Department of Psychology – Tufts University.

Gina Kuperberg. Source: Kuperberg Lab

“We are interested in when, where and how the human brain builds up the meaning of sentences, discourse (whole stories) and visual images (movie-clips). To address these questions we use multimodal neuroimaging techniques: event-related potentials (ERPs) have excellent temporal resolution and can tell us when neurocognitive processes happen in the brain; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has excellent spatial resolution and can tell us where neurocognitive processes occur in the human brain. In addition to studying normal brain function, we are also examining how the build-up of meaning is impaired in patients with schizophrenia and how such impairments are reflected by abnormal patterns of brain activity in such patients.”