Publications
2025
Constructing meaning from language: Visual knowledge in people born blind and large language models.
Low power constrains the space of narratives available to speakers.
Folk epistemological attitudes toward using Virtual Reality (VR) to learn about others.
2024
Goal inference in moral narratives. Review
2023
Sensory modality and spoken language shape reading network in blind readers of Braille.
2022
Narrating the “what” and “why” of our moral actions.
From puzzle to progress: How engaging with neurodiversity can improve cognitive science.
2021
Shared understanding of color among sighted and blind adults.
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis.
2020
Computer code comprehension shares neural resources with formal logic inference in the fronto-parietal network.
2019
Knowledge of animal appearance among blind and sighted individuals.
Reply to Ostarek et al.: Language, but not co-occurrence statistics, is useful for learning animal appearance.
Reply to Lewis et al.: Inference is key to learning appearance from language, for humans and distributional semantic models alike.
From shape to meaning: evidence for multiple fast feedforward hierarchies of concept processing in the human brain.
An fMRI-adaptation study of phonological and orthographic selectivity to written words in adults with poor reading skills.
2017
Development of the visual word form area requires visual experience: Evidence from blind Braille readers.
2016
Multivariate pattern analysis reveals category-related organization of semantic representations in anterior temporal cortex.
Uncovering phonological and orthographic selectivity across the reading network using fMRI-RA.
2015
Adding words to the brain's visual dictionary: novel word learning selectively sharpens orthographic representations in the VWFA.