NeLLab Spotlight Liina Pylkkanen

Li, J., & Pylkkänen, L. (2021). Disentangling semantic composition and semantic association in the left temporal lobe. Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (30) 6526-6538.

https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2317-20.2021

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Kim, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2021). How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence. Brain and Language, 218, 104951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104951 

Background papers:

Westerlund, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in semantic composition vs. semantic memory. Neuropsychologia, 57, 59-70.

Zhang, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015). The interplay of composition and concept specificity in the left anterior temporal lobe: An MEG study. NeuroImage, 111, 228-240.

Williams, A., Reddigari, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2017). Early sensitivity of left perisylvian cortex to relationality in nouns and verbs. Neuropsychologia, 100, 131-143.

Transcript: https://wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab/nellabspotlight_ep5-songhee-kim/

Matar, S., Dirani, J., Marantz, A. & Pylkkanen, L. (2021) Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions. Scientific Reports 11, 7181 (2021). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-86474-x

Transcript: https://wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab/nellabspotlight_ep4-suhail-matar/

Part 1: A brief summary of our recent publication with Alona Fyshe's group, including introductions to all junior authors. 

Part 2: Longer conversation between Liina and Alona.

Honari-Jahromi, M., Chouinard, B., Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Pylkkänen, L., & Fyshe, A. (2021). Neural representation of words within phrases: Temporal evolution of color-adjectives and object-nouns during simple composition. PloS one, 16(3), e0242754.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242754

Transcript: https://wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab/nellabspotlight_ep-3-decoding-words-within-phrases/

Tulling, M., Law, R., Cournane, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2021). Neural correlates of modal displacement and discourse-updating under (un)certainty. eNeuro, 8(1).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810261/

Transcript:  https://wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab/nellabspotlight_ep2-maxime-tulling/

Linguistics, semantics, neurolinguistics, discourse processing

Law, R., & Pylkkänen, L. (2021). Lists with and without syntax: A new approach to measuring the neural processing of syntax. Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (10) 2186-2196.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2021/02/10/JNEUROSCI.1179-20.2021.abstract 

Transcription: https://wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab/nellabspotlight_ep1-ryan-law/

Syntax, neurolinguistics, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, magnetoencephalography