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Lisa L. Conant is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging techniques. The subfields in which they have contributed include Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their work covers various topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Action Observation and Synchronization, Epilepsy research and treatment, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, and broader Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications.

Lisa L. Conant has published in multiple journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • NeuroImage
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

A selection of recent papers includes:

  • Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Its Clinical Application in the Field of Neuroscience: Advances and Future Directions (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • Decoding the information structure underlying the neural representation of concepts (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • A Distributed Network for Multimodal Experiential Representation of Concepts (2022, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Network, clinical and sociodemographic features of cognitive phenotypes in temporal lobe epilepsy (2020, NeuroImage Clinical)
  • Deep Artificial Neural Networks Reveal a Distributed Cortical Network Encoding Propositional Sentence-Level Meaning (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lisa L. Conant include:

  • Jeffrey R. Binder
  • Colin Humphries
  • Bruce P. Hermann
  • Veena A. Nair
  • Vivek Prabhakaran

Best Publications

  • Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies

    Jeffrey R. Binder;Rutvik H. Desai;William W. Graves;Lisa L. Conant

  • Toward a brain-based componential semantic representation

    Jeffrey R Binder;Lisa L Conant;Colin J Humphries;Leonardo Fernandino

  • The neural career of sensory-motor metaphors

    Rutvik H. Desai;Jeffrey R. Binder;Lisa L. Conant;Quintino R. Mano

  • Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics

    Leonardo Fernandino;Jeffrey R. Binder;Rutvik H. Desai;Suzanne L. Pendl

  • Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Its Clinical Application in the Field of Neuroscience: Advances and Future Directions.

    Wei-Liang Chen;Wei-Liang Chen;Wei-Liang Chen;Julie Wagner;Nicholas Heugel;Jeffrey Sugar

  • Some neurophysiological constraints on models of word naming.

    Jeffrey R. Binder;David A. Medler;Rutvik H. Desai;Lisa L. Conant

  • Activation of Sensory–Motor Areas in Sentence Comprehension

    Rutvik H. Desai;Jeffrey R. Binder;Lisa L. Conant;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Parkinson’s Disease Disrupts Both Automatic and Controlled Processing of Action Verbs

    Leonardo Fernandino;Lisa L. Conant;Jeffrey R. Binder;Karen Blindauer

  • A piece of the action: modulation of sensory-motor regions by action idioms and metaphors.

    Rutvik H. Desai;Lisa L. Conant;Jeffrey R. Binder;Haeil Park

  • Neural correlates of implicit and explicit combinatorial semantic processing.

    William W. Graves;Jeffrey R. Binder;Rutvik H. Desai;Lisa L. Conant

  • Decoding the information structure underlying the neural representation of concepts

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  • Where is the action? Action sentence processing in Parkinson's disease

    Leonardo Fernandino;Lisa L. Conant;Jeffrey R. Binder;Karen Blindauer

  • fMRI of Past Tense Processing: The Effects of Phonological Complexity and Task Difficulty

    Rutvik Desai;Lisa L. Conant;Eric Waldron;Jeffrey R. Binder

  • Predicting Neural Activity Patterns Associated with Sentences Using a Neurobiologically Motivated Model of Semantic Representation

    Andrew James Anderson;Jeffrey R. Binder;Leonardo Fernandino;Colin J. Humphries

  • Predicting brain activation patterns associated with individual lexical concepts based on five sensory-motor attributes

    Leonardo Fernandino;Colin J. Humphries;Mark S. Seidenberg;William L. Gross

  • Heteromodal Cortical Areas Encode Sensory-Motor Features of Word Meaning.

    Leonardo Fernandino;Colin J. Humphries;Lisa L. Conant;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Effects of methylphenidate on functional MRI blood-oxygen-level-dependent contrast.

    Stephen M. Rao;Betty Jo Salmeron;Sally Durgerian;Judi A. Janowiak

  • fMRI of Past Tense Processing: The Effects of Phonological Complexity and Task Difficulty

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  • Dysfunction of executive and related processes in childhood absence epilepsy.

    Lisa L. Conant;Angus Wilfong;Christopher Inglese;Andrea Schwarte

  • Psychological Variables Associated with Pain Perceptions Among Individuals with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Pain

    Lisa L. Conant

  • The relationship of neuropsychological functioning to adaptation outcome in adolescents with spina bifida.

    Amy K. Heffelfinger;Jennifer I. Koop;Philip S. Fastenau;Timothy J. Brei

  • Decoding the Information Structure Underlying the Neural Representation of Concepts

    Fernandino L;Conant Ll;Humphries Cj;Binder

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey R. Binder
Jeffrey R. Binder Medical College of Wisconsin
Rutvik H. Desai
Rutvik H. Desai University of South Carolina
Bruce P. Hermann
Bruce P. Hermann University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vivek Prabhakaran
Vivek Prabhakaran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mariellen Fischer
Mariellen Fischer Associated Mental Health Consultants
Elliot A. Stein
Elliot A. Stein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Rasmus M. Birn
Rasmus M. Birn University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen M. Rao
Stephen M. Rao Cleveland Clinic
Mark S. Seidenberg
Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Betty Jo Salmeron
Betty Jo Salmeron National Institute on Drug Abuse

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