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Gina R. Kuperberg Gina R Kuperberg, MD PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychology at Tufts University and an Associate Psychiatrist in the Dept. of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her MD at St. Bartholomew’s Medical School, London, and her PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Kings College, University of London. She completed an internship at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and a residency and fellowship in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London. She came to the US in 1998 and completed research fellowships in neuroimaging and cognitive electrophysiology at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and the NeuroCognition Lab at Tufts University. Dr. Kuperberg has a joined Lab across Tufts University (the NeuroCognition Lab, in collaboration with Dr. Phillip Holcomb) and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (Mass. General Hospital). Dr. Kuperberg’s Lab focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of language, thought and meaning. We are interested in when, where and how the human brain builds up the meaning of sentences, discourse (whole stories) and visual images (movie-clips). To address these questions we use multimodal neuroimaging techniques: event-related potentials (ERPs) have excellent temporal resolution and can tell us when neurocognitive processes happen in the brain; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has excellent spatial resolution and can tell us where neurocognitive processes occur in the human brain. In addition to studying normal brain function, we are also examining how the build-up of meaning is impaired in patients with schizophrenia and how such impairments are reflected by abnormal patterns of brain activity in such patients. For more details about what we do, please see http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/kuperberglab/. Graduate Students Joining our lab as a graduate student will offer you a strong cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistic training, and will give you insights into the use of multimodal neuroimaging methods to address fundamental questions of how the brain builds up meaning. Depending on a student’s interest,during his/her graduate career he/she may focus on developing and expanding ERP projects in healthy individuals, may apply their paradigms to learn how language processing goes awry in schizophrenia, and/or may complement their training in ERPs with training in fMRI at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. For more information about how to join the lab as a graduate student and for the types of studies that are being carried out by current grad students, please see http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/kuperberglab/join.htm#graduates. Undergraduate Students We welcome undergraduate involvement in our research. For more information about joining our lab as a volunteer, please see: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/kuperberglab/join.htm#undergrads. |
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Representative Publications
Please see http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/kuperberglab/publications.htm. |
