Psycholinguist and cognitive scientist/neuroscientist investigating contextualized language meaning in the brain during thinking and feeling. (she/her)https://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3mvheias7fk2iMy PhD student Lindsay Krebs and I presented at the International Mind, Brain and Education Society 2026. Lots of happenings in educational neuroscience - we learned a lot!14 Sep 2026 05:21 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvheias7fk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3mggnlze35k2rOur lab will be presenting another set of new results on concept semantic change during metaphoric learning at #CNS2026 @laurabaiocco.bsky.social07 Mar 2026 01:14 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggnlze35k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3lyqnn7d74k2cOur 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.social13 Sep 2025 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyqnn7d74k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3lw4zghxqrk2tMy 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2025 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw4zghxqrk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3lw4ywnib4s2vOur 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 Aug 2025 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw4ywnib4s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3lvbfmebobs2sWe 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 Jul 2025 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbfmebobs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3llkd3kvaak2gNew 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. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301051125000213?dgcid=author#sec011029 Mar 2025 21:56 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3llkd3kvaak2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/viclai.bsky.social/post/3lhq2qiuk6222New paper from our lab showed that reading emotional metaphors taxes on both more emotional and more semantic neural resources than reading emotional literal sentences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.10553009 Feb 2025 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:ypdqljvrbd7fbxkudt77xa6q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhq2qiuk6222