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Liina Pylkkänen is affiliated with New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, encompassing 74 publications on this topic. They have also contributed significantly to reading and literacy development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, action observation and synchronization, neuroscience and music perception, language, metaphor, and cognition, as well as child and animal learning development.

Recent publications reflect a focus on language processing and neural mechanisms with papers including:

  • "Isolating syntax in natural language: MEG evidence for an early contribution of left posterior temporal cortex" (2020, Cortex)
  • "What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary" (2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • "Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "Understanding Requires Tracking: Noise and Knowledge Interact in Bilingual Comprehension" (2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Adaptation to mis-pronounced speech: evidence for a prefrontal-cortex repair mechanism" (2021, Scientific Reports)

Collaborations are frequent with several co-authors, each having multiple joint publications. Notable frequent co-authors include Graham Flick, David Poeppel, Julien Dirani, Jixing Li, and Esti Blanco-Elorrieta.

The scientist publishes commonly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Language, arXiv (Cornell University), and Scientific Reports. The highest number of contributions have appeared in bioRxiv, with 14 publications.

Best Publications

  • Tracking the time course of word recognition with MEG

    Liina Pylkkänen;Alec Marantz

  • Towards a New Neurobiology of Language

    David Poeppel;Karen Emmorey;Gregory Hickok;Liina Pylkkänen

  • Simple Composition: A Magnetoencephalography Investigation into the Comprehension of Minimal Linguistic Phrases

    Douglas K. Bemis;Liina Pylkkänen

  • Early Occipital Sensitivity to Syntactic Category Is Based on Form Typicality

    Suzanne Dikker;Hugh Rabagliati;Thomas A. Farmer;Liina Pylkkänen

  • The Representation of Polysemy: MEG Evidence

    Liina Pylkkänen;Rodolfo Llinás;Gregory L. Murphy

  • Syntactic structure building in the anterior temporal lobe during natural story listening

    Jonathan Brennan;Yuval Nir;Uri Hasson;Rafael Malach

  • What Applicative Heads Apply To

    Liina Pylkkänen

  • Basic Linguistic Composition Recruits the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe and Left Angular Gyrus During Both Listening and Reading

    D.K. Bemis;L. Pylkkänen

  • Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex

    Suzanne Dikker;Hugh Rabagliati;Liina Pylkkänen

  • The neural basis of combinatory syntax and semantics

    Liina Pylkkänen;Liina Pylkkänen

  • The Syntax-Semantics Interface: On-Line Composition Of Sentence Meaning

    Liina Pylkkänen;Brian McElree

  • 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

  • Processing Events: Behavioral and Neuromagnetic Correlates of Aspectual Coercion.

    Jonathan Brennan;Liina Pylkkänen

  • An meg study of silent meaning

    Liina Pylkkänen;Brian McElree

  • 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.

    Esti Blanco-Elorrieta;Liina Pylkkänen;Liina Pylkkänen

  • Bilingual Language Switching in the Laboratory versus in the Wild: The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Adaptive Language Control.

    Esti Blanco-Elorrieta;Liina Pylkkänen

  • Predicting language: MEG evidence for lexical preactivation

    Suzanne Dikker;Liina Pylkkänen

  • The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in semantic composition vs. semantic memory.

    Masha Westerlund;Masha Westerlund;Liina Pylkkänen

  • The time-course and spatial distribution of brain activity associated with sentence processing.

    Jonathan Brennan;Liina Pylkkänen

  • Ecological Validity in Bilingualism Research and the Bilingual Advantage.

    Esti Blanco-Elorrieta;Esti Blanco-Elorrieta;Liina Pylkkänen

  • Before the N400: Effects of lexical–semantic violations in visual cortex

    Suzanne Dikker;Liina Pylkkanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian McElree
Brian McElree New York University
David Poeppel
David Poeppel New York University
Karen Emmorey
Karen Emmorey San Diego State University
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Gregory L. Murphy
Gregory L. Murphy New York University
Matthew J. Traxler
Matthew J. Traxler University of California, Davis
Gary S. Dell
Gary S. Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Howard C. Nusbaum
Howard C. Nusbaum University of Chicago
Gregory Hickok
Gregory Hickok University of California, Irvine
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego

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