David Kemmerer
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Contact Information Email: kemmerer |at| purdue.edu Office: HEAV 202A Map Phone: 765-494-3826 Fax: 765-494-1264 Homepage: Homepage |
Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences |
Education
Ph.D. State University of New York, Buffalo Linguistics 1996
Research Interests
Neurobiology of language; cognitive, social, and affective neuroscience; evolutionary psychology
Teaching Interests
Cognitive neuroscience; neurolinguistics; seminars on various topics involving language, mind, and brain.
Grants
National Institute of Health
Publications
Kemmerer, D. (forthcoming). Visual and motor features of action verbs: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. In R. de Almeida & C. Manoulidou (Eds.),Verb concepts: Cognitive science perspectives on verb representation and processing. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Kemmerer, D. (in press). How words capture visual experience: The perspective from cognitive neuroscience. In B. Malt & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the world: How words capture human experience. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Kemmerer, D. (in press). A neuroscientific perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations. In V. Evans & P. Chilton (Eds.), Language, cognition, and space: The state of the art and new directions. London, UK: Equinox.
Kemmerer, D. (in press). The neurobiology of lexical processing. In P.C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Kemmerer, D., Miller, L., MacPherson, M.K., & Huber, J. (submitted). An investigation of semantic similarity judgments for action and non-action verbs in Parkinson's disease: Implications for the Embodied Cognition Hypothesis. Neuropsychologia.
Witt, J., Kemmerer, D., & Culham, J. (submitted). A functional role for motor simulation in naming tools. Psychological Science.
Kemmerer, D., & Gonzalez Castillo, J. (in press). The Two-Level Theory of verb meaning: An approach to integrating the semantics of action with the mirror neuron system. Brain and Language. (Special issue on mirror neurons and the neurobiology of language.)
Kemmerer, D., Tranel, D., & Zdansczyk, C. (2009). Knowledge of the semantic constraints on adjective order can be selectively impaired. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 91-108.
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.
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., 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. (2008). A critique of Mark D. Allen's "The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit." Brain and Language, 106, 72-78.