Neurolinguistic Laboratory on the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting

Olga Dragoy and Maria Ivanova will present their reports: "Neural circuitries underlying distinct types of verb naming errors in aphasia" and "Fishing is not wrestling: Neural correlates of the verb instrumentality effect"

Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting is an annual scientific meeting that highlights recent research and hosts lively debates on a wide range of topics including the neural mechanisms underlying perceptual, cognitive, motor, and linguistic processes used to produce and to understand language. 

Olga Dragoy and Maria Ivanova will present two reports.

One of them investigates which neural activation patterns underlie distinct behavioral responses in verb naming. The results speak against verb naming being solely dependent on the frontal semantic network. They favor the interpretation that successful verb naming depends on intact and efficient interaction between the general temporal-parietal semantic system and frontal motor semantic system. Abstract -  Verb namingThe other research seeks for the neural correlates of the difference between instrumental and non-instrumental verbs and investigates the effect of verb instrumentality on BOLD signal in neurologically intact individuals without language impairment.
Abstract -  Fishing is not wrestling.docx