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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

  • Welcome to Aileen Guo!

    Welcome to Aileen (Xiaorong) Guo, who is joining our lab as a Research Technologist through MGH. Aileen graduated from Tufts University in 2025 with a Psychology degree (Cognitive and Brain Sciences major) and minors in Computer Science as well as in Linguistics. During her time at Tufts, Aileen was an undergrad RA in our lab, working on several projects, assisting with MEG data preprocessing, preparing speech transcripts for LLMs, and BERTopic topic modeling. She will be continuing to work on these projects as a Research Tech.

  • Goodbye and good luck to Anthony Yacovone!

    Goodbye and good luck to Anthony Yacovone, who, after joining our lab as a postdoctoral fellow in early 2023 , is starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Boston University. Thank you to Anthony for all their hard work modeling the effects of lexical predictability through ERP components through a predictive coding framework. 

  • Goodbye and good luck to Lena Warnke!

    Goodbye and good luck to Lena Warnke, who spent a year in our lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Thank you to Lena for all their hard work on clinically-oriented projects in our lab, including work on modeling speech from clinical interviews and tasks. Best wishes for all your future endeavors!