Presentations
2017
2016
2015
Big questions in cognitive science workshop, Boulder, Colorado, USA
The natural organization of language and the brain. The School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Towards a neurobiology of conversation: Social interactive alignment as context for language understanding, Language Group, Wellcome Trust Centre For Neuroimaging, University College London, UK
2014
Proof of principle for a novel method of detecting brain network patterns during action-observation, MDS 18th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
A situation at hand: Sign language learning dynamically re-organizes spoken language comprehension and the brain, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
Languages’ transmogrifier: The role of motor cortex in processing observed iconic co-speech gestures, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, Washington, USA
2012
Emotions speak louder, then words: Non-verbal emotional cues predict forthcoming words, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, USA
Re-visioning language and the brain: Auditory language comprehension is dynamically supported by visual cortex, Neurobiology of Language, San Sebastian, Spain
Natural language comprehension in Japanese-English bilinguals, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, China
Spatially separable networks for observed mouth and gesture movements during language comprehension, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, USA
2011
Embodied language and decision making, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas, USA
2010
How the brain predicts forthcoming words during sentence listening, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada
When your brain stops listening: Predicted discourse content causes the response in auditory cortex to decay, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain
2009
Context and the role of the predictive brain in real-world communication, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Dynamic functional reorganization of the brain when observed individual actions become joint actions, Joint Action Meeting (JAM3), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Neural activity underlying passive perception of native vs. non-native contrasts, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
Responses to two types of behaviorally relevant variability in speech in a passive fMRI paradigm, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
So you think your brain is smarter than a 5th grader?, Annual Winter Conference on Current Issues in Developmental Psychobiology, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USA
The brain uses co-speech gestures to set the context for speech understanding, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
The neurobiology of communication in natural settings, Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, IL, USA
2008
Change detection to speech sounds in the auditory dorsal stream, Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, USA
Novel approaches to fMRI analysis, John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Observing joint actions: the brain keeps tabs on each actor’s movements in segregated processing streams, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
Observing multiple people acting: Separability of cortical processing streams associated with each person’s actions, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Melbourne, Australia
Supramarginal and angular gyri respond to acoustic changes that are also phonetic but not because of habituation to phoneme identity, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
Two scientists and a cup: How the brain keeps track of each actor during joint action, Cognitive Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
The neural mosaics of face sensitivity across development: a multivariate approach, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
2007
Emotional speech modulates network activation during hand movement by stroke patients, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, USA
Gestures in the brain’s language, International Society for Gesture Studies, panel on Neurocognition of gesture, Chicago, IL, USA
Observed iconic and metaphoric speech-associated gestures are processed differently by ventral and dorsal premotor cortex, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, USA
Revealing tuning functions with brain imaging data using a peak fit analysis, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, USA
2006
Gestures in the brain’s language, Fall Psychology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA
How is audiovisual speech processing affected by the recent audiovisual past? An fMRI study, International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA
Increased brain activity in the observation-execution matching system for animated versus real faces during audiovisual speech perception, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy
Meaningful mouth and hand movements play a role in language comprehension: Evidence from fMRI, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy
Neurophysiological networks for extracting meaning from hand and face movements relevant to spoken language comprehension, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy
Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca’s area and the language mirror system, Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy
The cortical motor system simulates action descriptions conveyed by words and gestures, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
The recent audiovisual past affects speech processing via modulation of neural activity in auditory and visual regions, Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy
The role of hand and face movements in the biology of spoken language comprehension: A network approach, Neurocognition of Gesture Processing, Leipzig, Germany
Virtual brain transplantation: An approach for accurate registration and parcellation of brain injured patients, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy
2005
Common motor circuitry for audiovisual speech imitation and audiovisual speech perception, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada
Face to face social interaction and inferior frontal processing, Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA
Hearing lips: speech perception and a frontal neural system for motor simulation, Annual University of Chicago/Northwestern University Psychology Graduate Students Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA
Language-associated gesture modulates areas of the brain involved in action observation and language comprehension, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada
Lending a helping hand to hearing: The role of the cortical motor system in face-to-face communication, Cognitive Brown Bag in Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Neural correlates of emotional processing during the audiovisual presentation of stories, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada
The role of ventral premotor and primary motor cortex in audiovisual speech perception, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada
2004
Change deafness in a telephone conversation, Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Hearing lips and seeing voices in the brain – Motor mechanism of speech perception, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
Your brain says what it sees – Motor mechanisms of audiovisual speech perception, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Budapest, Hungry
2003
Face to face social interaction and inferior frontal processing, Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA
Sentence-level repetition priming as measured by brain activity is modulated by syntactic complexity and task demands, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York, NY, USA
Motor imagery – A novel perspective on the network organization of the motor system in the human brain, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York, NY, USA
Cortical activation associated with lexical tone acquisition, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, USA
2002
Speech perception and the inferior frontal neural system for motor imitation, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
2001
Language processing without motor processing is bilaterally symmetric, American Academy of Neurology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
On the non-independence of language subcomponents, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brighton, England