NeLLab Spotlight

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

Transcript coming!

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 

The Neuroscience of Language Lab at NYU is launching a podcast! We hope to offer a quick and easy way to follow the research in our lab, since staying on top of the tremendous amount of literature in our field is becoming harder and harder. Each episode covers a recent publication and "spotlights" the first author of the paper. Enjoy!  

Lab website: https://wp.nyu.edu/nellab/ 

Transcription: https://wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab/nellabspotlight_trailer/