Presentations
2023
2022
Cooper, G. (2022). Understanding Neuroplasticity Induced by Tryptamines, Talk given at Drug Science, Medical Psychedelics Working Group, Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK.
Kirk, P. A., Holmes, A. J., Skipper, J. I., & Robinson, O. J. (2022). Can Naturalistic fMRI Widen Our Understanding of Anxiety? Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland.
Lametti, D. R., Vaillancourt, G., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). Visuomotor adaptation of co-speech hand movements is partially tied to speech production. Paper presented at The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Halifax, Canada.
2021
Glotfelty, A., Skipper, J. I., Aliko, S., & Small, S. L. (2021). Unique features of brain processing of expletives in naturalistic context. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2021), Virtual/International.
Skipper, J. I. (2021). Aphantasia and its relationship to the neurobiology of language, inner speech, and consciousness, Talk given at the Aphantasia Network and the Extreme Imagination conference, Virtual/International.
Wang, B., Aliko, S., & Skipper, J. I. (2021). Co-speech gestures impact the whole-brain distribution of brain regions involved in the semantic representation of words. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2020
Skipper, J. I. (2020). How and why do auditory and motor systems interact? Talk given at Coghear, Google and Stanford University, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2020). Speech perception under the tent: A domain-general predictive role for the cerebellum, Talk given at Western University, Canada and University of California, Berkeley, USA.
2019
Aliko, S., Gheorghiu, F., & Skipper, J. I. (2019). The network architecture for natural language in the brain is not fixed. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2019), Helsinki, Finland.
Lamett, D. R., Bobbit, S., & Skipper, J. I. (2019). Distinct Speech Production and Speech Perception Regions in the Human Cerebellum: A Neuroimaging Meta-Analyses. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2019), Helsinki, Finland.
Johnston, A., Scholes, C., & Skipper, J. I. (2019). The relationship between facial speech cues and vocal tract configuration. Paper presented at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.
2018
Skipper, J. I. (2018). A core speech circuit between primary motor, somatosensory, and auditory cortex: Evidence from connectivity and genetic descriptions, Talk given at the SCALab, Perceptuo-Motor Relationships in Speech Communication Workshop, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Skipper, J. I. (2018). Brain reorganization in anticipation of predictable words, Talk given at the 1st Workshop on Predictive Processing, Symposium on ‘Prediction, Language and the Motor System’, San Sebastian, Spain.
Skipper, J. I. (2018). Is there a fixed organization of language and the brain?, New directions in language and action research: Implications for theory and treatment, Talk given at University College London and the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI), London, UK.
Pinto-Orellana, M. A., Ting, C-M., Skipper, J. I., Small, S. L., Ombao, H. (2018). Switching Regimes: Time Series Models with Application to Changes Brain Connectivity in an fMRI-Movie Experiment. Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Scholes, C., Brown, B., Skipper, J. I., & Johnston, A. (2018). Visual Aid for Hearing Aids Results. Paper presented at ARCHES (Audiological Research Cores in Europe), Nottingham, UK.
2017
Skipper, J. I. (2017). A core speech circuit between primary motor, somatosensory, and auditory cortex: Evidence from connectivity and genetic descriptions, Talk given at the SCALab, Université de Lille, Lille, France.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). A speech core: Evidence from structural and functional corticocortical connectivity and genetic phenotyping, Talk given at the Center for Research in Language, University of California San Diego, California, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). Complexity matters only when it matters: Pronominal object and event reference rapidly access different aspects of situation models, Talk given at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Lancaster, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). Talk given at the Language and Big Data Workshop, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). Languages’ transmogrifier: How motor cortex helps us hear, Talk given at the Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). Talk given at the Moss Science Hour, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Pennsylvania, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). Neuroscience and Film, Talk given at the New Approaches to Latin American Film Colloquium, University College London, London, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). Primary motor and auditory cortex form a structurally and functionally connected circuit for speech, Talk given at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar, University College London, London, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2017). Understanding the network organization of communication and the brain using TV and film, Talk given at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Vienna, Austria.
2016
Skipper, J. I. (2016). Do inconsistencies between UCL’s environmental policy and actions influence intentions to engage in pro-environmental behaviours?, Talk given at the Conference Day on Sustainability: Systemic Change from the Individual to the Globe, UCLU Green Economy Society, University College London, London, UK.
2015
Skipper, J. I. (2015). Context is all: There is no fixed organization of language and the brain, Talk given at the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, Towards a Neurobiology of Language Symposium, Turin, Italy.
Skipper, J. I. (2015). Context is all: There is no fixed organization of language and the brain. Language in Context: An Ecological Turn in Embodied Language, Talk given at the European Psychological Society Workshop, London, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2015). Echoes of the spoken past: How the brain ‘hears’ nonverbal context during spoken language comprehension. Talk given at the ‘The Social Life of Voices’ symposium, British Neuroscience Association, Festival of Neuroscience, Edinburgh, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2015). Interdisciplinary language research from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Talk given at the Reappraising the role of linear structure in language workshop. Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Skipper, J. I. (2015). Talk given at the Big questions in cognitive science workshop. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2015). The natural organization of language and the brain. Talk given at The School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2015). Towards a neurobiology of conversation: Social interactive alignment as context for language understanding. Talk given at the Language Group, Wellcome Trust Centre For Neuroimaging, University College London, UK.
Skipper, J. I. (2015). Towards a neurobiology of natural language use. Talk given at the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, Birkbeck, Institute of Education, and University College London, UK.
2014
2013
Skipper, J. I. (2013). Understanding the natural organization of language and the brain, Talk given at the Autumn school Methods in Language Comprehension, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
2012
2011
Jampol, L. E., Skipper, J. I., & Gilovich, T. (2011). Embodied language and decision making. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
2010
Skipper, J. I. & Zevin, J. D. (2010). How the brain predicts forthcoming words during sentence listening. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada.
2009
Liu, R., Skipper, J. I., McCandliss, B. D., & Zevin, J. D. (2009). Neural activity underlying passive perception of native vs. non-native contrasts. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2009). Context and the role of the predictive brain in real-world communication, Talk given at the Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2009). The role of context and the predictive brain during real-world communication, Talk given at the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior (CSBMB), Princeton University, Princeton, NY, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2009). So you think your brain is smarter than a 5th grader?, Talk given at the Annual Winter Conference on Current Issues in Developmental Psychobiology, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USA.
Skipper, J. I., Liu, R., McCandliss, B. D., & Zevin, J. D. (2009). The brain uses co-speech gestures to set the context for speech understanding. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Skipper, J. I. & Sebanz, N. (2009). Dynamic functional reorganization of the brain when observed individual actions become joint actions. Paper presented at the Joint Action Meeting (JAM3), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Skipper, J. I. & Zevin, J. D. (2009). The neurobiology of communication in natural settings. Paper presented at the first Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC2009), Chicago, IL, USA.
Zevin, J. D., Yang, J., Skipper, J. I., & McCandliss, B. D. (2009). Responses to two types of behaviorally relevant variability in speech in a passive fMRI paradigm. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
2008
Jones, R. M., Zevin, J. D., Skipper, J. I., Casey, B. J. & Tottenham, N. (2008). The neural mosaics of face sensitivity across development: a multivariate approach. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2008). Improving the analysis, storage and sharing of neuroimaging data using R, MySQL, and distributed computing, Talk given at the Sackler Science Meeting, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2008). Two scientists and a cup: How the brain keeps track of each actor during joint action, Talk given at the Cognitive Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Skipper, J. I., Dobryakova, E., & Sebanz, N. (2008). Observing joint actions: the brain keeps tabs on each actor’s movements in segregated processing streams. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Skipper, J. I., Dobryakova, E., & Sebanz, N. (2008). Observing multiple people acting: Separability of cortical processing streams associated with each person’s actions. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Melbourne, Australia.
Zevin, J. D., Ferri, J. M., Skipper, J. I., & McCandliss, B. D. (2008). Change detection to speech sounds in the auditory dorsal stream. Slide presentation presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, USA.
Zevin, J. D. , Ferri, J. M., Skipper, J. I. & McCandliss, B. D. (2008). Supramarginal and angular gyri respond to acoustic changes that are also phonetic but not because of habituation to phoneme identity. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
2007
Chen, E. E., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2007). Revealing tuning functions with brain imaging data using a peak fit analysis. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, USA.
Hlustik, P., Opavsky, J., Mayer, M., Bezdekova, D., Skipper, J. I., Solodkin, A., Small, S. L. Kocher, M., & Kanovsky, P. (2007). Emotional speech modulates network activation during hand movement by stroke patients. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2007). Gestures in the brain’s language, Talk given at the International Society for Gesture Studies, panel on Neurocognition of gesture, Chicago, IL, USA.
Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Observed iconic and metaphoric speech-associated gestures are processed differently by ventral and dorsal premotor cortex. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, USA.
2006
Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). The recent audiovisual past affects speech processing via modulation of neural activity in auditory and visual regions. Paper presented at the Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy.
Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). How is audiovisual speech processing affected by the recent audiovisual past? An fMRI study. Paper presented at the International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, USA.
Josse, G., Skipper, J. I., Chen, E. E., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). Meaningful mouth and hand movements play a role in language comprehension: Evidence from fMRI. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
Liang, J., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2006). Increased brain activity in the observation-execution matching system for animated versus real faces during audiovisual speech perception. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
Skipper, J. I. (2006). Gestures in the brain’s language, Talk given at the Fall Psychology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2006). Hearing lips and seeing voices: How cortical areas supporting speech production mediate audiovisual speech perception, Talk given at Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2006). Lending a helping hand to hearing: The role of the cortical motor system in face-to-face communication, Talk given at the Embodied Communication, Joint Action, Social Understanding workshop, ZiF, Universitat Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Skipper, J. I. (2006). Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca’s area and the language mirror system, Talk given at the Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy.
Skipper, J. I. (2006). The cortical motor system simulates action descriptions conveyed by words and gestures, Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca’s area and the language mirror system. Paper presented at the Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy.
Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). Neurophysiological networks for extracting meaning from hand and face movements relevant to spoken language comprehension. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). The role of hand and face movements in the biology of spoken language comprehension: A network approach. Paper presented at Neurocognition of Gesture Processing, Leipzig, Germany.
Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., Josse, G., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). The cortical motor system simulates action descriptions conveyed by words and gestures. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Wier, H. Y., Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Raja, A., & Small, S. L. (2006). Virtual brain transplantation: An approach for accurate registration and parcellation of brain injured patients. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
2005
Josse, G., Suriyakham, L. W., Skipper, J. I., Levine, S. C., Goldin-Meadow, S., Huttenlocher, P., et al. (2005). Language-associated gesture modulates areas of the brain involved in action observation and language comprehension. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.
Skipper, J. I. (2005). Lending a helping hand to hearing: The role of the cortical motor system in face-to-face communication, Talk given at the Cognitive Brown Bag in Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2005). Face to face social interaction and inferior frontal processing, Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
Skipper, J. I. (2005). Hearing lips: speech perception and a frontal neural system for motor simulation, Talk given at the Annual University of Chicago/Northwestern University Psychology Graduate Students Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA.
Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., van Wassenhove, V., Barber, C., Chen, E. E., & Small, S. L. (2005). The role of ventral premotor and primary motor cortex in audiovisual speech perception. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.
Skipper, J. I., Wymbs, N. F., Lobo, N., Cherney, L. R., & Small, S. L. (2005). Common motor circuitry for audiovisual speech imitation and audiovisual speech perception. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.
2004
Fenn, K. M., Atkins, A. S., Skipper, J. I., Bond, V., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2004). Change deafness in a telephone conversation. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
2003
Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2003). Face to face social interaction and inferior frontal processing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
Solodkin, A., Hlustik, P., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2003). Motor imagery: A novel perspective on the network organization of the motor system in the human brain. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York, NY, USA.
Wong, P. C. M., Nusbaum, H. C., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2003). Cortical activation associated with lexical tone acquisition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, USA.