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Overview

Bradford Z. Mahon is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Medicine, and Psychology, with focused expertise in several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Epidemiology.

Their research addresses a variety of topics related to brain function and cognition, such as:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Among Bradford Z. Mahon's recent published papers are:

  • "Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions" (2024), published in Neuropsychologia
  • "What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary" (2024), published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Intraoperative cortical localization of music and language reveals signatures of structural complexity in posterior temporal cortex" (2023), published in iScience
  • "What tool representation, intuitive physics, and action have in common: The brain's first-person physics engine" (2021), published in Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • "Interactions between language, thought, and perception: Cognitive and neural perspectives" (2020), published in Cognitive Neuropsychology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Frank E. Garcea (5 publications)
  • Webster H. Pilcher (4 publications)
  • Emma Strawderman (4 publications)
  • Steven P. Meyers (4 publications)
  • Benjamin L. Chernoff (3 publications)

Bradford Z. Mahon's work has appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 4 publications
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology - 2 publications
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Neuropsychologia
  • iScience

Best Publications

  • A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza;Alfonso Caramazza

  • What are the facts of semantic category-specific deficits? A critical review of the clinical evidence.

    Erminio Capitani;M. Laiacona;B. Mahon;A. Caramazza

  • Concepts and Categories: A Cognitive Neuropsychological Perspective

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Lexical selection is not by competition: a reinterpretation of semantic interference and facilitation effects in the picture-word interference paradigm.

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Albert Costa;Robin Peterson;Kimberly A. Vargas

  • The organization of conceptual knowledge: the evidence from category-specific semantic deficits.

    Alfonso Caramazza;Bradford Z. Mahon

  • What drives the organization of object knowledge in the brain

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Category-specific organization in the human brain does not require visual experience.

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Bradford Z. Mahon;Bradford Z. Mahon;Stefano Anzellotti;Stefano Anzellotti;Jens Schwarzbach;Massimiliano Zampini

  • Action-Related Properties Shape Object Representations in the Ventral Stream

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Bradford Z. Mahon;Shawn C. Milleville;Gioia A.L. Negri;Raffaella I. Rumiati

  • What is the role of motor simulation in action and object recognition? Evidence from apraxia

    Gioia A. L. Negri;Raffaella I. Rumiati;Antonietta Zadini;Maja Ukmar

  • What is embodied about cognition

    Bradford Z. Mahon

  • The orchestration of the sensory-motor systems: Clues from Neuropsychology.

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Unconscious processing dissociates along categorical lines

    Jorge Almeida;Bradford Z. Mahon;Ken Nakayama;Alfonso Caramazza

  • The organisation of conceptual knowledge in the brain: The future's past and some future directions.

    Alfonso Caramazza;Bradford Z. Mahon

  • The Role of the Dorsal Visual Processing Stream in Tool Identification

    Jorge Manuel Almeida;Bradford Z. Mahon;Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Semantic Interference in a Delayed Naming Task: Evidence for the Response Exclusion Hypothesis

    Niels Janssen;Walter Schirm;Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza

  • The cumulative semantic cost does not reflect lexical selection by competition

    Eduardo Navarrete;Bradford Z. Mahon;Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Factors Determining Semantic Facilitation and Interference in the Cyclic Naming Paradigm

    Eduardo Navarrete;Paul Del Prato;Bradford Z. Mahon;Bradford Z. Mahon

  • Level of categorisation effect: A novel effect in the picture-word interference paradigm

    Albert Costa;Bradford Mahon;Virginia Savova;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Affect of the unconscious: Visually suppressed angry faces modulate our decisions

    Jorge Almeida;Petra E. Pajtas;Petra E. Pajtas;Bradford Z. Mahon;Ken Nakayama

  • Tool manipulation knowledge is retrieved by way of the ventral visual object processing pathway

    Jorge Almeida;Anat R. Fintzi;Bradford Z. Mahon

  • The Representation of Object-Directed Action and Function Knowledge in the Human Brain

    Quanjing Chen;Frank E. Garcea;Bradford Z. Mahon

  • Arguments about the nature of concepts: Symbols, embodiment, and beyond

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Gregory Hickok

  • Lexical selection is not by competition: Evidence from the blocked naming paradigm

    Eduardo Navarrete;Paul Del Prato;Francesca Peressotti;Bradford Z. Mahon;Bradford Z. Mahon

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfonso Caramazza
Alfonso Caramazza Harvard University
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University
Óscar F. Gonçalves
Óscar F. Gonçalves University of Coimbra
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Raffaella I. Rumiati
Raffaella I. Rumiati International School for Advanced Studies
Yanchao Bi
Yanchao Bi Peking University
Michele Miozzo
Michele Miozzo Columbia University
Adriana Sampaio
Adriana Sampaio University of Minho
Marcella Laiacona
Marcella Laiacona University of Milan

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