Vicky Lai

Psycholinguist and cognitive scientist/neuroscientist investigating contextualized language meaning in the brain during thinking and feeling. (she/her)

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

Vicky Lai
@viclai.bsky.social

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

Our new paper showed that reading emotional metaphors passively leads to more emotional processing (than reading emotional literal sentences), but reading them actively leads to more semantic processing.

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

My first paper with the University of Arizona is out! This was my Master's project, published in collaboration with Valeria Pfeifer and my advisor @Vicky_T_Lai 😀 https://t.co/LCZSHq6A9Q

[Researching and Applying Metaphor Association @RaAMmetaphor]

📣 Don’t miss out! Join us at RaAM 17!
Dr. Vicky Lai delves into the connection between metaphoric learning and the brain. Discover how metaphors shape our cognition and how the brain processes them. Submit your paper now!
📆 Deadline: December 15th

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

We are to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational psychology, computational cognitive science, and/or computational neuroscience! Review begins Nov 12.
https://t.co/d1AvmRWkvs

[Researching and Applying Metaphor Association @RaAMmetaphor]

🚀 Get ready, everyone! RaAM 2025 is coming to North America for the first time ever! 🇺🇸🌎 We’re thrilled to announce this historic event in the USA, bringing together metaphor researchers and enthusiasts from across the globe! 🌐✨

[Federico Frau @federico_frau]

Getting ready for my talk at #AMLap2024, Session 1 💪 If you are curious to know what our brain visualizes when we read sentences like "lawyers are sharks" or "hairstyles are bushes", don't miss it! #metaphors #neuropragmatics #NEPLab

[Yuhua @Yu_Yu_Hua]

Insight (aha!) has been traditionally studied in a problem-solving context. Does insight during idea generation have the same characteristics and impact?
https://t.co/EWl0N2PAeo

[Valentina Bambini @VBambini]

Metaphors we live by! Wonderful guests at #NEPLab in these days to discuss new avenues in metaphor studies. Thank you @Vicky_T_Lai and @JeannetteL16! And stay tuned for joint publications! @IussPavia

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

Thanks to a collaboration travel award by NSF and ERC I brought my research team to @VBambini and #NEPlab at IUSS Pavia. My co-PI and I are visiting for a week and my three doctoral students will stay and collect data for a month!

[Valentina Bambini @VBambini]

Metaphor people! Don't miss this seminar by @Vicky_T_Lai, who is visiting the #NEPLab for a week with her team, within a @NSF & @ERC_Research exchange program. Welcome Vicky! Long time since we met at @SNLmtg in 2009!

[Valentina Bambini @VBambini]

The Linguistics Seminars at @IussPavia continue… Take a look at the calendar and contact @federico_frau or @chiara_batta if interested in attending online. Next appointments organized by our lab: Einat Shetreet, Nicola Grandi @Vicky_T_Lai Steven Bethard and @annaborghi8 #NEPLab

[Penny Pexman @PennyPexman]

On kids, parents, and sarcasm. My (research-based) thoughts in this piece:

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

@PennyPexman Very cool article! My partner jokes and uses sarcasm all the times, and my kids sure picked both up fast. Not something I experienced as a child growing up in the Taiwanese society/cultural norm!

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

To kick off summer, my lab held a 3-day workshop for EEG data processing and statistics! The course instructor is Dr. Eric Fields (https://t.co/ziICNoBTdh). He is simply awesome and such a great teacher!

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

Last day of the human sentence processing conference #HSP2024. I couldn't go in person due to kids and the May timing, but was able to participate virtually to enjoy the awesome talks and posters and the very engaging HSP community. A big applause for the organizers!

[Roger Levy @roger_p_levy]

Talk titles and abstracts are up now for the May 13–14 #NSF-hosted workshop New Horizons in Language Science: Large Language Models, Language Structure, and the Cognitive and Neural Basis of Language! Learn more and register for the Zoom webinar at https://t.co/Fim14BOlWK 1/

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

I received good news today: I am promoted and tenured! Special thanks to my mentors, collaborators, students, letter writers, friends, and family. Looking forward to doing more good work!

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

Our paper on "the neural representation of event concepts" is out! The left AG, ATL, and PCC are involved in event concepts, along with ERP effects from 300–500 ms. By Rutvik Desai, Chris Hackett, Karim Johari @drKarimJohari, Nick Riccardi, and me. https://t.co/ZNlRax0JHL

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

@VBambini @in_interaction @MPI_NL @MariaSpychalska Looks awesome. Is there any zoom option? Or will there be recording of your talk for afterwards?

[Vicky Lai @Vicky_T_Lai]

@PhilKuhnke @laurajspeed @ejmuraki @PennyPexman Thanks for the link. Reading.