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Kemmerer, David
Professor, Cognitive Area

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Information: PhD (1996) in Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo

David Kemmerer has a joint appointment in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the Department of Psychological Sciences. His teaching responsibilities include courses on the neural bases of speech and language, the field of cognitive neuroscience, and topics in linguistics.

His research focuses on how different kinds of linguistic meaning are mediated by different neural systems, drawing on behavioral and lesion data from brain-damaged patients as well as behavioral and functional neuroimaging data from normal subjects. His current projects include the linguistic encoding of action and the syntax-semantics interface. In addition, he is interested in the evolution of language and the neural correlates of consciousness.

Recent Publications:


Kemmerer, D., & Gonzalez Castillo, J. (2010). The Two-Level Theory of verb meaning: An approach to integrating the semantics of action with the mirror neuron system. Brain and Language, 112, 54-76.(Special issue on mirror neurons and the neurobiology of language.)

Kemmerer, D. (2010). How words capture visual experience: The perspective from cognitive neuroscience. In B. Malt & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the mind: How words capture human experience(pp. 289-329). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Kemmerer, D., Gonzalez Castillo, J., Talavage, T., Patterson, S., & Wiley, C. (2008). Neuroanatomical distribution of five semantic components of verbs: Evidence from fMRI. Brain and Language, 107, 16-43.

Tranel, D., Manzel, K., Asp, E., & Kemmerer, D. (2008). Naming static and dynamic actions: Neuropsychological evidence. Journal of Physiology, Paris, 102, 80-94. (Special issue on links and interactions between language and motor systems in the brain.)

Kemmerer, D., & Tranel, D. (2008). Searching for the elusive neural substrates of body part terms: A neuropsychological study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 601-625. (Special issue on lexical processing.)

Tranel, D., & Kemmerer, D. (2004). Neural correlates of locative prepositions. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 719-49.