@ Martinos Center and Tufts University

Original Articles and Reviews

Under Review

In Press or Available Online

• Lau E, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. Dissociating N400 effects of prediction from association in single word contexts. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In press. [pdf]

2012

• Temereanca S, Hamalainen MS, Kuperberg GR, Stufflebeam SM, Halgren E, Brown EN. Eye movements modulate the spatiotemporal dynamics of word processing. Journal of Neuroscience. 2012; 32(13): 4482-4494. [pdf]

• Paczynski M, Kuperberg GR. Multiple influences of semantic memory on sentence processing: distinct effects of semantic relatedness on violations of real-world event/state knowledge and animacy selection restrictions. Journal of Memory and Language. 2012; 67(4): 426-448. [pdf]

• Fields EC, Kuperberg GR. It's all about you: An ERP study of emotion and self-relevance in discourse. NeuroImage. 2012; 62(1): 562–574. [pdf]

• Cohn N, Paczynski M, Jackendoff R, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. (Pea)nuts and bolts of visual narrative: Structure and meaning in sequential image comprehension. Cognitive Psychology. 2012; 65(1): 1-38. [pdf]

• Blackford T, Holcomb P, Grainger J, Kuperberg GR. A funny thing happened on the way to articulation: N400 attenuation despite behavioral interference in picture naming. Cognition. 2012; 123(1): 84-99. [pdf]

2011

• Paczynski M, Kuperberg GR. Electrophysiological evidence for use of the animacy hierarchy, but not thematic role assignment, during verb argument processing. Language and Cognitive Processes. 2011; 26(9): 1402-1456. [pdf]

• Ditman T, Goff D, Kuperberg GR. Slow and steady: Sustained effects of lexico-semantic associations mediate referential impairments in schizophrenia. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience. 2011;11(2): 245-58. PMCID: PMC3138326 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Paczynski M, Ditman T. Establishing causal coherence across sentences: An ERP study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2011; 23(5): 1230–1246. PMCID: PMC3141815 [pdf]

• Holt DJ, Lakshmanan B, Freudenreich O, Goff DC, Rauch RL, Kuperberg GR. Dysfunction of a cortical midline network during emotional appraisals in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2011; 37(1): 164-176. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Kreher DA, Swain A, Goff DC, Holt DJ. Selective emotional processing deficits to social vignettes in schizophrenia: An ERP study. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2011; 37(1): 148-163. [pdf]

2010

• Nieuwland MS, Ditman T, Kuperberg GR. On the incrementality of pragmatic processing: An ERP investigation of informativeness and pragmatic abilities. Journal of Memory and Language. 2010; 63: 324-346. PMCID: PMC2950651 [pdf]

• De Grauwe S, Swain A, Holcomb PJ, Ditman T, Kuperberg GR. Electrophysiological insights into the processing of nominal metaphors. Neuropsychologia. 2010; 48 (7): 1965-1984. PMCID: PMC2907657 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR. Language in schizophrenia Part 1: An Introduction. Language and Linguistic Compass. 2010; 4(8): 576-589. PMCID: PMC2950318 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR. Language in schizophrenia Part 2: What can psycholinguistics bring to the study of schizophrenia and vice versa? Language and Linguistic Compass. 2010; 4(8): 590-604. PMCID: PMC2932455 [pdf]

• Ditman T, Kuperberg GR. Building coherence: a framework for exploring the breakdown of links across clause boundaries in schizophrenia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, "Language in Schizophrenia" Special Issue. 2010; 23(3) 254-269. PMCID: PMC2851098 [pdf]

• Sitnikova T, Perrone C., Goff D. and Kuperberg GR. Neurocognitive mechanisms of conceptual processing in health and schizophrenia. International Journal of Psychophysiology, Language and Psychophysiology Special Issue. 2010; 75(2) 86-99. PMCID: PMC2842912 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Kreher DA, Ditman T. What can event-related potentials tell us about language, and perhaps even thought, in schizophrenia? International Journal of Psychophysiology, 'Language and Psychophysiology' Special Issue. 2010; 75(2) 66-76. PMCID: PMC3136365 [pdf]

• Kuperberg, GR., Choi, A., Cohn, N., Paczynski M., Jackendoff, R. Electrophysiological correlates of Complement Coercion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2010; 22(12): 2685-2701. PMCID: PMC3151732 [pdf]

2009

• Holt DJ, Lynn SK, Kuperberg GR. Neurophysiological correlates of comprehending emotional meaning in context. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2009; 21(11): 2245-2262. PMCID: PMC3143819 [pdf]

• Kreher DA, Goff DC, Kuperberg GR. Why all the confusion? Experimental task explains discrepant semantic priming effects in schizophrenia under "automatic" conditions: Evidence from event-related potentials. Schizophrenia Research. 2009; 111(1-3):174-181. PMCID: PMC2680451 [pdf]

• Sitnikova T, Goff DC, Kuperberg GR. Neurocognitive abnormalities during comprehension of real-world goal-directed behaviors in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2009; 118(2): 256-277. PMCID: PMC2819083 [pdf]

2008

• Nieuwland MS, Kuperberg GR. When the truth isn't too hard to handle: An event-related potential study on the pragmatics of negation. Psychological Science. 2008; 19: 1213-1218. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, West WC, Lakshmanan BM, Goff DC. fMRI reveals neuroanatomical dissociations during semantic integration in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 2008; 64: 407-418. PMCID: PMC2651768 [pdf]

• Ditman T, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. Time travel through language:Temporal shifts rapidly decrease information accessibility during reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2008; 15: 750-756. PMCID: PMC2667942 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR. Building meaning in schizophrenia. EEG and Clinical Neuroscience 2008. 'Psychosis', Special Issue; 2008; 39: 99-102. PMCID: PMC3141814 [pdf]

• Sitnikova T, Holcomb PJ, Kiyonaga KA, Kuperberg GR. Two neurocognitive mechanisms of semantic integration during the comprehension of visual real-world events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2008; 20(11): 1-21. PMCID: PMC2673092 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Lakshmanan BM, Greve DN, West WC. Task and semantic relationship influence both the polarity and localization of hemodynamic modulation during lexico-semantic processing. Human Brain Mapping 2008; 29: 544-561. PMCID: PMC3141820 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Sitnikova T, Lakshmanan BM. Neuroanatomical distinctions within the semantic system during sentence comprehension: Evidence from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. NeuroImage 2008; 40: 367-388. PMCID: PMC3141816 [pdf]

• Kreher DA, Holcomb PJ, Goff DC, Kuperberg GR. Neural evidence for faster and further automatic spreading activation in schizophrenic thought disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008; 34: 473-482. PMCID: PMC2632424 [pdf]

2007

• Kuperberg GR. Neural mechanisms of language comprehension: Challenges to syntax. Brain Research (Special Issue) 2007; 1146: 23-49; Epub 2006 Dec 2. [pdf]
  Winner of Award from Brain Research for most cited article in 2009 of all articles published in 2007 and 2008 and one of the Top 5 most cited articles published in the journal Brain Research during the period of 2006 - 2010.

• Ditman T & Kuperberg, GR. The time course of building discourse coherence in schizophrenia: An ERP investigation. Psychophysiology 2007; 44: 991-1001. [pdf]

• Ditman T, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. An investigation of concurrent ERP and self-paced reading methodologies. Psychophysiology 2007; 44: 927-935. PMCID: PMC2692571 [pdf]

• Wisco JJ, Kuperberg GR, Manoach D, Quinn B, Busa E, Fischl B, Heckers S, Sorensen G. Abnormal cortical folding patterns within Broca’s area in schizophrenia: Evidence from structural MRI. Schizophrenia Research 2007; 94: 317-327. [pdf]

• Ditman T, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. The contributions of lexico-semantic and discourse information to the resolution of ambiguous categorical anaphors. Language and Cognitive Processes 2007; 22: 793-827. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Deckersbach T, Holt DJ, Goff DC, West WC. Increased temporal and prefrontal activity in response to semantic associations in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 2007; 64: 138-151. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Kreher DA, Sitnikova T, Caplan D, Holcomb PJ. The role of animacy and thematic relationships in processing active English sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain and Language 2007; 100: 223-238. [pdf]

  See also accompanying commentary: H. Kolk & D. Chwilla, "Late positivities in unusual situations".

2006

• Kuperberg GR, Lakshmanan BM, Caplan D, Holcomb PJ. Making sense of discourse: An fMRI study of causal inferencing across sentences. NeuroImage 2006; 33: 343-361. [pdf]

• Kreher DA, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. An electrophysiological investigation of indirect semantic priming. Psychophysiology 2006; 43: 550-563. PMCID: PMC1919409 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Kreher DA, Goff DC, McGuire P, David A. Building up linguistic context in schizophrenia: Evidence from self-paced reading. Neuropsychology 2006; 20: 442-452. [pdf]

• Holt DJ, Titone D, Long S, Goff DC, Cather C, Rauch SL, Judge A, Kuperberg GR. Misattributions of salience in delusional patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 2006; 83: 247-256. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Sitnikova T, Goff DC, Holcomb PJ. Making sense of sentences in schizophrenia: Electrophysiological evidence for abnormal interactions between semantic and syntactic processes. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2006; 115(2): 251-265. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Caplan D, Sitnikova T, Eddy M, Holcomb PJ. Neural correlates of processing syntactic, semantic and thematic relationships in sentences. Language and Cognitive Processes 2006; 21(5): 489-530. [pdf]

2003-2005

• Sitnikova T, West WC, Kuperberg GR, Holcomb PJ. The neural organization of semantic memory: Electrophysiological activity suggests feature-based anatomical segregation. Biological Psychology 2005; 71: 326-340. PMCID: PMC2094699 [pdf]

• Ditman T, Kuperberg GR. A source monitoring account of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. Harvard Review of Psychiatry; 2005;13: 280-299. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Broome M, McGuire P, David A, Eddy M, Goff DC, West WC, van der Kouwe AJW, Salat DH, Dale AM, Fischl, B. Regionally localized thinning of the cerebral cortex in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 2003; 60: 878-888. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Sitnikova T, Caplan D, Holcomb PJ. Electrophysiological distinctions in processing conceptual relationships within simple sentences. Cognitive Brain Research 2003; 217: 117-129. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Holcomb PJ, Sitnikova T, Greve D, Dale AM, Caplan D. Distinct patterns of neural modulation during the processing of conceptual and syntactic anomalies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2003; 15: 272-293. [pdf]

• Sitnikova T, Kuperberg GR, Holcomb PJ. Semantic integration in videos of real-world events: an electrophysiological investigation. Psychophysiology 2003; 40: 160-164. [pdf]

Prior to 2002

• Sitnikova T, Salisbury DF, Kuperberg GR, Holcomb PJ. Electrophysiological insights into language processing in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology 2002; 39: 851-860. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Kerwin R, Murray RM. Developments in the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia. Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs 2002;11: 1335-1341. [pdf]

• Caplan D, Vijayan S, Kuperberg GR, West WC, Waters G, Greve D, Dale A. Vascular responses to syntactic processing: Event-related fMRI study of relative clauses. Human Brain Mapping 2001; 15: 26-38. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, McGuire PK, Bullmore ET, Brammer MJ, Rabe-Hesketh S, Wright IC, Lythgoe DJ, Williams SC, David AS. Common and distinct neural substrates for pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic processing of spoken sentences: An fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2000; 12: 321-41. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, McGuire PK, David AS. Sensitivity to linguistic anomalies in spoken sentences: A case study approach to understanding thought disorder in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine 2000; 30: 345-57. [pdf]

• Kuperberg G, Heckers S. Schizophrenia and cognitive function. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2000; 10: 205-10. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, McGuire PK, David A. Reduced sensitivity to linguistic context in schizophrenic thought disorder: Evidence from online monitoring for words in linguistically-anomalous sentences. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1998; 107: 423-34. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Murray R. Advances in the treatment of schizophrenia. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 1996; 50: 315-323.

Textbooks and Book Chapters

• Osterhout L, Kim A, Kuperberg GR. The Neurobiology of Sentence Comprehension. To appear in M. Spivey, M. Joannisse, & K. McRae (Eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

• Sitnikova T, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Comprehension. In Eds. T. F. Shipley & J. Zacks. Understanding Events: How Humans See, Represent, and Act on Events. Oxford University Press. 2008; 639-683 [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Ditman T, Kreher D, Goldberg T. Approaches to Understanding Language Dysfunction in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Insights from the Study of Schizophrenia. In S. Wood, N. Allen and C. Pantelis (Eds). Handbook of Neuropsychology of Mental Disorders. 2009; 68-95. Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR. EEG, ERPs, MEG and Multimodal Imaging: Applications in Psychiatry. In: S Rauch and D Doughtery (eds): Psychiatric Neuroimaging: A Primer for Clinicians, 1st edition, 2004; 117-128, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Caplan D. Language Dysfunction in Schizophrenia. In R.B. Schiffer, S.M. Rao, and B.S. Fogel (eds): Neuropsychiatry, 2nd edition, 2003: 444-66. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Lumley J. Final MBBS surgery: Clinical Examination and Differential Diagnosis of Common Surgical Conditions. 2nd edition, 2003 Pastest, Knutsford, Cheshire. [Amazon.co.uk]

• Kuperberg GR, Lumley J. Final MBBS surgery: Clinical Examination and Differential Diagnosis of Common Surgical Conditions. 1st edition, 1995 Pastest, Knutsford, Cheshire [Amazon.com]

Abstracts and Posters

(work already published in full manuscript form is not included in this list )

• Lau E, Weber K, Delaney-Busch N, Ustine C, Fanucci K, Hamalainen M, Kuperberg G. Contextual prediction in schizophrenia: Multimodal imaging evidence from a semantic priming paradigm. Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, 2012. [pdf]

• Kuperberg GR, Fanucci K, Delaney-Busch N, Blackford T. A funny thing happned on the way to talking: Enhanced automatic semantic activity immediately preceding language production in schizophrenia. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2012. [pdf]

• Fields EC, Carneiro de Lima C, Natraj R, Tusch E, Kuperberg GR. ERPs reveal rapid effects of the self-positivity bias during the processing of social vignettes. Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, 2012; Tufts Cognitive Science Conference, 2012; Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2012. [pdf]

• Lau E, Gramfort A, Burns S, Delaney-Busch N, Fields E, Fanucci K, Holcomb P, Hamalainen M, Kuperberg GR. Localizing N400 effects of prediction with simultaneous EEG-MEG. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2012; Tufts Cognitive Science Conference, 2012.

• Delaney-Busch N, Wilkie G, Kim JH, Yacoubian A, Kuperberg GR. Valence evaluations override innate salience of high-arousal words: the late positivity as a dynamic measure of emotional relevance. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2012; Tufts Cognitive Science Conference, 2012. [Poster] [Abstract]

• Cohn N, Jackendoff R, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. Constituency structure in visual narrative: Evidence from reading times and event-related potentials. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2012.[Abstract]

• Lau E, Burns S, Gramfort A, Delaney-Busch N, Fields EC, Fanucci K, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. Using multimodal imaging to distinguish active prediction from passive priming. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, 2011. [Poster]

• Lau E, Burns S, Kuperberg GR. fMRI effects of masked semantic priming. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2011. [Poster]

• Kuperberg GR, Okano K, Goff D, Fanucci K, Eddy M. Deficits in recurrent cortical activity contribute to both perceptual and semantic deficits during object recognition in schizophrenia. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2011. [Poster]

• Kuperberg GR, Lau E, Clegg L. A Gratton effect on the syntactic P600: Evidence that syntactic processing is subject to a dynamic adjustment of executive control. 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2011. [Abstract][Poster]

• Fairbrother WM, Paczynski M, Fields EC, Kuperberg GR. Distinct neural processes engaged during temporal sequencing and coherence building during discourse processing. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2011. [Abstract][Poster]

• Paczynski M, Kuperberg GR. A shift in time: Neural processing costs associated with shifts in aspectual interpretation. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2011; 23nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2010. [Abstract][Poster]

• Paczynski M, Cook A, Kuperberg GR. Effects of sentential constraint on the syntactic and semantic P600: Evidence from electrophysiological recording during self-paced reading. Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement. 2011.

• Delaney-Busch N, Haime V, Wilkie G, Kuperberg GR. Vivid: A fully crossed ERP investigation of valence, salience, concreteness, and frequency. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2011. [Abstract][Poster]

• Wittenberg E, Paczynski M, Wiese H, Jackendoff R, Kuperberg GR. Light verbs make heavy work. 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, and Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2011. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Delaney-Busch N, Okano K, Kuperberg GR. Laugh at a funeral: Distinct roles of valence congruity and semantic congruity in discourse. 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2011. [Abstract][Poster]

• Xiang M, Swain A, Kuperberg GR. Reversing causal coherence through linguistic cues: Evidence from event-related potentials. 23nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2010; Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2010. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Wang S, Ditman T, Choi A, Kuperberg GR. The effects of task on processing real-world, animacy and syntactically violated sentences. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2010. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Clegg L, Swain A, Fields EC, Delaney-Busch N, Holt D, Kuperberg GR. The construction of valence: ERPs to neutral words in discourse modulated by emotional content of previous word or sentence. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2010. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Ditman T, Okano K, Gorlin G, Goff D, Kuperberg GR. An ERP examination of pronoun resolution in schizophrenia. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2010. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Kuperberg GR, Goff D, Ditman T. Loosening of Associations Revisited: Social Communication Dysfunction in Schizophrenia. American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2010.

• Paczynski M, Kuperberg GR. Impact of grammatical voice and animacy on verb processing. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 2009; Neurobiology of Language Conference. 2009. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Ditman T, Nieuwland M, Kuperberg GR. An ERP examination of a pragmatic repeated name penalty. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 2009. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Ditman T, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. An ERP investigation of pronoun resolution. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 2008. [Abstract]

• Sitnikova T, Roffman J, Santangelo S, Kuperberg GR, Goff DC. Contributions of the COMT and MTHFR genes to deficits in real-world comprehension in schizophrenia. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Schizophrenia Research Suppl. 2008.

• Sitnikova T, Paczynski M, Kuperberg GR. Context motivates comprehenders attempts to make sense of novel events: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement. 2007.

• Stanczak L, Caplan D, Waters G, Babbitt L, Lee JM, Kuperberg GR, Perlmutter N. BOLD signal correlates of semantic plausibility as a function of working memory and task demand. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement. 2007. [Poster]

• Ditman T, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR. The influence of discourse focus on anaphor resolution: A simultaneous self-paced reading and ERP investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement. 2007. [Poster]

• Geyer A, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR, Perlmutter N. Plausibility and sentence comprehension. An ERP Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement. 2006. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Sitnikova T, West WC, Kuperberg GR. Cortico-striatal dysfunction during real-world world comprehension in schizophrenia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement. 2006; Human Brain Mapping Supplement. 2006.[Abstract] [Poster]

• Kuperberg GR, Gulabani D, Goff DC, Blais K, Caplan D, Holcomb PJ. From the Knight to the Right: an event-related fMRI study of schizophrenic thinking. Human Brain Mapping Supplement. 2005. [Abstract] [Poster]

• Sitnikova T, Coty A, Robakis D, Holcomb PJ, Kuperberg GR, West WC. fMRI correlates of comprehending real-world events. Neuroscience, the Society for Neuroscience's 34th Annual Meeting. 2004. [Abstract]

• Kuperberg GR, Goff DC, Eddy M, Rosen B, Sitnikova T, Caplan D. Abnormal modulation of cortical networks during language processing in schizophrenia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement. 83. 2002. [Abstract]