Research

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OBJECT REPRESENTATION 
• What are the neural mechanisms that enable us to recognize a person from their face, their voices, or other qualities? 
• How do we process objects, their parts, and their relations? 
• What are the major divisions of objects and how are they organized across the cortical surface?

 

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ACTION REPRESENTATION 
• When we view other people moving their bodies and their hands, how do we understand what they are doing? 
• How do our action representation relate to our representation of verbs?

 

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CONCEPTS REPRESENTATION 
• What are the major types of semantic knowledge, and how are they organized in the mind and brain? 
• How do our life experiences modify our cognitive system and neural organization? 
• How do different types of knowledge like context and categories shape our object formation?

 

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NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 
• What do dissociations reveal about the organization of the cognitive system? 
• What can we understand about the functional architecture of the human mind from the ways that it can break?

Get Involved!

Research opportunities are available for students interested in gaining experience in behavioral, neuropsychological, and brain imaging research methods. If you are interested, please contact Alfonso at caram@wjh.harvard.edu.