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, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
07/2016 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, MEB 4671, Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
09/2019 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, MEB 4671, Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
12/2021 - Present Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
AWARDS AND HONORS: |
2000 - 2001 PIBIC 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 ($500), Cognitive Neuroscience Society |
06/2015 Fellow, NITP Summer Program in Advanced fMRI, UCLA |
09/06/2015 Herder/Jan Wind Prize (£5, 000). Theme: Embodied Language and Neuroscience |
2019 Community of Innovators, Medical College of Wisconsin |
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 of special issue for the journal Neuropsychologia |
Ad-Hoc Reviewer |
09/19/2022 Peer review, Journal of Experimental Psychology - General |
11/10/2022 Peer review, Scientific Data |
11/13/2022 Peer review, Neurobiology of Language |
02/10/2023 Review of a book proposal for Cambridge University Press |
05/15/2023 Peer review, Brain and Language |
LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS: |
07/01/2021 - Present Department representative, Faculty Council, 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: |
Local |
Leonardo Fernandino, The Neural Basis of Semantic Representation and Composition, UCLA Brain Mapping Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, 05/28/2009 |
Leonardo Fernandino, Testing and Refining the Embodied Simulation Approach to Semantics, Cognitive Forum, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 11/01/2013 |
Leonardo Fernandino, Investigating the Neural Code of Conceptual Representations, Department of Biophysics Graduate Seminar Series, Medical College of Wisconsin, 11/21/2014 |
International |
Leonardo Fernandino, ERP Studies of Compositional Semantics, Department of Germanic Linguistics Seminar, University of Marburg, Germany, 06/11/2010 |
Leonardo Fernandino, On the representational content and neuroanatomic architecture of conceptual knowledge, PICNIC Seminar, Institut du Cerveau – ICM, Paris, France, 03/22/2022 |
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, 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, 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, 10/19/2015 |
L. Fernandino, J. Tong, S. Mazurchuk, L. Conant, J. Binder, 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 |
J.-Q. Tong, L. Fernandino, S. Mazurchuk, L.L. Conant, J.R. Binder, A Common Neural Mechanism Underlying Object and Event Concept Representation, 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 04/26/2022 |
Stephen Mazurchuk, Leonardo Fernandino, Jia-Qing Tong, Lisa L Conant, Jeffrey R Binder, 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 |
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 |
Stephen Mazurchuk, Leonardo Fernandino, Jia-Qing Tong, Lisa L Conant, Jeffrey R Binder, Activation of Speech, Taste, and Visual Scene Experiential Content During Concept Retrieval, 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, PA, 10/07/2022 |
Jiaqing Tong, Leonardo Fernandino, Stephen Mazurchuk, Lisa L. Conant, Jeffrey R. Binder, Category-specific representation of animal, food, tool, and vehicle concepts in the brain, 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, 10/07/2022 |
COMMITTEE SERVICE: |
Medical College of Wisconsin |
08/01/2017 - Present Member, Departmental Website Committee, Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin |
08/07/2022 - Present Member, Curriculum & Programs Committee, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin |
MEDICAL COLLEGE TEACHING ACTIVITIES: |
Medical Student Education |
10/18/2022 Patient-Based Discussion facilitator |
Resident and Fellow Education |
11/18/2016 Lecture on principles of functional MRI |
Continuing Medical Education |
01/20/2023 Neurology Grand Rounds presentation |
Graduate Student Education |
03/30/2021 - 05/30/2021 Co-instructor - Course 16277 Cognitive Neuroscience |
03/28/2023 - 05/04/2023 Co-instructor for INBS 16277 Cognitive Neuroscience. Three lectures, 2 exams. |
MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED: |
Medical Students |
Shana Snarrenberg, Medical College of Wisconsin, 05/15/2019 - 08/15/2019 MD/PhD summer research rotation, Data analysis pipeline in Python |
Graduate Students |
PhD Students Advised |
Jia-Qing (Tony) Tong, Medical College of Wisconsin, 06/01/2017 - 09/27/2022 |
Stephen Mazurchuk, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2019 - Present |
EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS, AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED: |
High School Students |
A. Murali, Shorewood High School, 06/2013 - 08/2013 (Research mentor) |
Undergraduate Students |
T. Abaryan, UCLA, 03/2007 - 12/2007 (Research mentor) |
A. Cho, UCLA, 01/2008 - 10/2009 (Research mentor) |
H. Schwimmer, UCLA, 04/2008 - 06/2009 (Research mentor) |
M. Frias, UCLA, 09/2008 - 06/2009 (Research mentor) |
M. Lyseight, UCLA, 10/2008 - 06/2009 (Research mentor) |
T. Kalmus, Carroll University, 02/2017 - 05/2017 (Research mentor) |
E. Tong, UCLA, - 2009 winter 2009 (Research mentor) |
T. Shevavesh, UCLA, - 2008 spring 2008 (Research mentor) |
F. Basson, UCLA, - 2008 spring 2008 (Research mentor) |
R. Veliz, UCLA, - 2008 spring 2008 (Research mentor) |
E. Huang, UCLA, - 2009 spring/summer 2009 (Research mentor) |
J. Dickenson, UCLA, - 2009 spring 2009 (Research mentor) |
A. Robin, UCLA, - 2009 spring 2009 (Research mentor) |
N. Okamoto, UCLA, - 2006 spring 2006 (Research mentor) |
D. Garcia, UCLA, - 2009 summer 2009 (Research mentor) |
E. Garcia, UCLA, - 2008 summer 2008 (Research mentor) |
Y. R. Kang, UCLA, - 2008 fall 2008 (Research mentor) |
F. Rahmani, UCLA, - 2008 spring 2008 (Research mentor) |
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 |
08/01/2016 - 05/30/2017 Lead organizer of the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center Science Club. |
01/2017 - 04/2017 Science fair mentor to students at Wauwatosa STEM School |
12/01/2017 - 03/31/2018 Lead organizer of MCW BrainExpo 2018. |
09/01/2018 - 03/31/2019 Lead organizer of MCW BrainExpo 2019. |
01/07/2023 - 03/05/2023 Created all the content for an exhibit on brain evolution for the MCW BrainExpo 2023 (2 large posters, 7 hominid skull replicas, brain models for 7 vertebrate species, and descriptive labels for each one). |
02/13/2023 Presentation on the neuroscience of language meaning at the Sugar Maple (Bayview), organized by the Underground Science Society. |
03/10/2023 - 03/11/2023 Lead organizer of MCW BrainExpo 2023, a 2-day event with 60 volunteers, 3 speakers, 11 exhibits, and over 500 attendees from Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, and Chicago. |
03/10/2023 Lecture on the principles of neuroscience at MCW BrainExpo. |
05/18/2023 Presentation on brain development and memory at Pureal Ministries (2122 N Halyard St) as part of the CTSI Science Café. |
ROBERT D. AND PATRICIA E. KERN INSTITUTE FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION NETWORK ACTIVITIES: |
07/19/2021 - 06/02/2022 2021-2022 KINETIC3 Teaching Academy (Excellence in Teaching Track) |
FELLOWSHIP REVIEWER: |
05/08/2023 Expert review of fellowship application, Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) National Fellowship Program (https://www.gwis.org). |
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. Fernandino L, Conant LL. The Primacy of Experience in Language Processing: Semantic Priming Is Driven Primarily by Experiential Similarity. bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 18. PMCID: PMC10055357 |
17. 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. |
18. 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. |
19. Fernandino L, Binder JR. How does the "default mode" network contribute to semantic cognition? Brain Lang. 2024 May;252:105405. |
Books, Chapters, and Reviews |
1. Binder, J.R., Fernandino, L. Semantic Processing. In A. W. Toga (Ed.), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (pp. 445–454). 2015. Elsevier. http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-. |
2. Binder, J. R., Fernandino, L. . Neural processing of word meaning The Cognitive Neurosciences VI. Binder, J. R., Fernandino, L. (2020). Neural processing of word meaning. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences VI, Poeppel D, Mangun GR, Gazzaniga MS, eds. MIT Press, Cambridge.. |