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Andrea Gajardo Vidal

Profesora Investigadora

Universidad del Desarrollo

Concepción , Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Neural basis of language and aphasia; Brain-behavior relationships in adults with acquired brain damage; Structural and functional neuroplasticity; Predictors of language/cognitive outcome, recovery and treatment; normal and pathological Aging.

Educación

  •  Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Reino Unido, 2019
  •  Cognitive Neuroscience, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Reino Unido, 2013
  •  Neuropsicología y Neuropsiquiatría del Adulto, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2008
  •  Licenciada en Fonoaudiología , UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2007

Experiencia Académica

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO

    San Francisco, Estados Unidos

    2021 - 2023

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

    Faculty of Brain Sciences

    London, Reino Unido

    2019 - 2020

  •   Research Assistant Full Time

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

    Faculty of Brain Sciences

    London, Reino Unido

    2017 - 2018

  •   Adjunct Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO

    Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud

    Concepcion, Chile

    2010 - 2011

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO

    Facultad de Gobierno

    Concepcion, Chile

    2023 - At present

  •   Academic team Diploma Postítulo Clínica en Neuropsiquiatría del Adulto, Other

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Facultad de Medicina

    Santiago, Chile

    2022 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Clinical Professor Part Time

    Universidad del Desarrollo

    Concepcion, Chile

    2010 - 2011

  •   Clinical Professor Part Time

    Universidad de Concepcion

    Concepcion, Chile

    2008 - 2011

  •   Speech and Language Pathologist Part Time

    Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil (Teletón)

    Chile

    2008 - 2011

Formación de Capital Humano


During my PhD and postdoc at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London, I had the opportunity to supervise a Master's thesis (2019) entitled 'Neural correlates of maintaining and recovering language abilities after right hemisphere stroke'. In addition, I co-supervised two Ph.D. students' theses, which resulted in the publication of two scientific articles in a top-ranked neuroimaging journal (Neuroimage). The articles are entitled: (1) A functional dissociation of left frontal regions contributing to single word production tasks and (2) The dissociation of the functions of three left posterior superior temporal regions contributing to speech perception and production.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Merit Abstract Award OHBM

    Organization for Human Brain Mapping

    Estados Unidos, 2016

    Reconocimiento a la calidad del abstract enviado para ser presentado en la conferencia anual organizada por OHBM, Ginebra, Suiza.

  •   International Master’s Fellowship (Becas Chile)

    ANID

    Chile, 2012

    Fellowship awarded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to pursue a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London

  •   International PhD Fellowship (Becas Chile)

    ANID

    Chile, 2013

    Fellowship awarded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to pursue a PhD in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London

  •   International Postdoctoral Fellowship (Becas Chile)

    ANID

    Chile, 2019

    Fellowship awarded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to pursue further training in Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California San Francisco

  •   Honorable Mention

    Society for the Neurobiology of Language

    Estados Unidos, 2021

    Honorary Mentions are awarded to postdocs who submit the highest ranked abstracts to SNL (Society for Neurobiology of Language).


 

Article (20)

Assessing processing speed and its neural correlates in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia with a non-verbal tablet-based task

Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Montembeault, Maxime; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Licata, Abigail E.; Bogley, Rian; Erlhoff, Sabrina; Ratnasiri, Buddhika; Ezzes, Zoe; Battistella, Giovanni; Tsoy, Elena; Pereira, Christa Watson; Deleon, Jessica; Tee, Boon Lead; Henry, Maya L.; Miller, Zachary A.; Rankin, Katherine P.; Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Possin, Katherine L.; Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa

Article ISI
CORTEX  (2024)

Neural basis of speech and grammar symptoms in non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum

Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Illan-Gala, Ignacio; Ezzes, Zoe; Wauters, Lisa D.; Battistella, Giovanni; Bogley, Rian; Ratnasiri, Buddhika; Licata, Abigail E.; Battista, Petronilla; Garcia, Adolfo M.; Tee, Boon Lead; Lukic, Sladjana; Boxer, Adam L.; Rosen, Howard J.; Seeley, William W.; Grinberg, Lea T.; Spina, Salvatore; Miller, Bruce L.; Miller, Zachary A.; Henry, Maya L.; Dronkers, Nina F.; Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa

Article ISI
BRAIN  (2024)

Degeneracy in the neurological model of auditory speech repetition

Sajid, Noor; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Ekert, Justyna O.; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Hope, Thomas M. H.; Green, David W.; Friston, Karl J.; Price, Cathy J.

Article ISI
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY  (2023)

Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia

Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Lukic, Sladjana; Montembeault, Maxime; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Licata, Abigail; Scheffler, Aaron; Battistella, Giovanni; Grasso, Stephanie M.; Bogley, Rian; Ratnasiri, Buddhika M.; La Joie, Renaud; Mundada, Nidhi S.; Europa, Eduardo; Rabinovici, Gil; Miller, Bruce L.; De Leon, Jessica; Henry, Maya L.; Miller, Zachary; Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa

Article ISI
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING  (2023)

The Effect of Right Temporal Lobe Gliomas on Left and Right Hemisphere Neural Processing During Speech Perception and Production Tasks.

Yamamoto, A. K., Sanjuán, A., Pope, R., Parker Jones, O., Hope, T. M. H., Prejawa, S., Oberhuber, M., Mancini, L., Ekert, J. O., Garjardo-Vidal, A., Creasey, M., Yousry, T. A., Green, D. W., & Price, C. J.

Article
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE  (2022)

Enhanced left superior parietal activation during successful speech production in patients with left dorsal striatal damage and error-prone neurotypical participants

Geva, S., Schneider, L. M., Khan, S., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Gajardo-Vidal, A., PLORAS team, Hope, T. M. H., Green, D. W., & Price, C. J.

Article
CEREBRAL CORTEX  (2022)

A functional dissociation of the left frontal regions that contribute to single word production tasks

Ekert, Justyna O.; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Crinion, Jennifer T.; Hope, Thomas M. H.; Green, David W.; Price, Cathy J.

Article ISI
NEUROIMAGE  (2021)

Better long-term speech outcomes in stroke survivors who received early clinical speech and language therapy: What's driving recovery?

Roberts, S., Bruce, R. M., Lim, L., Woodgate, H., Ledingham, K., Anderson, S., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Leff, A. P., Hope, T. M. H., Green, D. W., Crinion, J. T., & Price, C. J.

Article
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION  (2021)

Brain regions that support accurate speech production after damage to Broca's area

Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Oberhuber, Marion; Prejawa, Susan; Hope, Thomas M. H.; Leff, Alexander P.; Green, David W.; Price, Cathy J.; PLORAS Team

Article ISI
BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS  (2021)

Damage to Broca's area does not contribute to long-term speech production outcome after stroke

Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Warner, Holly; Pshdary, Bawan; Crinion, Jennifer T.; Leff, Alexander P.; Hope, Thomas M. H.; Geva, Sharon; Seghier, Mohamed L.; Green, David W.; Bowman, Howard; Price, Cathy J.; PLORAS Team

Article ISI
BRAIN  (2021)

Dissociating the functions of three left posterior superior temporal regions that contribute to speech perception and production

Ekert, Justyna O.; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Hope, Thomas M. H.; Dick, Fred; Crinion, Jennifer T.; Green, David W.; Price, Cathy J.

Article ISI
NEUROIMAGE  (2021)

Lesions that do or do not impair digit span: a study of 816 stroke survivors

Geva, S., Truneh, T., Seghier, M. L., Hope, T. M. H., Leff, A. P., Crinion, J. T., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Green, D. W., PLORAS Team, & Price, C. J.

Article
BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS  (2021)

Reply: Broca's area: why was neurosurgery neglected for so long when seeking to re-establish the scientific truth? and Where is the speech production area? Evidence from direct cortical electrical stimulation mapping

Lorca-Puls, D. L., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Green, D. W., & Price, C. J.

Article
BRAIN  (2021)

Right cerebral motor areas that support accurate speech production following damage to cerebellar speech areas

Geva, Sharon; Schneider, Letitia M.; Roberts, Sophie; Khan, Shamima; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Hope, Thomas M. H.; Green, David W.; Price, Cathy J.; PLORAS Team

Article ISI
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL  (2021)

Paradoxical lesions, plasticity and active inference.

Sajid, N., Parr, T., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Price, C. J., & Friston, K. J.

Article
BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS  (2020)

Generalizing post-stroke prognoses from research data to clinical data

Loughnan R.; Lorca-Puls D.L.; Gajardo-Vidal A.; Espejo-Videla V.; Gillebert C.R.; Mantini D.; Price C.J.; Hope T.M.H.

Article ISI SCOPUS
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL  (2019)

How distributed processing produces false negatives in voxel-based lesion-deficit analyses.

Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Crinion, J. T., White, J., Seghier, M. L., Leff, A. P., Hope, T. M. H., Ludersdorfer, P., Green, D. W., Bowman, H., & Price, C. J.

Article
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA  (2018)

How right hemisphere damage after stroke can impair speech comprehension

Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Hope, T. M. H., Parker Jones, O., Seghier, M. L., Prejawa, S., Crinion, J. T., Leff, A. P., Green, D. W., & Price, C. J.

Article
BRAIN  (2018)

The impact of sample size on the reproducibility of voxel-based lesion deficit mappings

Lorca-Puls, DL; Gajardo-Vidal, A; White, J; Seghier, ML; Leff, AP; Green, DW; Crinion, JT; Ludersdorfer, P; Hope, TMH; Bowman, H; Price, CJ

Article ISI SCOPUS
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA  (2018)

Using transcranial magnetic stimulation of the undamaged brain to identify lesion sites that predict language outcome after stroke

Lorca-Puls, D. L., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Seghier, M. L., Leff, A. P., Sethi, V., Prejawa, S., Hope, T. M. H., Devlin, J. T., & Price, C. J.

Article
BRAIN  (2017)

Proyecto (4)

Explaining Language Outcome and Recovery After Stroke (ELORAS)

Wellcome (205103/Z/16/Z)

Proyecto
2017-2020
Postdoctorado

Towards a new neurological model of language that explains outcome after stroke.

Medical Research Council (MR/M023672/1)

Proyecto
2015-2018
Tesista

Predicting Language Outcome and Recovery After Stroke (PLORAS)

Stroke Association (TSA 2014/02)

Proyecto
2014-2017
Tesista

Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke

Wellcome (097720/Z/11/Z)

Proyecto
2012-2017
Tesista

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Andrea Gajardo

Profesora Investigadora

Universidad del Desarrollo

Concepción , Chile

3
Diego Lorca

Associate Professor

Departamento de Especialidades

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Adolfo García

Investigador Asociado

Facultad de Humanidades

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

1
Valeria Espejo

Instructor

Fonoaudiología

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile