguals with aphasia: Effectiveness and reliability as compared to in-person language therapy. Frontiers in Neurology, in press.

​Peñaloza, C., Dekhtyar, M., Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., & Kiran, S. (2020). Predicting treatment outcomes for bilinguals with aphasia using computational modelling: Study protocol for the PROCoM randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10:e040495.

Varkanitsa, M., Peñaloza, C., Charidimou, A., Caplan, D., & Kiran, S. (2020). White matter hyperintensities predict response to language treatment in poststroke aphasia. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 34(10), 945-953.

Carpenter, E., Rao, L., Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2020). Verbal fluency as a measure of lexical access and cognitive control in bilinguals with aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1341-1362.

Peñaloza, C., Barrett, K., & Kiran, S. (2019). The influence of prestroke proficiency on poststroke lexical-semantic performance in bilingual aphasia. Aphasiology, 34(10), 1223-1240.

Tort-Merino, A., León, M., Olives J., Peñaloza, C., Valech, N., Santos-Santos, M. A., Camara, E., Grönholm-Nyman, P., Martínez-Lage, P., Fortea, J., Molinuevo, J. L., Sánchez-Valle, Laine, M., Rodríguez-Fornells, A., Rami, L. (2019). Tau protein is associated with longitudinal memory decline in subjects with normal Alzheimer’s disease cerebrospinal fluid levels. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease, 70(1), 211-225.

Peñaloza, C., Grasemann, U., Dekhtyar, M., Miikkulainen, R., & Kiran, S. (2019). BiLex: A computational approach to the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure in bilingual lexical access. Brain and Language, 195, 104643.

​Peñaloza, C. & Kiran, S. (2017). Neuroimaging evidence in the treatment of bilingual/multilingual adults with aphasia. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2(2), 126–131.

Ripollés, P., Biel, D., Peñaloza, C., Kaufmann, J., Marco-Pallares, J., Noesselt, T., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2017). Strength of temporal white matter pathways predicts semantic learning success. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(46), 11101-11113.

Peñaloza, C., Mirman, D., Cardona, P., Juncadella, M., Martin, N., Laine, M., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2017). Cross-situational word learning in aphasia. Cortex, 93, 12-27.

Tort-Merino, A., Valech, N., Peñaloza, C., Grönholm-Nyman, P., León, M., Olives, J., Estanga, A., Ecay, M., Fortea, J., Martínez-Lage, P., Molinuevo, J.L., Laine, M., Rodriguez-Fornells, A., Rami, L. (2017). Early detection of learning difficulties when confronted with novel information in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease stage 1. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 58(3), 855-870.

Peñaloza, C., Mirman, D., Tuomiranta, L., Benetello, A., Heikius, I. M., Järvinen, S., Majos, M.C., Cardona, P., Juncadella, M., Laine, M., Martin, N., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2016). Novel word acquisition in aphasia: Facing the word-referent ambiguity of natural language learning contexts. Cortex, 79, 14-31.

Peñaloza, C., Gutiérrez-Maldonado, J., Ferrer-García, M., Caqueo-Urízar, A., Reverter-Guimeso, A., Macías-Cajal, Y., Amela-Huemes, D., Perales-Josa, S. (2016). Cognitive mechanisms underlying Armoni: A computer-assisted cognitive training program for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Anales de Psicología, 32(1), 115-124.

​Peñaloza, C., Benetello, A., Tuomiranta, L., Heikius, I., Järvinen, S., Majos, M.C., Cardona, P., Juncadella, M., Laine, M., Martin, N., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2015). Speech segmentation in aphasia. Aphasiology, 29, 724-743.

Peñaloza, C., Rodríguez-Fornells, A., Rubio, F., De Miquel, M., & Juncadella, M. (2014). Language recovery and evidence of residual deficits after nonthalamic subcortical stroke: A 1 year follow-up study. Journal of neurolinguistics, 32, 16-30.

​Gutiérrez-Maldonado, J., Letosa-Porta, À., Rus-Calafell, M., & Peñaloza-Salazar, C. (2009). The assessment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children using continous performance tasks in virtual environments. Anuario de Psicología, 40(2), 211-222.

​† Shared first authorship.

​​Book chapters

Peñaloza, C., & Kiran, S. (2019). Recovery patterns in multilingual aphasia. In: J. W. Schwieter, (Ed.), The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism (553-571). New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

​Peñaloza, C. (2017). Capacidad residual de aprendizaje de lenguaje en personas con afasia crónica. In: Roth, E. (Ed.), Hacia el Medio Siglo de la Psicología en Bolivia (pp. 57-88). La Paz: Plural Editores.