Research

CURRENT PROJECTS:

  • Competing mental representation in Spanish-English bilinguals (Hoang)
  • Spurious representation in sentence processing (Antener, Stevenson, & Baig)
  • Interpreting “some”: Speaker intention and perspective-taking in pragmatic understanding (Bhatnagar & Figueroa)
  • Similarity based morphing state changes (Leong & Bolus)
  • Surfing farmer (Barbosa & Antener)
  • Morphing follow up (Atterberry & Scognamiglio)

PAST PROJECTS:

  • Crosstalk between semantic and episodic memory during sentence processing (Ekves)
  • fMRI evidence for hippocampal involvement in object state representation during sentence comprehension (Ekves)
  • Anticipatory eye movements and state representation during sentence processing (Krass)
  • fMRI evidence for simultaneous activation of alternative state representations (Krass)
  • Electrophysiological correlates of state representation (Prystauka)
  • Cross-linguistic representation of object state (Prystauka)
  • Event-plausibility and scene constraints (Joergensen)
  • The time-course of the dynamic mapping between language and object state representations (Joergensen)    

OUR TECHNIQUES INCLUDE:

  • fMRI
  • Eye-tracking (in-scanner and out)
  • EEG (in-scanner and out)