Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences M A R I N A B E D N Y 43 Vassar St., 46-4021 Cambridge, MA 02139 215-668-1829 (cell) mbedny@mit.edu Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation EDUCATION 2006 to present Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2006 to present Postdoctoral Fellow, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School 2006 Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, University of Pennsylvania 2002 M.A. in Experimental Psychology, University of Pennsylvania 2001 B.A. in Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University HONORS 2007 to present, NIH Clinical Loan Repayment Program grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 2005 Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover New 2002 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2001 Bachelors of Arts with Honors in Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University 2001 Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society MEMBERSHIPS 2008 to present, Society for Neuroscience 2001 to present, Cognitive Neuroscience Society TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2008 Instructor, Graduate Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience of Development, 1 of 5
Summer 2004 Instructor, Cognitive Development, University of Pennsylvania Summer 2003 Instructor, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Spring 2006 Teaching Assistant, Psychology of Language, University of Pennsylvania Fall 2004 Teaching Assistant, Cognitive Development, University of Pennsylvania Fall 2004 to Fall 2005 Writing Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Fall 2004 Teach Assistant, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Spring 2002 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Psychology, University of Pennsylvania PUBLICATIONS Research papers Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Pascual-Leone, A., Saxe, R (under review) Congenital blindness does not change the neural representation of action concepts. 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. 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. Bedny, M., Aguirre, G. K., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). Item analysis in functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage. 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, 98(2), 127-139. Research Papers in Preparation 2 of 5
Bedny, M., Konkle, T., Moore, C., Pascual-Leone, A., Saxe, R. (in preparation). The effects of visual experience on the neural substrates of motion perception. Bedny, M., D. Feder, Hawkins, E., Pascual-Leone, A., Saxe., R. (in preparation). Plasticity across cognitive domains: the role of visual cortex in language comprehension in congenitally blind adults. Reviews Thompson-Schill, S. L., Bedny, M., & Goldberg, R. F. (2005). The frontal lobes and the regulation of mental activity. Current Opinion Neurobiology, 15(2), 219-224. 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. Conference Presentations Bedny, M. Konkle, T., Saxe, R., Pascual-Leone, A. (2009). Plasticity in the visual motion system of congenitally and late blind adults. Presentation at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Gweon, H., Feder, D., Bedny, M., Olson-Brown, R., Saxe, R. (2009). Developmental change in the neural mechanisms of Theory of Mind. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Bedny, M., Caramazza, A. Konkle, T., Pascual-Leone, A., Saxe, R. (2009). Effects of visual deprivation on action verb representations in the lateral-temporal-cortex: evidence from congenitally blind adults. Presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Bedny, M., Chen, L., Pascual-Leone, A. and Saxe, R. (2008). Recruitment of visual cortex for language in early-blind adults increases with age. Presentation at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A. and Saxe, R. (2008). Are word meanings webs of sensations? Counterevidence from an fmri study of motion and non-motion words. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Saxe, R., Bedny, M., Scholz, J. Pascual-Leone, A. (2008). Reasoning about beliefs in blind and sighted: A modality-independent neural substrate of theory of mind. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Quintero, A. Scholz, J. Bedny, M., Saxe, R. (2008). The Brain Response to Theory of 3 of 5
Mind Generalizes Across Items and Modalities. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A. and Saxe, R. (2008). Concepts are not webs of sensation : Evidence from motion words. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. Bedny, M., McGill, M., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). Banks, organs and even chickens: The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in resolving lexical ambiguity. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY Bedny, M., Geoffrey A. K. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2006). Item analysis applied to neuroimaging: solving the mystery of reversible grammatical class effects. Poster presented at the 6th International fmri meeting and Autumn School, Sorrento, Italy. Bedny, M., Geoffrey A. K. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2006). Item analysis applied to neuroimaging: solving the mystery of reversible grammatical class effects. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Bedny, M., Hulbert, N. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). Contextual meaning selection during comprehension of homonymous and polysemous words. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY. Bedny, M., Starace, N. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). The neural correlates of imageability and grammatical class: an event related fmri study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. REFERENCES Sharon Thompson-Schill, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology (graduate advisor) Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania 3810 Walnut Street, room 208 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241 Tel: (215) 573-3533 sschill@psych.upenn.edu Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences 43 Vassar Street, 46-4021 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-324-2885 saxe@mit.edu 4 of 5
Alfonso Caramazza, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory Department of Psychology Harvard University 33 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-495-3867 caramazz@fas.harvard.edu Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD., Ph.D. Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School 330 Brookline Ave Kirstein Building KS 158 Boston, MA 02215 617-667-0203 5 of 5