Liina Pylkkänen

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

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

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.

It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup!
#neuroskyence #compneurosky

A great postdoc opportunity w my colleague @nogazs.bsky.social at NYU!

Excited for this in early October!

Lab hike turned into rainy day art outing! ☔️🖼️

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”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language September 12-14 2025 Gallaudet University Abstract submission through April 29 neurolang.org

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...

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!

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? ...

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

Just the best news, Arizona is so lucky! 🤩

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...

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...

Hot off the presses w @lingdustin.bsky.social! 🎉

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...

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...

Chance to work w @lauragwilliams.bsky.social!! 🌟🌟🌟

Labsgiving! 💕 Happy Holidays from our lab to yours!

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

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...

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.

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

The spatiotemporal dynamics of bottom-up and top-down processing during at-a-glance reading Like all domains of cognition, language processing is affected by top-down knowledge. Classic evidence for this is missing blatant errors in the signal. In sentence comprehension, one instance is fail...

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 doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

I am super enthusiastic about the potential of rapid parallel presentation of full sentences to illuminate fundamental questions about the neurobiology of syntax and semantics, and thrilled that NSF has funded has our research! Excited to start this project with @lingdustin.bsky.social as my co-PI!🎉

My Year 8 daily @tribecamorningrunner picture will be the Dumbo Waterfront from the Manhattan Bridge! Follow me on my @tribecamorningrunner Instagram if you’re interested in this kind of repetitive photography. www.instagram.com/tribecamorni...

Our Lab Lemon Tree is now in bloom. Happy New Year! 🌸☀️🌸 photo by Amilleah Rodriguez 🙏