Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NeLLab + 1 excited for Day 2 of #SNL2026! @snlmtg.bsky.social 090
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NeLLab #SNL2026 menu! See you soon @snlmtg.bsky.social! 0206
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Review of applications for this postdoc position starts Sept 1! 031
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...wp.nyu.eduPostdoctoral position – NYU Neurolinguistics Lab 04333
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Hi new PhDs! I'll soon advertise for a post-doc, but would be happy to receive informal inquiries immediately, as getting the official ad up will take a minute. Looking for strong computational & MEG analysis skills. Email me if this sounds like you and you'd like to join us! @snlmtg.bsky.social 1158
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026A Unified Neural Time Course for Words, Phrases, and Sentences. The last part of @nigelflower.bsky.social’s dissertation is now out in @jneurolang.bsky.social! 091
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is not a drill ⚠️ The abstract submission deadline is around the corner and you should all be planning your trip to Geneva.🇨🇭Get in touch if you have questions or comments. 053
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Great teaser from @smwilson.bsky.social @vborghesani.bsky.social & @rmc-law.bsky.social about #SNL2026 in Geneva! I’ll add some visuals from my morning run today-I'm here on sabbatical & can vouch the meeting will be awesome! @snlmtg.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 151
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Congratulations to Dr. Simone Krogh, who has just successfully defended her dissertation "How linguistic structure impacts the neural representations of words"!!🎉🎉🎉 @simonekrogh.bsky.social 1180
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Congratulations to Boxuan Li on her 1st yr PhD project, now out in @jcgntn.bsky.social! This study uses neural Structure Superiority Effects to probe adjective order knowledge, showing that order violations don’t disrupt early structure detection, challenging syntactic accounts. tinyurl.com/3kk2vtwrtinyurl.comPlease wait whilst we redirect youAll content on this site: Copyright © 2026 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply. 060
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Honored to have been elected AAAS fellow! Beyond grateful for all the amazing students, RAs and postdocs I’ve had the privilege to work with, this is for you! Congrats to all new fellows and especially to my NYU colleagues! www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...nyu.edu 3220
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026New paper from @nigelflower.bsky.social’s 2025 thesis: an RPVP-MEG study on the neural representation of quantification finds that LATL responses are consistent w Restricted Quantification theory, suggesting discourse-sensitive conceptual combination. Congrats Nigel!! 🎉🎉 074
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Happy New Year, @snlmtg.bsky.social community! In response to a “wish list” request, our first virtual activity of the year will be a mentoring session focused on MENTORING. Early-career PIs, join me and @smwilson.bsky.social on Tuesday, Jan 20! tinyurl.com/bdb3yf99tinyurl.comMember-Initiated Virtual Activity 022
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Thank you for the great day @gt-neuro.bsky.social ! 030
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The 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 523526
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social 1479
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025On 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 0102
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025At-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. 052
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen Florian Sandhaeger @fsandhaeger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup! #neuroskyence #compneurosky 186
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025A great postdoc opportunity w my colleague @nogazs.bsky.social at NYU! 031
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Dr. Nigel Flower hooded!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 @nigelflower.bsky.social 0321
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Congratulations 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”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 0221
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The 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... 23316
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Today 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!! 2363
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025During 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! 0152
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Thrilled 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/59amm8j7tinyurl.comTracking neural correlates of contextualized meanings with representational similarity analysisAlthough 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? ... 0186
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 26/02/2025What 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...2025.neurolang.orgMember-Initiated Virtual Activities 3206
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Two 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...sciencedirect.comEvaluating the timecourses of morpho-orthographic, lexical, and grammatical processing following rapid parallel visual presentation: An EEG investigation in EnglishTheories of language processing – and typical experimental methodologies – emphasize the word-by-word processing of sentences. This paradigm is good f… 1143
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Hot off the presses w @lingdustin.bsky.social! 🎉 160
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Always 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...npr.orgThe Academic MinuteThe 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... 093
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Chance to work w @lauragwilliams.bsky.social!! 🌟🌟🌟 130
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Labsgiving! 💕 Happy Holidays from our lab to yours! 0140
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen Neurobiology of Language @jneurolang.bsky.social · 03/11/2024Neurobiology 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 #Sciencedirect.mit.eduNeurobiology of Language | MIT Press 03414
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 25/10/2024Trainees: 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...neurolang.orgMember-Initiated Virtual Activities 042
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 23/10/2024From 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/...science.orgLanguage at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual inputThe brain’s magnetic fields reveal ultrarapid detection of syntax in at-a-glance language perception. 061
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 19/10/2024New 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/3e8w7997tinyurl.com 180
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Excited 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...doi.orgThe spatiotemporal dynamics of bottom-up and top-down processing during at-a-glance readingLike 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... 073
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 29/05/2024I 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!🎉 0131
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 07/01/2024My 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... 000
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 02/01/2024Our Lab Lemon Tree is now in bloom. Happy New Year! 🌸☀️🌸 photo by Amilleah Rodriguez 🙏 010
Reposted by Liina Pylkkänen Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 16/12/2023Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 89445
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 14/12/2023🎄Happy holidays from the NeLLab and happy college graduation++ Amilleah Rodriguez & Xueyang Huang and cheers to @linguistbrian.bsky.social’s NYU sabbatical, please come back sooooon!!!🎄 010
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Talks & posters of #SNL2023 are now available for members on the society website under “Schedule of Events”! Not a member? Explore benefits on our site. Many discount categories, incl. free membership for ECRs in partner orgs @sparksociety.bsky.social & @blackinneuro.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mw4s27xu 040
Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Thanksgiving seems like a good time to start enjoying some blue skies, so here I am! Warmest Thanksgiving wishes from our highly plant-forward Labsgiving! 🌽🍅🥕 We have some impressive chefs in our group! 💕 080
