Vicky Lai
@viclai.bsky.social
Psycholinguist and cognitive scientist/neuroscientist investigating contextualized language meaning in the brain during thinking and feeling. (she/her)
Our lab at the Neurobiology of Language conference! Lindsay is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP during conversational tutoring of abstract science concepts using metaphors, and Laura is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP of metaphor comprehension in healthy older adults. 💪#SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Our lab at the Neurobiology of Language conference! Lindsay is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP during conversational tutoring of abstract science concepts using metaphors, and Laura is presenting a poster on EEG/ERP of metaphor comprehension in healthy older adults. 💪#SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social
My PhD student Laura Baiocco received the RaAM research award this year, to conduct research on metaphor comprehension in patients with primary progressive aphasia! Many congrats!
Congratulations to Laura Baiocco, Aleksandra Żukowska, and Carina Rasse for winning this year’s RaAM grants! We’re excited to see your projects come to life!
August 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My PhD student Laura Baiocco received the RaAM research award this year, to conduct research on metaphor comprehension in patients with primary progressive aphasia! Many congrats!
Our lab at #RaAM2025: Laura Baiocco talked about emotional dimensions of metaphors, Lindsay Krebs talked about student-produced metaphors and science concept learning, Cagatay Cora presented the neural correlates of visual metaphors. Thank the organizers Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social for a great time!
August 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Our lab at #RaAM2025: Laura Baiocco talked about emotional dimensions of metaphors, Lindsay Krebs talked about student-produced metaphors and science concept learning, Cagatay Cora presented the neural correlates of visual metaphors. Thank the organizers Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social for a great time!
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Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀
August 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀
We will be presenting our work on "What does action do to object? The case of metaphoric action" led by Cora Cagatay and in collaboration with Rutvik Desai at #CogSci2025. P1-C-42 that's Poster session 1 from 1-2:15 pm on Thursday 7/31.
July 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We will be presenting our work on "What does action do to object? The case of metaphoric action" led by Cora Cagatay and in collaboration with Rutvik Desai at #CogSci2025. P1-C-42 that's Poster session 1 from 1-2:15 pm on Thursday 7/31.
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Excited to share our latest publication with @viclai.bsky.social on crosslinguistic differences in the relationship between aspectual systems and event conceptualization:
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Dual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization: Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers | Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core
Dual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization: Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers - Volume 17
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May 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excited to share our latest publication with @viclai.bsky.social on crosslinguistic differences in the relationship between aspectual systems and event conceptualization:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Brain oscillations reveal dynamic shifts in creative thought during metaphor generation
Brain oscillations reveal dynamic shifts in creative thought during metaphor generation
A new study reveals that creative metaphor generation involves shifting patterns of brain activity, with alpha oscillations playing a key role at different stages of the process, offering fresh insight into the neural dynamics behind verbal creativity.
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May 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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✍️ #BCBLpaper in #BiologicalPsychology | Use of context in updating affective representations of #words in older adults.
Ku, L. and Lai, V.
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March 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
✍️ #BCBLpaper in #BiologicalPsychology | Use of context in updating affective representations of #words in older adults.
Ku, L. and Lai, V.
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Ku, L. and Lai, V.
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New paper on emotional language and healthy aging! When reading words in sentences, older adults (OA) used emotional context to change positive words more, and younger adults (YA) used emotional context context to change negative words more.
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March 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
New paper on emotional language and healthy aging! When reading words in sentences, older adults (OA) used emotional context to change positive words more, and younger adults (YA) used emotional context context to change negative words more.
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My latest installment of brain state modeling in creativity is out @ Psychophysiology! We found generating novel metaphors is associated with widespread alpha-band synchronization early on in ideation and, paradoxically, alpha-desynch right before response. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
Verbal creativity in generating novel metaphors is widely recognized, but its electrophysiological basis has not been investigated. By applying brain state analysis to EEG data, we identify oscillato...
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February 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My latest installment of brain state modeling in creativity is out @ Psychophysiology! We found generating novel metaphors is associated with widespread alpha-band synchronization early on in ideation and, paradoxically, alpha-desynch right before response. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Check out our paper for intepretation and a bonus gamma-band effect. Big thanks to my creative-metaphor collaborators @viclai.bsky.social , Lindsay Krebs and Mark Beeman. If you want more metaphors-generation, learning outcome and insight, find it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring How Generating Metaphor Via Insight Versus Analysis Affects Metaphor Quality and Learning Outcomes
Metaphor generation is both a creative act and a means of learning. When learning a new concept, people often create a metaphor to connect the new concept to existing knowledge. Does the manner in wh...
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February 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Check out our paper for intepretation and a bonus gamma-band effect. Big thanks to my creative-metaphor collaborators @viclai.bsky.social , Lindsay Krebs and Mark Beeman. If you want more metaphors-generation, learning outcome and insight, find it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New paper from our lab showed that reading emotional metaphors taxes on both more emotional and more semantic neural resources than reading emotional literal sentences.
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February 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
New paper from our lab showed that reading emotional metaphors taxes on both more emotional and more semantic neural resources than reading emotional literal sentences.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...