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.
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.
A big thank you to all of our wonderful undergraduate students who worked in our lab over the past academic year: Carly Cohen, Abigail Hinshaw, Grace Lee, Stella Roering, and Henry Wang. Special congratulations to Carly Cohen and Stella Roering, who graduated from the Cognitive and Brain Sciences program!
Thank you to Dr. Brent Forester and the Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, and Opthalmology at Tufts Medical Center for hosting Gina's visit to the Tufts School of Medicine, Boston, MA, where she gave a presentation for the Brain and Behavior Research Day. Her talk was titled, "Language in Schizophrenia in the Age of AI: A Theory Informed Framework."
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.
