CURRICULUM VITAE
Leonardo Fernandino PhD
Leonardo Fernandino PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Division of General
Department of Neurology
Division of General
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
Medical Education Building |
8701 Watertown Plank Rd |
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
EDUCATION: |
02/1997 - 07/2001 B.A., Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil |
08/2003 - 03/2005 M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
04/2005 - 11/2009 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS: |
11/2009 - 11/2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
11/2010 - 08/2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
07/01/2016 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin |
09/01/2019 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin |
12/01/2021 - Present Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The Medical College of Wisconsin |
CENTER/INSTITUTE AFFILIATIONS: |
Member, Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin |
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: |
07/01/2024 - Present Interim Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs & Development, Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin |
AWARDS AND HONORS: |
2000 - 2001 PIBIC Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science Council (CNPq), Brazil |
08/2001 - 06/2002 International Exchange Fellowship, UFMG, Brazil |
08/2003 - 06/2004 Distinguished Achievement Fellowship, UCLA |
07/2005 - 08/2005 Excellence in Research Award, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA |
07/2006 - 08/2006 Fellow, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan |
07/2006 - 08/2006 Psychology Summer Mentorship Research Award, UCLA |
08/2006 Fellow, Training Course in fMRI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
2007 Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, UC Santa Barbara |
08/2008 - 06/2009 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA |
04/02/2012 Postdoctoral Fellow Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society |
06/2015 Fellow, NITP Summer Program in Advanced fMRI, UCLA |
09/06/2015 Herder/Jan Wind Prize (£5,000), University of Oxford. (Best paper on embodied language and neuroscience) |
2019 Community of Innovators Award, Medical College of Wisconsin. “In recognition of his outstanding leadership in community engagement and education through the MCW BrainExpo.” |
MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: |
Cognitive Neuroscience Society |
Organization for Human Brain Mapping |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Society for the Neurobiology of Language |
Association for Psychological Science |
Society for Neuroscience |
EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS: |
Editorship |
02/21/2022 - 12/01/2023 Guest editor, Neuropsychologia |
Ad-Hoc Reviewer |
02/10/2023 Book proposal for Cambridge University Press |
Scientific Data |
Brain and Language |
Behavioral Brain Research |
Cortex |
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society |
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews |
Scientific Data |
Behavior Research Methods |
Royal Society Open Science |
Brain and Behavior |
Cognitive Neuropsychology |
Brain Structure and Function |
Cerebral Cortex |
Cognition |
Cognitive Processing |
Experimental Brain Research |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience |
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition |
Language, Cognition & Neuroscience |
Neuroimage |
Neuropsychologia |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) One |
Journal of Experimental Psychology - General |
Scientific Reports |
Neurobiology of Language |
LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS: |
07/01/2021 - Present Department representative, Faculty Council, Medical College of Wisconsin |
07/01/2024 - Present Chair, Diversity, Inclusion, and Wellness Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin |
07/01/2024 - Present Interim Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs & Development, MCW Department of Neurology |
07/01/2024 - Present Chair, Mentoring Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin |
INTERNATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS: |
01/01/2016 - 12/31/2018 Member, Communications Committee, Organization for Human Brain Mapping |
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INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
International |
ERP Studies of Compositional Semantics, Department of Germanic Linguistics Seminar, University of Marburg, Germany, 06/11/2010 |
Using ERP and fMRI to Study the Neural Substrates of Compositional Semantics, Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, 06/14/2010 |
FMRI Investigations Into the Representational Structure of Lexical Concepts, Department of Psychology Seminar, Stockholm University, Sweden, 10/13/2021 |
On the representational content and neuroanatomic architecture of conceptual knowledge, PICNIC Seminar, Institut du Cerveau – ICM, Paris, France, 03/22/2022 |
National |
Testing and Refining the Embodied Simulation Approach to Semantics, Cognitive Forum, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 11/01/2013 |
Local |
Investigating the Neural Code of Conceptual Representations, Department of Biophysics Graduate Seminar Series, Medical College of Wisconsin, 11/21/2014 |
Investigating the Neural Code for Conceptual Knowledge, Neurology Grand Rounds, Medical College of Wisconsin, 01/23/2015 |
How is Conceptual Knowledge Organized in the Brain?, Neurology Grand Rounds, Medical College of Wisconsin, 06/05/2020 |
Exploring the Neural Information Structure of Word Meaning, Neurology Grand Rounds, Medical College of Wisconsin, 01/20/2023 |
Exploring the Neural Representation of Conceptual Knowledge, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Medical College of Wisconsin, 06/12/2024 |
PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
International |
Fernandino, L., Conant, L., Binder, J.R., Blindauer, K., Hiner, B., Spangler, K., Desai, R.H., Parkinson's Disease Selectively Disrupts Processing of Action Verbs, 3rd Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD, 11/11/2011 |
Fernandino, L., Conant, L., Binder, J.R., Blindauer, K., Hiner, B., Spangler, K., Desai, R.H., Where Is the Action? Action Sentence Processing in Parkinson's Disease, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, 04/02/2012 |
Fernandino, L., Humphries, C., Seidenberg, M.S., Conant, L., Binder, J.R., Decoding Conceptual Information from Heteromodal Cortex, 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 10/19/2015 |
Fernandino L, Humphries C, Conant L, Binder JR, A Brain-Based Componential Model of Semantic Representation Predicts Semantic Priming, Roveretto Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects, Roveretto, Italy, 05/06/2016 |
Anderson A, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant L, Aguilar M, Wang X, Doko D, Raizada R, Predicting Neural Activity Patterns Associated With Sentences Using a Neurobiologically Motivated Model of Semantic Representation, 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, England, 08/18/2016 |
Binder JR, Pillay SB, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Book DS, Desai RH, Selective Action Verb Processing Deficits: Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping, 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, England, 08/18/2016 |
Fernandino, L., Humphries, C., Conant, L., Binder, J.R, An Experiential Attribute Model of Semantic Representation Predicts Semantic Priming, 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, England, 08/19/2016 |
Binder, JR, Meyerand M, Birn R, Conant LL, ..., Fernandino L, et al., Cortical Thickness Correlates of Social Cognition Abilities in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, American Academy of Neurology 69th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 04/24/2017 |
Anderson AJ, Lalor E, Fernandino L, Li V, Raizada RDS, Wang X, Commonalities in the neural encoding of sentence meaning across multiple modalities and widely distributed brain regions, 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD, 11/08/2017 |
Fernandino L, Humphries C, Conant LL, Binder JR, Using fMRI to evaluate embodied, taxonomic and distributional models of word meaning, 24th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Singapore, 06/18/2018 |
Kalmus T, Conant L, Humphries C, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Do experiential semantic features predict automatic semantic priming in verbs?, 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebec City, Canada, 08/16/2018 |
Fernandino L, Conant LL, Humphries C, Binder JR, Evaluating experiential models of word semantics relative to distributional and taxonomic models, 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebec City, Canada, 08/17/2018 |
Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries C, Conant LL, Kiela D, Raizada R, Lin F, Lalor E, An integrated neural decoder of experiential and linguistic meaning, 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebec City, Canada, 08/17/2018 |
Pillay, S.B., Tong, J, Gross, W.L., Mueller, W.M., Raghavan, M., Swanson, S.J., Conant, L.L., Allen, L., Anderson, C.T., Carlson, C., Fernandino, L., Humphries, C.J., Schwartz, L., Busch, R.M., Lowe, M., Langfitt, J.T., Trivarus, M., Drane, D.L., Loring, D.W., Jacobs, M., Morgan, V., Szaflarski, J.P., Bonilha, L., Binder, J.R., Anterior temporal lobe regions critical for picture naming: Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping in patients undergoing left temporal lobe resections, 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland, 08/20/2019 |
Tong JQ, Fernandino L, Humphries C, Conant LL, Heffernan J, Binder JR, Mapping Multimodal Convergence Zones Using Representational Similarity Analysis and a High-Dimensional Grounded Model of Conceptual Content, 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland, 08/20/2019 |
Binder, J.R., Pillay, S.B., Tong, J, Gross, W.L., Mueller, W.M., Raghavan, M., Conant, L.L., Allen, L., Anderson, C.T., Carlson, C., Humphries, C.J., Fernandino, L., Schwartz, L., Busch, R.M., Lowe, M., Langfitt, J.T., Tivarus, M., Drane, D.L., Loring, D.W., Jacobs, M., Morgan, V., Szaflarski, J.P., Bonilha, L., Swanson, S.J, Anterior temporal lobe regions necessary for naming individuals: Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping in patients undergoing left temporal lobe resections, 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland, 08/20/2019 |
Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Humphries C, Conant LL, Binder JR, fMRI Representational Similarity Analysis Reveals the Information Structure Underlying Word Semantics, 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland, 08/21/2019 |
Tong JQ, Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Humphries C, Conant, LL, Binder JR, Temporoparietal Specialization for Event Knowledge Demonstrated by Multivoxel Pattern Classification and Representational Similarity Analysis, 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Virtual conference, 10/22/2020 |
Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Humphries C, Conant L, Binder JR, The cortical representation of body part concepts, 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Virtual conference, 10/05/2021 |
Tong JQ, Binder JR, Mazurchuk S, Humphries C, Conant LL, Fernandino L, Event-associated experiential features are involved in event representation at brain regions preferentially representing event concepts, 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Virtual conference, 10/05/2021 |
Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Humphries C, Conant LL, Binder JR, Searchlight RSA using multiple representational models reveals the detailed structure of the semantic system, 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Virtual conference, 10/05/2021 |
Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Binder JR, The angular gyrus is definitely involved in semantic word processing, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics “Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward II”, Virtual conference, 03/16/2022 |
Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Binder JR, Experiential features outperform taxonomic and distributional models in predicting neuroimaging and behavioral data, 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 04/24/2022 |
Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Binder JR, An Experiential Basis for Posterior Middle Temporal Gyrus Body Part Concept Representation, 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 04/26/2022 |
Tong JQ, Fernandino L, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Binder JR, A Common Neural Mechanism Underlying Object and Event Concept Representation, 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 04/26/2022 |
Gross, W.L., Fernandino, L., Conant, L.L., Krucoff, M.O., Mueller, W.M., Raghavan, M., Binder, J.R., Electrocortical activity during semantic retrieval is modulated by feature modality, 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Glasgow, Scotland, 06/19/2022 |
Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Binder JR, Activation of Speech, Taste, and Visual Scene Experiential Content During Concept Retrieval, 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, PA, 10/07/2022 |
Tong JQ, Fernandino L, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Binder JR, Category-specific representation of animal, food, tool, and vehicle concepts in the brain, 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, PA, 10/07/2022 |
Mazurchuk, S., Conant, L.L., Binder, J.R., Fernandino, L., Artifact concepts are more reliably represented than animal concepts across the cortex., 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France, 10/2023 |
Gross, W., Krucoff, M., Fernandino, L., Binder, J.R., Toward an implanted language neuroprosthesis for severe aphasia, 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France, 10/2023 |
Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Gross W, Rey H, Decoding personal mental images with an fMRI model of general semantic features, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, South Korea, 06/24/2024 |
Tong JQ, Fernandino L, Experiential information drives the neural decoding of word meaning in models based on word association, Highlights in the Language Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 07/11/2024 |
Anderson, AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Gross W, Rey H, Decoding personal mental images with an fMRI model of general semantic features, Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 07/12/2024 |
Fernandino L, Revealing the Information Content of Conceptual Representation Using Neuroimaging and Behavior, Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 11/23/2024 |
Regional |
Gupta A, Fernandino L, Developing functional localizer tasks for specific sensory-motor features, Midwest Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium in Neuroscience, Green Bay, WI, 10/21/2023 |
Fernandino, L, Unraveling the neural representation of word meaning using high-resolution functional neuroimaging, WiSER Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 10/05/2024 |
Mahajan A, Tong JQ, Fernandino L, Evaluating the effects of orthographic and phonological features on representational similarity analyses of word meanings and fMRI data, WiSER Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 10/11/2024 |
Local |
Tong JQ, Mazurchuk S, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Explicit experiential features outperform association norms in semantic decoding of brain activation, Milwaukee Neuroscience Research Retreat, Milwaukee, WI, 04/11/2024 |
Fernandino L, Investigating the Neural Representation of Concepts, Milwaukee Neuroscience Research Retreat, Milwaukee, WI, 04/11/2024 |
COMMITTEE SERVICE: |
Medical College of Wisconsin |
08/01/2017 - Present Member, Departmental Website Committee, Neurology, MCW |
08/07/2022 - Present Member, Curriculum & Programs Committee, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, MCW |
07/01/2024 - Present Chair, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Wellness Committee, Neurology, MCW |
07/01/2024 - Present Chair, Mentoring Committee, Neurology, MCW |
MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES: |
Medical Student Education |
10/18/2022 - Present Instructor - Patient-Based Discussion (0.15 FTE) |
Graduate Student Education |
03/30/2021 - 05/30/2021 Co-instructor - INBS 16277 Cognitive Neuroscience |
03/28/2023 - 05/04/2023 Co-instructor - INBS 16277 Cognitive Neuroscience |
01/09/2024 - 04/30/2024 Course Director, Biophysics MRI Journal Club |
02/18/2025 - 05/08/2025 Course Director - INBS 16277 Cognitive Neuroscience |
Resident and Fellow Education |
11/18/2016 Lecture on principles of functional MRI |
MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED: |
Medical Students |
05/15/2019 - 08/15/2019 Shana Snarrenberg, Summer research project, Medical College of Wisconsin, Data analysis pipeline in Python |
12/20/2023 - 05/21/2024 Arantxa Sanchez, Scholarly pathway advisor, Medical College of Wisconsin |
Graduate Students |
PhD Students Advised |
06/01/2017 - 09/27/2022 Jia-Qing (Tony) Tong, An Embodiment Account of Event Concept Representation in the Brain, Medical College of Wisconsin, PhD dissertation |
07/01/2019 - 05/24/2024 Stephen Mazurchuk, An Experiential Account of Semantic Category Organization in the Brain, Medical College of Wisconsin, PhD dissertation |
Clinical/Research Fellows |
01/2023 - Present Jia-Qing Tong, Postdoctoral research advisor, Medical College of Wisconsin |
EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS, AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED: |
High School Students |
06/2013 - 08/2013 A. Murali, Research internship, Shorewood High School |
05/01/2023 - 08/14/2024 A. Gupta, Research internship, Arrowhead High School, Gupta, A., Fernandino, L. (2023). Developing functional localizer tasks for specific sensory-motor features. Midwest Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium in Neuroscience, Green Bay, WI. |
Undergraduate Students |
03/2006 - 06/2006 N. Okamoto, Research internship, UCLA, Data collection |
03/2007 - 12/2007 T. Abaryan, Research internship, UCLA, EEG data collection |
01/2008 - 10/2009 A. Cho, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
03/2008 - 06/2008 T. Shevavesh, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
03/2008 - 06/2008 F. Rahmani, Research internship, UCLA, EEG data collection |
03/2008 - 06/2008 R. Veliz, Research internship, UCLA, Data collection |
03/2008 - 06/2008 F. Basson, Research internship, UCLA, EEG data collection |
04/2008 - 06/2009 H. Schwimmer, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
06/2008 - 08/2008 E. Garcia, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
09/2008 - 11/2008 Y. R. Kang, Research internship, UCLA, Data collection |
09/2008 - 06/2009 M. Frias, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
10/2008 - 06/2009 M. Lyseight, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
11/2008 - 01/2009 E. Tong, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
01/2009 - 08/2009 E. Huang, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
03/2009 - 06/2009 J. Dickenson, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
03/2009 - 06/2009 A. Robin, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
06/2009 - 08/2009 D. Garcia, Research internship, UCLA, Poster presentation |
08/2016 - 07/2018 Taylor Kalmus, Research internship, Carrol University, Kalmus, T., Conant, L., Humphries, C., Binder, J., and Fernandino, L. (2018). Do experiential semantic features predict automatic semantic priming in verbs? Presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Quebec City, Canada. |
02/2017 - 08/2017 D. Ramirez, Research internship, Marquette University, Final report |
02/2017 - 08/2017 Kaitlyn Weber, Research internship, Marquette University, Final report |
06/2017 - 08/2017 T. Chang, Research mentor, Marquette University, Final report |
06/24/2024 - 08/15/2024 Arnav Mahajan, Summer research project, UW Madison, Mahajan A, Tong JQ, Fernandino L (2024) Evaluating the effects of orthographic and phonological features on representational similarity analyses of word meanings and fMRI data. Selected for presentation at the WiSER Conference, Milwaukee, WI. |
COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES: |
10/2012 - 01/2013 Science fair mentor to students at St. Matthias Parish School |
11/2013 - 01/2014 Science fair mentor to students at St. Matthias Parish School |
12/2015 - 04/2016 Science fair mentor to students at Wauwatosa STEM School |
08/2016 - 05/2017 Lead organizer, Silver Spring Neighborhood Center Science Club |
01/2017 - 04/2017 Science fair mentor to students at Wauwatosa STEM School |
12/2017 - 03/2018 Creator and Lead organizer, MCW BrainExpo 2018 |
09/2018 - 03/2019 Lead organizer, MCW BrainExpo 2019 |
01/2023 - 03/2023 Lead organizer, MCW BrainExpo 2023 |
02/13/2023 Presentation on the neuroscience of language, Sugar Maple (Bayview), Underground Science Society |
03/10/2023 Lecture on the principles of neuroscience at MCW BrainExpo 2023 |
05/18/2023 Presentation on brain development and memory, Pureal Ministries (2122 N Halyard St), CTSI Science Café |
09/2023 - 10/2023 Lead organizer, Wisconsin Science Festival event at the Medical College of Wisconsin |
10/16/2023 Presentation "The Brain’s Default Network
Why is it such a hot topic in neuroscience?", Wisconsin Science Festival, Medical College of Wisconsin |
10/2023 - 04/2024 Lead organizer, MCW BrainExpo 2024 |
04/06/2024 Presentation on the principles of neuroscience, MCW BrainExpo 2024 |
GRANT/FELLOWSHIP REVIEWS: |
10/2017 - 10/2917 Reviewer, Traditional Pilot Awards, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) |
02/2018 Ad hoc reviewer, research grant application, Israel Science Foundation |
05/08/2023 Ad hoc reviewer, Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) National Fellowship Program (https://www.gwis.org). |
04/18/2024 - 06/24/2024 Reviewer (temporary member), Language and Communication (LCOM) study section, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
INVITED MEDIA APPEARANCES: |
Regional |
Leonardo Fernandino, Exploring how the mind processes language, objects and sensory information, The Morning Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, 03/17/2022 |
Local |
Leonardo Fernandino, BrainExpo, Wakeup News, Fox 6 Channel, 04/06/2024 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers |
1. Fernandino L, Iacoboni M, Zaidel E. The effects of bilateral presentations on lateralized lexical decision. Brain Cogn. 2007 Jun;64(1):60-7. |
2. Fernandino L, Iacoboni M. Are cortical motor maps based on body parts or coordinated actions? Implications for embodied semantics. Brain Lang. 2010 Jan;112(1):44-53. |
3. Cho S, Moody TD, Fernandino L, Mumford JA, Poldrack RA, Cannon TD, Knowlton BJ, Holyoak KJ. Common and dissociable prefrontal loci associated with component mechanisms of analogical reasoning. Cereb Cortex. 2010 Mar;20(3):524-33. |
4. Fernandino L, Conant LL, Binder JR, Blindauer K, Hiner B, Spangler K, Desai RH. Parkinson's disease disrupts both automatic and controlled processing of action verbs. Brain Lang. 2013 Oct;127(1):65-74. PMCID: PMC3574625 |
5. Fernandino L, Conant LL, Binder JR, Blindauer K, Hiner B, Spangler K, Desai RH. Where is the action? Action sentence processing in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia. 2013 Jul;51(8):1510-7. PMCID: PMC3731159 |
6. Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Seidenberg MS, Gross WL, Conant LL, Binder JR. Predicting brain activation patterns associated with individual lexical concepts based on five sensory-motor attributes. Neuropsychologia. 2015 Sep;76:17-26. PMCID: PMC4638171 |
7. Fernandino L, Binder JR, Desai RH, Pendl SL, Humphries CJ, Gross WL, Conant LL, Seidenberg MS. Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics. Cereb Cortex. 2016 May;26(5):2018-34. PMCID: PMC4830284 |
8. Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Seidenberg MS, Binder JR. Heteromodal Cortical Areas Encode Sensory-Motor Features of Word Meaning. J Neurosci. 2016 Sep 21;36(38):9763-9. PMCID: PMC5030346 |
9. Binder JR, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Fernandino L, Simons SB, Aguilar M, Desai RH. Toward a brain-based componential semantic representation. Cogn Neuropsychol. 2016;33(3-4):130-74. |
10. Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Aguilar M, Wang X, Doko D, Raizada RDS. Predicting Neural Activity Patterns Associated with Sentences Using a Neurobiologically Motivated Model of Semantic Representation. Cereb Cortex. 2017 Sep 01;27(9):4379-4395. |
11. Anderson AJ, Lalor EC, Lin F, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Wang X. Multiple Regions of a Cortical Network Commonly Encode the Meaning of Words in Multiple Grammatical Positions of Read Sentences. Cereb Cortex. 2019 Jun 01;29(6):2396-2411. |
12. Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Lin F, Lalor EC. An Integrated Neural Decoder of Linguistic and Experiential Meaning. J Neurosci. 2019 Nov 06;39(45):8969-8987. PMCID: PMC6832686 |
13. Anderson AJ, Kiela D, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Lalor EC. Deep Artificial Neural Networks Reveal a Distributed Cortical Network Encoding Propositional Sentence-Level Meaning. J Neurosci. 2021 May 05;41(18):4100-4119. PMCID: PMC8176751 |
14. Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Binder JR. Decoding the information structure underlying the neural representation of concepts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Feb 08;119(6). PMCID: PMC8832989 |
15. Tong J, Binder JR, Humphries C, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Fernandino L. A Distributed Network for Multimodal Experiential Representation of Concepts. J Neurosci. 2022 Sep 14;42(37):7121-7130. PMCID: PMC9480893 |
16. Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Tong JQ, Binder JR, Fernandino L. Stimulus repetition and sample size considerations in item-level representational similarity analysis. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 2023: 1-12. |
17. Uddin LQ, Fernandino L, Neta M, Greene DJ, Mooshagian E. Hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction - From perception to consciousness: Introduction to a special issue in honor of Eran Zaidel (1944-2021). Neuropsychologia. 2023 Dec 15;191:108725. |
18. Fernandino L, Binder JR. How does the "default mode" network contribute to semantic cognition? Brain Lang. 2024 May;252:105405. PMCID: PMC11135161 |
19. Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Binder JR. The neural representation of body part concepts. Cereb Cortex. 2024 Jun 04;34(6). PMCID: PMC11166504 |
20. Fernandino L, Conant LL. The primacy of experience in language processing: Semantic priming is driven primarily by experiential similarity. Neuropsychologia. 2024 Aug 13;201:108939. PMCID: PMC11326522 |
21. Tong J, Binder JR, Conant LL, Mazurchuk S, Anderson AJ, Fernandino L (submitted). A common representational code for object and event concepts. |
22. Reilly J., Shain C., Borghesani V., Kuhnke P., Vigliocco G., Peelle J. E., Mahon B. Z., Buxbaum L. J., Majid A., Brysbaert M., Borghi A. M., Deyne S. D., Dove G., Papeo L., Pexman P. M., Poeppel D., Lupyan G., Boggio P., Hickok G., Gwilliams L, Fernandino L, … Vinson D. (2024). What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1–38. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02556-7 |
Books, Chapters, and Reviews |
1. Binder, JR, Fernandino, L. Semantic processing. In Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, Toga, AW, ed. 2015. Elsevier/Academic Press, Netherlands. |
2. Binder, JR, Fernandino, L. Neural processing of word meaning. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences VI, Poeppel D, Mangun GR, Gazzaniga MS, eds. 2020. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. |
3. Fernandino L, Binder JR. Concept representation. In: Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd Edition, Grafman J, ed. 2024, Sep 16. Elsevier, London. |
4. Fernandino L, Binder, JR. Semantic Memory. In: Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 3rd edition. Wixted J, ed. In press. Elsevier/Academic Press, Amsterdam. |
5. Reilly J, Shain C, Borghesani V, Kuhnke P, Vigliocco G, Peelle JE, Mahon BZ, Buxbaum LJ, Majid A, Brysbaert M, Borghi AM, De Deyne S, Dove G, Papeo L, Pexman PM, Poeppel D, Lupyan G, Boggio P, Hickok G, Gwilliams L, Fernandino L, Mirman D, Chrysikou EG, Sandberg CW, Crutch SJ, Pylkkänen L, Yee E, Jackson RL, Rodd JM, Bedny M, Connell L, Kiefer M, Kemmerer D, de Zubicaray G, Jefferies E, Lynott D, Siew CSQ, Desai RH, McRae K, Diaz MT, Bolognesi M, Fedorenko E, Kiran S, Montefinese M, Binder JR, Yap MJ, Hartwigsen G, Cantlon J, Bi Y, Hoffman P, Garcea FE, Vinson D. What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychon Bull Rev. 2024 Sep 04. |
6. Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Tong JQ, Binder JR, Fernandino L. Stimulus Repetition and Sample Size Considerations in Item-Level Representational Similarity Analysis. Lang Cogn Neurosci. 2024;39(9):1161-1172. PMCID: PMC11544752 |
