Valentina Borghesani
Function: Professeure assistante
Group name: Neurobiology of Concepts Expression Laboratory (NoCE Lab)
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Psychology Section
Domains: Language and Communication
Keywords: conceptual knowledge, language, memory, neurodegenerative disorders, Semantic memory
Research activities
We study the cognitive and neural correlates of semantic knowledge and their interplay with language.
Our work follows 5 axes: 1) how are words and concepts represented in the brain? 2) how do we acquire novel words and concepts? 3) what happens when we lose words or concepts? 4) how do words and concepts vary across individuals and cultures? 5) how does language relate to other cognitive functions?
We use behavioral methods, drawn from neuropsychology and experimental psychology, as well as neuroimaging techniques, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG).
We believe in science as a collaborative effort aimed at the pursuit of knowledge for the benefit of humanity, and we strive to make our research as green, ethically conscious, and open as possible.
Group website: https://noce-lab.github.io/
Key publications
Neural dynamics of semantic categorization in semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia.
Taking the sublexical route: brain dynamics of reading in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia.
“Looks familiar, but I do not know who she is”: The role of the anterior right temporal lobe in famous face recognition
Conceptual and perceptual dimensions of word meaning are recovered rapidly and in parallel during reading.
Word meaning in the ventral visual path: a perceptual to conceptual gradient of semantic coding.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Valentina.Borghesani@unige.ch