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Daniel Aalto
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Latest papers
Perturbing the pathway: The impact of lollipops and lidocaine on supramarginal gyrus activity during silent reading tasks.
Brain and language · 2026
Compensatory behaviours after oral cancer: stretch reflex improves simulated tongue protrusion.
Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering · 2026 · senior author
Guided tongue reconstruction: Feasibility analysis of additively manufactured surgical toolkit on a silicone tongue model.
Surgical oncology · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $77,717
English second-language learners' speech sound production: toward a causal model of multidimensional individual difference factors
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
31 publications.
Perturbing the pathway: The impact of lollipops and lidocaine on supramarginal gyrus activity during silent reading tasks.
Holmes M, Aalto D, Patel D, Ostevik A, Jeffery CC, Cummine J
Compensatory behaviours after oral cancer: stretch reflex improves simulated tongue protrusion.
Al-Zanoon N, Cummine J, Jeffery CC, Aalto D
Guided tongue reconstruction: Feasibility analysis of additively manufactured surgical toolkit on a silicone tongue model.
Isazadeh AR, Chen S, Seikaly H, Zheng B, Westover L, Aalto D
Towards an understanding of somatosensory perturbation on covert speech production: a functional near infrared spectroscopy study.
Cummine J, Patel DH, Holmes M, Ostevik A, Aalto D
Computational analysis of tongue reconstruction surgery: The impact of donor site and flap volume on post-operative anatomy and biomechanics.
Isazadeh AR, Westover L, Seikaly H, Aalto D
Examining the Cerebral-Cerebellar Connectivity During Spelling Tasks.
Czobor E, Striemer CL, Cheema K, Prem P, Aalto D, Cummine J
Longitudinal Acoustic Analysis of /s/ in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated With Surgery.
Boer G, Aalto D
Patient-specific virtual surgical planning for tongue reconstruction: evaluating hyperelastic inverse FEM with four simulated tongue cancer cases.
Isazadeh AR, Zenke J, Westover L, Seikaly H, Aalto D
Opening the dialogue: A preliminary exploration of hair color, hair cleanliness, light, and motion effects on fNIRS signal quality.
Holmes M, Aalto D, Cummine J
The effect of simulated radiation induced fibrosis on tongue protrusion.
Al-Zanoon N, Cummine J, Jeffery CC, Westover L, Aalto D
English second-language learners' speech sound production: toward a causal model of multidimensional individual difference factors
Principal investigators: Lin, Youran
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Jacqueline Cummine and Daniel Aalto: 9 shared papers
- Lindsey Westover and Daniel Aalto: 8 shared papers
- Lindsey Westover and Jacqueline Cummine: 5 shared papers
- Pierre Boulanger and Daniel Aalto: 3 shared papers
- Pierre Boulanger and Bin Zheng: 2 shared papers
- Dean Eurich and Daniel Aalto: 1 shared paper
- Lindsey Westover and Bin Zheng: 1 shared paper
- Bin Zheng and Daniel Aalto: 1 shared paper
- Kristopher Wells and Daniel Aalto: 1 shared paper
- Communication Sciences & Disorders
- ENG Biomedical Engineering
- MSc Multimedia
- Surgery Dept
- School of Public Health
- Education
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Jacqueline Cummine
Communication Sciences & Disorders
9 shared papers, latest 2026
Lindsey Westover
ENG Biomedical Engineering
8 shared papers, latest 2026
Jana Rieger
Chemical and Materials Engineering
4 shared papers, latest 2020
Pierre Boulanger
MSc Multimedia
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Dean Eurich
School of Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Bin Zheng
Surgery Dept
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Kristopher Wells
Education
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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