Paper – organization of the left superior temporal sulcus.
Paper – organization of the left superior temporal sulcus. STS can give the inferior frontal gyri a run for their money, as far as the number of associated functions and the ubiquity of their...
View ArticleWork discussed in The Chronicle
Some of our work has been discussed in The Chronicle of Higher Education in a nice article by Michael Chorost. A couple comments on some things mentioned by Lakoff in the article. One is the idea that...
View ArticleNick wins Magellan scholarship
Nick Riccardi, an undergraduate RA in the lab, has won a Magellan research grant worth $3000. This is a competitive award given by USC to enhance undergraduate research. He will be doing lesion-sympton...
View ArticleA shoutout in ‘Slate’ magazine
An interesting article by Katy Waldman in Slate about metaphors and their role in embodiment. Some of our work is mentioned.
View ArticlePaper: natural reading
This is the first report in a series of studies where we study naturalistic reading. Subjects read whole passages displayed on the screen while in the MRI scanner. Their eye movements are recorded, so...
View ArticlePaper: Right hemisphere and metaphors
This paper sheds light on the controversial issue of whether the right hemisphere (RH) has a special role in processing metaphoric language. Our finding is that the answer is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. It is...
View ArticleJeffrey wins award
Jeffrey Durbin, a summer student in the lab in 2014 from University of Kansas, has won second place in the Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Competition in oral presentations, based on his work here....
View ArticlePaper: action concepts and action simulations
There is very good evidence (from our work, and a large body of other studies) that action concepts are grounded in action systems (or are “embodied”). But clearly, there is a difference between...
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