NeLLab Spotlight

About NeLLab Spotlight

Summaries of publications from the Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab) at New York University. Hosted by Liina Pylkkanen. Lab website: https://wp.nyu.edu/nellab/

Publisher

Liina Pylkkanen

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Mar 2021

Latest episode

29 Jul 2021

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Jul 2021

   #6 - Jixing Li: Disentangling semantic composition and semantic association in the left temporal lobe

   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!

2. 

   5 May 2021

   #5 - Songhee Kim: How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition.

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

3. 

   31 Mar 2021

   #4 - Suhail Matar: Arabic syntax in the left posterior temporal cortex

   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/

4. 

   30 Mar 2021

   #3 - Decoding words within phrases with Alona Fyshe, Maryam Honari-Jahromi, Brea Chouinard and Esti Blanco-Elorrieta

   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/

5. 

   16 Mar 2021

   #2 - Maxime Tulling: How our brains respond to facts vs. uncertainty

   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

6. 

   10 Mar 2021

   #1 - Ryan Law: Neural processing of lists with and without syntax

   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

7. 

   8 Mar 2021

   Welcome to NeLLab Spotlight!

   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/

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