Liina Pylkkanen
@liinapy
Prof. of Linguistics & Psychology at NYU Director of the NYU Neurolinguistics Lab; IG @nellab_nyu & @tribecamorningrunner; @liinapy.bsky.social she/her
Congrats to all winners and whoohoo @NYUPsych !! 🎉🎉 @BlancoElorrieta @davidpoeppel
Join us in congratulating our Award Recipients: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, David Poeppel, and Jacob Momsen! 👏 #SNL2025 Learn more here: 2025.neurolang.org/awards-informa…
New preprint from @GrahamFlick! During natural reading with eye movements, the left posterior fusiform cortex reflects both fixated and upcoming words in parallel—and distinguishes whether an upcoming word is skipped or fixated. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s 1st PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the 🧠! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category & context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @SfNJournals tinyurl.com/59amm8j7
Amazing opportunity to work with @BlancoElorrieta!
JOB OPENING: I'm looking to hire a full-time RA! If you know someone who interested in language and the brain and would be a great fit, please send them my way! Full details below:
Always love the challenge of concise, accessible science communication—thanks @NPR for featuring our research on at-a-glance language comprehension (led by Jacqui Fallon & @Nigel_Flower) on @AcademicMinute! Full series incl. other @nyuniversity episodes: tiny.cc/0432001
Information is coming at us faster than ever, but how much can our brains grasp? Liina Pylkkanen, professor of linguistics and psychology at @nyuniversity, takes a closer look. bit.ly/LPylkkanenAM
Noga Zaslavsky’s new @NYUPsych lab is open for applications! 🎉⬇️🎉
I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! My lab works at the intersection of information theory, cognition, language, and AI. Wanna hear more? I asked notebookLM to generate a podcast just for you (but pls take it with a big grain of salt...) youtu.be/9L04S4jvspI
Next Tuesday!
If you didn’t have a chance to join us for the Lunch with a Professor event at #SNL2024 in Brisbane, join me online for a chat about syntax, semantics or career stuff. Bring your own lunch/dinner/snack! Max 5 people. All trainees welcome! @SNLmtg neurolang.org/2024/virtual-a…
If you didn’t have a chance to join us for the Lunch with a Professor event at #SNL2024 in Brisbane, join me online for a chat about syntax, semantics or career stuff. Bring your own lunch/dinner/snack! Max 5 people. All trainees welcome! @SNLmtg neurolang.org/2024/virtual-a…
From a single glance at a brief sentence, like a text or an ad slogan, what aspects of the linguistic representation does your brain detect first? Our new results suggest basic phrase structure, as quickly as 125ms. At @ScienceAdvances by Jacqui Fallon! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Such an important episode and discussion about Masud Husain’s Brain editorial about the administrative mountain that is swallowing science, thank you @smwilsonau! Listened to this on my first #SNL2024 morning run Brisbane, see you all soon @SNLmtg!!
On the Language Neuroscience Podcast #31, I talk with @MasudHusain, EIC @Brain1878 about his editorial "A mountain of small things". Is the mountain of small things a bigger threat to science than the reproducibility crisis? Listen and see what you think! langneurosci.org/podcast/ep31
🧠✨ New research! Computational operations in conceptual composition are vital to language theory, yet research remains fragmented across fields. Our study bridges gaps, offering new insights on meaning formation. #Neuroscience #linguistics
New from @ShaonanWang: This collab w Jeff Binder’s lab links composition theories in Linguistics with the distributed experiential feature model, suggesting phrase composition rules vary both by feature type & formal relation. MEG data at #SNL2024 @SNLmtg! tinyurl.com/3e8w7997
Excited to share @Nigel_Flower’s new MEG study on neural Sentence Superiority in parallel visual presentation. This work offers insights into how the brain detects & repairs word order errors, w early detection at ~200ms and repair mechanisms at starting at ~350ms @SfNJournals
I hereby christen this 8 year old account with its first ever post, sharing with you all my first ever publication in the Journal of Neuroscience with @liinapy! doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… @SfNJournals #JNeurosci
Excited to chat with trainees at the “Lunch with a Professor” session of #SNL2024!
Trainees at #SNL2024! Join us for "Lunch with a Professor", Oct 24th at lunchtime. Chat with top researchers in language & the brain, get career advice, and network! Sign up by Oct 7th to reserve your spot: forms.gle/QCba3QmesG9VBp… Limited spaces available! #SNL2024 #SNLTrainees
We have a junior search in the Neural Basis of Cognition jointly at @nyupsych & @NYU_CNS, all areas of cognition welcome! apply.interfolio.com/153500
Ready to amlap! My first time in Edinburgh, very excited and such a gorgeous day for pre-conference touristing! #AMLaP2024
⭐️#HireBlackInNeuro & hire the multi-talented @sarahlinguist, on the job market this year!⭐️
Still looking for a tenure track faculty position to do research on bilingual development/processing with clinical slant at a university with brain imaging facility (MEG, MRI) or support to build lab with EEG 👀 #HireBlackinNeuro
Looks like a fantastic resource from @olafhauk on EEG/MEG data analysis, thanks Olaf!
I put some introductory #EEG / #MEG videos together, based on our introduction to #neuroimaging at the @mrccbu : youtube.com/playlist?list=…. They should cover the most common aspects of EEG/MEG analysis, including pre-processing, source estimation and functional connectivity.