Department of Psychology Faculty

Dr Silvia Gennari

Personal Details

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Name: Dr S. Gennari   BSc. MA. PhD.
Room: PS/C225
Telephone: +44 (0) 1904 432877 PS/C
Email: s.gennari at psych.york.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer
Appointed: 2005
Research Group: Language Processing

Qualifications and Awards

Degree: BSc. MA. Comahue National University, Argentina (1990)
Masters: Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, USA (1996)
PhD: Cognitive and Linguistics Sciences, Brown University, USA (1999)
Others: Music Teacher (1986)

Miscellaneous

Memberships: Cognitive Neuroscience Society of America, Cognitive Science Society, American Psychological Association, Experimental Psychology Society
Editorial Duties: Editorial board member of Language and Cognitive Processes
Career Information: Graduated from Brown University in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences. After 4 years postdoctoral research on language processing and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin (USA), she moved to a lectureship at Sussex and joined York in 2005.

Teaching

Advanced Modules The Language Machine: from Sentences to Meaning

Graduate Modules Research Design in Neuroimaging

Research

Research Area

Sentence production and comprehension, cognitive neuroscience of language, representing time and space in language, the interaction of language, attention and cognition in different languages (For more information, follow link to personal home page below).

Collaborators

Maryellen MacDonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Barbara Malt (University of Lehigh), Gerry Altmann, Garreth Gaskel (University of York), Jelena Mirkovic (University of York)

Supervisees

Claire Moody

Gina Humphreys


Publications

Moody, C. L., and Gennari, S. P. (2009) Effects of implied physical effort in sensory-motor and pre-frontal cortex during language comprehension, NeuroImage, 49, 782-793.

Gennari, S. P., and MacDonald, M. C. (2009) Linking production and comprehension processes: The case of relative clauses, Cognition, 111, 1-23.

Gennari, S. P., MacDonald, M.C., Postle, B. R., Seidenberg, M.S. (2007). Context-dependent interpretation of words: Evidence for interactive neural processes, NeuroImage, 35, 1278-1286.

Gennari, S. and Poeppel, D. (2003). Processing correlates of lexical semantic complexity. Cognition, 89(1), B27-41.

Gennari, S. P., Sloman, S., Malt, B., & Fitch, T. (2002). Motion events in language and cognition. Cognition, 83, 49-79.

Misc.

For a complete publication list and downloads, go to Full Publication List below

On Line Resources

Home page:   http://homepage.mac.com/silvia_gennari/
Other Links: Full Publication List

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