Julien Dirani

Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience Institute

Contact

Email: jdirani@andrew.cmu.edu
Address: 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Biography

Education

PhD. Cognition and Perception, New York University
MSc. Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
B.A. Psychology, American University of Beirut

Research

I use neuroimaging combined with behavioral and computational methods to investigate the neural basis of semantic cognition. I am interested in understanding how semantic knowledge and concepts are stored and accessed across various tasks and sensory modalities. I am also interested in the mechanisms that support lexical selection, and how they interact with semantic knowledge.

Co-advisors: Brad Mahon & Leila Wehbe