Debra Titone
Associate Professor and Tier 2 CRC
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg., 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue #W8/31
tel: 514-398-1778
e-mail: dtitone(at)psych.mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Principal Member
Research Themes
Neural Bases of Language
Visual Language Processing
Areas of Expertise
Current Research Interests
Prof. Titone is interested in how the brain supports (1) the comprehension of contextualized language (e.g., ambiguity resolution, idioms, metaphors), and (2) the formation of relational memory representations in humans (e.g., transitive inference, configural learning, episodic memory, and other products of normal medial temporal lobe function). Prof. Titone studies these two areas using a variety of cognitive neuroscience techniques including basic cognitive experiments with normal and disordered populations (e.g., schizophrenia, right hemisphere damage patients) and, more recently, neuroimaging methods (e.g., ERPs and fMRI).
Selected Publications
- Titone, D., Libben, M., Niman, M., Ranbom, L. & Levy, D. (In press). Semantic processing in schizophrenia: Evidence from conceptual combination. Journal of Neurolinguistics.
- Titone, D., & Salisbury, D. F. (2004). Contextual modulation of N400 amplitude to lexically ambiguous words. Brain and Cognition, 55, 470-478.
- Titone, D., Ditman, T., Holzman, P. S., Eichenbaum, H. B., & Levy, D. L. (2004). Transitive inference in schizophrenia: Impairments in relational memory organization. Schizophrenia Research, 68, 235-247.
- Titone, D. & Levy, D. (2004). Lexical competition and spoken word identification in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 68, 75-85.
Graduate Students
- Irena O'Brien (postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised)
- Maya Libben (PhD candidate)
- Julie Mercier (PhD candidate)
- Sabrina Wiebe (MSc candidate)
