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Welcome to the NeuroCognition of Language Lab

Principal Investigator: Gina Kuperberg, MD PhD
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.

Lab News

  • Goodbye and good luck to Julia Klein, Maggie Wargo, and Andrea Yohros!

    Goodbye and good luck to our graduating seniors Julia Klein, Maggie Wargo, and Andrea Yohros! Maggie and Andrea are graduates of the Clinical Psychology concentration and joined our lab in May 2023, completing their senior capstone/internship in our lab. Julia, a Cognitive and Brain Sciences student, joined our lab in Fall 2021 and worked on a variety of projects under Victoria Sharpe. Both Julia and Maggie are moving on to clinical research coordinator positions at Massachusetts General Hospital.

  • Tom Hansen presents at Human Sentence Processing 2024

    Thomas Hansen, Anthony Yacovone, Lin Wang, and Gina Kuperberg presented a poster, “Homographs Revisited: ERP insights into the dynamic interplay between top-down predictive and bottom-up reactive processes” at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Links to: Abstract / Poster.

  • iEEG localization tutorial using YAEL

    Please check out our video tutorials on using the YAEL toolbox (Your Advanced Electrode Localizer), illustrated by Ivi Fung, an undergrad in our lab. These tutorials walk you through the electrode functionality of the toolbox and the various techniques that can be used to localize particularly difficult and/or hard-to-see electrode shafts. See our research page on iEEG localization