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Leonardo Fernandino PhD

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Associate Professor

Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Neurology
Division: General
Program: Research

image of /images/ORCIDiD_icon16x16.png   https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4571-0500

Member of the Neuroscience Research Center
Member of the Wisconsin Institute of NeuroScience (WINS)


I am willing to collaborate on research projects.
I am willing to mentor a junior faculty member.

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Research Experience

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Language
  • Semantics
  • Sentence processing
  • Inter-hemispheric interaction
  • Semantic deficits
  • Lexical semantics
  • Event-related potentials, N400
  • Compositional semantics
  • Concept representation

    • Methodologies and Techniques

  • Evoked Potentials
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Magnetoencephalography
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Psychophysics
  • Statistics
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  • Lateralized stimulus presentation
  • Functional MRI
  • Semantic Priming

    • Leadership Positions

  • Member, MCW Faculty Council

    • Educational Expertise

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Language
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Psychology, Experimental
  • Reaction Time
  • Semantics
  • Statistics
  • Event-Related Potentials, N400
  • Concept representation
  • Philosophy of Science

    • Community Partnerships

  • MCW BrainExpo

    • Publications (27)

  • Stimulus Repetition and Sample Size Considerations in Item-Level Representational Similarity Analysis. (Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Tong JQ, Binder JR, Fernandino L) Lang Cogn Neurosci 2024;39(9):1161-1172 PMID: 39525357 PMCID: PMC11544752 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85164679149 11/13/2024       4 Citations
  • What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. (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) Psychon Bull Rev 2025 Feb;32(1):243-280 PMID: 39231896 PMCID: PMC11836185 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85203261884 09/05/2024       12 Citations
  • The primacy of experience in language processing: Semantic priming is driven primarily by experiential similarity. (Fernandino L, Conant LL) Neuropsychologia 2024 Aug 13;201:108939 PMID: 38897450 PMCID: PMC11326522 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85196852899 06/20/2024    
  • Concept Representation (Fernandino L, Binder JR) In: Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd Edition, (Grafman J, ed.), Elsevier, London. 06/15/2024    
  • The neural representation of body part concepts. (Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Binder JR) Cereb Cortex 2024 Jun 04;34(6) PMID: 38863113 PMCID: PMC11166504 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85195887945 06/12/2024    
  • How does the "default mode" network contribute to semantic cognition? (Fernandino L, Binder JR) Brain Lang 2024 May;252:105405 PMID: 38579461 PMCID: PMC11135161 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85189700094 04/06/2024       5 Citations
  • Stimulus repetition and sample size considerations in item-level representational similarity analysis (Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Tong JQ, Binder JR, Fernandino L) Language Cognition and Neuroscience 2024;39(9):1161-1172 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85164679149 01/01/2024       4 Citations
  • Concept representation (Fernandino L, Binder JR) Encyclopedia of the Human Brain Second Edition Volumes 1 5 1 January 2024:V2-V2-441 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85196829061 01/01/2024       1 Citation
  • Hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction - From perception to consciousness: Introduction to a special issue in honor of Eran Zaidel (1944-2021). (Uddin LQ, Fernandino L, Neta M, Greene DJ, Mooshagian E) Neuropsychologia 2023 Dec 15;191:108725 PMID: 37949214 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85177089496 11/11/2023       1 Citation
  • The Primacy of Experience in Language Processing: Semantic Priming Is Driven Primarily by Experiential Similarity. (Fernandino L, Conant LL) bioRxiv 2023 Dec 18 PMID: 36993310 PMCID: PMC10055357 03/31/2023    
  • A Distributed Network for Multimodal Experiential Representation of Concepts. (Tong J, Binder JR, Humphries C, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Fernandino L) J Neurosci 2022 Sep 14;42(37):7121-7130 PMID: 35940877 PMCID: PMC9480893 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85138448742 08/09/2022       33 Citations
  • Decoding the information structure underlying the neural representation of concepts. (Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Binder JR) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022 Feb 08;119(6) PMID: 35115397 PMCID: PMC8832989 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85124059714 02/05/2022       82 Citations
  • Deep Artificial Neural Networks Reveal a Distributed Cortical Network Encoding Propositional Sentence-Level Meaning. (Anderson AJ, Kiela D, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Lalor EC) J Neurosci 2021 May 05;41(18):4100-4119 PMID: 33753548 PMCID: PMC8176751 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105889500 03/24/2021       38 Citations
  • Neural processing of word meaning (Binder, J. R., Fernandino, L. ) In: The Cognitive Neurosciences VI (Poeppel D, Mangun GR, Gazzaniga MS, eds). MIT Press, Cambridge. 01/05/2020    
  • An Integrated Neural Decoder of Linguistic and Experiential Meaning. (Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Lin F, Lalor EC) J Neurosci 2019 Nov 06;39(45):8969-8987 PMID: 31570538 PMCID: PMC6832686 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074675097 10/02/2019       35 Citations
  • Multiple Regions of a Cortical Network Commonly Encode the Meaning of Words in Multiple Grammatical Positions of Read Sentences. (Anderson AJ, Lalor EC, Lin F, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Wang X) Cereb Cortex 2019 Jun 01;29(6):2396-2411 PMID: 29771323 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85058538387 05/18/2018       19 Citations
  • Heteromodal Cortical Areas Encode Sensory-Motor Features of Word Meaning. (Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Seidenberg MS, Binder JR) J Neurosci 2016 Sep 21;36(38):9763-9 PMID: 27656016 PMCID: PMC5030346 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84988473737 09/23/2016       60 Citations
  • Predicting Neural Activity Patterns Associated with Sentences Using a Neurobiologically Motivated Model of Semantic Representation. (Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Aguilar M, Wang X, Doko D, Raizada RDS) Cereb Cortex 2017 Sep 01;27(9):4379-4395 PMID: 27522069 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85032015905 08/16/2016       63 Citations
  • Toward a brain-based componential semantic representation. (Binder JR, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Fernandino L, Simons SB, Aguilar M, Desai RH) Cogn Neuropsychol 2016;33(3-4):130-74 PMID: 27310469 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84975106309 06/17/2016       245 Citations
  • Predicting brain activation patterns associated with individual lexical concepts based on five sensory-motor attributes. (Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Seidenberg MS, Gross WL, Conant LL, Binder JR) Neuropsychologia 2015 Sep;76:17-26 PMID: 25863238 PMCID: PMC4638171 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84944150675 04/12/2015       51 Citations
  • Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics. (Fernandino L, Binder JR, Desai RH, Pendl SL, Humphries CJ, Gross WL, Conant LL, Seidenberg MS) Cereb Cortex 2016 May;26(5):2018-34 PMID: 25750259 PMCID: PMC4830284 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84965165807 03/10/2015       207 Citations
  • Semantic Processing (Binder JR, Fernandino L) Brain Mapping an Encyclopedic Reference February 14, 2015;3:445-454 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84943244926 02/14/2015       9 Citations
  • Where is the action? Action sentence processing in Parkinson's disease. (Fernandino L, Conant LL, Binder JR, Blindauer K, Hiner B, Spangler K, Desai RH) Neuropsychologia 2013 Jul;51(8):1510-7 PMID: 23624313 PMCID: PMC3731159 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84879151933 04/30/2013       102 Citations
  • Parkinson's disease disrupts both automatic and controlled processing of action verbs. (Fernandino L, Conant LL, Binder JR, Blindauer K, Hiner B, Spangler K, Desai RH) Brain Lang 2013 Oct;127(1):65-74 PMID: 22910144 PMCID: PMC3574625 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84880963780 08/23/2012       138 Citations
  • Common and dissociable prefrontal loci associated with component mechanisms of analogical reasoning. (Cho S, Moody TD, Fernandino L, Mumford JA, Poldrack RA, Cannon TD, Knowlton BJ, Holyoak KJ) Cereb Cortex 2010 Mar;20(3):524-33 PMID: 19549622 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-76749149970 06/25/2009       91 Citations
  • Are cortical motor maps based on body parts or coordinated actions? Implications for embodied semantics. (Fernandino L, Iacoboni M) Brain Lang 2010 Jan;112(1):44-53 PMID: 19345405 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-72549108756 04/07/2009       70 Citations
  • The effects of bilateral presentations on lateralized lexical decision. (Fernandino L, Iacoboni M, Zaidel E) Brain Cogn 2007 Jun;64(1):60-7 PMID: 17257728 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-34249003034 01/30/2007       10 Citations
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