Research

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?

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?

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?

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?