Publications

Barber, H.A., van der Meij, M., Kutas, M. An electrophysiological analysis of contextual and temporal constraints on parafoveal word processing, Psychophysiology, 2013, 50(1):48-59

Amsel, B., Urbach, T.P., Kutas, M. Alive and grasping: Stable and rapid semantic access to an object category but not object graspability, NeuroImage, 2013, Vol. 77, pp. 1-13

Borovsky, A., Kutas, M., Elman, J. Getting it right: Word learning across the hemispheres, Neuropsychologia, 2013, 51(5) pp. 825-37

Marghetis, T., & Núñez, R. (2013). The Motion Behind the Symbols: A Vital Role for Dynamism in the Conceptualization of Limits and Continuity in Expert Mathematics. Topics in Cognitive Science, 5, 299-316. doi:10.1111/tops.12013

Núñez, R., Cooperrider, K., (2013). The Tangle of Space and Time in Human Cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(5), 220-229.

Saygin, A.P., Chaminade, T., Ishiguro, H., Driver, J. & Frith, C. (2012) The thing that should not be: Predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 7(4):413-22.

Saygin, A.P. (2012). Biological motion perception and the brain: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies. In K. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.) Visual Perception of the Human Body in Motion: Findings, Theory, and Practice, Oxford series in Visual Cognition, Oxford University Press. In press.

Nunez, R. & Cornejo, C. (in press). Facing the Sunrise: Cultural Worldview Underlying Intrinsic-Based Encoding of Absolute Frames of Reference in Aymara. Cognitive Science.

Nunez, R. (in press). On the Science of Embodied Cognition in the 2010s: Research Questions, Appropriate Reductionism, and Testable Explanations. The Journal of the Learning Sciences. DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2011.614325

DeLong, K.A, Groppe, D.M., Urbach, T.P., Kutas, M., Thinking ahead or not? Natural aging and anticipation during reading, Brain and Language, 2012, DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.02.006

Metusalem, R., Kutas, M., Urbach, T.P., Hare, M., McRae, K., Elman, J.L., Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension, Journal of Memory and Language, 2012, DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.01.001

Kiang, M., Christensen, B.K., Kutas, M., Zipursky, R.B., Electrophysiological evidence for primary semantic memory functional organization deficits in schizophrenia, Psychiatry Research, 2012, DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.02.026

Ye, Z., Kutas, M., St. George, M., Sereno, M.I., Ling, F., Muente, T.F., Rearranging the world: Neural networks supporting the processing of temporal connectives, NeuroImage, 2012, 59 pp. 3662-3667

van Kemenade, B.M., Muggleton, N., Walsh, V., Saygin, A.P. (2012) The Effects of TMS over STS and Premotor Cortex on the Perception of Biological Motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(4): 896–904.

Saygin, A.P. & Stadler. W. (2012) The role of visual appearance in action prediction. Psychological Research. In Press.

Urgen, B.A., Plank, M., Ishiguro, H., Poizner, H., Saygin, A.P. (2012). Temporal Dynamics of Action Perception: The Role of Biological Appearance and Motion Kinematics. 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan.

Creel, S. C., Aslin, R. N., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (In press). Word learning under adverse listening conditions: Context-specific recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes. [available online]

Creel, S. C., & Tumlin, M. A. (2012). On-line recognition of music is influenced by relative and absolute pitch information. Cognitive Science, 36, 261-285.

Creel, S. C. (2012). Looking ahead: Comment on Morgante, Zolfaghari, and Johnson. Infancy, 17(2), 141-158.

Quam, C., & Creel, S. C. (2012). What's in a rise? Effects of language experience on interpretation of lexical tone. Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Jiménez, S. J., & Creel, S. C. (2012). Factors affecting talker recognition in preschoolers and adults. Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Bregman, M. R., & Creel, S. C. (2012). Learning to recognize unfamiliar voices: the role of language familiarity and music experience. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society conference.

Pająk, B., Creel, S. C., & Levy, R. (2012). Can native-language perceptual bias facilitate learning words in a new language? To appear in Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society conference.

Bregman, M.R., Patel, A.D., & Gentner, T.Q. (2012). Stimulus-dependent flexibility in non-human auditory pitch processing. Cognition, 122, 51-60.

Yu, A J (2012). Change is in the eye of the beholder. Nature Neuroscience 15, 933-935.

Paulus, M P & Yu, A J (2012). Emotion and decision-making: affect-driven belief systems in anxiety and depression. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16: 476-483.

Jasso, H., Triesch, J., Lewis, J., & Deák, G.O. (2012). A unifiedaccount of gaze-following. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous MentalDevelopment, 4(4), 257-272. DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2012.2208640.

Borovsky, A., Elman, J., Kutas, M. Once is enough: N400 indexes semantic integration of novel word meaning, Language, Learning & Development, 2012, 8:3, pp. 278-302

Ye, Z., Kutas, M., St. George, M., Sereno, M.I., Ling, F., Muente, T.F., Rearranging the world: Neural networks supporting the processing of temporal connectives, NeuroImage, 2012, 59 pp. 3662-3667

Núñez, R., Cooperrider, K., Wassmann, J. (2012). Number Concepts Without Number Lines in an Indigenous Group of Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035662

Núñez, R., Cooperrider, K., Doan, D, Wassmann, J. (2012). Contours of Time:Topographic Construals of Past, Present, and Future in the Yupno Valley ofPapua New Guinea. Cognition.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.03.007

Cooperrider, K., & Núñez, R. (2012). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facialgesture of Papua New Guinea. Gesture, 12, 103-130. doi10.1075/gest.12.2.01coo

Núñez, R. & Cornejo, C. (2012). Facing the Sunrise: Cultural Worldview Underlying Intrinsic-Based Encoding of Absolute Frames of Reference inAymara. Cognitive Science.

Marta Kutas and Kara D. Federmeier (2011) Thirty Years and Counting: Finding Meaning in the N400 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP), Annual Review of Psychology Vol. 62: 621-647.

Leech, R. & Saygin, A.P. (2011). Distributed processing and cortical specialization for speech and environmental sounds in human temporal cortex. Brain and Language, 116(2):83-90.

Saygin, A.P. (2011). A computational analysis of interaction patterns in the acquisition of Turkish. Research on Language and Computation. In press.

Gilaie-Dotan, S., Bentin, S., Harel, A., Rees, G. & Saygin, A.P. (2011) Normal form from biological motion despite impaired ventral stream function. Neuropsychologia.

de-Wit, L., Lefevre, C., Kentridge, R., Rees, G. & Saygin, A.P. (2011) Investigating the status of biological stimuli as objects of attention in multiple object tracking. Plos ONE. 6(3): e16232. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016232

Leonard, M.K., Torres, C., Travis, K.E., Brown, T.T., Hagler, D.J., Dale, A.M., Elman, J.L., & Halgren, E. (2011). Language proficiency modulates the recruitment of non-classical language areas in bilinguals. PLoS ONE, 6(3): e18240. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018240.

Nitz DA (2011) Path shape impacts the extent of CA1 pattern recurrence both within and across environments. Journal of Neurophysiology (March - epub ahead of print).

Swann, N., Poizner, H., Houser, M., Gould, S., Greenhouse, I., Cai, W., Strunk, J., George, J., and Aron, A. Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus alters the cortical profile of response inhibition in the beta frequency band: a scalp EEG study in Parkinson's disease, Journal of Neuroscience, in press.

Peterson, D., Lotz, D., Halgren, E., Sejnowski, T.J., Poizner, H. (2011) Decision making modulates neural dynamics and prediction error processing during rewarded learning, Neuroimage, 54, 1385-1394.

Svetlana V. Shinkareva, ,Vicente L. Malave, Robert A. Mason, Tom M. Mitchell & Marcel Adam Just. Commonality of neural representations of words and pictures NeuroImage, 54, 2418-2425

Yu, A J (2011). Uncertainty and Neuromodulation. In Neuroscience of Decision Making. Ed. O. Vartanian and D R. Mandel. Psychology Press. In press.

Shenoy, P & Yu, A J (2011). Wherefore a hore race: Inhibitory control as rational decision-making. To appear as a chapter in Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control. Ed. R. Mars, J. Sallet, M. Rushworth, and N. Yeung. MIT Press.

Shenoy, P & Yu, A J (2011). Rational decision-making in inhibitory control. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. In press

Shenoy, P, Rao, R, & Yu, A J (2010). A rational decision making framework for inhibitory control. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23: 2146-54. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

de Barbaro, K. A., Chiba, A. A, & Deak, G. O. (in press) Micro-Analysis of Infant Looking in a Naturalistic Social Setting: Insights from Biologically Based Models of Attention. Developmental Science

Travis, K.E., Leonard, M.K., Brown, T.T., Hagler, D.J., Curran, M., Dale, A.M., Elman, J.L., & Halgren, E. (2011). Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of word understanding in 12- to 18-month-old infants. Cerebral Cortex, 2011, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhq259.

M. C. Keuken, A. Hardie, B. T. Dorn, S. Dev, M. P. Paulus, K. J. Jonas, W. P. M. Van Den Wildenberg, J. A. Pineda. The Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Social Perception and its Implications for Autistic Spectrum Disorder: an rTMS Study. Brain Research, in press.

Pineda A. Jaime, Giromini Luciano, Porcelli Piero, Parolin Laura, Viglione J. Donald. Mu Suppression and Human Movement Responses to the Rorschach Test. NeuroReport, in press.

DeLong, K.A., Urbach, T.P., Groppe, D.M., & Kutas, M., Overlapping dual ERP responses to low cloze probability sentence continuations, Psychophysiology, 2011, pp. 1-5 (early view online version)

Kutas, M., DeLong, K.A., Smith, N.J., A look around at what lies ahead: Prediction and predictability in language processing, in Predictions in the Brain: Using Our Past to Generate a Future, Editor M. Bar, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 190-207.

Svetlana V. Shinkareva, Vicente L. Malave, Marcel Adam Just and Tom M. Mitchell (2011). Exploring commonalities across participants in the neural representation of objects. Human Brain Mapping, (in Press), Article first published online: 12 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21296

Creel, S. C., & Bregman, M. R. (2011). How Talker Identity Relates to Language Processing. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(5), 190-204.

Creel, S. C. (2011). Specific previous experience affects perception of harmony and meter. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. (available on-line)

Núñez, R. (2011) No Innate Number Line in the Human Brain. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2011 42: 651

Núñez, R., Doan, D., Nikoulina, A. (2011) Squeezing, striking, and vocalizing: Is number representationfundamentally spatial? Cognition.

Creel, S. C., & Tumlin, M. A. (2011). On-line acoustic and semantic interpretation of talker information. Journal of Memory and Language. Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.06.005 (available on-line)

Barber, Horacio A.1; Ben‐Zvi, Shir2; Bentin, Shlomo2; Kutas, Marta3Parafoveal perception during sentence reading? An ERP paradigm using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) with flankers. Psychophysiology. Vol 48(4), Apr 2011, pp. 523-531

Knoeferle, Pia1; Urbach, Thomas P.2; Kutas, Marta2 Comprehending how visual context influences incremental sentence processing: Insights from ERPs and picture‐sentence verification. Psychophysiology. Vol 48(4), Apr 2011, pp. 495-506

Davenport, T., & Coulson, S. (2011) Predictability and novelty in literal language comprehension: An ERP study. Brain Research, in press. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2011.07.039

Fouse, A., Weibel, N., Hutchins, E., Hollan, J. (2008). ChronoViz: A System for Supporting Navigation of Time-Coded Data. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 299-304, 2011.

Liao, Y., Feng, W., Deak, G.O., Li, P., Jia, S.,& Li, H. (2011). Thisought to be good: Brain activity accompanying positive and negativeexpectations and outcomes. Psychophysiology.

Nunez, R., Doan, D, Nikoulina, A. (2011). Squeezing, Striking, andVocalizing: Is Number Representation Fundamentally Spatial? Cognition, 120,225-235.

Urbach, T., Kutas, M. (2010). Quantifiers more or less quantify on-line: ERP evidence for partial incremental interpretation, Journal of Memory and Language, 63 (2), pp. 158-179.

Borovsky, A., Kutas, M. , Elman, J. (2010). Learning to use words: Event-related potentials index single-shot contextual word learning. Cognition, 116(2), pp. 289-296.

Olichney, J.M., Taylor, J.R., Chan, S., Yang, J.-C., Stringfellow, A., Hillert, D.G., Simmons, A.L., Salmon, D.P., Iragui-Madoz, V., Kutas, M. (2010). FMRI responses to words repeated in a congruous semantic context are abnormal in mild Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia, 48(9), pp. 2476-2487.

Saygin, A.P., McCullough, S., Alac, M., Emmorey, K. (2010). Modulation of BOLD response in motion sensitive lateral temporal cortex by real and fictive motion sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(11), pp. 2480-90.

Saygin, A.P., Leech, R., & Dick, F. (2010). Nonverbal auditory agnosia with lesion to Wernicke’s area. Neuropsychologia, 48, 107-113.

Tibber, M., Saygin, A.P., Grant, S., Melmoth, D., Rees, G., & Morgan, M.J. (2010). The neural correlates of visuospatial perceptual and oculomotor extrapolation. PLoS One. 2010 Mar 15;5(3):e9664.

Creel, S. C., & Dahan, D. (2010). The influence of the temporal structure of spoken words on paired-associate learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 110-122.

Mandler, Jean M. (2010). The spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Language and Cognition, 2(1), 21-44.

Bergen, B., Wheeler, K. (2010). Grammatical aspect and mental simulation. Brain and Language, 112(3), 150-158.

Bergen, B., Polley, C., Wheeler, K. (2010). "Language and inner space". In Vyvyan Evans and Paul Chilton (Eds.) Language, Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions (2 vols). London: Equinox.

Wheeler, K., Bergen, B. (2010). Meaning in the palm of your hand. In Sally Rice and John Newman (eds.) Empirical and Experimental Methods in Conceptual structure, Discourse, and Language. Stanford: CSLI.

Saygin, A.P., Cook, J., & Blakemore, S.J. (2010). Unaffected perceptual thresholds for biological and non-biological form from motion perception in autism spectrum conditions. Plos ONE. 18;5(10):e13491.

Saygin, A.P., Chaminade, T., Ishiguro, H. (2010) The Perception of Humans and Robots: Uncanny Hills in Parietal Cortex. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2716-2720). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Becvar Weddle, A. and Hollan, J. D. (2010) Scaffolding Embodied Practices in Professional Education. Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal, 17, 119-148.

Olichney J.M., Taylor J.R., Hillert D.G., Chan S.H., Salmon D.P., Gatherwright J., Iragui V.J., Kutas M. fMRI congruous word repetition effects reflect memory variability in normal elderly. Neurobiology of Aging, 2010, 31(11) pp. 1975-1990

Federmeier, K.D., Kutas, M., & Schul, R. (2010) Age-related and individual differences in the use of prediction during language comprehension. Brain & Language, 115(3), 149-161.

Quinn LK, Nitz DA, Chiba AA (2010) Learning-dependent dynamics of beta-frequency oscillations in the basal forebrain or rats. European Journal of Neuroscience (epub ahead of print)

Peterson, D., Sejnowski, T.J., Poizner, H. (2010) Convergent evidence for abnormal striatal synaptic plasticity in dystonia, Neurobiology of Disease, 37, 558-573.

Levy-Tzedek, S., Krebs, H.I., Song, D.D., Hogan, N., Poizner, H. (2010) Non-monotonicity on a spatio-temporally defined cyclic task: Evidence of two movement types? Experimental Brain Research, 202, 733–746.

Leonard, M.K., Brown, T.T., Travis, K.E., Gharapetian, L., Hagler, D.J., Dale, A.M., Elman, J.L., & Halgren, E. (2010). Spatiotemporal dynamics of bilingual word processing. NeuroImage, 49(4), 3286-3294.

Torres, E., Raymer, A., Gonzalez-Rothi, L.J., Heilman, K.M., Poizner, H. (2010) Sensory-spatial transformations in the left posterior parietal cortex may contribute to reach timing, Journal of Neurophysiology, 104, 2375-2388.

McDonald, C.R., Thesen, T., Carlson, C., Blumberg, M., Girard, H.M., Trongnetrpunya, A., Sherfey, J., Devinsky, J., Kuzniecky, R., Cash, S., Leonard, M.K., Hagler, D.J., Dale, A.M., & Halgren, E. (2010). Multimodal imaging of repetition priming: Using fMRI, MEG, and intracranial EEG to reveal spatiotemporal profiles of word processing. NeuroImage, 53(2):707-717.

Giromini, Luciano, Porcelli, Piero, Viglione, Donald J., Parolin, Laura, Pineda, Jaime A. The feeling of movement: A pilot study on EEG evidence for mirroring activity during the observations of static, ambiguous stimuli in the Rorschach cards. Biol Psych., 85, 233-241, 2010.

Lewis, J., Deak, G.O., Jasso, H., & Triesch, J. (2010). Building amodel of infant social interaction. Proceedings of the 32nd AnnualConference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 278-283). Austin, TX:Cognitive Science Society.

Nunez, R. (2009). Numbers and Arithmetic: Neither Hard-wired nor Out There.Biological Theory, 4(1), 68-83.

Cornejo, C., Simonetti, F., Ibanez, A., Aldunate, N., Ceric, F., Lopez, V., & Nunez, R. (2009). Gesture and Metaphor Comprehension: Electrophysiological Evidence of Cross-modal Coordination by Audiovisual Stimulation. Brain and Cognition, 70(1), 42-52.

Cooperrider, K. & Nunez, R. (2009). Across Time, Across the Body:Transversal Temporal Gestures. Gesture, 9(2), 181-206.

Deak, G.O., & Holt, A.E. (2008). Language learning. In H. Roediger(ed.), J. Byrne (series ed.), Learning and memory: A comprehensivereference. Volume IV: Cognitive psychology. Holland: Elsevier.

Deak, G.O., Bartlett, M.S., & Jebara, T. (2007). How social agentsdevelop: New trends in integrative theory-building. Neurocomputing,70, 2139-2147.

Deak, G.O. (2006). Do children really confuse appearance and reality?TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 546-550.

Citation

Yu, A J (2012). Change is in the eye of the beholder. Nature Neuroscience 15, 933-935. (Download)

Abstract

Changes in pupil diameter may reflect the dynamic processes in the brain that allow us to detect and rapidly adapt to hidden changes in the world. What’s more, unrelated manipulations of pupil size may in turn influence these processes.

Contributors

Labs

Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab