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Human memory has been divided into two major classes of information: episodic memory, which is memory for specific events or episodes of one's life (e.g., what one ate for breakfast this morning); and semantic memory, or factual memory, which is described as memory for knowledge about objects, facts, concepts, and words and their meanings (e.g., what are suitable breakfast foods). Research in my lab focuses on the latter, in our investigations of the neural basis of semantic memory. Relatively little is known about the cortical systems that subserve the storage and retrieval of semantic knowledge, despite numerous cases of dramatic semantic memory dysfunction, such as that observed as one of the earliest and most prominent feature of Alzheimer's disease and other dementing diseases. Recent advances in neuroimaging which provide a noninvasive method for studying normal cognition in healthy volunteers have allowed great strides in understanding the neural bases of cognition. Perhaps nowhere has this method been as influential as in the study of semantic memory. In my laboratory, we take advantage of the latest techniques in functional neuroimaging (fMRI) to answer questions about how and where semantic memory is stored and organized in the brain and how that knowledge can be selectively and flexibly retrieved when needed. Much of our recent research has focused on the role of one region of cortex, the frontal lobes, in the task of retrieving semantic information. In conjunction with our neuroimaging studies, we also examine these questions in brain-damaged humans, in order to provide convergent evidence which is additionally capable of revealing the necessity of brain regions for various cognitive functions. The combination of fMRI studies of normal humans and behavioral studies of patients with relatively focal brain lesions has proven to be an extremely useful approach in our investigations of semantic memory. We have also used both of these methods, in addition to experimental studies of normal humans, to address related topics, such as the role of the frontal lobes in episodic and short-term memory retrieval.

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Research Publications

1. Lorscheid, T. & Thompson, S. L. (1991). Intrusion errors in patients with degenerative or vascular dementia: The cholinergic connection? Dementia, 1, 202-207.

2. Illes, J., Gabrieli, J., Rumelhart, D., Stone, M. V., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Glover, G. H. (1993). Use of a skip-echo Hadamard sequence for localizing cortical activation to visual words. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3, 142.

3. Bower, G. H., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Tulving, E. (1994). On reducing retroactive interference: An interference analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 20, 51-66.

4.Thompson-Schill, S. L., D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Farah, M. J. (1997). Role of left prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A re-evaluation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 94, 14792-14797.

5. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Kurtz, K. J., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Effects of semantic and associative relatedness on automatic priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 440-458.

6. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Swick, D., Farah, M. J., D'Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., & Knight, R. T. (1998). Verb generation in patients with focal frontal lesions: A neuropsychological test of neuroimaging findings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 95, 15855-15860.

7. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Priming of visual and functional knowledge on a semantic classification task. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 41-53.

8. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Aguirre, G. K., D'Esposito, M., & Farah, M. J. (1999). A neural basis for category and modality specificity of semantic knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 37, 671-676.

9. Thompson-Schill, S. L., D¹Esposito, M., & Kan, I. P. (1999). Effects of repetition and competition on prefrontal activity during word generation. Neuron, 23, 513-522.

10. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Fleischman, D. A. (2000). Effects of structural similarity and name frequency on picture naming in Alzheimer's disease.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, 659-667.

11. Gabrieli, J. D. E., Vaidya, C. J., Stone, M. V., Francis, W. S., Thompson-Schill, S. L., Fleischman, D. A., Tinklenberg, J. R., Yesavage, J. A., & Wilson, R. S. (2000). Convergent behavioral and neurospychological evidence for a distinction between identification and production forms of repetition priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 479-498.

12. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Kan, I. P. (2001). Perceptual and conceptual sources of priming on a word generation task. Memory and Cognition, 29, 698-706.

13. Barde, L. H. F. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Models of functional organization of lateral prefrontal cortex in verbal working memory: Evidence in favor of the process model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 1054-1063.

14. Schaefer, S.M., Jackson, D.C., Davidson, R.J., Kimberg, D.Y., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2002). Modulation of amygdala activity by conscious maintenance of negative emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 913-921.

15. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Jonides, J., Marshuetz, C., Smith, E. E., D¹Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., Knight, R. T., & Swick, D. (2002). Effects of frontal lobe damage on interference effects in working memory. Journal of Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 109-120.

16. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: inferring "how" from "where". Neuropsychologia, 41, 280-292.

17. Kan, I. P., Barsalou, L. W., Solomon, K. O., Minor, J. K. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Role of mental imagery in a property verification task: fMRI evidence for perceptual semantic representations. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 20, 525-540.

18. Oliver, R. T. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Dorsal stream activation during the retrieval of object size and shape. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 3(4), 309-322.

19. Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during overt and covert picture naming. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 4(1), 43-57.

20. Tippett, L. J., Gendall, A., Farah, M. J., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Selection Ability in Alzheimer's Disease: Investigation of a Component of Semantic Processing. Neuropsychology. 18(1), 163-173.

21. Shivde, G. S. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Dissociating semantic and phonological maintenance using fMRI. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.

22. Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Selection from perceptual and conceptual representations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 466-482.

23. Kan, I.P. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2004). Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during covert and overt picture naming. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 43-57.

24. Epstein, R.A., Higgins, J.S. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2004). Learning Places from Views: Variation in Scene Processing as a Function of Experience and Navigational Ability. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 73-83.

25. Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Cognitive Control and Parsing: Reexamining the Role of Broca's Area in Sentence Comprehension. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 263-281.

26. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Bedney, M., & Goldberg, R.F. (2005). The frontal lobes and the regulation of mental activity. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 15, 219-224.

27. Schnur, T.T., Lee E., Coslett, H.B., Schwartz, M.F. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). When lexical selection gets tough, the LIFG gets going: A lesion analysis study of interference during word production. Brain and Language .

28. Kable, J. W., Kan, I. P., Wilson, A. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Chatterjee, A. (2005). Conceptual representations of action in lateral temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1855-1870.

29. Kan, I.P., Kable, J.W., Van Scoyoc, A., Chatterjee, A., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2006). Fractionating the left frontal response to tools: Dissociable effects of motor experience and lexical competition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 267-277.

30. Ellenbogen J. M., Hulbert J. C., Stickgold R., Dinges D. F., Thompson-Schill S. L. (2006). Interfering with theories of sleep and memory: Sleep, declarative memory and associative interference. Current Biology, 16, 1290-1294.

31. Bedny, M. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Neuroanatomically separable effects of imageability and grammatical class during single word comprehension. Brain and Language, 98, 127-139.

32. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Botvinick, M. M. (2006). Resolving conflict: A response to Martin and Cheng (2006). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13(3), 402-408.

33. Hirshorn E. A. & Thompson-Schill S. L. (2006). Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in covert word retrieval: Neural correlates of switching during verbal fluency. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2547-2557.

34. Kan, I. P., Biran, I., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2006). Letter selection and letter assembly in acquired dysgraphia. Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, 19(4), 225-236.

35. Snyder, H. R., Feigenson, K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). The role of cognitive control demands in left inferior frontal gyrus activation during semantic and phonological tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(5), 761-775.

36. Bedny, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). Item analysis in functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage, 35(3), 1093-1102.

37. Connolly, A. C., Gleitman, L. R., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). The effect of congenital blindness on the semantic representation of some everyday concepts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(20) 8241-8246.

38. Bedny, M., McGill, M., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in press). Semantic adaptation and competition during word comprehension. Cerebral Cortex.

Chapters

1. Lorscheid, T., & Thompson, S. L. (1991). Intrusion errors: A new look at an old measure. In I. Hindmarch, H. Hippius, & G. Wilcock (Eds.), Dementia: Molecules, Methods, and Measures. London: Wiley & Sons, 185-195.

2. Jonides, J., Badre, D., Curtis, C., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Smith, E.E. (2002). Mechanisms of interference resolution in prefrontal cortex. In D. Stuss and R.T. Knight (Eds.), The Frontal Lobes.

3. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2001). Neural basis of mental imagery. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, London: Nature Publishing Group.

4. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Neural basis of mental imagery. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encylopedia of Cognitive Science. (5th ed.), London: Nature Publishing Group, p. 520-523.

5. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Semantic memory: Neurobiological perspectives. In H. Eichenbaum, H. Roediger, & R. F. Thompson (Eds.), Learning and Memory, Second edition. New York: Macmillan Reference.

6. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Dissecting the language organ: A new look at the role of Broca's area in language processing. In A. Cutler, (Ed.), Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones.

7. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Kan, I. P., & Oliver, R. T. (2006). Neuroimaging of semantic memory. In R. Cabeza and A. Kingstone (Eds.), Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 149-190.

Books

1. Palmer, E. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (1997). GRE Psychology: How to Prepare for the Graduate Record Examination in Psychology(4th ed.). New York: Barron's Educational Series.

2. Palmer, E. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2001). GRE Psychology: How to Prepare for the Graduate Record Examination in Psychology(5th ed.). New York: Barron's Educational Series.

Recent Abstracts / Papers Presented

1. Kan, I. P., D¹Esposito, M., Kimberg, D. Y., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (1999). An fMRI investigation of the nature of competition effects on prefrontal activity during word generation. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

2. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Kan, I. P. (2000). Relationship between response set size and prefrontal activity during verbal fluency. Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting Program.

3. Kan, I. P., Minor, J. K., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2001). Rewriting to write: Exploring the graphemic buffer. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

4. Minor, J. K., Kan, I. P., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2001). Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during overt and covert picture naming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

5. Barde, L.H.F., Hickok, G.S., Gage, N.M., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2001). A reevaluation of phonemic perception errors n auditory language comprehension: Studies from aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

6. Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Semantic processing in Chinese-English bilinguals: an fMRI study of cross-language conceptual priming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

7. Shivde, G. , Barde, L. H. F., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Delay-related activity while maintaining semantic and phonological information in working memory: Evidence from event-related fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 28.

8. Kan, I. P., Farah, M. J. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Conceptual priming of action and color knowledge in picture naming. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 8.

9. Thompson-Schill, S. L.,(2003) Individual differences in navigational ability predict viewpoint-specific priming in parahippocampal cortex. Society for Neuroscience.

10. Kan, I. P., Biran, I., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A.. (2003). Letter selection and letter assembly in acquired dysgraphia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

11. Brandon, M. N., Jha, A. P., Trueswell, J. C., Barde, L. H.F., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Proactive interference in verbal and non-verbal working memory. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society.

12. Shivde, G. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). The effects of actively maintaining the meaning of a word on the performance of concurrent tasks. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society.

13. Epstein, R., Thompson-Schill, & S. L., Higgins, J. S. (2003). Viewpoint-specific and viewpoint-invariant scene priming in parahippocampal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts , 2942.

14. Novick, J.M., January, D., Trueswell, J.C., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2003). Prefrontal cortex and the role of selectional processes in language comprehension: Frogs, napkins, and Broca's area. The 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

15. Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). When function follows form: Conceptual priming differences between natural and man-made objects. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 9.

16. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). What do the parietal lobes know about objects? Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson Hole.

17. Brandon, M., Hirshorn E. A., Jha A. P., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Proactive interference resolution during nonverbal working memory: Evidence for domain-general processing in LIFG. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

18. Kan, I. P., Kable, J. W., Van Scoyoc, A., Chatterjee, A., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Fractionating the left frontal response to tools: Dissociable effects of selection and tools. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

19. Oliver, R. T., Coslett, H. B., Wolk, D., Geiger, E. J., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). What does the parietal lobe know about objects? Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program

20. Schnur, T. T., Hodgson, C., Brecher, A., Rossi, N., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Schwartz, M. (2004). Damage associated with Broca's aphasia produces impairment in paced-cyclic naming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

21. Bedny, M., Thompson-Schill, S. L., Starace, N. K. (2004). The neural correlates of imagability and grammatical class: An event related fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

22. Morales, D.A., Pashler, H.E., Carpenter, A.E., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Rehearsal, distraction, and consolidation in memory for color and form. Vision Sciences Society.

23. Schaefer, S.M., Thompson, S.L., Parker, W., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2004). Amygdalar activity is modulated in opposite directions by the maintenance of positive compared to negative emotion. NeuroImage, 22,MO 266.

24. Hirshorn E. A., Lemos, J. C., & Thompson-Schill S. L. (2004). Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in covert word retrieval: Neural correlates of switching during verbal fluency. Poster presented at the annual of Human Brain Mapping meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

25. Novick, J. M., Trueswell, J. C., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Toward the neural basis of parsing: Prefrontal cortex and the role of selectional processes in language comprehension. Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing.

26. Novick, J. M., Trueswell, J. C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Tracking to Study Spoken Language Processing: Theoretical and Clinical Implications (Symposium). Convention for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.

27. Novick, J. M., Trueswell, J. C., January, D., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Garden-path recovery and cognitive control: the role of conflict resolution in parsing. Psychonomic Society 45th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN [Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 9].

28. Yee, E., Dahan, D., Huffstetler, S., Taylor, J., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Hearing the name of an object partially activates objects with similar functions. Poster presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

29. Kan, I. P., Caravella, R. A. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Effects of frontal lobe damage on verbal fluency and picture naming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

30. Schnur T., Hirshorn, E., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Mapping semantic interference during picture naming: an fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

31. Prabhakaran, R., Brandon, M., Hirshorn, E.A., Jha, A.P., Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). An event-related fMRI investigation of proactive interference resolution in a nonverbal working memory task. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

32. Oliver, R. T., Geiger, E., J., Lewandowski, B. C., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Involvement of the right inferior parietal lobule in shape retrieval is modulated by prior tactile experience with objects. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

33. Oliver, R. T., Geiger, E., J., Lewandowski, B. C., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Involvement of the right inferior parietal lobule in shape retrieval is modulated by prior tactile experience with objects. Poster presented at the Vision Science Society.

34. Connolly, A.C., Gleitman, L.R. , Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Category-specific differences in conceptual knowledge between congenitally blind and sighted subjects. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program, 12.

35. Hirshorn, E. A., Aguirre, G. K., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Proactive and reactive cognitive control during semantic retrieval. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

36. Bedny, M., Hulbert, J.C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Contextual meaning selection during comprehension of homonymous and polysemous words. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

37. Snyder, H. R., Feigenson, K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). The role of inhibition demands in left inferior frontal gyrus activation during semantic and phonological tasks. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

38. Schnur T.T., Hirshorn, E., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Mapping semantic interference during picture naming: an fMRI study. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Havana.

39. Hulbert, J. C., Ellenbogen, J. M., Dinges, D. F., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Sleep and hippocampally mediated memory: Sleep-dependent resistance to interference. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Havana.

40. Ellenbogen, J. M., Hulbert, J. C., Dinges, D. F., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Sleep-dependent resistance to interference (SDRI). Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Toronto.

41. Bedny, M., Aguirre, G. K., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Item analysis applied to neuroimaging: Solving the mystery of reversibly grammatical class effects. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

42. Myung, J., Blumstein, S. E., Buxbaum, L. J., Yee, E., Sedivy, J. C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Impaired access to manipulation features in apraxia: Evidence from eyetracking and semantic judgment tasks. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

43. Yee, E., Huffstetler, S., Dahan, D., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Does hearing an object name activate other objects that are similar in shape and size? Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

44. Goldberg, F., Small, D. M., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). The effects of multimodal semantic knowledge on secondary sensory brain regions. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

45. Prabhakaran, R & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). An investigation of the effects of stimulus familiarity on proactive interference resolution in working memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

46. Drucker, D & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). An fMRI-adaptation study of semantic priming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program

47. Schnur, T. T., Kimberg, D. Y., Lee, E., Coslett, H. B., Schwartz, M. F., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Managing interference during word production: A lesion analysis study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program.

2003 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Posters

1. Kable, J. W., Kan, I. P., Wilson, A., Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Chatterjee, A. (2003). Are tools like animals or actions? Semantic attribute and grammatical class distinctions. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Tenth Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

2. Kan, I.P., Biran, I., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Chatterjee, A. (2003). Letter selection and letter assembly in acquired dysgraphia. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Tenth Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

3. Oliver, R.T., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2003). Dorsal stream activation during retrieval of object size and shape. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Tenth Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

4. Pickard, J.D., Brandon, M.N., Hodgson, C., Schwartz, M., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2003). Facilitating and interfering effects of context on picture naming. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Tenth Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

5. Shivde, G., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2003). Neural correlates of active maintenance of semantic information. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Tenth Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

6. Thompson-Schill, S.L., Oliver, R.T., Brainard, D.H., & Robison, S.G. (2003). Retrieval of color information activates color perception regions. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Tenth Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

2003 Psychonomic Society Posters

1. Shivde, G., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). The Effects of Actively Maintaining the Meaning of a Word on the Performance of Concurrent Tasks. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society 44th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C.

2. Kan, I. P., Farah, M. J., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Conceptual priming of action and color knowledge in picture naming. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society 44th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C.

3. Brandon, M. N., Jha A. P., Trueswell, J. C., Barde, L. H. F., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Proactive interference in verbal and non-verbal working memory. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society 44th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C.

2004 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Poster Presentations

1. Marina Bedny, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, & Nicole K. Starace (2004). The neural correlates of imageability and grammatical class: An event-related fMRI study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2. Irene P. Kan, Joseph W. Kable, Amanda Van Scoyoc, Anjan Chatterjee, & Sharon L. Thompson-Schil (2004). Fractionating the left frontal response to tools: Dissociable effects of selection and action. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

3. Melissa Brandon, Elizabeth Hirshorn, Amishi P. Jha & Sharon L. Thompson-Schill.(2004). Proactive interference resolution during nonverbal working memory: Evidence for domain-general processing in LIFG. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

4. Tatiana T. Schnur, Catherine Hodgson, Adelyn Brecher, Nick Rossi, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, & Myrna Schwartz (2004). Damage associated with Broca's aphasia produces impairment in paced-cyclic naming. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

5. Robyn T. Oliver, H. Branch Coslett, David Wolk, Emily J. Geiger & Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2004). What does the parietal lobe know about objects? Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

6. Dawn A. Morales, Lesley K. Fellows, Sabrina Ford, Andrea S. Heberlein, Geeta Shivde, Sara Waller, & Denise Wu (2004). Impact of method in cognitive neuroscience. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2005 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Poster Presentations

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1. Tatiana T. Schnur, Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2005). Mapping semantic interference during picture naming: an fMRI study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

2. Irene P. Kan, Rachel A. Caravella & Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2005). Effects of frontal lobe damage on verbal fluency and picture naming. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

3. Andrew C. Connolly, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, and Lila R. Gleitman (2005). Category-specific differences in conceptual knowledge between congenitally blind and sighted subjects. Paper presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

4. Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2005). Proactive and reactive cognitive control during semantic retrieval. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

5. Hannah Snyder, Keith Feigenson, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2005). The role of inhibition demands in left inferior frontal gyrus activation during semantic and phonological tasks. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

2006 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Poster Presentations

1. Drucker & Thompson-Schill (2006). An fMRI-adaptation investigation of semantic priming. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2. Goldberg, Small, & Thompson-Schill (2006). The effects of multimodal semantic knowledge on secondary sensory brain regions. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

3. Prabhakaran & Thompson-Schill (2006).An investigation of the effects of stimulus familiarity on proactive interference resolution in working memory. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

4. Schnur, Kimberg, Lee, Coslett, Schwartz, & Thompson-Schill (2006). Managing interference during word production: A lesion analysis study. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

5. Yee, Huffstetler, Dahan & Thompson-Schill (2006). Does hearing the name of an object partially activate objects that are similar in shape and size? Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2007 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Poster Presentations

1. Irene P. Kan, Kelly Giovanello, and Mieke Verfaelliel (2007). Role of the medial temporal lobes in relational memory: neuropsychological evidence from a cued recognition paradigm. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

2. Marina Bedny, Megan McGill, and Sharon Thompson-Schill (2007). Banks, organs and even chickens: the role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in resolving lexical semantic ambiguity. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

3. Hannah Snyder, Benjamin Greene, and Sharon Thompson-Schill (2007). Effects of conflict and grammatical class on LIFG activation during action and object naming. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

4. Mark J.E. Macdonald, Jennifer Goldschmied, Sharon Thompson-Schill, and Geoffrey K. Aguirre (2007). Does recall of a familiar face evoke a person-specific FFA response? An fMRI study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

5. Katharina Spalek, Herbert Schriefers, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2007). Task-dependent semantic interference in language production: an fMRI study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.

2008 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Poster Presentations

1. Robyn T. Oliver, Molly A. Parsons, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2008). Hands on learning: variations in sensorimotor experience alter the cortical response to newly learned objects. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2. Laura H.F. Barde, Myrna F. Schwartz, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2008). Dissociations among verbal interference tasks: underdetermined vs. prepotent competition. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

3. Ranjani Prabhakaran and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2008). The interaction between stimulus familiarity and recency in proactive interference resolution. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

4. Eiling Yee, Stacy Huffstetler and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2008). Looking for meaning: Using eye movements to characterize the organization of semantic memory. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

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