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kemmerer@purdue.edu
(765) 494-3826
B.S., 1987, English and Philosophy, Illinois State
University
M.S., 1993, Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo
Ph.D., 1996, Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo
Postdoc, 1996-7, Linguistics, UCLA
Postdoc, 1997-2000, Neurology, University of Iowa
David Kemmerer has a joint appointment in the Department
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the Department
of Psychological Sciences. His teaching responsibilities
include courses on the neural bases of speech and language,
the field of cognitive neuroscience, and topics in linguistics.
His research focuses on how different kinds of linguistic
meaning are mediated by different neural systems, drawing
on behavioral and lesion data from brain-damaged patients
as well as behavioral and functional neuroimaging data
from normal subjects. His current projects include
the linguistic encoding of space and the syntax-semantics
interface. In addition, he is interested in the evolution
of language and the neural correlates of consciousness.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Kemmerer, D., Gonzalez Castillo, J., Talavage, T., Patterson, S., & Wiley, C. (in press). Neuroanatomical distribution of five semantic components of verbs: Evidence from fMRI. Brain and Language.
Kemmerer, D. (in press). A critique of Mark D. Allen's "The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit." Brain and Language.
Kemmerer, D., & Tranel, D. (in press). Searching for the elusive neural substrates of body part terms: A neuropychological study. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Tranel, D., Manzel, K., Asp, E., & Kemmerer, D. (in press). Naming static and dynamic actions: Neuropsychological evidence. Journal of Physiology (Paris). (Special issue on links and interactions between language and motor systems in the brain.)
Kemmerer, D. (to appear). The neurobiology of lexical processing. In P.C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Kemmerer, D. (to appear). How words capture visual experience: The perspective from cognitive neuroscience. In B. Malt & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the world: How words capture human experience.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Kemmerer, D. (to appear). A neuroscientific perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations. In V. Evans & P. Chilton (Eds.), Language, cognition, and space. London, UK:
Equinox.
Kemmerer, D., Chandrasekaran, B., & Tranel, D. (2007). A case of impaired verbalization but preserved gesticulation of motion events. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 70-114.
Kemmerer, D., Weber-Fox, C., Price, K., Zdansczyk, C., & Way, H.
(2007). Big brown dog or Brown big dog? An electrophysiological
study of semantic constraints on adjective order. Brain
and Language, 100, 238-256. (See also the accompaying commentary H. Kolk & D. Chwilla entitled "Late positivities in unusual situations.")
Kemmerer, D. (2006). The semantics of space: integrating linguistic typology and cognitive neuroscience. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1607-1621. (Special issue on the representation of categorical and coordinate spatial relations in the brain.)
Kemmerer, D., & Gupta, R. (2006). Six feet over: Out-of-body experiences and their relevance to the folk psychology of souls. (Commentary on J. Bering, "The folk psychology of souls.") Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 479-480
Kemmerer, D. (2006). Action verbs, argument structure
constructions, and the mirror neuron system. In M. Arbib (Ed.),
Action to language via the mirror neuron system. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
Kemmerer, D. (2005). Against innate grammatical categories. (Supplemental commentary on M. Arbib, "From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for
neurolinguistics.") Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Kemmerer, D., Tranel, D., & Manzel, K. (2005). An exaggerated effect
for proper nouns in a case of superior written over
spoken word production. Cognitive Neuropsychology 22, 3-27.
Kemmerer, D., (2005) The
spatial and temporal meanings of English prepositions
can be independently impaired. Neuropsychologia, 43,
797-806.
Tranel, D., & Kemmerer., D. (2004). Neuroanatomical
correlates of locative prepositions. Cognitive
Neuropsychology, 21, 719 - 749.
Kemmerer, D. (2003). Neuropsychological
evidence for the distinction between grammatically relevant
and irrelevant components of meaning. Behavioral
and Brain Science, 26, 684 - 685
Kemmerer, D., & Tranel, D. (2003). A
double dissocation between the meanings of action verbs
and locative prepositions. Neurocase, 9,
421-435.
Tranel, D., Kemmerer, D., Adolphs, R., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. (2003). Neural
correlates of conceptual knowledge for actions.
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 409-432.
Kemmerer, D. (2003). Why
can you hit someone on the arm but not break
someone on the arm? A neuropsychological investigation
of the English body-part possessor ascension construction.
Journal of Neurolinguistics.
Kemmerer, D., & Wright, S.K. (2002). Selective
impairment of knowledge underlying un- prefixation:
Further evidence for the autonomy of grammatical semantics.
Journal of Neurolinguistics, 15, 403-432.
Kemmerer, D., Tranel, D., & Barrash, J. (2001). Patterns
of dissociation in the processing of verb meanings in
brain-damaged subjects. Language and Cognitive
Processes. 16, 1-34.
Kemmerer, D. (2000). Grammatically
relevant and grammatically irrelevant features of verb
meaning can be independently impaired. Aphasiology.
14, 997-1020.
Kemmerer, D. (2000). Selective
impairment of knowledge underlying prenominal adjective
order: Evidence for the autonomy of grammatical semantics.
Journal of Neurolinguistics, 13.57-82.
Kemmerer, D. & Tranel, D. (2000). A
double dissociation between linguistic and perceptual
representations of spatial relationships. Cognitive
Neuropsychology. 17, 393-414.
Kemmerer, D. & Tranel, D. (2000). Verb
retrieval in brain/damaged subjects: 1. Analysis
of stimulus, lexical, and conceptual factors. Brain
and Language, 73. 347-92.
Kemmerer, D. & Tranel, D. (2000). Verb
retrieval in brain-damaged subjects: 2. Analysis
of errors. Brain and Language. 73, 393-420.
Kemmerer, D. (1999). "Near"
and "far" in language and perception.
Cognition. 73. 35-63. |
