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- Hauptman M.,Bedny M. (under review). Inferring illness causes recruits the animacy semantic network. bioRxiv.
- Hauptman,M., Elli, G., Pant, R., Bedny, M. (under review). Neural specialization for 'visual' concepts emerges in the absence of vision. bioRxiv.
- Zimmermann,M., Cusack, R., Bedny, M., Szwed, M (under review). Auditory areas are recruited for naturalistic visual meaning in early deaf people. Research Square.
- Liu, Y., Rapp, B., Bedny., M. (under review). Neural signatures of reading-related orthographic processing in braille. bioRxiv.
- Tian, M., Xiao, X., Hu, H., Cusack, R., Bedny, M. (under review). Dissociating instructive and reorganizing effects of experience on development of human visual cortices. bioRxiv.
2024
- Liu YF., Wilson C., Bedny M. Contribution of the language network to the comprehension of Python programming code. Brain and Language 251, 105392.
- Saccone EJ., Tian M., Bedny M. Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 66, 101360.
2023
- Tian M.,Xiao X.,Hu H.,Cusac R.,Bedny M. Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks. Journal of Vision 23 (9), 5848-5848.
- Richardson, H., Saxe, R.,Bedny, M. (2023). Neural correlates of theory of mind reasoning in congenitally blind children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Liu, Y., Rapp, B., Bedny, M. (2023). Reading Braille by Touch Recruits Posterior Parietal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Musz, E., Loiotile, R., Chen, J., Bedny, M. (2022). Naturalistic audio-movies reveal common spatial organization across “visual” cortices of different blind individuals. Cerebral Cortex.
- Tian, M., Saccone, E. J., Kim, J. S., Kanjlia, S., Bedny, M. (2022). Sensory modality and spoken language shape reading network in blind readers of Braille. Cerebral Cortex.
2022
- Musz, E., Loiotile, R., Chen, J., Cusack, R., & Bedny, M. (2022). Naturalistic stimuli reveal a sensitive period in cross modal responses of visual cortex: Evidence from adult-onset blindness. Neuropsychologia.
- Arcos, K., Harhen, N., Loiotile, R., Bedny, M. (2022). Superior verbal but not nonverbal memory in congenital blindness. Experimental Brain Research.
2021
- Kanjlia, S., Feigenson, L., Bedny, M. (2021). Neural basis of approximate number system develops independent of visual experience. Cortex.
- Kanjlia, S., Loiotile, R.E., Harhen, N., Bedny, M. (2021). ‘Visual’ cortices of congenitally blind adults are sensitive to response selection demands in a go/no-go task. Neuroimage.
- Kim, J. S., Aheimer, B., Manrara, V. M., & Bedny, M. (2021). Shared understanding of color among congenitally blind and sighted adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Elli, G. V., Bedny, M., & Landau, B. (2021). How does a blind person see? Developmental change in applying visual verbs to agents with disabilities. Cognition.
2020
- Liu, Y., Kim, J. S., Wilson, C., Bedny, M. (2020). Computer code comprehension shares neural resources with formal logical inference in the fronto-parietal network. eLife.
- Cheng, Q., Silvano, E., & Bedny, M. (2020). Sensitive periods in cortical specialization for language: insights from studies with Deaf and blind individuals. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
- Bedny M & Caramazza A. (2020) Introduction to Concepts and Core Domains. In: Gazzaniga, Mangun, Poeppel, The Cognitive Neurosciences. 6/e MIT Press.
- Bedny M. (2020) The contribution of sensory-motor experience to the mind and brain. In: Gazzaniga, Mangun, Poeppel, The Cognitive Neurosciences. 6/e MIT Press.
- Pant, R., Kanjlia, S., Bedny, M. (2020). A sensitive period in the neural phenotype of language in blind individuals. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Loiotile, R.E., Omaki, A., Bedny, M. (2020). Enhanced performance on a sentence comprehension task in congenitally blind adults. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
- Loiotile, R.E., Cusack, R., Bedny, M. (2020). Naturalistic narratives synchronize “visual” cortices across congenitally blind individuals. Journal of Neuroscience.
- Kim, J.S., Elli, G.V., Bedny, M. (2020). Reply to Ostarek et al.: Language, but not co-occurrence statistics, is useful for learning animal appearance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Kim, J.S., Elli, G.V., Bedny, M. (2020). Reply to Lewis et al.: Inference is key to learning appearance from language, for humans and distributional semantic models alike. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2019
- Bedny, M. & MacSweeney, M. (2019). Insights into the neurobiology of language from individuals born blind or deaf. In: Hagoort P, Human Language from Genes to Brains to Behavior. MIT Press.
- Kim, J.S., Elli, G.V., Bedny, M. (2019). Knowledge of animal appearance among sighted and blind individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Download Data
- Bedny, M., Koster-Hale, J., Elli, G., Yazzolino, L., Saxe, R. (2019) There’s more to “sparkle" than meets the eye: Knowledge of vision and light verbs among congenitally blind and sighted adults. Cognition. Download Data
- Elli, G.V., Lane, C., Bedny, M. (2019). A double dissociation in sensitivity to verb and noun semantics across cortical networks. Cerebral Cortex.
2018
- Kanjlia, S., Feigenson, L., Bedny, M. (2018). Numerical cognition is resilient to dramatic changes in early sensory experience. Cognition.
- Kanjlia, S., Pant, R., Bedny, M. (2018).Sensitive period for cognitive repurposing of human visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex.
- Bedny M., Paus, T., Doesburg, S.M., Giedd, J. Rowshanak, H., Kolb, B., Purdon, P.L., Rakic, P., Sisk, C.L. (2018). Understanding Effects of Experience on Neurocognitive Development through the Lens of Early Adolescence. Benasich, A. A., and U. Ribary, eds. 2018. Manifestations and Mechanisms of Dynamic Brain Coordination over Development. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 25, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2017
- Kim, J., Kanjlia S., Merabet, L., Bedny, M. (2017). Development of the visual word form area requires visual experience: Evidence from blind Braille readers. Journal of Neuroscience.
- Bedny, M., MacSweeney, M. (2017). Insights into the neurobiology of language from individuals born blind or deaf. In Human Language from Genes to Brains to Behavior pp (1-27)
- Bedny, M. (2017). Evidence from blindness for a cognitively pluripotent cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
2016
- Kanjlia, S., Lane, C., Feigenson, L., Bedny, M. (2016). Absence of visual experience modifies the neural basis of numerical thinking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Lapinskaya, N., Uzomah, U., Bedny, M., Lau, E. (2016). Electrophysiological signatures of event words: Dissociating syntactic and semantic category effects in lexical processing. Neuropsychologia.
- Lane, C., Kanjlia, S., Richardson, H., Fulton, A., Omaki, A., Bedny, M. (2016) Reduced Left Lateralization of Language in Congenitally Blind Individuals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
2015
- Lane, C., Kanjlia, S., Omaki, A., & Bedny, M. (2015). “Visual” cortex of congenitally blind adults responds to syntactic movement. Journal of Neuroscience.
- Bedny, M., Richardson, H., & Saxe, R. (2015). “Visual” cortex responds to spoken language in blind children. Journal of Neuroscience.
- Deen, B., Saxe, R., & Bedny, M. (2015). Occipital cortex of blind individuals is functionally coupled with executive control areas of frontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
2014
- Koster-Hale, J., Bedny, M., Saxe, R. (2014). Thinking about seeing: Perceptual sources of knowledge are encoded in the theory of mind brain regions of sighted and blind adults. Cognition.
2013
- Bedny, M., Dravida, S., & Saxe, R. (2013). Shindigs, brunches, and rodeos: The neural basis of event words. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
- Dravida, S., Saxe, R., & Bedny, M. (2013). People can understand descriptions of motion without activating visual motion brain regions.Frontiers in Psychology.
- Strnad, L., Peelen, M. V., Bedny, M., Caramazza, A. (2013). Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals Auditory Motion Information in MT+ of Both Congenitally Blind and Sighted Individuals. PLoS ONE.
2012
- Bedny, M. & Saxe, R. (2012). Insights into the origins of knowledge from the cognitive neuroscience of blindness. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
- Bedny, M., Pascual-Leone, A. Dravida, S., Saxe, R. (2012). A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: Distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults. Brain and Language.
- Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Pascual-Leone, A., Saxe, R. (2012). Typical neural representations of action verbs develop without vision. Cerebral Cortex.
- Gweon, H., Dodell-Feder, D., Bedny, M., Saxe, R. (2012). Theory of Mind performance in children correlates with functional specialization of brain regions recruited for thinking about thoughts. Child Development.
2011
- Bedny, M. & Caramazza, A. (2011). Perception, action, and word meanings in the human brain: the case from action verbs. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
- Bedny, M., Pascual-Leone, A., Dodell-Feder, D., Fedorenko, E., Saxe., R. (2011). Language processing in the occipital cortices of congenitally blind adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Dodell-Feder, D., Koster-Hale, J., Bedny, M., and Saxe, R. (2011). fMRI item analysis in a theory of mind task. Neuroimage.
2010
- Bedny, M., Konkle, T., Pelphrey, K., Saxe, R. Pascual-Leone, A., (2010). Sensitive period for a multimodal response in human visual motion area MT/MST. Current Biology.
2009
- Bedny, M., Pascual-Leone, A., Saxe, R. (2009). Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of Theory of Mind. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2008
- Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A. and Saxe, R. (2008). Concepts are more than percepts: the case of action verbs.Journal of Neuroscience.
- Bedny, M., McGill, M., Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2008). Semantic adaptation and competition during word comprehension. Cerebral Cortex.
2007
- Bedny, M., Aguirre, G. K., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). Item analysis in functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage.
2006
- Bedny, M., Hulbert, J. C., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Understanding words in context: the role of Broca's area in word comprehension. Brain Research.
- Bedny, M., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2006). Neuroanatomically separable effects of imageability and grammatical class during single-word comprehension. Brain and Language.
2005
- Thompson-Schill, S. L., Bedny, M., & Goldberg, R. F. (2005). The frontal lobes and the regulation of mental activity. Current Opinion Neurobiology.
2001
- Bedny, G., Karwowski, W. & Bedny, M. (2001). The principle of unity of cognition and behavior: Implications of activity theory for the study of human work. International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics. 5(4): 401-420