Neuropsychological Research

Organized Symposia

Developing Cognitive and Neural Models of High-dimensional Semantic Space (1995). TENNET VI, Sixth Annual Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec.

Publications and Published Abstracts

Burgess, C. & Lund, K. (1998, under review) The dynamics of meaning in memory. In Dietrich & Markman (Eds.), Cognitive Dynamics: Conceptual Change in Humans and Machines.
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Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., Keeney, M. (submitted). The effect of timecourse and context on the facilitation of semantic features in the cerebral hemispheres. [submitted]

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., & Keeney, M. (1998). The differential role of dominance compatibility and association strength in left hemisphere lexical retrieval. Brain and Cognition, 37, 60-63.
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Atchley, R. A., & Burgess, C. (1998). Contextual influences on meaning retrieval in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 37, 63-66.
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Audet, C., Driessen, N., & Burgess, C. 1998). Evaluating semantic neighborhood effects in categorical and locative priming in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 37, 67-69.
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Livesay, K., & Burgess, C. (1998). Mediated priming in high-dimensional semantic space: No effect of direct semantic relationships or co-occurrence. Brain and Cognition, 37, 102-105.
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Burgess, C., Atchley, R. A., & Schwagler, J. (under revision). Distribution of the lexicon in the cerebral hemispheres: Implications from age of reading acquisition. Brain and Language.

Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (1997). Modeling cerebral asymmetries of semantic memory using high-dimensional semantic space. In Beeman, M., & Chiarello, C. (Eds.), Right Hemisphere Language comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Press.

Atchley, R. A., Keeney, M., & Burgess, C. (1996). Cerebral Hemispheric Mechanisms Linking Ambiguous Word Meaning Retrieval with Subjects Varying in Verbal Creativity. Brain and Cognition.
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Buchanan, L., Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (1996). Overcrowding in semantic neighborhoods: Modeling deep dyslexia. Brain and Cognition, 30, 111-114.
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Burgess, C., & Chiarello, C. (1996). Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying metaphor comprehension and other figurative language. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 11, 67-84.

Burgess, C., & Skodis, J. (1993). Lexical representation and morpho-syntactic parallelism in the left hemisphere. Brain and Language, 44, 129-138.
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Chiarello, C., Burgess, C., Richards, L., & Pollock, A. (1990). Semantic and associative priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Some words do, some words don't . . . sometimes, some places. Brain and Language, 38, 75-104.

Burgess, C., & Simpson, G.B. (1988). Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms in the retrieval of ambiguous word meanings.Brain and Language, 33, 86-103.
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Burgess, C., & Simpson, G. (1988). Neuropsychology of lexical ambiguity resolution: The contribution of divided visual field studies. In S. L. Small, G. W. Cottrell, & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution in the comprehension of human language. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Simpson, G. B., & Burgess, C. (1988). Lexical ambiguity and its implication for models of word recognition. In S. L. Small, G. W. Cottrell, & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution in the comprehension of human language. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Clark, F. J., & Burgess, C. (1987). Systems for producing precise movements of a joint over a wide range of speeds and displacements for tests of a static-position sense. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 19, 193-201.

Clark, F. J., Burgess, C., & Chapin, J. W. (1986). Proprioception with the proximal interphalangeal joint of the index finger: Evidence for a movement sense without a static-position sense. Brain, 109, 1-14.

Clark, F. J., Burgess, C., Chapin, J. W., & Lipscomb, W. L. (1985). The role of intramuscular receptors in limb position sense. Journal of Neurophysiology, 54, 1529-1540.

Clark, F. J., Burgess, C., & Chapin, J. W. (1983). Humans lack a sense of static-position of the fingers. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 9(2), p. 1033.