Publications

Submitted

Westerlund, M. & Pylkkänen, L. (submitted). Decomposing composition: MEG evidence for distinct sub-operations within semantic composition.

Bemis, D. & Pylkkänen, L. (submitted). Simple composition during language production in MEG.

Dikker, S. & Pylkkänen, L. (submitted). Predicting language: MEG evidence for lexical preactivation.

In press

Bemis, D. & Pylkkänen, L. (in press). Basic linguistic composition recruits the left anterior temporal lobe and left angular gyrus during both listening and reading. Cerebral Cortex.

2012

Brennan, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2012). The time-course and spatial distribution of brain activity associated with sentence processing. NeuroImage, 2;60(2): 1139-48. [pdf]

Rabagliati, H., Pylkkänen, L. & Marcus, G. F. (2012). Top-down influence in young children's lexical ambiguity resolution. Developmental Psychology, doi:10.1037/a0026918. [pdf]

2011

Rabagliati, H., Marcus, G. F. & Pylkkänen, L. (2011). Rules, Radical Pragmatics and Restrictions on Regular Polysemy. Journal of Semantics, 28(4): 485-512. doi:10.1093/jos/ffr005. [pdf]

Dikker, S. & Pylkkänen, L. (2011). Before the N400: effects of lexical-semantic violations in visual cortex. Brain and Language, 118(1-2), 23-28. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.02.006. [pdf]

Bemis, D. K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2011). Simple Composition: An MEG investigation into the comprehension of minimal linguistic phrases. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(8): 2801-2814. [pdf]

2010

Pylkkänen, L., Brennan, J. & Bemis, D. K. (2010) Grounding the Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantics in Linguistic Theory. Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.527490. [to appear in a special issue on the cognitive neuroscience of semantics] [pdf]

Rabagliati, H.A., Marcus, G.F., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010) Shifting senses in semantic development. Cognition, 117, 17-37 [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L., & Okano, K. (2010). The nature of abstract orthographic codes: Evidence from masked priming and magnetoencephalography. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10793. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010793 [pdf]

Brennan, J., Nir, Y., Hasson, U., Malach, R., Heeger, D., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010). Syntactic complexity predicts anterior temporal activity during natural story listening. Brain and Language, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2010.04.002. [pdf]

Brennan, J. and Pylkkänen, L. (2010). Processing Psych Verbs: Behavioral and MEG Measures of Two Different Types of Semantic Complexity. Language and Cognitive Processes, Volume 25, 777-807. [pdf]

Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., Farmer, T. A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2010). Early occipital sensitivity to syntactic category is based on form typicality. Psychological Science 1;21(5):629-34. [pdf]

2009

Pylkkänen, L., Oliveri, B. & Smart, A. (2009). Semantics vs. World Knowledge in Prefrontal Cortex. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 1313-1334. [pdf]

Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., & Pylkkänen, L. (2009). Sensitivity to Syntax in Visual Cortex. Cognition 110(3), 293-321. [pdf]

2008

Pylkkänen, L., Martin, A. E., McElree, B., & Smart, A. (2008). The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or Decision Making? Brain and Language, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.006. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Mismatching Meanings in Brain and Behavior. Language and Linguistics Compass 2/4, 712-738.[pdf]

Brennan, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Processing Events: Behavioral and Neuromagnetic Correlates of Aspectual Coercion. Brain and Language 106, 132-143. [pdf]

Zweig, E. & Pylkkänen, L. (2008). A visual M170 effect of morphological complexity. Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690960802180420. [pdf]

2007

Harris, J., Pylkkänen, L., McElree, B. & Frisson, S. (2007). The cost of question concealment: Eye-tracking and MEG evidence. Brain and Language, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.09.001. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2007). An MEG Study of Silent Meaning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1905-1921. [pdf]

2006

Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2006). The syntax-semantic interface: On-line composition of sentence meaning. In M. Traxler & M.A. Gernsbacher (eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd Ed) (pp. 537-577). NY: Elsevier. [pdf]

McElree, B., Pylkkänen, L., Pickering, M., & Traxler, M. (2006). The time course of enriched composition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13 (1), 53-59. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L., Llin‡s, R. & Murphy, G. (2006). Representation of polysemy: MEG evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 (1), 1-13 [pdf]

2004

Pylkkänen, L., Feintuch, S., Hopkins, E., & Marantz, A. (2004). Neural correlates of the effects of morphological family frequency and family size: an MEG study. Cognition , 91, B35-B45. [pdf]

2003

Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2003). Tracking the time course of word recognition with MEG. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 187-189. [pdf]

2002

Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., & Marantz, A. (2002). Neuromagnetic evidence for the timing of lexical activation: An MEG component sensitive to phonotactic probability but not to neighborhood density. Brain and Language, 81, 666?678. [pdf]

2001

Pylkkänen, L., A. Stringfellow, E. Flagg, A. Marantz. (2001). A Neural Response Sensitive to Repetition and Phonotactic Probability: MEG Investigations of Lexical Access. Proceedings of Biomag2000. 363-367. [pdf]