Dr Gorana Pobric
Lecturer
- Email: Gorana.Pobric@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)1612751967
Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU)
School of Psychological Sciences
Zochonis Building
University of Manchester
Brunswick Street
Manchester M13 9PL
Research
• semantic cognition - behavioral , rTMS and fMRI studies
• action understanding and imitation – behavioral and rTMS studies
• word recognition
• hemispheric specialization in language processing
• cognitive constraints of language structure
Methodological Knowledge
• behavioral experiments
• transcranial magnetic stimulation
• neuroimaging
Teaching
PSYC10032 - Brain & Behaviour
PSYC20402 - Cognitive Neuroscience
Biography
Prior to joining NARU, I was a Marie Curie Research Fellow within RTN: Brain and Language. I was working with Michal Lavidor (Hull University and Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv) on visual word recognition and interhemispheric integration. As a PhD student at SISSA, Italy, I was a visiting researcher at the ICN, UCL, London, working with Vincent Walsh on TMS studies of imitation and action recognition.
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (cum laude), SISSA, Trieste, Italy
B.Sc. in Neuroscience with Honors, University of Toronto, Canada
B.A. in Psychology, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, University of Manchester
Dr Elizabeth Jefferies, York University
Professor Michal Lavidor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Publications
2010
- Pobric, G., Jefferies, E. & Lambon Ralph, MA. (2010). Category-specific versus category-general semantic impairment induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Presented at Federation of European Neuropsychological Societies. Tropical Institute, Amsterdam. eScholarID:94660
- Pobric, G., Jefferies, E. & Lambon Ralph, MA. (2010). Amodal semantic representations depend on both anterior temporal lobes: Evidence from repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuropsychologia, eScholarID:78690 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.036
- Pobric, G., Jefferies, E. & Lambon Ralph, MA. (2010). Category-specific versus category-general semantic impairment induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Current Biology, eScholarID:78691 | DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.070
2009
- Lambon Ralph MA, Pobric GG, Elizabeth Jefferies. (2009). Conceptual knowledge is underpinned by temporal pole bilaterally: Convergent evidence from rTMS. Cerebral Cortex, 19, eScholarID:1d18481 | DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhn131
- Pobric, G., Lambon Ralph, M.A., & Jefferies, E. (2009). The role of the anterior temporal lobes in the comprehension of concrete and abstract words: rTMS evidence. Cortex, 45(9), 1104-1110. eScholarID:29686 | DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2009.02.006
2008
- Fuggeta, G., Pobric, G., Rizzo, S., Lavidor, M. & Walsh, V. (2008). Uncovering the dissociation between natural and artifactual domains: ERPs/TMS study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(2), 403-412. eScholarID:29746
- Pobric, G., Marshal, N., Faust, M. & Lavidor, M. (2008). The casual role of the right cerebral hemisphere in processing novel metaphoric expressions taken from poetry: A TMS study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(1), 170-181. eScholarID:29757 | DOI:10.1162/jocn.2008.20005
2007
- Pobric GG, Jefferies E, Lambon Ralph MA. (2007). Anterior temporal lobes mediate semantic representation: Mimicking semantic dementia by using rTMS in normal participants. PNAS, 104, eScholarID:1d16764 | DOI:10.1073pnas.0707383104
- Pobric, G. & Lavidor, M. (2007). Magnetic stimulation of the right visual cortex impairs form specific priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1013-1020. eScholarID:29767
2006
- Pobric, G. & Hamilton, A. (2006). Action Understanding Requires the Left Inferior Frontal Cortex. Current Biology, 16, 524-529. eScholarID:29781
- Hoffman, P., Pobric, G. & Lambon Ralph, MA. (In-press). Brain networks in semantic association tasks. Aphasiology, eScholarID:146264