Brain and Cognition

The Brain and Cognition programme is concerned with cognition in the healthy brain and the nature of impairment in clinical populations. Our primary aim is to develop theoretical accounts of cognitive functions in the normal healthy brain and to consider how our research might further understanding of clinical conditions and rehabilitative strategies.

Primary areas of interest include memory storage and retrieval, object and face processing, language processing, intelligence and efficacy of biofeedback for clinical populations. We work with a range of populations including those with Alzheimer's disease, semantic dementia, herpes encephalitis, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury and aphasia. Our research incorporates multiple convergent methodologies, including classic experimental cognitive approaches, EEG and fMRI.

Dr Peter Bright
(Head of Lab)

Dr Jane Aspell	Samuel Bennett	Dr Roberto Filippi	Dr Roberto Gutierrez
Dr Peter Hills	Dr Helen Keyes	Dr Sarah Kuppen	Dr Mike Pake
Dr Bettina Mohr	Dr Richard Piech	Dr Fiona Richardson	Ellen Carroll
Laura Jones	Cari-lene Mul	Julia Ouzia

Publications

Journal articles published since 2005

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Hauk, O., Davis, M.H., Ford, M., Marslen-Wilson, W. D. & Pulvermüller, F., (in press). Can I have a quick word? Early electrophysiological manifestations of psycholinguistic processes revealed by event-related regression analysis of the EEG. Biological Psychology.

Hauk, O., Davis, M.H. & Pulvermüller, F. (in press). Modulation of brain activity by multiple lexical and word form variables in visual word recognition: A parametric fMRI study. Neuroimage.

Hauk, O., Shtyrov, Y. & Pulvermüller, F. (in press). The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology. Journal of Physiology, Paris.

Hills, P. J., Elward, R. L., & Lewis, M. B. (in press). Cross-modal face identity aftereffects and their relation to priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Hills, P. J. & Lewis, M. B. (2009). A spatial frequency account of the effect Navon stimuli have on face perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M. W., & Pulvermüller, F. (in press). Embodied sentence processing. Brain and Language.

Pulvermüller, F. (in press). Brain embodiment of syntax and grammar: Discrete combinatorial mechanisms spelt out in neuronal circuits. Brain and Language.

Pulvermüller, F. (in press). Grounding language in the brain. In M. de Vega, A. Graesser & A. M. Glenberg (Eds.), Symbols, embodiment, and meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pulvermüller, F., Cooper-Pye, E., Dine, C., Hauk, O., Nestor, P., & Patterson, K. (in press). The word processing deficit in Semantic Dementia: All categories are equal but some categories are more equal than others. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, in press.

Pulvermuller, F., Kherif, F., Hauk, O., Mohr, B., & Nimmo-Smith. I. (in press). Distributed Cell Assemblies for General Lexical and Category-Specific Semantic Processing as Revealed by fMRI Cluster Analysis. Human Brain Mapping.

Pulvermüller, F. & Shtyrov, Y. (in press). Spatio-temporal signatures of large-scale synfire chains for speech as revealed by MEG. Cerebral Cortex.

Shtyrov, Y., Kujala, T., & Pulvermüller, F. (in press). Interactions between language and attention systems: early automatic lexical processing? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Vernon, D., Dempster, T., Bazanova, O., Rutterford, N. A., Pasqualini, M. and Andersen, S. (in press). Working to refine the methodology of alpha neurofeedback training for performance enhancement. Journal of Neurotherapy.

Vestergaard, M. D., Haden, G. P., Shtyrov, Y., Patterson, R. D., Pulvermüller, F., Denham, S. L., Sziller, I., & Winkler, I. (in press). Auditory size-deviant detection in adults and newborn infants. Biological Psychology.

Berthier, M. L., Green, C., Lara, J. P., Higueras, C., Barbancho, M. A., Dávila, G., & Pulvermüller, F. (2009). Memantine and constraint-induced aphasia therapy in chronic post-stroke aphasia. Annals of Neurology, 65 (5), 577-85.

Boudelaa, S., Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., Shtyrov, Y., & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2009). Arabic morphology in the neural language system: A mismatch negativity study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, in press.
Boulenger, V., Hauk, O., & Pulvermüller, F. (2009). Grasping ideas with the motor system: Semantic somatotopy in idiom comprehension. Cerebral Cortex, 19 (8), 1905-1914.

Carlyon, R. P., Deeks, J., Shtyrov, Y., Grahn, J., Gockel, H., Hauk, O., & Pulvermüller, F. (2009). Changes in the perceived duration of a narrowband sound induced by a preceding stimulus: a retrospective effect in auditory perception? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in press.

D?Ausilio, A., Pulvermüller, F., Salmas, P., Bufalari, I., Begliomini, C., & Fadiga, L. (2009). The motor somatotopy of speech perception. Current Biology, 19 (5), 381-385.

D'Ausilio, A., Pulvermüller, F., Salmas, P., Bufalari, I., Begliomini, C., & Fadiga, L. (2009). Speech perception may causally depend on the activity of motor centers. Current Biology, http://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments_Dausilio.

Garagnani, M., Shtyrov, Y., & Pulvermüller, F. (2009). Effects of attention on what is known and what is not: MEG evidence for functionally discrete memory circuits. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3 (10) doi:10.3389/neuro.09.010.2009.

Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., & Pulvermüller, F. (2009). Recruitment and consolidation of cell assemblies for words by way of Hebbian learning and competition in a multi-layer neural network. Cognitive Computation, 1 (2), 160-176.

Hauk, O., Davis, M.H., Ford, M., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., & Pulvermüller, F., (2009). Can I have a quick word? Early electrophysiological manifestations of psycholinguistic processes revealed by event-related regression analysis of the EEG. Biological Psychology, 80 (1), 64-74.

Jenkins, S., Brown, R. and Rutterford, N. A. (2009). Comparing thermographic, EEG, and subjective measures of affective experience during simulated product interactions International Journal of Design 3 (2) 53-65.
Lewis, M. B., Mills, C., Hills, P. J., & Weston, N. (2009). Navon letters affect face learning and face retrieval. Experimental Psychology, 56, 258 - 264.

Kopelman M. D., Bright P., Fulker, H., Hinton, N., Morrison, A., & Verfaellie, M. (2009). ?Remote semantic memory in patients with Korsakoff's syndrome and herpes encephalitis? Neuropsychology, 144-157.

Pulvermüller, F., & Knoblauch, A. (2009). Discrete combinatorial circuits emerging in neural networks: a mechanism for rules of grammar in the human brain? Neural Networks, 22 (1), 161-172.

Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., & Hauk, O. (2009). Understanding in an instant: neurophysiological evidence for mechanistic language circuits in the brain. Brain and Language, 110 (2), 81-94.

Shtyrov, Y., & Pulvermüller, F. (2009). Are you listening? Language outside the focus of attention. In M. Stamenov (Ed.), Advances in Consciousness Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Shtyrov, Y., & Pulvermüller, F. (2009). Rapid, automatic and parallel language processing in the human brain: neurophysiological data using the mismatch negativity (MMN). In M. Horne (Ed.), Brain Talk. Lund: University of Lund.

Wermter, S., Page, M., Knowles, M., Gallese, V., Pulvermüller, F., & Taylor, J. (2009). Multimodal communication in animals, humans and robots: An introduction to perspectives in brain-inspired informatics. Neural Networks, 22 (2), 111-115.

Bright, P., Moss, H. E., Stamatakis, E. A., & Tyler, L. K. (2008). Longitudinal studies of semantic dementia: The relationship between structural and functional changes over time. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2177-2188.

Duncan, J., Parr, A., Woolgar, A., Thompson, R., Bright, P., Cox, S., Bishop, S., & Nimmo-Smith, I. (2008). Goal neglect and Spearman's g: Competing parts of a complex task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 131-148.

Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., & Pulvermüller, F. (2008). A neuroanatomically-grounded Hebbian learning model of attention-language interactions in the human brain. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27 (2), 492-513.

Hauk, O., Davis, M.H., Kherif, F., & Pulvermüller, F. (2008). Imagery or Meaning? Evidence for a semantic origin of category-specific brain activity in metabolic imaging. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27 (7), 1856-1866.

Hills, P. J., Elward, R. L., & Lewis, M. B. (2008). The FIAE is mediated and moderated by visualisation. Perception, 37, 1241 - 1257.

Hills, P. J., Lewis, M. B., & Honey, R. C. (2008). Stereotype priming in the recognition of unfamiliar faces: evidence for dynamic face-space? Cognition, 108, 180-200.

Hills, P. J., & Lewis, M. B. (2008). Alternatives to Navon letters to produce transfer-inappropriate processing shift in face recognition. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20, 561 ? 576.

Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Rockstroh, B., & Endrass, T. (2008). Hemispheric cooperation ? A crucial factor in schizophrenia? Neurophysiological evidence. Neuroimage, 41, 1102-1110.

Pulvermüller, F. (2008). Brain embodiment of category specific semantic memory circuits. In G. Semin (Ed.), Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches, pp. 71-97. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pulvermüller, F. (2008). Grounding language in the brain. In M. de Vega, A. Graesser & A. M. Glenberg (Eds.), Symbols, embodiment, and meaning, pp. 85-116. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pulvermüller, F. (2008). Mechanistic language circuits: What can be learned? What is prewired? In A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith & R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), Evolution of Language. pp. 482-484. New Jersey: World Scientific Publishers.

Pulvermüller, F., & Berthier, M. L. (2008). Aphasia therapy on a neuroscience basis. Aphasiology, 22 (6), 563-599.

Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., Hasting, A. & Carlyon, R.P. (2008). Syntax as a reflex: Neurophysiological evidence for early automaticity of grammatical processing. Brain and Language, 104 (1), 244-253.

Shtyrov, Y., Osswald, K., & Pulvermüller, F. (2008). Memory traces for spoken words in the brain as revealed by the haemodynamic correlate of the mismatch negativity (MMN). Cerebral Cortex, 18 (1), 29-37.

Shtyrov, Y., & Pulvermüller, F. (2008). Language in the mismatch negativity design: motivations, benefits and prospective. Journal of Psychophysiology, 21 (3), 1-12.

Weekes, B., & Raman, I. (2008). Acquired Deep Dysphasia in Turkish. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25 (3), 411-436.

Bright, P., Moss, H.E., Longe, O., Stamatakis, E.A., & Tyler, L.K. (2007). Conceptual Structure Modulates Anteromedial Temporal Involvement in Processing Verbally Presented Object Properties. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1066-1073.

Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T. & Pulvermüller, F. (2007). A neural model of the language cortex. Neurocomputing, 70, 1914-1919.

Hauk, O., Patterson, K., Woollams, A., Pye, E., Pulvermüller, F., & Rogers, T. T. (2007). How the Camel Lost its Hump: The impact of object typicality on ERP signals in object decision. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1338-1353.

Hills, P. J., & Lewis, M. B. (2007). The Navon effect in face recognition is temporally limited. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 107, 100 ? 104.

Kopelman, M.D., Bright, P., Buckman, J., Fradera, A., Yoshimasu, H., Jacobson, C., & Colchester, A.C.F. (2007). Recall and recognition memory in amnesia: patients with hippocampal, medial temporal, temporal lobe or frontal pathology. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1232-1246.

Mohr, B., Endrass, T., & Pulvermüller, F. (2007). Neurophysiological correlates of the bilateral redundancy gain for words: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2114-2124.

Noppeney, U., Patterson, K., Tyler, L.K., Moss, H., Stamatakis, E.A., Bright, P., Mummery, C., & Price, C. (2007). Temporal lobe lesions and semantic impairment: A comparison of Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis and Semantic Dementia. Brain, 130, 1138-1147.

Penolazzi, B., Hauk, O. & Pulvermüller, F. (2007). Early lexical access and semantic context integration as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 74 (3), 374-388.

Poncelat, M., Majerus, S., Raman, I., Warginaire, S., & Weekes, B. (2007). Naming Actions and Objects in Bilingual Aphasia: A multiple case study. Brain and Language, 103, 148-149.

Pulvermüller, F. (2007). Word processing in the brain as revealed by neurophysiological imaging using EEG and MEG. In G. Gaskell (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp 119-140. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pulvermüller, F., & Assadollahi, R. (2007). Grammar or serial order?: Discrete combinatorial brain mechanisms reflected by the syntactic Mismatch Negativity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 (6), 971-80.

Pulvermüller, F., & Shtyrov, Y. (2007). The mismatch negativity as an objective tool for studying higher language functions. In A. S. Meyer, L.R. Wheeldon & A. Krott (Eds.), Automaticity and control in language processing, pp. 217-244. Hove and New York: Psychology Press.

Shtyrov, Y., & Pulvermüller, F. (2007). Early activation dynamics in the left temporal and inferior-frontal cortex reflect semantic context integration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 (10), 1633-1642.

Bak, T. H., Yancopoulu, D., Nestor, P., Xuereb, J., Spillantini, M. G., Pulvermüller, F., & Hodges, J. R. (2006). Clinical, imaging and pathological correlates of a hereditary deficit in verb and action processing. Brain, 129, 321-332.

Berthier, M. L., Pulvermüller, F., Green, C., & Higueras, C. (2006). Are release phenomena explained by disinhibited mirror neuron circuits?: Arnold Pick's remarks on echographia and their relevance for modern cognitive neuroscience. Aphasiology, 20 (5), 462-480.

Bright, P., Buckman, J., Fradera, A., Yoshimasu, H., Colchester, A.C.F., & Kopelman, M.D. (2006). Retrograde amnesia in patients with hippocampal, medial temporal, temporal lobe, or frontal pathology. Learning and Memory, 13, 545-557.

Gonzalez, J., Barros-Loscertales, A., Pulvermüller, F., Meseguer, V., Sanjuan, A., Belloch, V., & Avila, C. (2006). Reading cinnamon activates olfactory brain regions. Neuroimage, 32 (2), 906-912.

Hauk, O., Davis, M. H., Ford, M., Pulvermüller, F., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2006). The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. Neuroimage, 30 (4), 1383-1400.

Hauk, O., Patterson, K., Woollams, A., Watling, L., Pulvermüller, F., & Rogers, T. T. (2006). [Q:] When would you prefer a SOSSAGE to a SAUSAGE? [A:] At about 100 ms. ERP correlates of orthographic typicality and lexicality in written word recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 818-832.

Hauk, O., Shtyrov, Y., & Pulvermüller, F. (2006). The sound of actions as reflected by mismatch negativity: Rapid activation of cortical sensory-motor networks by sounds associated with finger and tongue movements. European Journal of Neuroscience, 23 (3), 811-821.

Hills, P. J., & Lewis, M. B. (2006). Reducing the own-race bias in face recognition by shifting attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 996 ? 1002.

Moscoso del Prado Martin, F., Hauk, O., & Pulvermüller, F. (2006). Category-specificity in the processing of color-related and form-related words: An ERP study. Neuroimage, 29 (1), 29-37.

Pulvermüller, F., & Hauk, O. (2006). Category-specific processing of color and form words in left fronto-temporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 16 (8), 1193-1201.

Pulvermüller, F., Huss, M., Kherif, F., Moscoso del Prado Martin, F., Hauk, O., & Shtyrov, Y. (2006). Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 103 (20), 7865-7870.

Pulvermüller, F., & Shtyrov, Y. (2006). Language outside the focus of attention: the mismatch negativity as a tool for studying higher cognitive processes. Progress in Neurobiology, 79 (1), 49-71.

Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., Ilmoniemi, R. J. & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2006). Mapping speech comprehension in space and time. Neuroimage, 31 (3), 1297-1303.

Raman, I. (2006). Are acquired dyslexias and dysgraphias language-specific or universal? The Iranian Journal of Contemporary Psychology, 1(2).

Raman, I. (2006). On the age of acquisition effects in word naming and orthographic transparency: Mapping specific or universal? Visual Cognition, 13(7/8), 1044-1053.

Raman, I., & Weekes, B. (2006). Deep dysgraphia in Turkish. In B.S. Weekes (Ed.) Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Across Scripts, 59-69. IOS Press of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN: 1-58603-592-4.

Rutterford, N. A., & Wood, R. L. (2006). Evaluating a theory of stress and adjustment when predicting long term psychosocial outcome after brain injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 12, 359-367.

Wennekers, T. Garagnani, M., & Pulvermüller, F. (2006). Language models based on Hebbian cell assemblies. Journal of Physiology, Paris, 100, 16-30.

Wood, R. Ll. and Rutterford, N. A. (2006). Long term effect of head trauma on intellectual abilities: A 16 year outcome study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 77, 1180-1184.

Wood, R. Ll. and Rutterford, N. A. (2006). Demographic and cognitive predictors of long term psychosocial outcome after brain injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 350-358.

Wood, R. Ll. and Rutterford, N. A. (2006). The impact of mild developmental learning difficulties on neuropsychological recovery from head trauma. Brain Injury, 20, 477-484.

Wood, R. Ll. and Rutterford, N. A. (2006). The effect of litigation on long term cognitive and social outcome after severe brain injury. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21, 239-246.

Wood, R. Ll. and Rutterford, N. A. (2006). Psychosocial adjustment 17 years after severe brain injury. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 77, 1-4

Bright, P., Moss, H.E., Stamatakis, E.A., & Tyler, L.K. (2005). The anatomy of object processing: The role of anteromedial temporal cortex. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58B, 361-377.

Bright P., Moss, H.E., & Tyler L.K. (2005). Invited commentary on Keith R Laws: ?Illusions of normality?: A methodological critique of category-specific naming. Cortex, 41, 852-853.

Knoblauch, A., & Pulvermüller, F. (2005). Sequence detector networks and associative learning of grammatical categories. In S. Wermter & G. Palm & M. Elshaw (Eds.), Biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots (pp. 31-53). Berlin: Springer.

Moss, H.E., Abdallah, S., Fletcher, P.C., Bright, P., Pilgrim, L.K., Acres, K., & Tyler, L.K. (2005). Selecting among competing alternatives: Selection and Controlled Retrieval in the Left Prefrontal Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1723-1735.

Moss, H.E., Rodd, J.M., Stamatakis, E.A., Bright, P., & Tyler, L.K. (2005). Anteromedial temporal cortex supports fine grained differentiation among objects. Cerebral Cortex, 15, 616-627.

Pulvermüller, F. (2005). Brain mechanisms linking language and action. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6 (7), 576-582.

Pulvermüller, F. (2005). From babbling to articulatory echo neurons and unsolved questions of syntax. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Arbib-05012002/Supplemental/Pulvermuller.pdf

Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., Nikulin, V., & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2005). Functional interaction of language and action: a TMS study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (3), 793-797.

Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., Zohsel, K., Neininger, B., & Mohr, B. (2005). Therapy-related reorganization of language in both hemispheres of patients with chronic aphasia. Neuroimage, 28, 481-489.

Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., & Ilmoniemi, R. (2005). Brain signatures of meaning access in action word recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 (6), 884-892.

Raman, I., & Weekes, B. (2005). Deep dysgraphia in Turkish. Behavioural Neurology, 16 (2/3), 59-69.

Raman, I., & Weekes, B. (2005). Acquired dyslexia in a Turkish-English speaker. Annals of Dyslexia, 55 (1), 79-104.

Reed, L.J., Lasserson, D., Marsden, P., Bright, P., Stanhope, N., & Kopelman, M.D. (2005). Correlations of regional cerebral metabolism with memory performance and executive function in patients with herpes encephalitis or frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychology, 19, 555-565.

Shtyrov, Y., Pihko, E., & Pulvermüller, F. (2005). Determinants of dominance: Is language laterality explained by physical or linguistic features of speech? Neuroimage, 27 (1), 37-47.

Wermter, S., Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Gallese, V., & Pulvermüller, F. (2005). Neural grounding of robot language in action. In S. Wermter & G. Palm & M. Elshaw (Eds.), Biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots (pp. 162-181). Berlin: Springer.

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