2024
Rodriguez, A., Wang, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2024, May). Do Neural Language Models Inferentially Compose Concepts the Way Humans Can? Poster presented at LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy
Flower, N., & Pylkkänen, L. (2024, May). The influence of top-down grammatical knowledge on the rapid visual perception of full sentences: MEG evidence. Talk presented at HSP 2024, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Huang, X., & Pylkkänen, L. (2024, May). The top-down role of grammatical knowledge during Mandarin-English code-switching. Poster presented at HSP 2024, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Krogh, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2024, May). Manipulating syntax without taxing working memory: MEG correlates of syntactic dependencies in a verb-second language. Poster presented at HSP 2024, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2023
Dirani, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2023, October). MEG evidence that modality-independent conceptual representations encode lexical but not low-level sensory features. Talk presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France
Messi, A. & Pylkkänen, L. (2023, October). Tracking word meanings across contexts in MEG with Representational Similarity Analysis. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France
Flick, G. & Pylkkänen, L. (2023, October). Left fusiform activity explains variability in fixation durations during natural reading: Evidence from co-registered MEG & eye-tracking. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France
Fallon, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2023, October). MEG evidence for ultrarapid phrase structure detection at 100-200ms in parallel visual presentation. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France
Flower, N.& Pylkkänen, L. (2023, October). At-a-glance sentence comprehension involves bottom-up composition in left inferior temporal cortex and top-down composition in middle posterior temporal cortex at 300-450ms. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France
Krogh, S. & Pylkkänen, L. (2023, October). Manipulating syntax without taxing working memory. MEG correlates of syntactic dependencies in Danish. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France
Lai, M. C. H., Abrams, E., Bou Dargham, S., Fallon, J., Goldman, E., Hauptman, M., Parrish, A., Phillips, S. F., Reinoso, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2023, July). Developmental changes in auditory evoked fields at different levels of linguistic processing. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montréal, Canada
Flick, G., & Ostrand, R., (2023, January) Automatically calculated lexical and sentential context features of connected speech predict cognitive impairment. 2023 International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting. San Diego, USA.
2022
Orpella, J., Flick, G., Assaneo, F., & Jackson, E. (2022, October) Global Motor Inhibition Precedes the Initiation of Stuttered Speech. 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Philadelphia, USA.
Bou Dargham, S., Goldman, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2022, October) The “Composition Advantage” in dominant and non-dominant Arabic and Spanish speakers. Poster presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL, USA.
Li, J., Lai, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2022, October). Meaning composition in two-word and naturalistic listening paradigms. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, USA.
Bou Darham, S., Goldman, E. & Lai, M., Pylkkänen, L. (2022, October) MEG correlates of speech planning in classic picture naming vs. “dialogue” in children and adults. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
Dirani, J.& Pylkkänen, L. (2022, October) Modality Independent Representations of Conceptual Categories in Object Naming and Word Reading. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
Flick, G. & Pylkkänen, L. (2022, October) Examining visual word recognition and composition in natural reading with eye movements: A co-registered MEG and eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
Flower, N. & Lee, S.H., Pylkkänen, L. (2022, October) Considering all the stars visible: MEG correlates of English post-nominal modification. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
Parrish, A. & Rodriguez, A., Pylkkänen, L. (2022, October) Conceptual combination in non-local dependencies. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
Wang, S. (2022, October) Decoding the time course of acoustic, lexical, syntactic and semantic features with MEG during story listening. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
Dirani, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2022, September) Modality Independent Representations of Conceptual Categories in Object Naming and Word Reading. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, York, UK.
Chacón, D.A., Pylkkänen, L. (2022, September). Retrieval precedes evaluation: An MEG study on implausible gaps in English. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022. University of York.
Jackson, E.S., Orpella, J., Flick, G., & Assaneo, F. (2022, August) Elevated global response inhibition underlies stuttered speech. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control. Groningen, Netherlands.
Bou Dargham, S., Goldman, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2022, May) The “Composition Advantage” in dominant and non-dominant Arabic and Spanish speakers. Poster presented at NYUAD 6th Annual Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Showcase, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Flick, G., & Pylkkänen, L. (2022, May) A co-registered magnetoencephalography and eye-tracking study of natural reading. Leading Edge Workshop on Co-registration. Tampa, USA.
Jackson, E., Orpella, J., Flick, G.,& Assaneo, F. (2022, May) Temporal dynamics of stuttered speech. Technical Session, Joint World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering. Montreal, Canada.
Flick, G., & Pylkkänen, L. (2022, April) A co-registered magnetoencephalography and eye-tracking study of natural reading. 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, USA.
2021
Li, J. (2021, November) Analysis of neuroimaging data using naturalistic designs. Presentation for NYUAD Neuroimaging Science Talks.
PI Liina Pylkkanen gave an NYU Communicative Sciences and Disorder Colloquium titled “Contribution of anterior vs. posterior temporal cortex to composition: View from MEG”. (2021, October).
Li., J. (2021, October). Grammatical predictors for fMRI studies. Invited workshop for the Leipzig Lectures on Language End-of-Year Symposium.
Li., J. (2021, October). Cortical processing of pronoun resolution revealed by computational models. SNL Symposium: What can NLP systems teach us about language in the brain?
Phillips, Sarah F., & Pylkkänen, L. (2021, September). “Investigating the syntactic processing of code-switching expressions” Boston University Linguistics Colloquium Series.
PI Liina Pylkkanen was a (virtual) keynote speaker at the “Brain and Language” conference in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. (2021, August).
PI Liina Pylkkanen was a keynote speaker in the conference “Brain and Language 2021” at East China Normal University. (2021).
Kim,S. & Pylkkänen, L. (2021, June). Unpacking composition: The case of adverbs and verbs. A talk in the “Leipzig Lectures on Language—Combinatorics 2021”
Virtual workshop (2021, May): Graham Flick participated in the Advanced M/EEG Workshop hosted by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Li, J. (2021). ‘Cortical processing of reference in language revealed by computational models’. Invited lab presentation at Ellen Lau’s Neurolinguistics Lab, University of Maryland.
Pylkkänen, L. (2021, February). Making meanings: The brain’s ability to create and comprehend complex messages. Invited NYU CAS Scholars Lecture Series talk, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Pylkkänen, L. & Flick, G. (2021, January). Visual word form recognition meets conceptual combination at 200 ms. Presentation at Special Symposium “Recognizing Words in Context,” Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society (UK), held virtually due to COVID-19.
Li, J., Luh, W., Pylkkänen, L., Yang, Y., & Hale, J. (2021, January). Modeling pronoun resolution in the brain. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN): Global Connectome, held virtually due to COVID-19.
2020
Flick, G., Assaneo, F., Orpella, J. & Jackson, E.S. (2020, Oct) Examining predictors of stuttered versus fluent speech prior to vocalization with magnetoencephalography. 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (conducted virtually).
Matar, S., Dirani, J., Marantz, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). Dissociating syntactic processing and semantic composition in the left temporal lobe: MEG evidence from Standard Arabic. Talk presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Flick, G., Abdullah, O., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). From letter strings to complex concepts: A magnetoencephalography study of reading. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Chacón, D., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). The timing of semantic interpretation in processing long-distance dependencies. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Parrish, A., Abrams, E., Phillips, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). Processing speech in- and out-of-context. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Phillips, S., Abrams, E., Parrish, A., Geguera, R., Hauptman, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). Evaluating laterality of spoken word recognition and basic composition in adults and children with MEG. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Tulling, M., Matar, S., Abrams, E., Geguera, R., Hauptman, M., Parrish, A., Phillips, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). Naturalistic expository discourse processing in school-aged children and adults. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Hauptman, M., Abrams, E., Phillips, S., Parrish, A., Geguera, R., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). Investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of speech production in children. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Hauptman, M., Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, October). Planning production across morphological contexts, semantic content and syntactic categories. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Flick, G., Assaneo, F., Orpella, J., Jackson, E.S. (2020, June) Temporal dynamics of stuttered speech. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production. Providence, USA (conducted virtually).
Law, R. & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, June). Lists with and without syntax: Neural correlates of syntactic structure. Poster presented at the International Max Planck Research School Conference: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Language Sciences, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Phillips, S. F., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, May). Code-switching during composition: MEG evidence from Korean-English bilinguals. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Hauptman, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, May). Planning production: Morphological, semantic and syntactic representations. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Law, R. & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, May). Lists with and without syntax: Neural correlates of syntactic structure. Data blitz and poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Pylkkänen, L. (2020, March). Building concepts vs. phrases: Neural basis of composition — Where are we today? Invited talk presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Li, J., Pylkkänen, L. (2020, March). Disentangling semantic association from semantic composition. Poster presented virtually at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Kim, S. & Pylkkänen, L. (2020). Is semantic composition in the left anterior temporal lobe blind to syntax? Poster presented virtually at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Flick, G., Abdullah, O., & Pylkkänen, L. (2020, March). An MEG study of composition and relational structure in minimal phrases. Slide presentation at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, held virtually due to COVID-19.
Pylkkänen, L. (2020, March). Building concepts vs. phrases: Neural basis of composition – where are we today? Invited talk presented at CLaME language workshop.
2019
Law, R., Pylkkänen, L. (2019, October). Lists with and without syntax: How the presence of global syntactic structure affect localised MEG activity. Poster accepted at the International Brain and Syntax Think Tank 2019. Evanston, USA.
Phillips, S. F. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, September). Investigating the neural effects of code-switching on combinatory processing with MEG. Presented at the Conference on Multilingualism, Leiden University, Netherlands.
Dirani, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Part-Whole but not Whole-Part Relations Elicit Interference Effects in Object Naming. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Honari-Jahromi, M., Chouinard, B., Blanco-Elorrieta, E. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Predictability of semantic representations during pre-utterance planning. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Law, R. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Lists with and without syntax: MEG effects of syntactic composition when local conceptual combination is controlled. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Li, J., Dirani, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Disentangling semantic association from semantic composition in the LATL. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Matar, S., Dirani, J., Marantz, A. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Lower LIFG activation for higher syntactic complexity: MEG evidence from conceptually-matched Arabic stimuli. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Parrish, A. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Composition without syntax or plausibility: LATL conceptual combination occurs in the absence of syntactic phrase closure or semantic plausibility. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Phillips, S. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Are neural effects of composition sensitive to code- switching? Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Tulling, M., Law, R. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Discourse belief-updating in the right hemi-sphere. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
Flick, G. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, August). Exploring the neural correlates of composition and relational structure: Evidence from MEG. Poster presented at the Dartmouth Center for Cognitive Neuroscience 2019 Summer Workshop: Semantic Processing and Semantic Knowledge, Dartmouth College, USA.
Parrish, A. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, June). Early conceptual combination occurs in the absence of syntactic phrase closure. Talk presented at the workshop Psycholinguistics in Iceland: Parsing & Prediction (PIPP), Reykjavík, Iceland.
Tulling, M., Cournane, A. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, June). Discourse belief-updating in the right hemisphere. Talk presented at the 8th Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag) Conference, Edinburgh, UK.
Law, R., Pylkkänen, L. (201 9, April). Neural correlates of syntactic structure: MEG study using lists. Presentation at the Neuroscience of Language Conference 2019. Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Blanco-Elorrieta*, Gwilliams*, Marantz & Pylkkänen (2019, March). Prefrontal cortex aids adaptation to accented speech. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
Dirani, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, March). Lexical Access in Reading vs. Naming: MEG evidence from semantic priming and inhibition. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
Dirani, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, March). Lexical Access in Reading vs. Naming: MEG evidence from semantic priming and inhibition. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, USA.
Matar, S. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, March). Left inferior frontal gyrus less active for greater syntactic complexity: Magnetoencephalography evidence from minimal Arabic phrases and sentences. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
Tulling, M., Cournane, A. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019, March). Discourse belief-updating in the right hemisphere. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
2018
Blanco-Elorrieta, E. Emmorey, K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2018, March). Task switching decomposed: MEG evidence from bimodal language switching.Talk presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Conference 2018, Boston, USA.
Williams, A. (2018). Argument structure and the left angular gyrus.Common Ground Seminar in Language and Communication Sciences 2018, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Williams, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2018, March). Relational versus plural concepts: the role of the left angular gyrus. Poster presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 2018, University of California, Davis, USA.
Williams, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2018, March). Relational versus plural concepts: the role of the left angular gyrus. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Conference 2018, Boston, USA.
2017
Flick, G., & Pylkkänen, L. (2017, November). In search of syntax: The case of English post-nominal modification. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2017, Baltimore, USA.
Kim, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2017, November). Quick and easy composition of event concepts in the left (but not the right) anterior temporal lobe.Talk presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference 2017, Baltimore, USA.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E. Emmorey, K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2017). Turning a language “off” is cognitively effortful, but turning a language “on” is not: MEG evidence from bimodal language switching. Talk presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference 2017, Baltimore, USA.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E. (2017). Bilingual language switching in the lab vs. in the wild: The spatio-temporal dynamics of adaptive language control. Talk presented at the Summer school on Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Barcelona, Spain.
2016
Kim, S. (2016). Adverbial composition in the left anterior temporal lobe. Poster presented at Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning, CUNY.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, September). While language-switching in the lab localizes in anterior cingulate cortex, comprehending code-switches in the wild recruits the auditory cortex: MEG evidence from Arab-English bilinguals. Talk presented at the 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Bilbao, Spain.
Flick, G., Kaczmarek, A., Oseki, Y., Marantz, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, August). Lexical access feeds composition: Temporal modulation of combinatory LATL activity according to lexical access demands. Poster presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, UK.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, August). While language-switching in the lab localizes in anterior cingulate cortex, comprehending code-switches in the wild begins in auditory cortex. Poster presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, UK.
Reddigari, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, August). Early sensitivity to argument structure in left perisylvian cortex. Poster presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, UK.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Ferreira, V., Del Prato, P., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, August). The Priming of Basic Combinatory Responses in MEG. Poster presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, UK.
Sharpe, V., Reddigari, S., Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2016, August). Granularity of prediction for English verb continuations. Poster presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, UK.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E. (2016, April). Brain bases of bilingual language selection and switching: Evidence from production and comprehension. Invited talk at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, April). The Priming of Basic Combinatory Responses in MEG. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Zhang, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, April). Scaling up to a sentence: MEG reveals interaction effects between conceptual specificity and sentential polarity. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, March). The Priming of Basic Combinatory Responses in MEG. Talk presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, FL.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Ferreira, V., Del Prato, P., & Pylkkänen, L. (2016, March). Bilingual language control in perception vs. action: MEG reveals comprehension control mechanisms in anterior cingulate cortex and domain-general control of production in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.Poster presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, FL.
2015
Zhang, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, October). Scaling up to a sentence: The temporal unfolding of conceptual specificity and sentential polarity effects in left anterior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, October). Switching in perception vs. action revealed by MEG: Reactive control in the ACC and proactive control in the dorsolateral PFC. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, October). Composition of Complex Numbers: Delineating the computational role of the left anterior temporal lobe. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Williams, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, October). Relationality in the angular gyrus: Evidence from MEG. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Oseki Y., Gwilliams, L., Gaston, P., Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2015, October). Neural dynamics of morphological and phrasal composition. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Kastner, I., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). MEG Evidence for the LATL and vmPFC as Loci of Composition in American Sign Language. Talk presented at the Neuroscience of Language Workshop 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Zhang, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). The function of the left anterior temporal lobe (LATL) in the processing of simple sentences. Talk presented at the Neuroscience of Language Workshop 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Brodbeck, C., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). Reference resolution in small visual worlds: the role of the medial parietal lobe. Talk presented at the Neuroscience of Language Workshop 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Williams, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). Relationality or Eventivity? MEG Evidence that the LIPL Processes Nominal Argument Structure. Talk presented at the Neuroscience of Language Workshop 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Kaczmarek, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). Possible Effects of Emotional Content and Comprehension on Linguistic Composition. Talk presented at the Neuroscience of Language Workshop 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). Switch mechanisms revealed by MEG: what’s special about language switching?. Talk presented at the Neuroscience of Language Workshop 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Zhang, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). The interplay of composition and concept specificity in the left anterior temporal lobe: a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study. Talk presented at NYUAD Annual Research Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). Brain bases of language selection: MEG evidence from Arabic-English bilingual language production. Talk presented at NYUAD Annual Research Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, March). Bilingual language control: domain general in production but not comprehension? Evidence from MEG. Talk presented at the 5th Linguistics in the Gulf Conference 2015, Doha, Qatar.
2014
Brodbeck, C., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014). Reference resolution in small visual worlds: the role of the medial parietal lobe. Talk presented at the RefNet Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Blanco-Elorrieta, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, August). Brain bases of language selection: MEG evidence from Arabic-English bilingual language production. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
AlKaabi, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, April). Building Phrases vs. Words: An MEG Investigation. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Leiken, K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, April). Predictability and Gap-Filler Ordering in Dependency Formation: An MEG Study. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Zhang, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, April). The Role of the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe in Language Processing: The Interaction between Combination Effects and Concept Specificity Effects. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Leffel, T., Lauter, M., Westerlund, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, March). Restrictive vs. non-restrictive composition: An MEG study. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH.
Brodbeck, C., Gwilliams, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, February). Reference resolution and prediction in a visual world: MEG evidence from English and Arabic. Talk presented at the NYUAD Annual Research Conference 2014, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Kastner, I., Westerlund, M., AlKaabi, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, February). The Left Anterior Temporal Lobe as Locus of Combinatory Language Processing: MEG Evidence from English and Arabic. Talk presented at the NYUAD Annual Research Conference 2014, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
2013
Del Prato, P., & Pylkkänen, L. (2013, November). Conceptual combination vs. numeral quantification in the left anterior temoral lobe: MEG evidence from a production task. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, San Diego, CA.
Brooks, T., Cid D., Marantz, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2013, March). Combinatorial Effects within Compound Words during Visual Word Recognition.Poster presented at the 20th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Leiken, K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2013, March). MEG evidence that the LIFG effect of object extraction requires similarity-based interference. Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, SC.
Westerlund, M., Bemis, D., & Pylkkänen, L. (2013, March). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in semantic memory vs. sentence processing.Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, SC.
Brodbeck, C., Del Prato, P., & Pylkkänen, L. (2013, March). MEG evidence for immediate reference resolution within a visual world. Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, SC.
2012
Linzen, T., Marantz, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2012, October). Syntactic effects in single word recognition: evidence from MEG. Talk presented at the 8th Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, QC.
Westerlund, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2012, October). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in semantic memory vs. sentence processing. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
Westerlund, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2012, March). MEG evidence for distinct sub-operations within semantic composition. Poster presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Leiken, K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2012, March). Increasing Combinatoric Complexity in MEG. Poster presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
2011
Leiken, K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2011, November). Increasing Combinatoric Complexity in MEG. Poster presented at the Third Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD.
Westerlund, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2011, November). Characterizing the role of the left anterior temporal lobe in combinatory processes. Poster presented at the Third Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD.
2010
Brennan, J., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, November). Brain regions associated with rapid word-by-word sentence processing: An MEG study. Poster presented at The Second Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA.
Brennan, J., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, October). Investigating the relationship between syntactic structure-building and semantic composition using MEG. Talk presented at The 41st Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society, Philadephia, PA.
Boylan, C., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, November). Assessing the directionality of N400 and P600 effects with simultaneous EEG and MEG. Poster presented at The Second Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA.
Bemis, D., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, March). Domain-General Mechanisms in the Construction of Meaning. Talk presented at The 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Rabagliati, H., Chestnut, E., Fine, R., Petashnick, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, March). Mechanisms of sense resolution in young children. Talk presented at The 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Livitz, I., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, March).Singular Complexity: MEG Evidence that Plurals are Semantically Unmarked. Poster presented at The 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Brennan, J., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, March). Teasing apart structure-building and semantic composition during story-reading with MEG. Poster presented at The 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Dikker, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, March). Before the N400: Early visual effects of lexical-semantic predictions in MEG. Poster presented at The 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Boylan, C., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010, March). Assessing the directionality of N400 and P600 effects with MEG. Poster presented at The 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
2009
Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., Farmer, T., & Pylkkänen, L. (2009, October). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: the role of form typicality. Poster presented at The First Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL.
Bemis, D., & Pylkkänen L. (2009, October). The neural correlates of basic linguistic composition: An MEG investigation. Poster presented at The First Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL.
Rabagliati, H., Gelfand, H., Marcus, G., & Pylkkänen, L. (2009, April). The acquisition of ontological shifts and the process of lexical semantic development. Talk presented at The 3rd Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference, Lyon, France.
Bemis, D., & Pylkkänen L. (2009, March). The neural correlates of basic linguistic composition: An MEG investigation. Poster presented at The 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
Livitz, I., Wood, J., & Pylkkänen, L. (2009, March). The role of animacy information in syntactic processing: A case study of middle constructions.Poster presented at The 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., Farmer, T. A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2009, March). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: the role of phonological typicality.Poster presented at The 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
2008
Rabagliati, H., Lin, T., Gelfand, H., Marcus, G. F., & Pylkkänen, L. (2008, September). Development at the syntax-semantics interface: when do children understand implicit ontological shifts?. Talk presented at14th Annual Conference on Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge, UK.
Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., Farmer, T. A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2008, September). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: the role of phonological typicality. Poster presented at The 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge, UK.
Rabagliati, H., Dikker, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2008, March). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: A manipulation of prediction strength and morphological type. Poster presented at The 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC.
Brennan, J., & Pylkkänen, L. (2008, March). Semantic composition and inchoative coercion: An MEG study. Poster presented at The 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC.
2007
Rabagliati, H., Dikker, S., & Pylkkänen L. (2007, May). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: An MEG study. Talk presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Brennan, J., Nir, Y., Hasson, U., Malach, R., Heeger, D., & Pylkkänen, L. (2007, May). Language in wonderland: Linguistic processing during natural story listening. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Zweig, E., & Pylkkänen L. (2007, May). The visual M170 and morphological decomposition. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., & Pylkkänen L. (2007, March). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: a magnetoencephalography study. Poster presented at The 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA.
Brennan, J., & Pylkkänen L. (2007, March). Processing events: Neural correlates of aspectual coercion. Poster presented at The 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA.
2006
Zweig, E., & Pylkkänen L. (2006, March). Early effects of morphological complexity in visual word processing: An MEG study. Poster presented at The 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Harris, J., Pylkkänen, L., McElree, B., & Frisson, S. (2006, March). Interpretation of concealed questions: MEG and eye-tracking data. Poster presented at The 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Zweig, E., & Pylkkänen L. (2006, January). Early effects of morphological complexity on visual evoked fields in MEG. LSA 2006 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
2005
Zweig, E., & Pylkkänen, L. (2005, April). The timecourse of morphological processing: an MEG study. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Pylkkänen, L., McElree, B., Murphy, G., Francis, J., Harris, J., Martin, A., & Llinás, R. (2005, April). The roles of the anterior midline field and right temporal cortex in semantic processing: MEG studies. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Pylkkänen, L., & McElree, B. (2005, March). Distinct effects of semantic plausibility and semantic structure building in MEG. Poster presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.
2004
Pylkkänen, L., Llinas, R., & McElree, B. (2004, August). Distinct effects of semantic plausibility and semantic structure building in MEG. Biomag 2004, Boston, MA.
Pylkkänen, L., Llinas, R., & Murphy, G.L. (2004, August). MEG evidence for distinct processing of polysemy, homonymy and semantic relatedness bilaterally. Biomag 2004, Boston, MA.
Pylkkänen, L., & McElree, B. (2004, March). Processing secondary predicates: does locality matter?. Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD.
Pylkkänen, L., & McElree, B. (2004, January). Representation of secondary predication: reading time evidence. Linguistic Society of America 2004 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Pylkkänen, L., & Murphy, G. L. (2004, January). Sense competition and the representation of polysemy. Linguistic Society of America 2004 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
2003
Pylkkänen, L., Feintuch, S., Hopkins, E., & Marantz, A. (2003). Magnetoencephalographic indices of the effects of morphological family size and family frequency. Talk presented at Human Brain Mapping 2003, New York, NY.
Pylkkänen, L., Feintuch, S., Hopkins, E., & Marantz, A. (2003, March-April). When do morphological family size and family frequency affect processing? An MEG study. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2003 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2003, March). Morphological Families and Phonological Neighborhoods: who competes when? MEG evidence. Poster presented at The 22nd Annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, San Diego, CA.
2002
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., Gonnerman, L., & Marantz, A. (2002). Phonological and semantic factors affect the same MEG component in lexical decision. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2002 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2002, January). Neural mechanisms of spoken word recognition: Onsets and inhibition. Linguistic Society of America 2002 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2001
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., Gonnerman, L., & Marantz, A. (2001, April). Are inhibitory effects in lexical decision due to suppression of activation or competition: An MEG study. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2001 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., & Marantz, A. (2001). Neural mechanisms of spoken word recognition: MEG evidence for distinct sources of inhibition. Helsinki Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Helsinki, Finland.
Marantz, A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2001). Morphological decomposition in derivation: MEG evidence. The Third Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology, Barcelona, Spain.
2000
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., Flagg, E., & Marantz, A. (2000). A neural response sensitive to repetition and phonotactic probability. Biomag 2000: 12th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Espoo, Finland.
Pylkkänen, L., A. Stringfellow, E. Flagg, A. Marantz. (2000, April). A neural response sensitive to priming: An MEG study of lexical access. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2000 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., Kelepir, M., & Marantz, A. (2000). Separating lexical access from decision: An MEG study. NELS 31: 31st Conference of the North East Linguistics Society, Washington, DC.
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., Kelepir, M., & Marantz, A. (2000). Separating lexical access from decision: An MEG study. The Second International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, QC.
