The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
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Chicago, IL, 60637
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Michael Andric
Background
Michael graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Psychology. His undergraduate thesis work, completed under the guidance of Raymond Gibbs, explored embodied cognition and understanding of metaphors.
Research Interest
Michael is interested in language and motor function, with particular attention to the processing of semantic meaning, idiom, and even metaphor. His current research is using fMRI to investigate the neural correlates of emblematic gesture processing.
Publications
Andric, M., Small, S.L. (2010). Functional imaging of putative human mirror neuron systems in neurological disease. Exp Neurol., 221, 5-9.
Price, C.J., Crinion, J.T., Leff, A.P., Richardson, F.M., Schofield, T.M., Prejawa, S., Ramsden, S., Gazarian, K., Lawrence, M., Ambridge, L., Andric, M., Small, S.L., Seghier, M.L. (2010). Lesion sites that predict the ability to gesture how an object is used. Archives Italiennes de Biologie, 148, 243-258.
Gibbs, R.W., Gould, J.J., & Andric, M. (2006). Imagining metaphorical actions: Embodied simulations make the impossible plausible. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 25, 221-238.
