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.
Thank you to Professors Mikiko Kishi and Yasuki Ishizaki of Gunma University, Japan, for organizing a webinar hosted by the Diversity Committee of the Japanese Medical University International Collaborative Assembly (J-MICA) and inviting Gina to speak at it. Gina gave a talk titled, "Who Gets to Lead? Personal Reflections on Gender Equity in Medicine.”
Thank you to Tufts University and the Office of the Provost for inviting Gina as a panelist for a symposium on AI and consciousness honoring Dan Dennett: "Let’s Talk About (Artificial) Consciousness: A Day of Study Honoring Dan Dennett". Gina gave a talk titled, "Prediction to Intention: Dennett's Legacy in the Age of AI," as an introduction to a session on Predictive and Embodied Minds:Consciousness, AI, and Dennett's Legacy. Other speakers for the session were Anil Seth, Felipe De Brigard, and Anna Ciaunica, and the panel was moderated by Holly Taylor.
Lab members attended and presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Meeting, held at Gallaudet University in Washington DC:
Tom Hansen, Anthony Yacovone, Samer Nour Eddine, and Gina Kuperberg presented a poster, "ottom-up and top-down propagation of residual information across the left fronto-temporal cortex during sentence comprehension: Converging evidence from M/EEG and predictive coding simulations, see Abstract and Poster.
Anthony Yacovone, Samer Nour Eddine, Tom Hansen, and Gina Kuperberg presented a poster, "Late Frontal Positivities during self-paced reading are sensitive to lexical predictability, not misprediction: Evidence from EEG and Predictive Coding simulations," see Abstract and Poster.
