Liina Pylkkänen
@liinapy.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, New York University
Thank you for the great day @gt-neuro.bsky.social !
Today, the #INNSightForum welcomes its second external speaker, Liina Pylkkänen (@liinapy.bsky.social)!
Join us as we explore language processing to take a glance into the brain’s temporal dynamics at 11:15 a.m. in the Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128) or online | 🗓️ neuro.gatech.edu/innsight-for...
Join us as we explore language processing to take a glance into the brain’s temporal dynamics at 11:15 a.m. in the Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128) or online | 🗓️ neuro.gatech.edu/innsight-for...
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Thank you for the great day @gt-neuro.bsky.social !
The most gorgeous moonrise over river Neckar at the end of the very inspiring Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 🙌, thank you for having me, @snstuebingen.bsky.social! #SNS2025
October 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The most gorgeous moonrise over river Neckar at the end of the very inspiring Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 🙌, thank you for having me, @snstuebingen.bsky.social! #SNS2025
Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social
On our way to #SNL2025 as a big group, full NeLLab poster menu below, please come chat with our students and see you soon!!! @snlmtg.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
On our way to #SNL2025 as a big group, full NeLLab poster menu below, please come chat with our students and see you soon!!! @snlmtg.bsky.social
At-a-glance processing of syntactic dependencies in minimal DANISH two-word sentences by @simonekrogh.bsky.social!
Sentence-superiority and dependency effects emerge in fronto-temporal cortex from ~230ms.
Sentence-superiority and dependency effects emerge in fronto-temporal cortex from ~230ms.
Excited to share my first PhD paper with @liinapy.bsky.social! From rapid flashes of Danish two-word stimuli, left fronto-temporal areas detect not only sentence–list contrasts but also grammatical details like syntactic frame. Huge thanks to the Danes who volunteered their 🧠 to make this possible!
Manipulating syntax without taxing working memory: MEG correlates of syntactic dependencies in a verb-second language
The neural basis of syntax is notoriously difficult to study without working memory and lexico-semantic confounds. To tackle these challenges, we presented syntactic dependencies in minimal Danish ...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
At-a-glance processing of syntactic dependencies in minimal DANISH two-word sentences by @simonekrogh.bsky.social!
Sentence-superiority and dependency effects emerge in fronto-temporal cortex from ~230ms.
Sentence-superiority and dependency effects emerge in fronto-temporal cortex from ~230ms.
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen
It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup!
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
August 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup!
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
A great postdoc opportunity w my colleague @nogazs.bsky.social at NYU!
📣 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656
And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656
And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!
July 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
A great postdoc opportunity w my colleague @nogazs.bsky.social at NYU!
Excited for this in early October!
🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
July 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Excited for this in early October!
Lab hike turned into rainy day art outing! ☔️🖼️
May 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Lab hike turned into rainy day art outing! ☔️🖼️
Dr. Nigel Flower hooded!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 @nigelflower.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Dr. Nigel Flower hooded!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 @nigelflower.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr. Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social for the successful defense of his dissertation “Combinatorics at-a-glance: On the spatiotemporal dynamics of temporally unstructured language”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
May 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social for the successful defense of his dissertation “Combinatorics at-a-glance: On the spatiotemporal dynamics of temporally unstructured language”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen
The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh).
Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025
2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...
Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025
2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...
April 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh).
Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025
2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...
Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025
2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...
Today Marco Lai @marcochlai.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation "Developing Language in the Brain: The Neural Development of Language Processing in School-Age Children"! Congratulations Dr. Lai!!
April 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Today Marco Lai @marcochlai.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation "Developing Language in the Brain: The Neural Development of Language Processing in School-Age Children"! Congratulations Dr. Lai!!
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. A new preprint from Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social!
Very happy to share a preprint from the final project of my PhD with @liinapy.bsky.social!
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: Localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
Visual reading proceeds fixation-by-fixation, with individual words recognized and integrated into evolving conceptual representations within only hundreds of milliseconds. This relies, in part, on in...
www.biorxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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. A new preprint from Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social!
Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7
Tracking neural correlates of contextualized meanings with representational similarity analysis
Although it is uncontroversial that word meanings shift depending on their context, our understanding of contextualized lexical meaning remains poor. How is a contextualized semantic space organized? ...
tinyurl.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen
What do we need, in good as in bad times? A community. Today is as good a day as any to:
✨renew your membership to the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
✨submit an abstract/symposium to #SNL2025
✨ register for one of the member-initiated virtual activities 2025.neurolang.org/virtual-acti...
✨renew your membership to the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
✨submit an abstract/symposium to #SNL2025
✨ register for one of the member-initiated virtual activities 2025.neurolang.org/virtual-acti...
Member-Initiated Virtual Activities
2025.neurolang.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What do we need, in good as in bad times? A community. Today is as good a day as any to:
✨renew your membership to the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
✨submit an abstract/symposium to #SNL2025
✨ register for one of the member-initiated virtual activities 2025.neurolang.org/virtual-acti...
✨renew your membership to the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
✨submit an abstract/symposium to #SNL2025
✨ register for one of the member-initiated virtual activities 2025.neurolang.org/virtual-acti...
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen
Two pub days in a week! I could get used to this 😎
Lead by UGA students Donnie Dunagan & Tyson Jordan, with John Hale and @liinapy.bsky.social . This is my team's first entry in our bicoastal NSF project on the brain's responses to 'at-a-glance' lg processing!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lead by UGA students Donnie Dunagan & Tyson Jordan, with John Hale and @liinapy.bsky.social . This is my team's first entry in our bicoastal NSF project on the brain's responses to 'at-a-glance' lg processing!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Two pub days in a week! I could get used to this 😎
Lead by UGA students Donnie Dunagan & Tyson Jordan, with John Hale and @liinapy.bsky.social . This is my team's first entry in our bicoastal NSF project on the brain's responses to 'at-a-glance' lg processing!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lead by UGA students Donnie Dunagan & Tyson Jordan, with John Hale and @liinapy.bsky.social . This is my team's first entry in our bicoastal NSF project on the brain's responses to 'at-a-glance' lg processing!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hot off the presses w @lingdustin.bsky.social! 🎉
February 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Hot off the presses w @lingdustin.bsky.social! 🎉
Always love the challenge of concise, accessible #scicomm—thanks @npr.org for featuring our research on at-a-glance language comprehension (led by Jacqui Fallon & Nigel Flower) on The Academic Minute!
www.npr.org/podcasts/564...
www.npr.org/podcasts/564...
The Academic Minute
The Academic Minute features researchers from colleges and universities around the world, keeping listeners abreast of what's new and exciting in the academy and of all the ways academic research cont...
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December 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Always love the challenge of concise, accessible #scicomm—thanks @npr.org for featuring our research on at-a-glance language comprehension (led by Jacqui Fallon & Nigel Flower) on The Academic Minute!
www.npr.org/podcasts/564...
www.npr.org/podcasts/564...
Chance to work w @lauragwilliams.bsky.social!! 🌟🌟🌟
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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December 13, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Chance to work w @lauragwilliams.bsky.social!! 🌟🌟🌟
Labsgiving! 💕 Happy Holidays from our lab to yours!
November 26, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Labsgiving! 💕 Happy Holidays from our lab to yours!
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen
Neurobiology of Language is now on Blue Sky!
We'll continue exploring the intersections of the brain, speech and language while sharing cutting-edge research and real-world clinical insights. Follow us and join the conversation.
direct.mit.edu/nol
#Neurobiology #Language #Brain #Science
We'll continue exploring the intersections of the brain, speech and language while sharing cutting-edge research and real-world clinical insights. Follow us and join the conversation.
direct.mit.edu/nol
#Neurobiology #Language #Brain #Science
Neurobiology of Language | MIT Press
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November 3, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Neurobiology of Language is now on Blue Sky!
We'll continue exploring the intersections of the brain, speech and language while sharing cutting-edge research and real-world clinical insights. Follow us and join the conversation.
direct.mit.edu/nol
#Neurobiology #Language #Brain #Science
We'll continue exploring the intersections of the brain, speech and language while sharing cutting-edge research and real-world clinical insights. Follow us and join the conversation.
direct.mit.edu/nol
#Neurobiology #Language #Brain #Science
Trainees: 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!
www.neurolang.org/2024/virtual...
Max 5 people. All trainees welcome!
www.neurolang.org/2024/virtual...
Member-Initiated Virtual Activities
www.neurolang.org
October 25, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Trainees: 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!
www.neurolang.org/2024/virtual...
Max 5 people. All trainees welcome!
www.neurolang.org/2024/virtual...
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 Science Advances by Jacqui Fallon! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Language at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual input
The brain’s magnetic fields reveal ultrarapid detection of syntax in at-a-glance language perception.
www.science.org
October 23, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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 Science Advances by Jacqui Fallon! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New from Shaonan Wang: 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 next week in Brisbane!
tinyurl.com/3e8w7997
tinyurl.com/3e8w7997
tinyurl.com
October 19, 2024 at 3:52 PM
New from Shaonan Wang: 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 next week in Brisbane!
tinyurl.com/3e8w7997
tinyurl.com/3e8w7997