Leonardo Fernandino, PhD

Assistant Professor

Locations

Neurology

Education

PhD, Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience), University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
Clinical Psychologist, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2003
Bachelor of Psychology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2001

Biography

Specialty

Cognitive Neuroscience

Subspecialties

Semantic memory
Language comprehension
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
EEG event-related potentials
Magnetoencephalography
Encoding/decoding models
Representational similarity analysis

Training

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Neurology, 2009-2010

Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Neurology, 2010-2015

Professional Memberships

Society for Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Association for Psychological Science
Psychonomic Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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                    Research Experience
                

                    Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Compositional semantics
Concept representation
Event-related potentials, N400
Inter-hemispheric interaction
Language
Lexical semantics
Neural network modeling
Neurosciences
Semantic deficits
Semantics

            

                
                    Methodologies and Techniques
                

                    Electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials
Evoked Potentials, Motor
Functional MRI
Lateralized stimulus presentation
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetoencephalography
Multivariate Analysis
Neuropsychological Tests
Neuropsychology
Psychophysics
Statistics

            

                
                    Leadership Positions
                

                    Member, MCW Faculty Council

            

                
                    Educational Expertise
                

                    Analysis of Variance
Brain
Brain Mapping
Cerebral Cortex
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Comprehension
Concept representation
Event-Related Potentials, N400
Language
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Multivariate Analysis

            

                
                    Community Partnerships
                

                    MCW BrainExpo

            

Research Interests

My research investigates the neural mechanisms of language processing and concept representation. I use functional brain imaging techniques (fMRI, MEG, EEG) and behavioral assessment of neurological patients and healthy participants to understand how these processes are implemented in the brain.

Funded Grants

New Faculty Pilot Grant
MCW Research Affairs Committee
“Decoding semantic representations through neural encoding models”
P.I.: Fernandino, L.
Role: Principal Investigator
01/01/18-12/31/18 | Total award: $25,000

The Epilepsy Connectome Project
NIH Neurological Disorders and Stroke
P.I.: Binder, J.R.
Role: Co-Investigator
08/24/15-06/30/19 | Total award: $5.1M

Decoding the information structure underlying the neural representation of concepts.

(Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Binder JR.) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 02 08;119(6) PMID: 35115397 PMCID: PMC8832989 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85124059714 02/05/2022
Deep Artificial Neural Networks Reveal a Distributed Cortical Network Encoding Propositional Sentence-Level Meaning.

(Anderson AJ, Kiela D, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Lalor EC.) J Neurosci. 2021 05 05;41(18):4100-4119 PMID: 33753548 PMCID: PMC8176751 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105889500 03/24/2021
An Integrated Neural Decoder of Linguistic and Experiential Meaning.

(Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Lin F, Lalor EC.) J Neurosci. 2019 11 06;39(45):8969-8987 PMID: 31570538 PMCID: PMC6832686 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074675097 10/02/2019
Multiple Regions of a Cortical Network Commonly Encode the Meaning of Words in Multiple Grammatical Positions of Read Sentences.

(Anderson AJ, Lalor EC, Lin F, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Wang X.) Cereb Cortex. 2019 06 01;29(6):2396-2411 PMID: 29771323 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85058538387 05/18/2018
Predicting Neural Activity Patterns Associated with Sentences Using a Neurobiologically Motivated Model of Semantic Representation.

(Anderson AJ, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Aguilar M, Wang X, Doko D, Raizada RDS.) Cereb Cortex. 2017 09 01;27(9):4379-4395 PMID: 27522069 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85032015905 08/16/2016
Heteromodal Cortical Areas Encode Sensory-Motor Features of Word Meaning.

(Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Seidenberg MS, Binder JR.) J Neurosci. 2016 09 21;36(38):9763-9 PMID: 27656016 PMCID: PMC5030346 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84988473737 09/23/2016
Toward a brain-based componential semantic representation.

(Binder JR, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Fernandino L, Simons SB, Aguilar M, Desai RH.) Cogn Neuropsychol. 2016 May-Jun;33(3-4):130-74 PMID: 27310469 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84975106309 06/17/2016
Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics.

(Fernandino L, Binder JR, Desai RH, Pendl SL, Humphries CJ, Gross WL, Conant LL, Seidenberg MS.) Cereb Cortex. 2016 May;26(5):2018-34 PMID: 25750259 PMCID: PMC4830284 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84965165807 03/10/2015
Predicting brain activation patterns associated with individual lexical concepts based on five sensory-motor attributes.

(Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Seidenberg MS, Gross WL, Conant LL, Binder JR.) Neuropsychologia. 2015 Sep;76:17-26 PMID: 25863238 PMCID: PMC4638171 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84944150675 04/12/2015
Semantic Processing

(Binder JR, Fernandino L.) Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference. February 14, 2015;3:445-454 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84943244926 02/14/2015
Where is the action? Action sentence processing in Parkinson's disease.

(Fernandino L, Conant LL, Binder JR, Blindauer K, Hiner B, Spangler K, Desai RH.) Neuropsychologia. 2013 Jul;51(8):1510-7 PMID: 23624313 PMCID: PMC3731159 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84879151933 04/30/2013
Neural processing of word meaning

(Binder, J. R., Fernandino, L. .) The Cognitive Neurosciences VI. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences VI, Poeppel D, Mangun GR, Gazzaniga MS, eds. MIT Press, Cambridge. 01/05/2020

Leonardo Fernandino, PhD