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


  • Congratulations to Samer Nour Eddine, Trevor Brothers, Lin Wang, Mike Spratling, and Gina Kuperberg!

    Samer Nour Eddine, Trevor Brothers, Lin Wang, Mike Spratling, and Gina Kuperberg have had their paper, “A predictive coding model of the N400” accepted for publication in Cognition. It’s the first implemented predictive coding model of the N400, and it explains (1) the N400's functional sensitivity to lexical variables, priming, and context; (2) its temporal dynamics; and (3) Provides a biologically plausible link to neural activity. Read the paper here.

     

     

  • Gina presents at ACNP 2024 in Tampa, FL

    Gina Kuperberg, Victoria Sharpe, Sabrina Ford, Samer Nour Eddine, Lin Wang, and Lena Palaniyappan presented a poster, “GPT Reveals Selective Impairments in Global vs. Local Context Use in Speech among Treatment-Naïve Patients with Positive Thought Disorder”, at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, held in Tampa, FL. LINKS: Abstract / Poster

  • Gina gives a talk at the SNL 2023 meeting in Marseille

    Gina gave a talk titled, "The Potential and Limitations of Large Language Models for Understanding Predictive Language Processing," at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language held in Marseille, France. The symposium was organized by Shailee Jain and covered the topic, "Can we investigate linguistic modularity in the brain with non-modular NLP systems?"

    In addition to this talk, our lab was represented at a slide session talk and a poster session: 
    Slide session talk:  Intracranial EEG reveals simultaneous encoding of pre-activated and currently processed information during language comprehension [Abstract]
    (Lin Wang, Benchi Wang, Ole Jensen, Gina Kuperberg)
    Poster: Contextual Facilitation in Language Comprehension: Insights from a Unified Predictive Coding Framework. [Abstract] [Poster
    (Samer Nour Eddine, Trevor Brothers, Lin Wang, Gina Kuperberg)