{"id":24,"date":"2023-10-23T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:54:32","slug":"the-writing-brain-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/home\/the-writing-brain-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing-brain Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/files\/2026\/02\/Writive-Inference.png\" alt=\"Research Image\" title=\"The Writing-brain Laboratory\" width=\"928\" height=\"540\" class=\"align size-post_thumbnail wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/files\/2026\/02\/Writive-Inference.png 928w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/files\/2026\/02\/Writive-Inference-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/files\/2026\/02\/Writive-Inference-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/files\/2026\/02\/Writive-Inference-640x372.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/p><div id=\"irbu-and-orcid\"><p><abbr title=\"Open Researcher and Contributor ID\">ORCID<\/abbr>: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4838-9567\">0000-0002-4838-9567<\/a><br \/><\/p><\/div><!-- #irbu-and-orcid -->\n<div id=\"contact-info\"><p><strong>Email:<\/strong> &#108;i&#x6d;o&#x6e;&#103;&#x69;&#114;&#x40;&#98;r&#x61;n&#x64;&#111;&#x6e;&#117;&#x2e;&#99;&#x61;<br \/><\/p><\/div><!-- #contact-info -->\n<h2>Research Description<\/h2><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">My laboratory pursues <b>the<\/b> <b>description, at the formal (or mathematical), cognitive, and neurophysiological levels, the mechanisms through which language production changes the mind and the brain. <\/b>To achieve this goal, I combine functional magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, mathematical formalisms (active inference under the free energy principle), and natural language processing. The program has revealed observable spoken linguistic cues, model parameters, and neural signatures associated with conceptual organization in healthy subjects and schizophrenia patients. Currently, my trainees and I are identifying <b>t<\/b>he neural signatures and relevant computational parameters (computational phenotype components) of the effect of writing on the brain, targeting academic learning and developmental disorders (e.g., ADHD).<b> In general, our research area falls into the broader field of computational phenotyping in precision psychiatry (computational psychiatry) and precision education.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Metrics: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=gMyVKX4AAAAJ\">Google Scholar Citations<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Research Area<\/h2><p>Neuro-computational Signatures of the Effect of Writing on Conceptual Organization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/33"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/limongir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}