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.
Lin Wang, Ole Jensen, and Gina Kuperberg presented a poster, titled "Neural evidence for prediction of animacy features by verbs during language comprehension: Evidence from MEG and EEG spatial similarity analysis" at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held in Quebec City, Canada. See here for the poster and abstract.
Gina gave a talk at a workshop on "Real-World Language: Future Directions in the Science of Communication and the Communication of Science" in honor of Mike Tanenhaus, who was awarded the Rumelhart Prize at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Wisconsin, 2018 ("MTanFest"). Gina's talk was entitled "Researching in our Bubbles: Challenges of Communicating within and beyond the Language Sciences." Thank you to Jim Magnuson, Craig Chambers, Delphine Dahan, Chigusa Kurumada, Maryellen MacDonald, and Mark Seidenberg for all their work in organizing the workshop.
Goodbye and good luck to Lena Warnke, who, after working as a research assistant in our lab since August 2016, is joining the Cognitive Science and Psychology PhD program at Tufts University in the fall. During her time in the lab, she ran MEG and EEG participants for various projects in the lab, designed and ran her own EEG study, and mentored several undergraduate RAs throughout the past 2 years. Thank you to Lena for helping to keep the lab running smoothly every day. We look forward to welcoming Lena back in the fall as a PhD student!
