Our lab at the Neurobiology of Language conference! Lindsay is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP during conversational tutoring of abstract science concepts using metaphors, and Laura is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP of metaphor comprehension in healthy older adults. 💪#SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

My PhD student Laura Baiocco received the RaAM research award this year, to conduct research on metaphor comprehension in patients with primary progressive aphasia! Many congrats!

Our lab at #RaAM2025: Laura Baiocco talked about emotional dimensions of metaphors, Lindsay Krebs talked about student-produced metaphors and science concept learning, Cagatay Cora presented the neural correlates of visual metaphors. Thank the organizers Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social for a great time!

Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀

We will be presenting our work on "What does action do to object? The case of metaphoric action" led by Cora Cagatay and in collaboration with Rutvik Desai at #CogSci2025. P1-C-42 that's Poster session 1 from 1-2:15 pm on Thursday 7/31.

Excited to share our latest publication with @viclai.bsky.social on crosslinguistic differences in the relationship between aspectual systems and event conceptualization:
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✍️ #BCBLpaper in #BiologicalPsychology | Use of context in updating affective representations of #words in older adults.

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This was dissertation work done by a former PhD student Li-Chaun Ku who is currently a postdoc at BCBL
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New paper on emotional language and healthy aging! When reading words in sentences, older adults (OA) used emotional context to change positive words more, and younger adults (YA) used emotional context context to change negative words more.
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My latest installment of brain state modeling in creativity is out @ Psychophysiology! We found generating novel metaphors is associated with widespread alpha-band synchronization early on in ideation and, paradoxically, alpha-desynch right before response. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Check out our paper for intepretation and a bonus gamma-band effect. Big thanks to my creative-metaphor collaborators @viclai.bsky.social , Lindsay Krebs and Mark Beeman. If you want more metaphors-generation, learning outcome and insight, find it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper from our lab showed that reading emotional metaphors taxes on both more emotional and more semantic neural resources than reading emotional literal sentences.
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