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.
Welcome to Weiqi Wang! Weiqi is joining our lab as a postdoctoral scholar after completing her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, where her work in Dr. Charles Perfetti’s lab focused on the cognitive neuroscience of language processing and comprehension. She used EEG to investigate how incremental reading comprehension unfolds in response to meaning-related features in text and will be bringing this expertise to EEG projects in our lab.
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.
