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.
Teaching Interests
Language and Cognitive Disorders in Adults, Research Methods
Grants
2024 - National Institutes of Health
2020 - American Speech Language Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant
Selected Publications
LaCroix, A. N., Perreira, S., & McMillon, A. (2023). Preliminary evidence comparing three auditory attention network tests in people with aphasia and matched controls. Aphasiology, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2023.2244168.
LaCroix, A. N., Greene-Winek, A., Simon, S., Groth, H., & Ratiu, I. (2023). A Verbal Card Sorting Task to Measure Executive Functions. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-7.
Dovorany, N., Brannick, S., Johnson, N., Ratiu, I., & LaCroix, A. N. (2023). Happy and sad music acutely modulate different types of attention in older adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 172.
LaCroix, A. N., James, E., & Rogalsky, C. (2021). Neural resources supporting language production versus comprehension in chronic post-stroke aphasia: an activation likelihood estimate study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 1-23.
Fitzhugh, M. C., LaCroix, A. N., & Rogalsky, C. (2021). Distinct contributions of working memory and attentional control to sentence comprehension in noise in persons with stroke. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-12.
LaCroix, A. N., Baxter, L. C., & Rogalsky, C. (2021). Auditory attention following a left hemisphere stroke: comparisons of alerting, orienting, and executive control performance using an auditory Attention Network Test. Auditory Perception and Cognition, 1-14.
LaCroix, A. N., Tully, M., & Rogalsky, C. (2020). Assessment of alerting, orienting, and executive control in persons with aphasia using the Attention Network Test. Aphasiology, 1-16.
LaCroix, A. N., Blumenstein, N., Tully, M., Baxter, L. C., & Rogalsky, C. (2020). Effects of prosody on the cognitive and neural resources supporting sentence comprehension: A behavioral and lesion-symptom mapping study. Brain and Language, 203, 104756.
Rogalsky, C., LaCroix A. N., Chen, K., Anderson, S. W., Damasio, H., Love, T., & Hickok, G. (2018).
The neurobiology of agrammatic sentence comprehension: a lesion study. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 30(2), 234-255.
LaCroix, A., Diaz, A. F., & Rogalsky, C. (2015). The relationship between the neural computations for
speech and music is context-dependent: a review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1138.
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