Claudia Peñaloza

Researcher Ramon i Cajal APID program

Researcher ID: M-2122-2019

Grup de Cognició i Plasticitat Cerebral

Contact Information
Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology
Departament de Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació. Facultad de Psicología. Campus Mundet. Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171.

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Academic Training

Licenciada en Psicología . Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo . 27/09/2004 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Postgraduado en actualización en psicopatología clínica . Universidad de Barcelona . 14/10/2009 . (Specialized Training)

Máster Universitario en Psicología Clínica y de la Salud . Universidad de Barcelona . 03/11/2011 . (Official Master)

Doctora en Psicología . Universidad de Barcelona . 03/11/2016 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching impartedi (last 5 years)

Neurociència Cognitiva (University Master's Degree) - Recerca en Comportament i Cognició - Universidad de Barcelona.

Cognition and Neural Bases (Master of Science in Speech and Language Pathology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos) (University Master's Degree) - Master of Science in Speech and Language Pathology - Boston University.

Memòria i Representació (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.

Cross-disciplinary thematic focus for honours students (Bachelor's degree) - Grado en Física - University of Oslo.

Teaching Innovation Projects

Grupo Permanente de Innovación Educativa “Formación en Razonamiento Clínico Virtual en Ciencias de la Salud” (FRaCVir) . 2023 - 2025 . Proyectos de Innovación Educativa. Vicerrectorado de Personal Docente e Investigador de la Universidad de Málaga . PI: Marina Calleja Reina

Research Projects

White matter hyperintensities and brain atrophy as predictors of response to language treatment in aphasia . 2019 - 2020 . Ref.Ninguno . Boston University . PI: Maria Varkanitsa; Claudia Jeannette Peñaloza Salazar

Contracte del Programa Ramon y Cajal 2021 . 2023 - 2027 . Ref.RYC2021-034561-I . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación . PI: Claudia Jeannette Peñaloza Salazar

Lifestyle-SVD: Exploring the Impact of Lifestyle Factors on Cognitive and Emotional Functioning via Small Vessel Disease (SVD) Biomarkers in Healthy Older Adults and Stroke Patients . 2023 - 2025 . National Academy of Neuropsychology . PI: Maria Mataró; Claudia Jeannette Peñaloza Salazar

Procesamiento, aprendizaje y re-aprendizaje de cognados en personas bilingües con afasia . 2024 - 2027 . Ref.PID2023-151781OA-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Claudia Jeannette Peñaloza Salazar

Computational modeling of semantic decline in bilingual individuals with mild cognitive impairment and primary progressive aphasia . 2020 . National Institutes of Health (NIH) . PI: Swathi Kiran

Relevant publications

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 on bilingual lexical access. Brain and Language . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104643 . ISSN: 0093-934X

Peñaloza, C., Barrett, K., Kiran, S. (2019). The influence of prestroke proficiency on poststroke lexical-semantic performance in bilingual aphasia. Aphasiology . https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1666082 . ISSN: 0268-7038

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 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968320952809 . ISSN: 1545-9683

Peñaloza, C., Dekhtyar, M., Scimeca, M., Carpenter, E., Mukadam, N., Kiran, S. (2020). Predicting treatment outcomes for bilinguals with aphasia using computational modeling: Study protocol for the PROCoM randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10(e040495) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2044-6055

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, 11, p. 10497 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

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, 12, p. 589330 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1664-2295

Peñaloza, C.; Martin, N.; Laine, M.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2022). Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 141, pp. 1 - 28 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0149-7634

Navarrete-Orejudo, L.; Cerda-Company, X.; Olivé, G.; Martin, N.; Laine, M.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A.; Peñaloza, C. (2023). Expressive recall and recognition as complementary measures to assess novel word learning ability in aphasia. Brain and Language, 243 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105303 . ISSN: 0093-934X

Peñaloza, C.; Grasemann, U.; Miikkulainen, R.; Kiran, S. (2023). Modeling bilingualism as a dynamic phenomenon in healthy and neurologically affected speakers across the lifespan: A Commentary on "Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions". Language Learning, 73(S2), pp. 78 - 82 . https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12566 . ISSN: 0023-8333

Peñaloza, C., Kiran, S. (2019). Recovery patterns in multilingual aphasia . In The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism . (pp. 553 - 571) . Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119387725.ch27

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Lara Navarrete Orejudo . (2022) . Expressive and receptive novel word learning in post-stroke aphasia (Degree work) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Laura Casas Valls . (2023) . L'efecte del bilingüisme en el rendiment cognitiu del DCL: Una comparació entre bilingües i monolingües (Master's Thesis) . Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.

Belle Jacobs . (2024) . Discourse abilities in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A comprehensive analysis of macro and micro- structural discourse properties and their white matter neural correlates (Master's Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.