Leonardo Fernandino, PhD
Assistant Professor
Locations
- Neurology
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
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
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
Publications
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(Anderson AJ, Lalor EC, Lin F, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Wang X.) Cereb Cortex. 2018 May 16.
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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(Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Seidenberg MS, Gross WL, Conant LL, Binder JR.) Neuropsychologia. 2015 Sep;76:17-26.
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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.
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(Binder JR & Fernandino L.) Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference. Toga AW (Ed.) Elsevier.
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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.
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Parkinson's disease disrupts both automatic and controlled processing of action verbs.
(Fernandino L, Conant LL, Binder JR, Blindauer K, Hiner B, Spangler K, Desai RH.) Brain Lang. 2013 Oct;127(1):65-74.
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Common and dissociable prefrontal loci associated with component mechanisms of analogical reasoning.
(Cho S, Moody TD, Fernandino L, Mumford JA, Poldrack RA, Cannon TD, Knowlton BJ, Holyoak KJ.) Cereb Cortex. 2010 Mar;20(3):524-33.
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(Fernandino L, Iacoboni M.) Brain Lang. 2010 Jan;112(1):44-53.
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The effects of bilateral presentations on lateralized lexical decision.
(Fernandino L, Iacoboni M, Zaidel E.) Brain Cogn. 2007 Jun;64(1):60-7.