We are now the Concepts and Cognition Laboratory. Parsimony.
New lab logo
What?! A new paper in Brain and Language
Yes it's true! We just published a tDCS and eyetracking study in Brain and Language. They said it couldn't be done. Actually, nobody would ever say that it couldn't be done. Anyone with the peculiar motivation to shock someone's brain, ask them to name a picture, and then film where their eyes go could publish this paper. Be on the lookout for this creative gem led by Drs. Richard Binney and Sameer Ashaie:
Binney RJ, Ashaie SA, Zuckerman BM, Hung J, & Reilly J (2018). A combined neurostimulation and eyetracking investigation of semantically-guided visual search in confrontation naming. Brain & Language.
Tirzah Sheppard off to Columbia University's summer public health program
I knew that our undergraduate research assistant, Tirzah Sheppard, was smart, but holy cow! Tirzah has been accepted to Columbia University's Summer Public Health Program. Congratulations are in order. Cure our ills, Tirzah.
Molly Ungrady's reign of academic terror continues in Finland.
The great Molly Ungrady just had her paper accepted at the Learning and Plasticity conference in April (2018) in Äkäslompolo, Finland:
Early Detection of Lexical-Semantic Impairment in Minority Cognitive Aging.
Neuropsychologia paper out and about town
Congratulations to Drs. Richard Binney and Sameer Ashaie and all of the other nameless, faceless co-authors on our tDCS paper:
Binney RJ, Ashaie SA, Zuckerman BM, Hung J, & Reilly J (in press). Cathodal tDCS of the bilateral anterior temporal lobes facilitates semantically-driven verbal fluency. Neuropsychologia
Yes! cathodal stimulation of the ATL was facilitative in verbal fluency. Alert the press!
Congratulations to Joshua Troche et al. (et al. is me and Seb Crutch)
Our article was just accepted to Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences). Be on the lookout for: Troche J, Crutch SJ, & Reilly J (2017). Defining a conceptual topography of word concreteness: Clustering properties of emotion, sensation, and magnitude among 750 English words. Frontiers in Language Science.
adieu 2017 summer interns
What an incredible group of interns this summer -- and Bonnie Zuckerman snuck in there, too.
Elizabeth Stangl's poster accepted to ASHA 2017
Congratulations to Elizabeth Stangl on the acceptance of her poster to the 2017 American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Conference in LA! The poster is titled:
Assessing Mindfulness Among Undergraduate & Graduate Speech Language Pathology Students & its Clinical Implications
Allie Kelly's coprolalia paper accepted to Neurobiology of Language
Congratulations to Allie Kelly et al. on the acceptance of their abstract to this year's SNL conference. Title: 'Watch your mouth: A Neuropsychological Case Study of Evoked Pupillary Responses to Profanity in Aphasia with Coprolalia
I am reasonably confident that this will be the only poster at the conference that prominently features the f-bomb, c-bomb, sh-bomb, or any other bomb.
Temple Lab Graduates 2017
Huzzah! Off into the world go our 2017 lab graduates -- Victoria Rodriguez, Jennifer Brandley, Veronica O'Reilly, Rameez Sultan
some really nice bilingual semantic clustering data (spanish-english)
Our recent work on profanity mentioned in Slate
Shoutout to Ben Zimmer on his article in Slate:
A New Breakthrough in the History of the “S---gibbon”: The Insult’s Originator Steps Forward
The article references our recent work (under review) on combinatorial profanity. We were/are specifically interested in why certain combinations of words (e.g., jizztrumpet or fucksauce) form plausible and effective new curse words. As with any article review, we have no idea where the paper will eventually land, but I am hoping for an eventual IgNobel.
kim sabourin issues jamie reilly a public apology
well, well, well.... a certain faculty member who shall remain nameless (i.e., kim sabourin) has formally apologized for the hurtful outburst she threw down on her interim department chair a year ago.
Meritorious Poster Submission Award for ASHA 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Troche on being among 40 meritorious papers selected from among 1900 submissions. Top flight, Dr. Troche.
The guy on the right isn't me
Optical fiber transmits one terabit per second https://t.co/zfQAPPynsX pic.twitter.com/eldEPmI5cL
— Science (@scienmag) September 29, 2016
Young phenom, Bonnie Zuckerman, publishes her first article
...With a little help from her friends. This promising scholar is on her way to the Basque Center for Cognitive Neuroscience to complete her Master's degree later this summer. She's a star!
Binney RJ, *Zuckerman B, & Reilly J (2016). A neuropsychological perspective on abstract word representation: From theory to treatment of acquired language disorders. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports.
Newly published papers from the lab
We've had a run of good luck recently with publishing. Be on the lookout for the following journal articles:
1. Binney RJ, *Zuckerman B, & Reilly J (2016). A neuropsychological perspective on abstract word representation: From theory to treatment of acquired language disorders. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports.
2. Hung J, Edmonds LM, & Reilly J (2016). Words speak louder than pictures for action concepts: An eyetracking investigation of the picture superiority effect in semantic categorization. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
3. Reilly J, *Garcia A, & Binney R (2016). Does the sound of a barking dog activate its corresponding visual form? An fmri investigation of modality-specific semantic access. Brain and Language.
4. Reilly J, Peelle JE, Garcia A, & Crutch SJ (2016). Linking somatic and symbolic representation in semantic memory: The Dynamic Multilevel Reactivation Framework. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
5. Reilly J, *Hung J, & Westbury C (2016). Non-arbitrariness in mapping word form to word meaning: Listener sensitivity to formal markers of word concreteness across seven natural languages. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12361.
6. Primativo S, Reilly J, & Crutch SJ (2016). Abstract conceptual feature ratings predict gaze within written word arrays: evidence from a visual wor(l)d paradigm. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12348
Dr. Richard Binney wins travel fellowship to the Neurobiology of Language Conference in London, UK
Assuming that Brexit doesn't kill the conference, our esteemed Dr. Binney is on his way to London on a travel fellowship to present two papers. Kudos to Dr. Binney...
Congratulations to Dr. Sameer Ashaie
Our recent PhD grad, Dr. Sameer Ashaie, is off to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University for a postdoctoral fellowship under the direction of Dr Leora Cherney. Congrats Sameer!