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Sara B. Pillay, PhD

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Sara B. Pillay, PhD

Sara B. Pillay, PhD

Assistant Professor

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(414) 955-0664

Biography

Sara Pillay, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology. She specializes in understanding language reorganization after stroke in patients with aphasia using neuropsychological data, neuroimaging, and electrical stimulation techniques. In addition, she has interest in developing and testing language paradigms for use during intraoperative electrical stimulation mapping and electrocorticography. Her work has been presented at several national and international conferences, and published in peer-reviewed professional journals. She is currently a co-investigator in the Language Imaging Laboratory and a member of the Southeastern Wisconsin Stroke Rehabilitation Center.

Neural networks supporting audiovisual integration for speech: A large-scale lesion study.

(Hickok G, Rogalsky C, Matchin W, Basilakos A, Cai J, Pillay S, Ferrill M, Mickelsen S, Anderson SW, Love T, Binder J, Fridriksson J.) Cortex. 2018 06;103:360-371 PMID: 29705718 PMCID: PMC6223621 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85046169918 05/01/2018
The Neural Basis of Successful Word Reading in Aphasia.

(Pillay SB, Gross WL, Graves WW, Humphries C, Book DS, Binder JR.) J Cogn Neurosci. 2018 04;30(4):514-525 PMID: 29211656 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85042764522 12/07/2017
Lesion localization of speech comprehension deficits in chronic aphasia.

(Pillay SB, Binder JR, Humphries C, Gross WL, Book DS.) Neurology. 2017 Mar 07;88(10):970-975 PMID: 28179469 PMCID: PMC5333516 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85014816931 02/10/2017
Surface errors without semantic impairment in acquired dyslexia: a voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study.

(Binder JR, Pillay SB, Humphries CJ, Gross WL, Graves WW, Book DS.) Brain. 2016 05;139(Pt 5):1517-26 PMID: 26966139 PMCID: PMC5006249 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84966648862 03/12/2016
Cerebral localization of impaired phonological retrieval during rhyme judgment.

(Pillay SB, Stengel BC, Humphries C, Book DS, Binder JR.) Ann Neurol. 2014 Nov;76(5):738-46 PMID: 25164766 PMCID: PMC4214892 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84912085803 08/29/2014