# Lab Members ## Principal Investigator [### Alfonso Caramazza ](/people/alfonso-caramazza) Principal Investigator Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology Alfonso Caramazza is Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory at Harvard University, where he has been a member of faculty since 1995. Dr. Caramazza’s research explores the nature and... ![alfonsocaramazza_1.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/alfonsocaramazza_1.png?itok=lp9UAefg) ## Post-Doctoral Research Fellows [### Esti Blanco-Elorrieta ](/people/esti-blanco-elorrieta-0) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow The goal of my research is to develop a comprehensive account of how humans process language, which I try to achieve by covering the full spectrum of manners in which humans acquire and experience language. In my research, I combine insights from... ![Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/headshot.png?itok=puM3ASlk) [### Kexin Xiong ](/people/kexin-xiong) [kexin\_xiong@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:kexin_xiong@fas.harvard.edu)Visiting Scholar Assistant Professor at the Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences at Tohoku University Kexin Xiong is an Assistant Professor at the Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences at Tohoku University, Japan. Her research focuses on mechanisms of language processing and second language acquisition, especially the effects of cross... ![kexin_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/kexinxiong.jpg?itok=HZHLoXxg) ## Graduate Students [### Seda Akbiyik ](/people/seda-akbiyik) Graduate Student Seda Akbiyik is a PhD Candidate in the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory. Before coming here, she pursued a Bachelor’s in Psychology at Bogazici University, Turkey and a Master’s in Cognitive Psychology at Koc University, Turkey. In the past, she... ![Seda](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/sedaphoto.jpg?itok=3CgEhH67) [### Siqi Lin ](/people/siqi-lin)Graduate Student Siqi Lin is interested in the relation between perception and semantic knowledge. Before coming to Harvard, she was an undergraduate in psychology at Beijing Normal University, China. In her undergraduate years, she explored questions including how people... ![siqi_lin](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/siqi.jpg?itok=8PyMx84K) [### Shuchen Stella Liu ](/people/shuchen-stella-liu)Graduate Student My research focuses on investigating the neural basis of object and action representation. Currently, I’m using functional neuroimaging to explore the neural mechanisms underlying how we recognize and understand other people’s actions and how human action... ![shuchen_liu](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/img_7974.jpeg?itok=FPpLqthb) ## Former Lab Members [### Stefano Anzellotti ](/people/stefano-anzellotti) Post-Doctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology person [### Łukasz Bola ](/people/%C5%82ukasz-bola) Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences I use various neuroimaging methods (fMRI, sMRI, TMS) to study organization and plasticity of the brain in people with atypical sensory experience (for example, individuals born deaf or blind, or sighted subjects taught how to read with their hands – using... ![Lukasz Bola](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/lukasz_bola.jpg?itok=QF3QmWsf) [### Changming Chen ](/people/changming-chen) person [### Olivia Cheung ](/people/olivia-cheung) Assistant Professor NYU Abu Dhabi ![no_avatar.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar.jpg?itok=fVg0msAD) [### Doriana Chialant ](/lab-members/doriana-chialant)McLean Hospital ![no_avatar_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar_0_0.jpg?itok=tHBj5BEm) [### Grace Edwards ](/people/grace-edwards) [grace\_edwards@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:grace_edwards@fas.harvard.edu)Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH, NIH My research focuses on the impact of attention and prediction during naturalistic viewing (i.e. across saccadic eye-movements). After completing a BSc. in Psychology, I moved onto a Masters in Brain Imaging Research and PhD in Neuroscience & Biomedical... ![Grace](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/ge_new.jpg?itok=8s_X1vA7) [### Matthew Finkbeiner ](/people/matthew-finkbeiner) Associate Professor Macquarie University ![no_avatar_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar_0.jpg?itok=15I1716E) [### Mireia Hernández ](/people/mireia-hern%C3%A1ndez)Post-Doctoral Fellow Universitat Pompeu Fabra person [### Mark Knobel ](/people/mark-knobel)Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center person [### Talia Konkle ](/people/talia-konkle) Assistant Professor Harvard University ![no_avatar_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar_0.jpg?itok=15I1716E) [### Lucilla Lanzoni ](/people/lucilla-lanzoni) ![no_avatar_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar_0_0.jpg?itok=tHBj5BEm) [### Anna Leshinskaya ](/people/anna-leshinskaya) Post-Doctoral Researcher University of Pennsylvania ![no_avatar_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar_0_0.jpg?itok=tHBj5BEm) [### Caterina Magri ](/people/caterina-magri-0) Quantitative UX Researcher at Google I’m interested in exploring the neural basis of conceptual knowledge regarding objects. More specifically, I’m investigating the organization of object information in the temporal cortex based on both physical characteristics and the degree to which we... ![s200_caterina.magri__3.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/s200_caterina.magri__3.jpg?itok=zTymYuJg) [### Liuba Papeo ](/people/liuba-papeo)Assistant Professor Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, France person [### Katie Porter ](/people/katie-porter) ![1077898_-_version_2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/1077898_-_version_2.jpg?itok=HGgCZ77h) [### Constantin Rezlescu ](/people/constantin-rezlescu) ![me.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/me.jpg?itok=xQrjQKqj) [### Tatiana Schnur ](/people/tatiana-schnur)Assistant Professor Rice University person [### Eva Strausberg Naldini ](/people/eva-strausberg-naldini) person [### Ella Striem-Amit ](/people/ella-striem-amit) [striemamit@fas.harvard.edu ]()Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Department of Neuroscience I study the way being born deprived of a sensory modality (for example, being born blind or deaf) affects brain organization and cognition. Studying people born blind, deaf or dysmelic (born without hands) helps learn about how sensory (or motor)... ![ellapic.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/ellapic.jpg?itok=_ZecGO69) [### Gilles Vannuscorps ](/people/gilles-vannuscorps) Assistant Professor at UCLouvain Department of Psychology Every day, we see dozens of objects having a particular shape, color, motion and so forth as well as people raising their arms, turning their wrists, opening their mouths and grasping objects. Immediately, and without conscious effort, we identify these... ![1875929.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/1875929.png?itok=VG0hu6GK) ## Collaborators [### Albert Costa ](/people/albert-costa)Univeritat de Barcelona, Spain person [### Alvaro Pascual-Leone ](/people/alvaro-pascual-leone)Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center person [### Angelika Lingnau ](/people/angelika-lingnau)Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy person [### Argye Hillis ](/people/argye-hillis)Johns Hopkins University, USA person [### Bradford Mahon ](/people/bradford-mahon)University of Rochester, USA person [### Chiara Finocchiaro ](/people/chiara-finocchiaro)Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy person [### Ella Striem-Amit ](/people/ella-striem-amit) [striemamit@fas.harvard.edu ]()Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Department of Neuroscience I study the way being born deprived of a sensory modality (for example, being born blind or deaf) affects brain organization and cognition. Studying people born blind, deaf or dysmelic (born without hands) helps learn about how sensory (or motor)... ![ellapic.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/ellapic.jpg?itok=_ZecGO69) [### François-Xavier Alario ](/people/fran%C3%A7ois-xavier-alario)Université de Provence, France ![no_avatar_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar_0_0.jpg?itok=tHBj5BEm) [### Gabriele Miceli ](/people/gabriele-miceli-0)Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy person [### Gilles Vannuscorps ](/people/gilles-vannuscorps) Assistant Professor at UCLouvain Department of Psychology Every day, we see dozens of objects having a particular shape, color, motion and so forth as well as people raising their arms, turning their wrists, opening their mouths and grasping objects. Immediately, and without conscious effort, we identify these... ![1875929.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/1875929.png?itok=VG0hu6GK) [### Jorge Almeida ](/people/jorge-almeida)University of Minho/University of Lisbon, Portugal ![no_avatar_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/no_avatar_0_0.jpg?itok=tHBj5BEm) [### Kevin Shapiro ](/people/kevin-shapiro)Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA person [### Lauren Moo ](/people/lauren-moo)Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA person [### Mireia Hernandez ](/people/mireia-hernandez-0)University Pompeu Fabra, Spain person [### Moritz F Wurm ](/people/moritz-f-wurm) Assistant Professor, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy I use functional neuroimaging to investigate the neural basis of action recognition and understanding. ![Moritz F Wurm](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/2014a.jpg?itok=D18-Mqe3) [### Nick Oosterhof ](/people/nick-oosterhof)Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy person [### Niels Janssen ](/people/niels-janssen)Universidad de La Laguna, Spain person [### Núria Sebastián-Gallés ](/people/n%C3%BAria-sebasti%C3%A1n-gall%C3%A9s)Universitat de Barcelona person [### Rita Capasso ](/people/rita-capasso)Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy person [### Scott Fairhall ](/people/scott-fairhall)Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy person [### Veronica Mazza ](/people/veronica-mazza)Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy person [### Yanchao Bi ](/people/yancho-bi)Beijing Normal University, China person [### Łukasz Bola ](/people/%C5%82ukasz-bola) Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences I use various neuroimaging methods (fMRI, sMRI, TMS) to study organization and plasticity of the brain in people with atypical sensory experience (for example, individuals born deaf or blind, or sighted subjects taught how to read with their hands – using... ![Lukasz Bola](/sites/g/files/omnuum9461/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cogneuro/files/lukasz_bola.jpg?itok=QF3QmWsf)