Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Talking Brains Down Under

Greig de Zubicaray's comment on our new survey feature reminded me to highlight the nice body of brain-language fMRI work coming from Down Under. Greig and colleagues at the University of Queensland have been pumping out an impressive number of very cool papers on lexical processing both in perception and production. The work is thoughtful, and psycholinguistically informed. A few sample citations are below. Their work is definitely worth paying attention to.
Copland DA, de Zubicaray GI, McMahon K, Eastburn M.
Neural correlates of semantic priming for ambiguous words:
an event-related fMRI study. Brain Res. 2007 Feb 2;1131(1):163-72.

de Zubicaray G, McMahon K, Eastburn M, Pringle A, Lorenz L.
Classic identity negative priming involves accessing
semantic representations in the left anterior temporal cortex.
Neuroimage. 2006 Oct 15;33(1):383-90.

de Zubicaray G, McMahon K, Eastburn M, Pringle A.
Top-down influences on lexical selection during spoken
word production: A 4T fMRI investigation of refractory
effects in picture naming.
Hum Brain Mapp. 2006 Nov;27(11):864-73.

Copland DA, de Zubicaray GI, McMahon K, Wilson SJ,
Eastburn M, Chenery HJ.
Brain activity during automatic semantic priming revealed
by event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Neuroimage. 2003 Sep;20(1):302-10.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks very much for the kind words, Greg. Rest assured we spend quite a bit of time discussing your and David's work in the lab and seem to have become addicted to your blog too. I forgot to mention in my last post that we've also investigated whether Iacoboni and colleagues' human mirror neuron system (MNS) for hand/finger movements (Broca's area, IPL, posterior STS) shows preferential activity during perception of hand action words. Results much the same as our somatotopy study. Abstract just submitted to the CNS meeting.