Newcastle University

Current research projects include:

Short-term memory training in aphasia

Sentence processing in healthy older adults 

Clinical supervision - the Tavistock Aphasia Centre (North East)

Semantic impairment in adult acquired communication disorders

Acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia

Language and cognition in normal and abnormal ageing (final year option)

• Salis C. Short-term memory treatment: Patterns of learning and generalisation to sentence comprehension in a person with aphasia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 2012, 22(3), 428-448.
• Edwards S, Salis C. Aphasia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Salis C, Saddy JD. Comprehension of wh-questions in a case of mixed dementia. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2011, 24(2), 156-162.
• Salis C, Maxim J. Foreword and tabula gratulatoria. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2011, 24(2), 133-135.
• Salis C. Understanding of auditory discourse in older adults: The effects of syntax and working memory. Aphasiology 2011, 25(4), 529-539.
• Salis C. Crowe, S. F., 'The behavioural and emotional complications of traumatic brain injury', London: Psychology Press, 2008 [Book review]. Aphasiology 2010, 24(11), 1501-1503.
• Edwards S, Salis C. Individual variation and task effects: Response to Inglis. Aphasiology 2010, 24(1), 116-118.
• Salis C, Edwards S. Treating written verbs and sentences in aphasia: A clinical study. Aphasiology 2010, 24(9), 1051-1063.
• Salis C. Processing of wh-questions in a case of posterior cortical atrophy. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2009, 11(6), 461-471.
• Salis C, Edwards S. Tests of syntactic comprehension in aphasia: An investigation of task effects. Aphasiology 2009, 23(10), 1215-1230.
• Salis C, Edwards S. Comprehension of wh-questions and declarative sentences in agrammatic aphasia: The set partition hypothesis . Journal of Neurolinguistics 2008, 21(5), 375-399.
• Salis C, Edwards S. Adaptation theory and non-fluent aphasia in English. Aphasiology 2004, 18(12), 1103-1120.