M A R I N A B E D N Y Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences 3400 N. Charles Street, Ames Hall Baltimore, MD 21218 mbedny@mit.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Fall 2013 to present Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University 2008 to 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006 to 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Berenson- Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School EDUCATION 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/AWARDS 2007 to 2011, Grant from Clinical Loan Repayment Program of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at NIH 2005 Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire 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 2011, Cognitive Development Society 1
2009 to present, Cognitive Science Society 2011 Human Brain Mapping Society TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2008 Instructor, Graduate Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience of Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fall 2006 and 2007 TMS Safety Lecture, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Course, Berenson- Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Spring 2006 Teaching Assistant, Psychology of Language, University of Pennsylvania Summer 2004 Instructor, Cognitive Development, University of Pennsylvania Summer 2003 Instructor, Cognitive Neuroscience, 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 Teaching Assistant, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Spring 2002 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Psychology, University of Pennsylvania AD- HOC REVIEWER Journal of Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Brain and Language Current Biology Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Neuroimage Language and Cognition Cerebral Cortex PUBLICATIONS 2
Research Publications, peer reviewed Bedny, M. & Saxe, R. (2012) Insights into the origins of knowledge from the cognitive neuroscience of blindness. Cognitive Neuropsychology. Bedny, M., Pascual- Leone, A., Saxe, R. (in press). A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: Distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults. Brain and Language. Gweon, H., Dodell- Feder, D., Bedny, M., Saxe, R. (in press). Theory of Mind performance in children correlates with functional specialization of brain regions recruited for thinking about thoughts. Child Development. Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Pascual- Leone, A., Saxe, R. (2011). Typical neural representations of action verbs develop without vision. Cerebral Cortex Bedny, M. & Caramazza, A. (2011). Perception, action, and word meanings in the human brain: the case from action verbs. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Bedny, M., Pascual- Leone, A., D. Dodell- Feder, Fedorenko, E., Saxe, R. (2011). Language processing in the occipital cortices of congenitally blind adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dodell- Feder, D., Koster- Hale, J., Bedny, M., Saxe, R. fmri item analysis in a theory of mind task. (2011). Neuroimage. Bedny, M., Konkle, T., Pelphrey, K., Saxe, R., Pascual- Leone, A. (2010). Sensitive period for a multi- modal response in human visual motion area MT/MST. Current Biology 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. 3
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. 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. Research Papers Under Review/In Preparation Bedny, M., Richardson, H., Saxe, R. (in preparation). Visual cortex is active during language processing in young blind children. Bedny, M. Dravida, S., Saxe, R. (in preparation). Shindigs, brunches and rodeos: The neural basis of event words. Koster- Hale, J., Saxe, R., Bedny, M. (in preparation). To peek and to peer: Visual verb meanings are unaffected by congenital blindness. Koster- Hale, J., Bedny, M., Saxe, R. (in preparation). Theory of Mind network encodes how you know what you know in blind and sighted adults. CONFERENCE TALKS Bedny, M. Symposium Chair. (2011) Effects of developmental experience on neurocognitive development: insights into the origins of human cognition. Presentation: Development of language without vision at the Cognitive Development Society's Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Bedny, M., Dodell- Feder, D., Fedorenko, E., Pascual- Leone, A., Saxe, R. (2010). Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults. Presentation at the Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA. Bedny, M., Dodell- Feder, D., Fedorenko, E., Hawkins, E., Kanwisher, N., Pascual- Leone, A., Saxe, R. (2010). Left occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults responds to grammatical structure. Presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC. 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. 4
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. 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. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Bedny, M., Richardson, H., Pu., H., Saxe, R. (2011) Emergence of visual cortex plasticity in congenitally blind children. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dodell- Feder, D., Bedny, M., Saxe, R. (2010) fmri item analysis in a theory of mind task. Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. Gweon, H., Dodell- 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., 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 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 5
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., Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43 Vassar Street, 46-4021 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-324- 2885 saxe@mit.edu 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 6