Jie Yang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Address
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
1300 York Ave. Box 140
NY, NY 10065
Phone
212.746.5466
Fax
212.746.5755

Research Interests

I use behavioral and neural imaging approach to study the brain mechanism of language comprehension.

My current research interest is the embodied semantic representation of manual action verbs. Embodied theories claim that word meaning is grounded in sensory-motor system. I test the predictions using fMRI technique. My research focuses on different neural mechanism of tool-use verb processing and hand action verb processing, different neural mechanism of action language comprehension and motor imagery, and the relation between word form processing and embodied semantic representation.














Address
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Box 140, 1300 York Avenue NY, NY 10065
Phone
212.746.3324
Fax
212.746.5755