Jill Kries, PhD

Publications

Published Papers

Almost all papers are published open access, so you can access the full PDFs via the links. For the ones that are not open access, you can access the PDF on this page.

  1. Kries, J., Vandermosten, M.⋄ , Gwilliams, L.⋄ (2026). The spatio-temporal dynamics of phoneme encoding in aging and aphasia. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(4)e1001252025, 1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1001-25.2025.
  2. Kries, J., De Clercq, P., Gillis, M., Vanthornhout, J., Lemmens, R., Francart, T., Vandermosten, M. (2024). Exploring neural tracking of acoustic and linguistic speech representations in individuals with post-stroke aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, 45(8), 1-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26676.
  3. Kries, J., De Clercq, P., Lemmens, R., Francart, T., Vandermosten, M. (2023). Acoustic and phonemic processing are impaired in individuals with aphasia. Scientific Reports, 13(11208), 1-15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37624-w.
  4. Kries, J.* and Gillis, M.*, Vandermosten, M.⋄ , and Francart, T.⋄ (2023). Neural tracking of linguistic speech representations decreases with advancing age. NeuroImage, 267(119841), 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119841.
  5. Ergin, I., Kries, J., Gupta, S., Papworth Burrel, M., and Gwilliams, L. (2026). Measuring Naturalistic Speech Comprehension in Real Time. Behavior Research Methods, 58(93). doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-026-02941-1
  6. Roll, N., Kries, J., Gwilliams, L., and Shain, C. (2026). Artificial Aphasias in Lesioned Language Models. NeurIPS. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.16222
  7. Roll, N., Kries, J., Jin, F., Wang, C., Finley, A.M., Sumner, M., Shain, C., and Gwilliams, L. (2026). The Text Aphasia Battery (TAB): A Clinically-Grounded Benchmark for Aphasia-Like Deficits in Language Models. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026). doi: 10.18653/v1/2026.clpsych-1.27
  8. De Clercq, P., Kries, J., Mehraram, R., Vanthornhout, J., Francart, T., Vandermosten, M. (2025). Neural tracking of natural speech: an effective marker for post-stroke aphasia. Brain Communications, 22(2), fcaf095. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf095
  9. Mehraram, R., Kries, J., De Clercq, P., Francart, T., Vandermosten, M. (2025). EEG reveals brain network alterations in chronic aphasia during natural speech listening. Scientific Reports 15(2441). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-86192-8
  10. De Clercq, P., Puffay, C., Kries, J., Van Hamme, H., Vandermosten, M., Francart, T., and Vanthornhout, J. (2024). Detecting Post-Stroke Aphasia Via Brain Responses to Speech in a Deep Learning Framework. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. doi: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.10291
  11. Mehraram, R., De Clercq, P., Kries, J., Vandermosten, M., Francart, T. (2024). Functional connectivity of stimulus-evoked brain responses to natural speech in post-stroke aphasia. Journal of Neural Engineering, 21(6). doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad8ef9. PDF here below.
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*shared first authorship; ⋄ shared last authorship

Preprints

  1. Gillis, M., Kries, J., Wouters, J., Gwilliams, L.⋄ , and Vandermosten, M.⋄ (Under review). Neural Phoneme Processing in Children with and without Dyslexia. biorxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.13.682108
  2. De Clercq, P., Kries, J., Vanthornhout, J., Gerrits, R., Francart, T., and Vandermosten, M. (Under review). Neural substrates and behavioral relevance of speech envelope tracking: evidence from post-stroke aphasia. biorxiv. doi: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2024/03/28/2024.03.26.586859
  3. Correia, J.M., Kries, J., Hausfeld, L., Gracco, V., and Bonte, M. (biorxiv). EEG reveals online monitoring mechanisms of speech production. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.01.640939
  4. Kries, J., Ervin, B., Buroker, J., Hickok, G., Arya, R., & Gwilliams, L. (In preparation). Hierarchical speech encoding in the developing brain: spatio-temporal insights from intracranial EEG.
  5. Aphasia ”INTUNE” dataset open-source publication: EEG data during natural speech listening and neuropsychological assessment in post-stroke aphasia. (In preparation).

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Last updated: September 2026