Together with my main collaborators Dr. Yury Shtyrov, Dr. Olaf Hauk and Dr. Bettina Mohr, and in collaboration with several researchers at CBU and outside, I am, at present, engaged in numerous projects, some of which are highlighted below:
- Brain activity reflecting word category specific processes: EEG, MEG, and fMRI studies (CBU Speech-Language Project SL4.1),
- The influence of transcranial magnetic stimulation and focal lesions on word category specific processes (SL4.2),
- Language processing outside the focus of attention: The Mismatch Negativity as an index of lexical, semantic and syntactic processes (SL4.3),
- Human cognitive processes reflected by high-frequency oscillations in the gamma band,
- Brain mechanisms of serial order and syntax (SL4.3),
- The role of the right hemisphere and that of interhemispheric interaction in lexical and semantic processing (SL4.4),
- Aphasia therapy and cortical reorganisation of language (SL4.5),
- Brain models of cell assemblies and language.
Most of this research is carried out in the [http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/EEG MRC CBU EEG Laboratory], and in the [http://www.biomag.hus.fi/ BioMag Laboratory] at Helsinki University Central Hospital. Research is, in part, supported by the European Union through the FET Grant Mirrorbot.