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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 26d

Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

Simone Moeller Krogh @simonekrogh.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Florian Sandhaeger @fsandhaeger.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · Jul 8

🔵 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/

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣 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!

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Excited for this in early October!

Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · Jul 8

🔵 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/

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · May 14

Lab hike turned into rainy day art outing! ☔️🖼️

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · May 8

Dr. Nigel Flower hooded!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 @nigelflower.bsky.social

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · May 5

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”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Apr 15

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...

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

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Apr 30

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!!

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Apr 28

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!

Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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...

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Mar 29

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? ...

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Mar 7

Just the best news, Arizona is so lucky! 🤩

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Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · Feb 26

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...

Member-Initiated Virtual Activities

2025.neurolang.org

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Feb 7

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...

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Feb 4

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

Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · Feb 4

It's up!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disentangling semantic prediction and association in processing filler-gap dependencies: an MEG study in English

Understanding language is facilitated by prediction of upcoming words. Sentences with filler-gap dependencies can provide sophisticated cues about an upcoming verb. A sentence beginning with which ...

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Dec 19

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...

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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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Dec 13

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

Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Dec 13

✨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! 🧠

Google Forms: Sign-in

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Nov 26

Labsgiving! 💕 Happy Holidays from our lab to yours!

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Neurobiology of Language @jneurolang.bsky.social · Nov 3

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

Neurobiology of Language | MIT Press

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Oct 25

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...

Member-Initiated Virtual Activities

www.neurolang.org

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Oct 23

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

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Oct 19

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

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