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.
Tori Sharpe, Apoorva Vallampati, Arim Choi Perrachione, Julia Klein, Margaret Wargo, Bethany Bracken, Spencer Lynn, and Gina Kuperberg have had their paper, "Beyond self-report: Depressive symptom severity tracks rapid neural responses during natural reading of clinically-grounded probes," accepted for publication in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
Paper available for download here
Welcome to Sara Lastine, who is joining our lab as a new research assistant! Sara graduated in May from Iowa State University with a B.A. in Linguistics and a B.S. in Computer Science. Sara has a strong background in computational research methods and experience working with psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic data. She will be working on our data analysis pipelines and assisting on the labs research on computational models of predictive coding.
Welcome to Stella Roering, who is joining our lab as a new research assistant! Stella just graduated from Tufts University with a B. S. in Cognitive and Brain Sciences and a minor in French. For her Senior Thesis, she worked with Ariel Goldberg to develop and explore a pose estimation-based measure of phonological sign similarity. Stella will be working on event-related potential studies of the influence of context on language comprehension.
