Leonardo Fernandino, PhD
Assistant Professor
Locations
- Neurology
Education
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
Publications
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How does the default mode network contribute to semantic cognition?
(Fernandino L, Binder JR.) Brain Lang. 2024 Apr 04;252:105405 PMID: 38579461 04/06/2024
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(Fernandino L, Conant LL.) bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 18 PMID: 36993310 PMCID: PMC10055357 03/31/2023
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(Uddin LQ, Fernandino L, Neta M, Greene DJ, Mooshagian E.) Neuropsychologia. 2023 Dec 15;191:108725 PMID: 37949214 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85177089496 11/11/2023
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(Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Tong JQ, Binder JR, Fernandino L.) Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 2023 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85164679149 01/01/2023
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A Distributed Network for Multimodal Experiential Representation of Concepts.
(Tong J, Binder JR, Humphries C, Mazurchuk S, Conant LL, Fernandino L.) J Neurosci. 2022 Sep 14;42(37):7121-7130 PMID: 35940877 PMCID: PMC9480893 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85138448742 08/09/2022
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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 Feb 08;119(6) PMID: 35115397 PMCID: PMC8832989 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85124059714 02/05/2022
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(Anderson AJ, Kiela D, Binder JR, Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Conant LL, Raizada RDS, Grimm S, Lalor EC.) J Neurosci. 2021 May 05;41(18):4100-4119 PMID: 33753548 PMCID: PMC8176751 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105889500 03/24/2021
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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 Nov 06;39(45):8969-8987 PMID: 31570538 PMCID: PMC6832686 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074675097 10/02/2019
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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. 2019 Jun 01;29(6):2396-2411 PMID: 29771323 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85058538387 05/18/2018
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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 Sep 01;27(9):4379-4395 PMID: 27522069 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85032015905 08/16/2016
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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 Sep 21;36(38):9763-9 PMID: 27656016 PMCID: PMC5030346 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84988473737 09/23/2016
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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