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Social Sciences and Humanities

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47
Citations
25356
World Ranking
3242
National Ranking
1559

Engineering and Technology

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40
Citations
23582
World Ranking
7139
National Ranking
1934

Overview

Alec Marantz is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work emphasizes Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Geometry and Topology.

The scientist's research topics broadly cover Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, Neuroscience and Music Perception, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Language Development and Disorders, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alec Marantz include Laura Gwilliams, Jean-Rémi King, David Poeppel, Liina Pylkkänen, and Suhail Matar.

Regular publication venues where their work appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Neurobiology of Language, Journal of Neuroscience, and Nature Communications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alec Marantz include:

  • "Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order", 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions", 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Adaptation to mis-pronounced speech: evidence for a prefrontal-cortex repair mechanism", 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Top-down information shapes lexical processing when listening to continuous speech", 2023, Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • "Introducing MEG-MASC a high-quality magneto-encephalography dataset for evaluating natural speech processing", 2023, Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection

    M Halle;Alec Marantz

  • No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon

    Alec Marantz

  • On the nature of grammatical relations

    Alec Marantz

  • Some key features of distributed morphology

    M Halle;Alec Marantz

  • Case and licensing

    Alec Marantz

  • Architecture and Blocking

    David Embick;Alec Marantz

  • A syntactic specialization for Broca's area

    David Embick;Alec Marantz;Yasushi Miyashita;Wayne O'Neil

  • Phases and words

    Alec Marantz

  • Clitics, morphological merger, and the mapping to phonological structure

    Alec Marantz

  • Reconstructing spatio-temporal activities of neural sources using an MEG vector beamformer technique

    K. Sekihara;S.S. Nagarajan;D. Poeppel;A. Marantz

  • Implications of asymmetries in double object constructions

    Alec Marantz

  • Auditory Cortex Accesses Phonological Categories: An MEG Mismatch Study

    Colin Phillips;Thomas Pellathy;Alec Marantz;Elron Yellin

  • Tracking the time course of word recognition with MEG

    Liina Pylkkänen;Alec Marantz

  • Verbal argument structure: Events and participants

    Alec Marantz;Alec Marantz

  • Generative linguistics within the cognitive neuroscience of language

    Alec Marantz

  • A single route, full decomposition model of morphological complexity: MEG evidence

    Linnaea Stockall;Alec Marantz

  • The selectivity of the occipitotemporal M170 for faces

    Jia Liu;CA Masanori Higuchi;Alec Marantz;Nancy Kanwisher

  • Asymptotic SNR of scalar and vector minimum-variance beamformers for neuromagnetic source reconstruction

    K. Sekihara;S.S. Nagarajan;D. Poeppel;A. Marantz

  • Neuromagnetic evidence for the timing of lexical activation: An MEG component sensitive to phonotactic probability but not to neighborhood density

    Liina Pylkkänen;Andrew Stringfellow;Alec Marantz

  • The interpretation of external arguments

    J Wood;Alec Marantz

  • Task-induced asymmetry of the auditory evoked M100 neuromagnetic field elicited by speech sounds.

    D. Poeppel;E. Yellin;C. Phillips;T.P.L. Roberts

  • Evidence for early morphological decomposition in visual word recognition

    Olla Solomyak;Alec Marantz

Frequent Co-Authors

David Poeppel
David Poeppel New York University
Liina Pylkkänen
Liina Pylkkänen New York University Abu Dhabi
Yasushi Miyashita
Yasushi Miyashita Juntendo University
Tal Linzen
Tal Linzen New York University
Srikantan S. Nagarajan
Srikantan S. Nagarajan University of California, San Francisco
Colin Phillips
Colin Phillips University of Maryland, College Park
Timothy P.L. Roberts
Timothy P.L. Roberts Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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