Vicky Lai

Our lab at the Neurobiology of Language conference! Lindsay is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP during conversational tutoring of abstract science concepts using metaphors, and Laura is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP of metaphor comprehension in healthy older adults. 💪#SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

13.09.2025 20:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My PhD student Laura Baiocco received the RaAM research award this year, to conduct research on metaphor comprehension in patients with primary progressive aphasia! Many congrats!

11.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Hamad and all for such a wonderful conference!

Lunch with the research group from Pavia, where our lab visited in June 2024 and collaborated and conducted an empirical study together!

Cognitive (and Affective) Neuroscience of Language lab at #RaAM2025

Our lab at #RaAM2025: Laura Baiocco talked about emotional dimensions of metaphors, Lindsay Krebs talked about student-produced metaphors and science concept learning, Cagatay Cora presented the neural correlates of visual metaphors. Thank the organizers Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social for a great time!

11.08.2025 14:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀

08.08.2025 10:11 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We will be presenting our work on "What does action do to object? The case of metaphoric action" led by Cora Cagatay and in collaboration with Rutvik Desai at #CogSci2025. P1-C-42 that's Poster session 1 from 1-2:15 pm on Thursday 7/31.

31.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Dual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization: Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers | Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core Dual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization: Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers - Volume 17

Excited to share our latest publication with @viclai.bsky.social on crosslinguistic differences in the relationship between aspectual systems and event conceptualization:
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21.05.2025 19:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

@viclai.bsky.social

20.05.2025 13:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

✍️ #BCBLpaper in #BiologicalPsychology | Use of context in updating affective representations of #words in older adults.

Ku, L. and Lai, V.

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14.03.2025 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Li-Chuan Ku Keywords: electrophysiology, brain oscillations, affective language processing, visual word recognition

This was dissertation work done by a former PhD student Li-Chaun Ku who is currently a postdoc at BCBL
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29.03.2025 21:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New paper on emotional language and healthy aging! When reading words in sentences, older adults (OA) used emotional context to change positive words more, and younger adults (YA) used emotional context context to change negative words more.
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29.03.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library Verbal creativity in generating novel metaphors is widely recognized, but its electrophysiological basis has not been investigated. By applying brain state analysis to EEG data, we identify oscillato...

My latest installment of brain state modeling in creativity is out @ Psychophysiology! We found generating novel metaphors is associated with widespread alpha-band synchronization early on in ideation and, paradoxically, alpha-desynch right before response. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

14.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Exploring How Generating Metaphor Via Insight Versus Analysis Affects Metaphor Quality and Learning Outcomes Metaphor generation is both a creative act and a means of learning. When learning a new concept, people often create a metaphor to connect the new concept to existing knowledge. Does the manner in wh...

Check out our paper for intepretation and a bonus gamma-band effect. Big thanks to my creative-metaphor collaborators @viclai.bsky.social , Lindsay Krebs and Mark Beeman. If you want more metaphors-generation, learning outcome and insight, find it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

14.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New paper from our lab showed that reading emotional metaphors taxes on both more emotional and more semantic neural resources than reading emotional literal sentences.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

09.02.2025 07:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dog videos!

09.02.2025 06:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0