Welcome to the NeuroCognition of Language Lab

Principal Investigator: Gina Kuperberg, MD PhD

We have an open postdoctoral position! Click here for details

 

 

lab members gathered on Psychology Building front steps after Ivi's Senior Thesis defense

Who are we? 

We are an interdisciplinary lab based at Tufts University and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. Our research integrates the fields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics, and Cognitive science.

 

What do we study? 

We are investigating the neural mechanisms mediating language comprehension and production in healthy adults. We are also interested in how these mechanisms break down in individuals with neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. We use multimodal neuroimaging techniques – fMRI, MEG/EEG, and ERPs – to better understand the spatiotemporal dynamics of these processes in the brain. To learn more about our research questions and specific projects, visit our Research page.

Latest News


  • Gina gives Plenary talk at SIRS 2026, leads workshop at DISCOURSE satellite meeting in Italy

    Gina was the invited speaker for a Plenary Session at the Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS 2026) in Florence, Italy. The title of her talk was, "Large Language Models and the Disorganized Mind: What AI Can and Cannot Tell Us About Language in Schizophrenia." 

    Gina also attended and led a workshop on "Prediction in Language and Psychosis" at the 4th DISCOURSE Consortium Satellite Meeting on Language and Thought in the Brain and Mental Health, held in the Scuola Universitaria Superiore (IUSS) Pavia, Italy. Thank you to Valentina Bambini, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, and Federico Frau (the Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Lab at IUSS Pavia) for organizing this event in collaboration with the DISCOURSE in Psychosis Consortium.

  • Tom Hansen gives a talk at Human Sentence Processing 2026!

    Tom Hansen was selected to give a talk at the 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing held in Cambridge, MA. The title of his talk was "Feedforward to feedback: Converging evidence from M/EEG and predictive coding simulations of residual information flow in the language system." Link to abstract: [PDF]

    Anthony Yacovone, Samer Nour Eddine, Tom Hansen, and Gina Kuperberg also presented a poster, "Timing is everything: EEG and Predictive Coding simulations show that reading conditions influence whether late frontal positivities track misprediction or lexical predictability."  [Poster]

  • Gina presents at ACNP 2026 in Nassau, Bahamas

    Gina Kuperberg, Victoria Sharpe, Apoorva Vallampati, Arim Choi Perrachione, Julia Klein, Margaret Wargo, Bethany Bracken, and Spencer Lynn presented a poster, "Beyond Self-Report: Direct Detection of Depressive Symptoms from Neural Activity" , at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, held in Nassau, the Bahamas. [Abstract] [Poster]