Neuroscience of Language Lab

Research output

Research output per year 1978 2000 2011 2013 2015 2016 2018 2020 2021 2024

• 142 Article
• 20 Conference contribution
• 20 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 8 Chapter
• 14 More
  • 4 Review article
  • 3 Book
  • 2 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 1 Comment/debate
  • 1 Conference article
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Short survey

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Negation mitigates rather than inverts the neural representations of adjectives

  Zuanazzi, A., Ripollés, P., Lin, W. M., Gwilliams, L., King, J. R. & Poeppel, D., May 2024, In: PLoS biology. 22, 5 May, e3002622.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Neural Activity 100%
  • Neural Representation 100%
  • Decoding Accuracy 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Human Brain 100%

• Top-down information shapes lexical processing when listening to continuous speech

  Gwilliams, L., Marantz, A., Poeppel, D. & King, J. R., 2024, In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 39, 8, p. 1045-1058

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Lexical Processing 100%
  • Narrative 50%
  • Multivariate Analysis 50%
  • Lexical Representation 50%
• 2023

  Introducing MEG-MASC a high-quality magneto-encephalography dataset for evaluating natural speech processing

  Gwilliams, L., Flick, G., Marantz, A., Pylkkänen, L., Poeppel, D. & King, J. R., Dec 2023, In: Scientific Data. 10, 1, 862.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Speech Processing 100%
  • Evoked Potential 16%
  • Brain Imaging 16%
  • Phoneme 16%
• 2022

  Conceptual Combination in the LATL With and Without Syntactic Composition

  Parrish, A. & Pylkkänen, L., Feb 10 2022, In: Neurobiology of Language. 3, 1, p. 46-66 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Syntactic Composition 100%
  • Left Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Conceptual Combination 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Neurobiology 100%

• Early Form-Based Morphological Decomposition in Tagalog: MEG Evidence from Reduplication, Infixation, and Circumfixation

  Wray, S., Stockall, L. & Marantz, A., Feb 16 2022, In: Neurobiology of Language. 3, 2, p. 235-255 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Morpheme 100%
  • infixation 100%
  • circumfixation 100%
  • Infixation 100%

• Inflection across Categories: Tracking Abstract Morphological Processing in Language Production with MEG

  Hauptman, M., Blanco-Elorrieta, E. & Pylkkänen, L., Apr 15 2022, In: Cerebral Cortex. 32, 8, p. 1721-1736 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Language Production 100%
  • Prefrontal Cortex 50%
  • Distributed Effects 50%
  • Frontotemporal Cortex 50%

• Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order

  Gwilliams, L., King, J. R., Marantz, A. & Poeppel, D., Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 6606.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Sensory Input 100%
  • Phoneme 100%
  • Phoneme Sequence 100%
  • Phonetic Content 100%
  • Narrative 50%
• 2021

  Adaptation to mis-pronounced speech: evidence for a prefrontal-cortex repair mechanism

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Gwilliams, L., Marantz, A. & Pylkkänen, L., Dec 2021, In: Scientific reports. 11, 1, 97.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Adaptation 100%
  • Prefrontal Cortex 100%
  • Repair Method 100%
  • Non-canonical 100%
  • Auditory Cortex 100%

• Composition within and between languages in the bilingual mind: Meg evidence from korean/english bilinguals

  Phillips, S. F. & Pylkkänen, L., Nov 1 2021, In: eNeuro. 8, 6, ENEURO.0084-21.2021.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Bilingual Brain 100%
  • Korean-English Bilinguals 100%
  • Language Switching 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 50%

• Disentangling semantic composition and semantic association in the left temporal lobe

  Li, J. & Pylkkänen, L., Jul 28 2021, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 41, 30, p. 6526-6538 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Semantic Composition 100%
  • Left Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Semantic Association 100%
  • Two-word 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%

• From letters to composed concepts: A magnetoencephalography study of reading

  Flick, G., Abdullah, O. & Pylkkänen, L., Oct 15 2021, In: Human Brain Mapping. 42, 15, p. 5130-5153 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Orthographic Processing 100%
  • Combinatory Process 66%

• How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence

  Kim, S. & Pylkkänen, L., Jul 2021, In: Brain and Language. 218, 104951.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Lexical Access 100%
  • Argument Integration 33%

• Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions

  Matar, S., Dirani, J., Marantz, A. & Pylkkänen, L., Dec 2021, In: Scientific reports. 11, 1, 7181.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Language Comprehension 50%
  • Positive Activity 50%
  • Definite Article 50%

• Lists with and without syntax: A new approach to measuring the neural processing of syntax

  Law, R. & Pylkkänen, L., Mar 10 2021, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 41, 10, p. 2186-2196 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Dolls 100%
  • Lamps 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Neuroscience 100%

• Memory for affixes in a long-lag priming paradigm

  Gaston, P., Stockall, L., Van Wagenen, S. & Marantz, A., 2021, In: Glossa. 6, 1, 118.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Priming 100%
  • Stem Priming 33%
  • Form Priming 33%
  • Derivational Affixes 16%
  • Lexical Decision 14%

• Neural correlates of modal displacement and discourse-updating under (Un)certainty

  Tulling, M., Law, R., Cournane, A. & Pylkkänen, L., Jan 1 2021, In: eNeuro. 8, 1, p. 1-19 19 p., ENEURO.0290-20.2020.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Discourse Updating 100%
  • Modal Displacement 100%
  • Mental Representation 100%
  • Signal Strength 100%
  • Neural Correlate 100%

• Neural representation of words within phrases: Temporal evolution of coloradjectives and object-nouns during simple composition

  Honari-Jahromi, M., Chouinard, B., Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Pylkkänen, L. & Fyshe, A., Mar 2021, In: PloS one. 16, 3, e0242754.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Temporal Evolution 100%
  • Neural Representation 100%
  • Object Nouns 100%
  • Semantic Representation 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
• 2020

  How the brain composes morphemes into meaning

  Gwilliams, L., Feb 3 2020, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375, 1791, 20190311.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Morpheme 100%
  • Human Brain 25%
  • Syntactic Operator 25%
  • Mathematical Operations 25%
  • morpho-syntactic operation 25%

• Isolating syntax in natural language: MEG evidence for an early contribution of left posterior temporal cortex

  Flick, G. & Pylkkänen, L., Jun 2020, In: Cortex. 127, p. 42-57 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Posterior Temporal Lobe 66%
  • Sentence Processing 50%

• Lexical Access in Naming and Reading: Spatiotemporal Localization of Semantic Facilitation and Interference Using MEG

  Dirani, J. & Pylkkänen, L., Jun 1 2020, In: Neurobiology of Language. 1, 2, p. 185-207 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Relatedness 100%
  • Lexical Access 100%
  • Semantic Facilitation 100%
  • Spatio-temporal Localization 100%

• Modeling Human Morphological Competence

  Oseki, Y. & Marantz, A., Nov 12 2020, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 11, 513740.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Morpheme 100%
  • Computational Modeling 100%
  • Markov Model 75%
  • Cognitive Science 50%
  • Context-Free Grammars 50%

• Neural basis of basic composition: What we have learned from the red-boat studies and their extensions

  Pylkkänen, L., Feb 3 2020, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375, 1791, 20190299.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Conceptual 100%
  • Composing 100%
  • Temporal 100%
  • Red 100%
  • Expression 100%

• Recurrent processes support a cascade of hierarchical decisions

  Gwilliams, L. & King, J. R., Sep 2020, In: eLife. 9, p. 1-20 20 p., e56603.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Prefrontal Cortex 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Parietal Cortex 100%
  • Recurrent Process 100%

• Understanding requires tracking: Noise and knowledge interact in bilingual comprehension

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Ding, N., Pylkkänen, L. & Poeppel, D., 2020, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 32, 10, p. 1975-1983 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Bilingual Comprehension 100%
  • Degraded Signal 100%
  • Language Comprehension 100%
  • Speech Perception 100%
  • Second Language Processing 33%
• 2019

  Automatic access to verb continuations on the lexical and categorical levels: evidence from MEG

  Sharpe, V., Reddigari, S., Pylkkänen, L. & Marantz, A., Feb 7 2019, In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 34, 2, p. 137-150 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Anticipatory Processing 100%
  • Frame Entropy 50%
  • Single Word Processing 50%
  • Prepositional Phrases 50%
  • Syntactic Constituent 50%

• Composition of event concepts: Evidence for distinct roles for the left and right anterior temporal lobes

  Kim, S. & Pylkkänen, L., Jan 2019, In: Brain and Language. 188, p. 18-27 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Right Anterior Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Resultative 66%
  • Noun Modifiers 33%
  • agentive 33%

• Effects of morphological complexity in left temporal cortex: An MEG study of reading Chinese disyllabic words

  Hsu, C. H., Pylkkänen, L. & Lee, C. Y., Feb 2019, In: Journal of Neurolinguistics. 49, p. 168-177 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Chinese Reading 100%
  • Disyllabic Words 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Compound Object 100%

• Left occipital and right frontal involvement in syntactic category prediction: MEG evidence from Standard Arabic

  Matar, S., Pylkkänen, L. & Marantz, A., Dec 2019, In: Neuropsychologia. 135, 107230.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Visual Cortex 100%
  • Pronoun 100%
  • Epileptic Absence 50%
  • Frontal Lobe 50%

• Prefix Stripping Re-Re-Revisited: MEG Investigations of Morphological Decomposition and Recomposition

  Stockall, L., Manouilidou, C., Gwilliams, L., Neophytou, K. & Marantz, A., Sep 6 2019, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 1964.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Morphological processing 100%
  • Recomposition 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Psycholinguistics 66%
  • Lateralization 50%
• 2018

  Building words and phrases in the left temporal lobe

  Flick, G., Oseki, Y., Kaczmarek, A. R., Al Kaabi, M., Marantz, A. & Pylkkänen, L., Sep 2018, In: Cortex. 106, p. 213-236 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Tombstone 83%
  • Tombstones 57%
  • Orthographic Complexity 16%

• Composing lexical versus functional adjectives: Evidence for uniformity in the left temporal lobe

  Zhang, L. & Pylkkänen, L., Dec 1 2018, In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 25, 6, p. 2309-2322 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Featural Information 50%
  • Green Vehicles 20%
  • Green Star 10%

• In spoken word recognition, the future predicts the past

  Gwilliams, L., Linzen, T., Poeppel, D. & Marantz, A., Aug 29 2018, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 38, 35, p. 7585-7599 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Phoneme Position 100%
  • Prior Context 100%
  • Early Speech 100%
  • Uniqueness Point 100%
  • Auditory Cortex 100%

• Language switching decomposed through MEG and evidence from bimodal bilinguals

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Emmorey, K. & Pylkkänen, L., Sep 25 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 39, p. 9708-9713 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex 100%
  • Language Switching 100%
  • Bimodal Bilinguals 100%
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex 75%

• Morphological representations are extrapolated from morpho-syntactic rules

  Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A., Jun 2018, In: Neuropsychologia. 114, p. 77-87 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Morphology 100%
  • Morpheme 100%
  • syntactic rules 100%
  • Morphological Representation 100%
  • Neurolinguistics 16%

• Semantic composition of sentences word by word: MEG evidence for shared processing of conceptual and logical elements

  Zhang (张琳敏), L. & Pylkkänen, L., Oct 2018, In: Neuropsychologia. 119, p. 392-404 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Conceptual Elements 100%
  • Logic Element 100%
  • Shared Processing 100%
  • Poodle 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%

• Shared neural correlates for building phrases in signed and spoken language

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Kastner, I., Emmorey, K. & Pylkkänen, L., Dec 1 2018, In: Scientific reports. 8, 1, 5492.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Mental Representation 100%
  • Neurobiology 100%
  • Sign Language 100%
  • Neuroscience 100%

• Syntactic and semantic restrictions on morphological recomposition: MEG evidence from Greek

  Neophytou, K., Manouilidou, C., Stockall, L. & Marantz, A., Aug 2018, In: Brain and Language. 183, p. 11-20 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Recomposition 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Understudied Languages 50%
  • Fusiform Gyrus 50%

• The form of morphemes: MEG evidence from masked priming of two Hebrew Templates

  Kastner, I., Pylkkänen, L. & Marantz, A., Nov 12 2018, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 9, NOV, 2163.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Lexical Access 100%
  • Masked Priming 100%
  • Morpheme 100%
  • Concatenative 66%

• The priming of basic combinatory responses in MEG

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Ferreira, V. S., Del Prato, P. & Pylkkänen, L., Jan 2018, In: Cognition. 170, p. 49-63 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Priming 100%
  • Priming Effect 50%
  • Temporal Lobe 50%
  • Target Trial 50%

• The time course of contextual cohort effects in auditory processing of category-ambiguous words: MEG evidence for a single “clash” as noun or verb

  Gaston, P. & Marantz, A., Apr 21 2018, In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 33, 4, p. 402-423 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Auditory Cortex 50%
  • Phoneme Surprisal 25%
• 2017

  Bilingual language switching in the laboratory versus in the wild: The spatiotemporal dynamics of adaptive language control

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E. & Pylkkänen, L., 2017, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 37, 37, p. 9022-9036 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Prefrontal Cortex 100%
  • Bilingual Language Switching 100%
  • Auditory Cortex 50%
  • Magnetoencephalography 50%
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex 50%

• Early sensitivity of left perisylvian cortex to relationality in nouns and verbs

  Williams, A., Reddigari, S. & Pylkkänen, L., Jun 1 2017, In: Neuropsychologia. 100, p. 131-143 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Relationality 100%
  • Eventivity 37%
  • Magnetoencephalography 12%
  • Semantic Skills 12%
  • Grammatical Categories 12%

• Language in context: Characterizing the comprehension of referential expressions with MEG

  Brodbeck, C. & Pylkkänen, L., Feb 15 2017, In: NeuroImage. 147, p. 447-460 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Parietal Lobe 100%
  • Referential Expressions 100%
  • Electroencephalography 66%
  • Referential Aspect 50%

• MEG Evidence for Incremental Sentence Composition in the Anterior Temporal Lobe

  Brennan, J. R. & Pylkkänen, L., May 2017, In: Cognitive Science. 41, p. 1515-1531 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Combinatorics 50%
  • Language Comprehension 33%
  • Sentence Comprehension 33%

• Revisiting form typicality of nouns and verbs A usage-based approach

  Sharpe, V. & Marantz, A., 2017, In: Mental Lexicon. 12, 2, p. 159-180 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Lexical Decision 100%
  • Reaction Time 100%
  • Visual Word Processing 100%
  • Usage-based Approach 100%
  • Grammatical Category 66%

• Syntactic priming as a test of argument structure: A self-paced reading experiment

  Oltra-Massuet, I., Sharpe, V., Neophytou, K. & Marantz, A., Aug 15 2017, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 8, AUG, 1311.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Syntactic Priming 100%
  • Structural priming 50%
  • Relation priming 50%
  • Small clause 50%
  • Experimental Novel 50%
• 2016

  Adjective conjunction as a window into the LATL's contribution to conceptual combination

  Poortman, E. B. & Pylkkänen, L., Sep 1 2016, In: Brain and Language. 160, p. 50-60 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Anterior Temporal Lobe 100%
  • Lexical Semantics 50%
  • Complex Concept 14%

• Bilingual language control in perception versus action: Meg reveals comprehension control mechanisms in anterior cingulate cortex and domain-general control of production in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E. & Pylkkänen, L., Jan 13 2016, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 36, 2, p. 290-301 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex 100%
  • Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex 100%
  • Cognitive Control 100%
  • Language Switching 100%
  • Bilingual Language Control 100%

• Composition of complex numbers: Delineating the computational role of the left anterior temporal lobe

  Blanco-Elorrieta, E. & Pylkkänen, L., Jan 1 2016, In: NeuroImage. 124, p. 194-203 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Magnetoencephalography 100%
  • Adverbial Modification 28%
  • Number Concepts 14%
  • Number Naming 14%

• Functional characterisation of letter-specific responses in time, space and current polarity using magnetoencephalography

  Gwilliams, L., Lewis, G. A. & Marantz, A., May 15 2016, In: NeuroImage. 132, p. 320-333 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Magnetic Field 100%
  • Region of Interest 100%
  • Conventional Method 100%
  • Primary Visual Cortex 100%
  • Magnetoencephalography 100%