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Distinct patterns of neural modulation during the processing of conceptual and syntactic anomaliesGina R Kuperberg
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 15:272-93. 2003..This suggests that morphosyntactic and pragmatic information can be processed in different ways but by the same neural systems...- Increased temporal and prefrontal activity in response to semantic associations in schizophreniaGina R Kuperberg
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:138-51. 2007..Loosening of associations has long been considered a core feature of schizophrenia, but its neural correlate remains poorly understood... - Building up linguistic context in schizophrenia: evidence from self-paced readingGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, and Massachusetts General Hospital, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Neuropsychology 20:442-52. 2006..The relative insensitivity to these violations in patients with schizophrenia may arise from impairments in combining semantic and syntactic information to build up sentence context... 
Neurocognitive abnormalities during comprehension of real-world goal-directed behaviors in schizophreniaTatiana Sitnikova
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:256-77. 2009..Thus, distinct neurocognitive abnormalities may underlie disorganization and goal-directed behavior deficits in schizophrenia...- Dysfunction of a cortical midline network during emotional appraisals in schizophreniaDaphne J Holt
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA
Schizophr Bull 37:164-76. 2011..These findings suggest that impaired functioning of cortical midline structures in schizophrenia may underlie faulty interpretations of social events, contributing to delusion formation... - The neural organization of semantic memory: Electrophysiological activity suggests feature-based segregationTatiana Sitnikova
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Biol Psychol 71:326-40. 2006..The high temporal resolution of ERPs allowed us to demonstrate that differences in processing animals and tools occurred specifically within the time-window encompassing semantic analysis... - Functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals neuroanatomical dissociations during semantic integration in schizophreniaGina R Kuperberg
MGH MIT HMS Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
Biol Psychiatry 64:407-18. 2008..Integration demands were manipulated by varying the nature (concrete vs. abstract) and the congruity (incongruous vs. congruous) of words within sentences... - Neurophysiological correlates of comprehending emotional meaning in contextDaphne J Holt
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:2245-62. 2009..negative) of words. Thus, emotional processing networks within the brain appear to exert a continuous influence, evident at several stages, on the construction of the emotional meaning of language... - Electrophysiological distinctions in processing conceptual relationships within simple sentencesGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Bldg 149, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17:117-29. 2003..Our findings suggest a qualitative neural distinction in processing these two types of conceptual anomalies within simple, unambiguous sentences... - Eye movements modulate the spatiotemporal dynamics of word processingSimona Temereanca
MGH MIT HMS Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
J Neurosci 32:4482-94. 2012..Together, these results suggest a complex interplay between visual and central saccadic mechanisms during reading... - The role of animacy and thematic relationships in processing active English sentences: evidence from event-related potentialsGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Bldg 149, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Brain Lang 100:223-37. 2007..These findings suggest that semantic-thematic relations, related to animacy constraints on verbs' arguments, are computed online and can immediately impact verb processing within active, English sentences... - Selective emotional processing deficits to social vignettes in schizophrenia: an ERP studyGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Schizophr Bull 37:148-63. 2011..These findings suggest that schizophrenia is associated with a specific neural deficit during the online evaluation of emotionally valent, socially relevant information... - Electrophysiological correlates of complement coercionGina R Kuperberg
Departmentof Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:2685-701. 2010..We suggest that this effect reflected delayed attempts to retrieve the specific event(s) implied by coerced complement nouns... - When the truth is not too hard to handle: an event-related potential study on the pragmatics of negationMante S Nieuwland
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Psychol Sci 19:1213-8. 2008..g., "A baby bunny's fur isn't very hard/soft..."). These results suggest that negation poses no principled obstacle for readers to immediately relate incoming words to what they hold to be true... - What can Event-related Potentials tell us about language, and perhaps even thought, in schizophrenia?Gina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 75:66-76. 2010..Further investigation of language dysfunction may also provide insights into other aspects of psychotic thought... - Building meaning in schizophreniaGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Clin EEG Neurosci 39:99-102. 2008.... - Two neurocognitive mechanisms of semantic integration during the comprehension of visual real-world eventsTatiana Sitnikova
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:2037-57. 2008.... - Neuroanatomical distinctions within the semantic system during sentence comprehension: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imagingGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Neuroimage 40:367-88. 2008.... - Neurocognitive mechanisms of conceptual processing in healthy adults and patients with schizophreniaTatiana Sitnikova
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 75:86-99. 2010.... - Making sense of sentences in schizophrenia: electrophysiological evidence for abnormal interactions between semantic and syntactic processingGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:251-65. 2006.... - Task and semantic relationship influence both the polarity and localization of hemodynamic modulation during lexico-semantic processingGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 29:544-61. 2008..These findings are discussed in relation to the specific neurocognitive processes thought to underlie implicit and explicit semantic processes. Hum Brain Mapp, 2008. (c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc... - Slow and steady: sustained effects of lexico-semantic associations can mediate referential impairments in schizophreniaTali Ditman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 11:245-58. 2011..These results suggest that at least some types of referential impairments may be driven by sustained activation of contextually inappropriate lexico-semantic associations... - Neural mechanisms of language comprehension: challenges to syntaxGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Brain Res 1146:23-49. 2007..Finally, I suggest that that these two processing streams may generalize beyond the language system to real-world visual event comprehension... - Making sense of discourse: an fMRI study of causal inferencing across sentencesGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Neuroimage 33:343-61. 2006..We suggest that this network reflects the activation, retrieval and integration of information from long-term semantic memory into incoming discourse structure during causal inferencing... - The misattribution of salience in delusional patients with schizophreniaDaphne J Holt
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, United States
Schizophr Res 83:247-56. 2006..In this study, we tested the hypothesis that delusional schizophrenia patients are more likely than non-delusional schizophrenia patients and healthy participants to assign affective meanings to neutral stimuli... - Regionally localized thinning of the cerebral cortex in schizophreniaGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, 02129, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:878-88. 2003.... - A source-monitoring account of auditory verbal hallucinations in patients with schizophreniaTali Ditman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 13:280-99. 2005..To draw firmer conclusions, however, it is imperative that future studies select patient populations precisely, match control groups, and use consistent criteria for defining hallucinators... - An electrophysiological investigation of indirect semantic primingDonna A Kreher
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Psychophysiology 43:550-63. 2006..These findings are discussed in the context of current theoretical models of semantic memory and semantic priming... - Neural evidence for faster and further automatic spreading activation in schizophrenic thought disorderDonna A Kreher
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Schizophr Bull 34:473-82. 2008.... - The time course of building discourse coherence in schizophrenia: an ERP investigationTali Ditman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Psychophysiology 44:991-1001. 2007..Results suggest that schizophrenia patients, particularly those with positive thought disorder, fail to make immediate use of discourse context to build up semantic coherence in the brain... - An investigation of concurrent ERP and self-paced reading methodologiesTali Ditman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Psychophysiology 44:927-35. 2007....