Jamie Reilly joins the editorial board of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Dr. Jamie Reilly was appointed to the editorial board for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, an exciting academic journal focused on multidisciplinary brain rehabilitation research.
Molly Ungrady continues her world domination tour
Congratulations to Molly Ungrady on her acceptance to the Academy of Aphasia annual conference.
*Ungrady, M. M., Giovannetti, T., Reilly J. (October, 2020) Longitudinal investigation of accuracy during confrontation naming of objects and actions in svPPA. Poster presented at the Academy of Aphasia.
Jamie Reilly broke his ankle!
and tore three ligaments in the process…. Look at this fat, swollen monstrosity
Mission accomplished: Congratulations to Matthew Sayers!
Congratulations to Matt Sayers on the acceptance of his paper to the annual conference of the Academy of Aphasia this October. Matt is a doctoral student with Nadine Martin in the Aphasia Rehabilitation Lab. This is Matt’s first academic presentation (of many to come). Well done!
Sayers M, Laval D, Reilly J, Martin N (October, 2020). Integrity of input verbal short-term memory ability predicts naming accuracy and error types. Poster presented at the Academy of Aphasia.
Peter Twigg completes his MSc in Neuroscience!
A nicer chap you will never meet…. We are proud of Peter who will be graduating from Temple University next week with his Master’s degree in Neuroscience — and he did it all in the time of corona. Bravo Peter
Our cursing article featured in Discover Magazine
New section on the lab website -- meet our pets!
New article coming up in the Journal of Neurolinguistics
Be on the lookout for our recent paper contrasting sensory norms in English (e.g., visual salience, smell salience, etc) with functional brain activation levels for each sensory modality —
Reilly J, *Flurie M, & Peelle JE (2020, in press). The English lexicon mirrors a functional hierarchy dominated by vision and audition: Point-Counterpoint. Journal of Neurolinguistics.
Farewell to Isabella Neff, Catalina Barrosso, & Ali Miler
Running a lab can be pretty rewarding, but one of the toughest parts is saying goodbye to great people. Farewell to Isabella Neff, Catalina Barrosso, and Ali Miler!
Cursing paper accepted at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
It’s on! Be on the lookout for the f^%ing amazing paper:
Reilly J, Kelly A, Zuckerman B, *Twigg P, *Wells M, *Jobson K, & *Flurie M (in press). Building the perfect curse word: A psycholinguistic investigation of the form and meaning of taboo words. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Congratulations to our student co-authors, Missy Wells, Katie Jobson, & Max Flurie!!!
Be on the lookout for our new Frontiers in Human Neuroscience paper
Congratulations to first time authors Molly Ungrady and Max Flurie! Be on the lookout for our upcoming article titled: Naming and Knowing Revisited: Eyetracking Correlates of Anomia in Progressive Aphasia
Congratulations to Max Flurie on his first grant and abstract submission
Max just won Temple University’s Summer Grant from the graduate school. Wow! What a great start this young scholar is having. He also just submitted an abstract to the Neurobiology of Language Conference. Outstanding work, Max!
Allie Kelly is also off to PhD land
Our lab manager has been accepted to the PhD program in Cognitive Psychology at Drexel University! Allie will be working with my good friend and intellectual idol, Dr. Lila Chrysikou. Congratulations to Allie. I hope you know what you’re getting into!
Molly Ungrady is off to PhD land
Congratulations to Molly Ungrady!!! Our stalwart clinical technician and treatment administrator extraordinaire has been accepted to the Ph.D. program in Neuropsychology at Temple. She’ll be working with the amazing Dr. Tania Giovannetti.
another yuge eyetracking paper - this one in the journal, Psychology & Aging
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Seligman-Rycroft and Tania Giovannetti!
Be on the lookout for:
Rycroft, S.S., Giovannetti, T., Shipley, T.F., Hulswit, J., Divers, R., Reilly, J. (in press). Windows to functional decline: Naturalistic eye movements in older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging.
YUGE new pupillometry methods paper in Behavior Research Methods
We characterized the human cognitive pupillary response. Yes, it was complicated. Yes, some reviewers and editors hated it. Yes, I’m psyched. This is some of the best science I have ever done. Congratulations are especially in order to our student co-authors, Savannah Jett and Seung Kim.
Jamie Reilly appointed Review Editor for Frontiers in Neurology: Stroke
Jamie is now a Review Editor for Frontiers in Neurology. He’ll be overseeing peer review for manuscripts related to language in stroke and primary progressive aphasia.
New R How-To Series
Visit our new R.How webpages for information on specific topics related to R statistical programming. These pages cover some of the thornier topics we have faced in our working group at Temple University. Feel free to suggest any content additions.
NIH R01 Project Grant Renewed for 5 Years
Five more years! I am thrilled to report that our language treatment grant DC013063 has been renewed from 2019-2024. I was so stressed out that I was eating crisco right out of the jar. Thanks to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.