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Professor of Linguistics, Psychology
Ph.D. 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Linguistics); M.A. 1997, University of Pittsburgh (Linguistics).
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Personal Homepage: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mp108/
Research Interests: neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax, lexicon
Affiliations: Cognitive Neuroscience Society; Linguistic Society of America; Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
Fellowships/Honors: Invitation to be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA (2005); University Research Challenge Fund Award, New York University (2005); Provost's Fellowship. Merit Fellowship awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000); Henry B. Roger's Fellowship. Merit Fellowship awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999).
Selected Works:
Selected Publications
Pylkkänen, L., (in press). Introducing Arguments. Linguistic Inquiry Monographs Series. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (in press). The syntax-semantics interface: On-line composition of sentence meaning. In M. Traxler & M.A. Gernsbacher (eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd Ed). NY: Elsevier.
Pylkkänen, L., Gonnerman, L., Stringfellow, A., Marantz, A. (accepted pending revision). Disambiguating the source of phonological inhibition effects in lexical decision: an MEG study [pdf]. Cognitive Brain Research.
Pylkkänen, L., Llinás, R. & McElree, B. (submitted). An MEG Study of Silent Meaning.
Pylkkänen, L., Llinas, R. & Murphy, G. (2006). Representation of polysemy: MEG evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18:1, pp. 1-13.
McElree, B., Pylkkänen, L., Pickering, M., & Traxler, M. (in press). The time course of enriched composition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
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.
Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2003). Tracking the time course of word recognition with MEG. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 187-189.
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.
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