Jet Vonk, PhD

Asst Professor in Residence
Fields of Interest: 
Language

Jet Vonk received her PhD degree in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate Center, with a focus on neurolinguistics and cognitive science. She also maintains an affiliation with the Department of Epidemiology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where she is currently obtaining a second PhD in Epidemiology.

Her research focuses on the timing and mechanisms of cognitive decline in relation to aging and dementia using linguistic, neuroimaging and epidemiological methods. Her overall goal is to investigate the evolution of language use and cognitive decline throughout the course of dementia to help accurate and timely diagnosis, with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and primary progressive aphasia. Previous work has focused on detecting subtle semantic memory impairment in preclinical dementia, developing novel cognitive markers related to biomarkers and future clinical outcomes, and investigating the effects of biological and sociodemographic variables on cognitive and language decline.

Her work is funded by an NWO Talent Programme Veni Grant and NIH K99/R00 Award. A complete list of her published peer-reviewed work is available here.

Publications: 

Digital language markers distinguish frontal from right anterior temporal lobe atrophy in frontotemporal dementia.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Vonk JMJ, Morin BT, Pillai J, Rolon DR, Bogley R, Baquirin DP, Ezzes Z, Tee BL, DeLeon J, Wauters L, Lukic S, Montembeault M, Younes K, Miller Z, García AM, Mandelli ML, Sturm VE, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML

Development and validation of a nonverbal consensus-based semantic memory paradigm in patients with epilepsy.

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS

Tran EB, Vonk JMJ, Casaletto K, Zhang D, Christin R, Marathe S, Gorno-Tempini ML, Chang EF, Kleen JK

Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

Lukic S, Fan Z, García AM, Welch AE, Ratnasiri BM, Wilson SM, Henry ML, Vonk J, Deleon J, Miller BL, Miller Z, Mandelli ML, Gorno-Tempini ML

Semantic item-level metrics relate to future memory decline beyond existing cognitive tests in older adults without dementia.

Psychology and aging

Vonk JMJ, Geerlings MI, Avila-Rieger JF, Qian CL, Schupf N, Mayeux R, Brickman AM, Manly JJ

Association of Subjective Cognitive Decline With Progression to Dementia in a Cognitively Unimpaired Multiracial Community Sample.

Neurology

Chapman S, Rentería MA, Dworkin JD, Garriga SM, Barker MS, Avila-Rieger J, Gonzalez C, Joyce JL, Vonk JMJ, Soto E, Manly JJ, Brickman AM, Mayeux RP, Cosentino SA

Consideration of sex and gender in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders from a global perspective.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Mielke MM, Aggarwal NT, Vila-Castelar C, Agarwal P, Arenaza-Urquijo EM, Brett B, Brugulat-Serrat A, DuBose LE, Eikelboom WS, Flatt J, Foldi NS, Franzen S, Gilsanz P, Li W, McManus AJ, van Lent DM, Milani SA, Shaaban CE, Stites SD, Sundermann E, Suryadevara V, Trani JF, Turner AD, Vonk JMJ, Quiroz YT, Babulal GM, Diversity and Disparity Professional Interest Area Sex and Gender Special Interest Group

Cross-national harmonization of cognitive measures across HRS HCAP (USA) and LASI-DAD (India).

PloS one

Vonk JMJ, Gross AL, Zammit AR, Bertola L, Avila JF, Jutten RJ, Gaynor LS, Suemoto CK, Kobayashi LC, O'Connell ME, Elugbadebo O, Amofa PA, Staffaroni AM, Arce Rentería M, Turney IC, Jones RN, Manly JJ, Lee J, Zahodne LB

The role of cognitive and brain reserve in memory decline and atrophy rate in mid and late-life: The SMART-MR study.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

Vonk JMJ, Ghaznawi R, Zwartbol MHT, Stern Y, Geerlings MI, UCC-SMART-Study Group

Association of childhood maltreatment and cortisol with the severity and stability of depression symptoms.

Journal of affective disorders

Scarth M, Vonk JMJ, Gerritsen L, GGeerlings MI, UCC-SMART Study Group

Predictors of Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment and Its Course in a Diverse Community-Based Population.

Neurology

Angevaare MJ, Vonk JMJ, Bertola L, Zahodne L, Watson CW, Boehme A, Schupf N, Mayeux R, Geerlings MI, Manly JJ

Midlife Vascular Factors and Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Late-Life in Mexico.

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS

Arce Rentería M, Manly JJ, Vonk JMJ, Mejia Arango S, Michaels Obregon A, Samper-Ternent R, Wong R, Barral S, Tosto G

Dementia risk in the general population: large-scale external validation of prediction models in the AGES-Reykjavik study.

European journal of epidemiology

Vonk JMJ, Greving JP, Gudnason V, Launer LJ, Geerlings MI

Demographic Effects on Longitudinal Semantic Processing, Working Memory, and Cognitive Speed.

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences

Vonk JMJ, Higby E, Nikolaev A, Cahana-Amitay D, Spiro A, Albert ML, Obler LK

Education differentially contributes to cognitive reserve across racial/ethnic groups.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Avila JF, Rentería MA, Jones RN, Vonk JMJ, Turney I, Sol K, Seblova D, Arias F, Hill-Jarrett T, Levy SA, Meyer O, Racine AM, Tom SE, Melrose RJ, Deters K, Medina LD, Carrión CI, Díaz-Santos M, Byrd DR, Chesebro A, Colon J, Igwe KC, Maas B, Brickman AM, Schupf N, Mayeux R, Manly JJ

Semantic loss marks early Alzheimer's disease-related neurodegeneration in older adults without dementia.

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Vonk JMJ, Bouteloup V, Mangin JF, Dubois B, Blanc F, Gabelle A, Ceccaldi M, Annweiler C, Krolak-Salmon P, Belin C, Rivasseau-Jonveaux T, Julian A, Sellal F, Magnin E, Chupin M, Habert MO, Chêne G, Dufouil C, MEMENTO cohort Study Group

Family Ties and Aging in a Multiethnic Cohort.

Journal of aging and health

Ying G, Vonk JMJ, Sol K, Brickman AM, Manly JJ, Zahodne LB

Illiteracy, dementia risk, and cognitive trajectories among older adults with low education.

Neurology

Arce Rentería M, Vonk JMJ, Felix G, Avila JF, Zahodne LB, Dalchand E, Frazer KM, Martinez MN, Shouel HL, Manly JJ

Secular trends in cognitive trajectories of diverse older adults.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Vonk JMJ, Arce Rentería M, Avila JF, Schupf N, Noble JM, Mayeux R, Brickman AM, Manly JJ

Sex/gender differences in cognitive trajectories vary as a function of race/ethnicity.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Avila JF, Vonk JMJ, Verney SP, Witkiewitz K, Arce Rentería M, Schupf N, Mayeux R, Manly JJ

Semantic and lexical features of words dissimilarly affected by non-fluent, logopenic, and semantic primary progressive aphasia.

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS

Vonk JMJ, Jonkers R, Hubbard HI, Gorno-Tempini ML, Brickman AM, Obler LK

Verbal Semantics and the Left Dorsolateral Anterior Temporal Lobe: A Longitudinal Case of Bilateral Temporal Degeneration.

Aphasiology

Vonk JMJ, Borghesani V, Battistella G, Younes K, DeLeon J, Welch A, Hubbard HI, Miller ZA, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML

Measurement invariance of neuropsychological measures of cognitive aging across race/ethnicity by sex/gender groups.

Neuropsychology

Avila JF, Rentería MA, Witkiewitz K, Verney SP, Vonk JMJ, Manly JJ

Dynamic change of cognitive reserve: associations with changes in brain, cognition, and diagnosis.

Neurobiology of aging

Bettcher BM, Gross AL, Gavett BE, Widaman KF, Fletcher E, Dowling NM, Buckley RF, Arenaza-Urquijo EM, Zahodne LB, Hohman TJ, Vonk JMJ, Rentz DM, Mungas D

Letter and Category Fluency Performance Correlates with Distinct Patterns of Cortical Thickness in Older Adults.

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

Vonk JMJ, Rizvi B, Lao PJ, Budge M, Manly JJ, Mayeux R, Brickman AM

Education Moderates the Relation Between APOE ɛ4 and Memory in Nondemented Non-Hispanic Black Older Adults.

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

Vonk JMJ, Arce Rentería M, Medina VM, Pericak-Vance MA, Byrd GS, Haines J, Brickman AM, Manly JJ

Semantic network function captured by word frequency in nondemented APOE ε4 carriers.

Neuropsychology

Vonk JMJ, Flores RJ, Rosado D, Qian C, Cabo R, Habegger J, Louie K, Allocco E, Brickman AM, Manly JJ

A cross-linguistic comparison of category and letter fluency: Mandarin and English.

Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)

Eng N, Vonk JMJ, Salzberger M, Yoo N

The Contribution of Semantic Features to the White Matter Pathways of Tool Processing.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

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