
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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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
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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 05 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 11 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 06 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 09 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 09 21;36(38):9763-9 PMID: 27656016 PMCID: PMC5030346 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84988473737 09/23/2016
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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 PMID: 27310469 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84975106309 06/17/2016
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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 PMID: 25750259 PMCID: PMC4830284 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84965165807 03/10/2015
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(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
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(Binder JR, Fernandino L.) Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference. February 14, 2015;3:445-454 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84943244926 02/14/2015
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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 PMID: 23624313 PMCID: PMC3731159 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84879151933 04/30/2013
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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