Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My 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! 030
Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Our lab will be presenting another set of new results on concept semantic change during metaphoric learning at #CNS2026 @laurabaiocco.bsky.social 040
Reposted by Vicky LaiLaura Baiocco @laurabaiocco.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Very excited about our new paper out! @viclai.bsky.social, Dr. Kielar, and I wrote a scoping review on ERP correlates of metaphor comprehension in neurotypical adults. Full paper: rdcu.be/e0Qny 161
Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Our 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 030
Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 11/08/2025My 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! 071
Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our 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! 041
Reposted by Vicky LaiAletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Ready. 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 🚀 073
Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 31/07/2025We 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. 011
Reposted by Vicky Laiakamenetski.bsky.social @akamenetski.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Excited to share our latest publication with @viclai.bsky.social on crosslinguistic differences in the relationship between aspectual systems and event conceptualization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgDual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization: Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers | Language and Cognition | Cambridge CoreDual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization: Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers - Volume 17 021
Reposted by Vicky LaiBasque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025✍️ #BCBLpaper in #BiologicalPsychology | Use of context in updating affective representations of #words in older adults. Ku, L. and Lai, V. +info ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 011
Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025New 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. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 110
Reposted by Vicky LaiYuhua Yu @yuhuay.bsky.social · 14/02/2025My 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....onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online LibraryVerbal 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... 132
Reposted by Vicky LaiYuhua Yu @yuhuay.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Check 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....onlinelibrary.wiley.comExploring How Generating Metaphor Via Insight Versus Analysis Affects Metaphor Quality and Learning OutcomesMetaphor 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... 021
Vicky Lai @viclai.bsky.social · 09/02/2025New 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... 030