Miriam Hauptman

The paper investigates how medical expertise affects neural responses to causal inferences in language comprehension, finding that physicians show stronger activation in animacy-related brain networks during illness-related causal reasoning.

The paper compares neural responses to visual and non-visual concepts in sighted and congenitally blind individuals, finding that neural representations of visual concepts develop independently of visual experience.

The paper investigates how implicit causal inferences about illness are supported by the animacy semantic network using fMRI and finds that illness causality engages a specific part of the precuneus.

This study uses a meta-analytic fMRI approach to show non-literal language processing involves both language and Theory of Mind networks, challenging the need for separate executive resources.