Leonardo Fernandino, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering; Interim Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs and Development, Department of Neurology
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
- Semantic deficits
- Semantics
- Sentence processing
Methodologies and Techniques
- Evoked Potentials
- Functional MRI
- Lateralized stimulus presentation
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Magnetoencephalography
- Multivariate Analysis
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Psychophysics
- Semantic Priming
- Statistics
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Leadership Positions
- Member, MCW Faculty Council
Educational Expertise
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Cognitive Science
- Concept representation
- Event-Related Potentials, N400
- Language
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Philosophy of Science
- Psychology, Experimental
- Reaction Time
- Semantics
- Statistics
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.
Current Grants
Title: Neural Representation of Lexical Concepts
Source: NIH/NIDCD
Role & Effort: PI
PI: L. Fernandino
Dates: 04/01/2024 - 03/31/2029
Direct Funds: $1,979,000 (total for all years)
Title: Brain-to-text computer interfaces as a precursor for artificial speech restoration in aphasia
Source: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment
Role & Effort: Co-Investigator
PI: Anderson, A.J.
Dates: 07/01/2024 - 06/31/2026
Direct Funds: $250,000 (total for all years)
Title: Center for Aphasia Research and Recovery
Source: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
Role & Effort: Co-Investigator
PI: J.R. Binder
Dates: 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
Direct Funds: $250,000 (total for all years)
Title: Decoding mental concept identities using electrocorticography
Source: NIH/NIDCD
Role & Effort: Co-Investigator
PI: W. Gross
Dates: 05/01/2023 - 04/30/2026
Direct Funds: $585,000 (total for all years)
Publications
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What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary.
(Reilly J, Shain C, Borghesani V, Kuhnke P, Vigliocco G, Peelle JE, Mahon BZ, Buxbaum LJ, Majid A, Brysbaert M, Borghi AM, De Deyne S, Dove G, Papeo L, Pexman PM, Poeppel D, Lupyan G, Boggio P, Hickok G, Gwilliams L, Fernandino L, Mirman D, Chrysikou EG, Sandberg CW, Crutch SJ, Pylkkänen L, Yee E, Jackson RL, Rodd JM, Bedny M, Connell L, Kiefer M, Kemmerer D, de Zubicaray G, Jefferies E, Lynott D, Siew CSQ, Desai RH, McRae K, Diaz MT, Bolognesi M, Fedorenko E, Kiran S, Montefinese M, Binder JR, Yap MJ, Hartwigsen G, Cantlon J, Bi Y, Hoffman P, Garcea FE, Vinson D.) Psychon Bull Rev. 2024 Sep 04 PMID: 39231896 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85203261884 09/05/2024
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(Fernandino L, Conant LL.) Neuropsychologia. 2024 Aug 13;201:108939 PMID: 38897450 PMCID: PMC11326522 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85196852899 06/20/2024
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The neural representation of body part concepts.
(Mazurchuk S, Fernandino L, Tong JQ, Conant LL, Binder JR.) Cereb Cortex. 2024 Jun 04;34(6) PMID: 38863113 PMCID: PMC11166504 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85195887945 06/12/2024
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How does the default mode network contribute to semantic cognition?
(Fernandino L, Binder JR.) Brain Lang. 2024 May;252:105405 PMID: 38579461 PMCID: PMC11135161 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85189700094 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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(Fernandino L, Binder JR.) . In: Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd Edition, (Grafman J, ed.), Elsevier, London. 06/15/2024
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Neural processing of word meaning
(Binder, J. R., Fernandino, L. .) . In: The Cognitive Neurosciences VI (Poeppel D, Mangun GR, Gazzaniga MS, eds). MIT Press, Cambridge. 01/05/2020