Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department:
Psychology
Keywords:
Language, Semantic Memory, Functional MRI (fMRI)
Interests:
My research is concerned with the processes of semantic cognition – i.e., the ways in which we (a) maintain a store of conceptual knowledge about objects, words and people and (b) use executive control processes to access this information in a flexible, task-appropriate manner. I explore this using a variety of techniques, including:
Case-series neuropsychological investigations, primarily of patients with semantic dementia and semantic deficits following stroke
Computational linguistic analyses (e.g., latent semantic analysis)
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy subjects
Functional neuroimaging studies
Connectionist computational models