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.

Latest News


  • 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

  • Sam successfully defends his dissertation!

    Congratulations to Samer Nour Eddine who defended his PhD thesis, "Dynamic duo: Insights from a dual-unit predictive coding model of lexico-semantic processing". Sam's committee members were: Gina Kuperberg (advisor), Trevor Brothers, Ariel Goldberg, and Aniruddh Patel. Sam will be continuing as a postdoctoral scholar in our lab.