Morgan Gianola's Successful Doctoral Thesis Proposal

Congratulations to our 4th-year graduate student, Morgan Gianola, M.S., for successfully proposing his doctoral thesis: “Idiomatics: Assessing Neurobiological Relationships Between Language, Culture, and Pain among Spanish-English Bilinguals” on neural responses associated with changes in pain ratings and physiological responses of bilinguals across English and Spanish contexts. To dissociate alterations in pain processing from activity associated with online language processing, he will also compare pain-responsive neural activity across languages to activity changes across language contexts during an explicitly linguistic task (i.e., semantic judgment). We are looking forward to helping Morgan conduct fMRI scans for this study and see the results.