Dr Abhijeet Patra
Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
My profile
Biography
I am a senior lecturer in speech and language therapy. I am interested in understanding how different cognitive processes influence language processing in the healthy and communication-disordered population (e.g., aphasia). I utilize mixed methods approaches including behavioral and electrophysiological methods.
Academic and professional qualifications
2018: PhD (Thesis: Word production and executive control in bilingual aphasia), School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading,UK
2013: MSc in Cognitive Science, CBCS, University of Allahabad, India
2010: BSc in Speech and Language Therapy, AYJNIHH, Kolkata, India
Other academic service (administration and management)
Postgraduate admissions tutor
Languages
Bengali, Hindi, English
Expert reviewer
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
Brain Sciences
Human Brain Mapping
Behavioral Sciences
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Consultancy and advisory roles
Research Consultant (01/08/2021 - Present) — Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, USA
Prizes and awards
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Cognitive Neuroscience, Translational Neuroscience, and Neurorehabilitation, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, USA
Felix Scholarship for PhD studies, University of Reading, UK
NIDCD sponsored Academy of Aphasia Young Investigator Travel Fellowship
British Neuropsychological Society Postgraduate Bursary
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Memorial Hermann (TIRR MH), USA
Membership of professional associations
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Rehabilitation Council of India
Psychonomics Society
Society of Neurobilogy of Language
Academy of Aphasia Society
British Aphasiology Society
Personal website address
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
Applied Psychology
Clinical Theory2
Research outputs
- Understanding the relationship between language (word production, sentence comprehension) and cognitive control in healthy and neurologically impaired population (monolingual and bilingual)
- Application of learning principles to naming treatment of speech and language production deficits in aphasia
- Neural correlates of cognitive processes underlying speech and language deficits in aphasia
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Journal articles
Thothathiri, M., Kirkwood, J., Patra, A., Krason, A., Middleton, E.L. (2023) 'Multimodal measures of sentence comprehension in agrammatism.' Cortex, 169pp. 309-325.
Patra, A., Kirkwood, J., Middleton, E.L., Thothathiri, M. (2023) 'Variation in how cognitive control modulates sentence processing.' Royal Society Open Science, 10(4)
Bose, A., Patra, A., Antoniou Eleftheria, G., Stickland, R.C., Belke, E. (2022) 'Verbal fluency difficulties in aphasia: a combination of lexical and executive control deficits.' International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 57(3) pp. 593-614.
Patra, A., Traut, H.J., Stabile, M., Middleton, E.L. (2022) 'Effortful retrieval practice effects in lexical access: a role for semantic competition.' Language, cognition and neuroscience, 37(8) pp. 948-963.
Patra, A., Bose, A., Marinis, T. (2021) 'Semantic context effects in monolingual and bilingual speakers.' Journal of Neurolinguistics, 57pp. 100942-100942.
Patra, A., Bose, A., Marinis, T. (2020) 'Lexical and Cognitive Underpinnings of Verbal Fluency: Evidence from Bengali-English Bilingual Aphasia.' Behavioral Sciences, 10(10)
Patra, A., Bose, A., Marinis, T. (2019) 'Performance difference in verbal fluency in bilingual and monolingual speakers.' Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1) pp. 204-218.
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Conference papers
Patra, A., Bose, A. (2019) 'Verbal fluency performance in Bengali-English bilingual aphasia.' 12. Frontiers Media SA,
Abhijeet, P., Arpita, B. (2016) 'Cognate Effects in Bengali-English Bilingual Aphasia.' 7. Frontiers Media SA,
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Posters
Patra, A., Ambrogi, M., Middleton, E. (2023) 'An Electrophysiological Investigation of Speech Error Monitoring in Individuals with Aphasia.' [Poster] In The 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia. Date viewed 22/10/2023.
Patra, A., Middleton, E. (2020) 'How the past affects the present: An examination of error-based learning in lexical access.' [Poster] In Psychonomic Society’s 61st Annual Meeting. Date viewed 19/11/2020.
Patra, A., Traut, H., Stabile, M., Middleton, E. (2019) 'Delayed effects of semantic blocking on picture naming: testing the effortful retrieval hypothesis.' [Poster] In Psychonomic Society’s 60th Annual Meeting. Date viewed 16/11/2019.