G61.3710: Seminar in Neurolinguistics (31465), Fall 2005

Liina Pylkkänen (liina.pylkkanen@nyu.edu)
Thursday 2:00PM-4:45PM
719 Broadway, 433 (Linguistics Department Conference Room)

• By Sep 18 midnight, send me email indicating what paper you'd like to present in class.

• By Oct 14, come see me to discuss your project.

• Oct 21 midnight: Project proposals are due. The project proposal also serves as the first draft of your paper. Before writing your proposal, please read these general comments on project proposals. These comments pertained to all project proposals in Spring 2003 and by reading them in advance you'll be able to produce a better first draft of your paper.

• Oct 30 midnight: A draft of your experimental materials is due (email me an excel sheet). This should be as complete as possible. I'll get the materials back to you within a few days with feedback.

• Nov 11 midnight: Final experimental materials are due. Email me the revised excel-sheet and your updated project proposal where the Materials and Procedure sections of your Methods are now written up and your experimental materials appear as an Appendix.

• Dec 8 & 13: Powerpoint presentation on your results so far.

• Dec 16 5pm: Papers are due (please send them to me by email).

• * Marantz, A. (in press) Generative linguistics within the cognitive neuroscience of language. The Linguistic Review. [pdf]

• * Poeppel, D. and Embick, D. (2005). The relation between linguistics and neuroscience. In A. Cutler (ed.), Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones. Lawrence Erlbaum. [pdf]

• Townsend, David J., and Thomas G. Bever (2001) Sentence Comprehension: The Integration of Habits and Rules. MIT Press. Chapter 1.

• Marantz, A, Miyashita, Y & O’Neil, W. 2000. Introduction: Mind Articulation. In A Marantz et al., eds., Image, Language, Brain, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1-9.

• Chomsky, N. 2000. Linguistics and Brain Science. In A Marantz et al., eds., Image, Language, Brain, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 13-28.

SEP 15 BRAIN BASICS, METHODS

• * Chapters 2 (MEG) & 3 (fMRI): Papanicolaou, A.C. Fundamentals of Functional Brain Imaging Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1998.

• * Rugg & Coles, 1995. Electrophysiology of the Mind. Ch. 1 Coles & Rugg. Event-related potentials. An Introduction. Oxford.

• The Human Brain website

• Brain Info Website

• Brain Structure

• Aphasia: Dronkers, N. 1996. A new brain region for coordinating speech articulation. Nature, 384, 159-161.

• PET: Stromswold, K, Caplan, D, Alpert, N, & Rauch, S. 1996. Localization of Syntactic Comprehension by Positron Emission Tomography. Brain and Language, 52, 452-473.

• FMRI: Embick, D, Marantz, A, Miyashita, Y, O'Neil,W, & Sakai, K. 2000. A Syntactic Specialization for Broca's Area. PNAS 97(11), 6150-6154.

• ERPs: Neville, H, Nicol, J, et al. 1991. Syntactically Based Sentence Processing Classes: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials. J of Cog Neuro, 3 (2), 151-165.

• * Hari, R., S. Levänen, & T. Raij. 2000. Timing of human cortical functions during cognition: role of MEG. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 455-462.

• Includes a "linguist-friendly" intro to MEG: Phillips, C., A. Marantz, M. McGinnis et al. 1995. Brain mechanisms of speech perception: a preliminary report . MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 26, 153-191.

M100:
• * Roberts, TPLR, Ferrari, P., Stufflebeam, S., Poeppel, D. (2000). Latency of the auditory evoked neuromagnetic field components:stimulus dependence and insights towards perception. J Clinical Neurophysiology 17: 114-129.

  Mismatch:

• * Presenter: Kevin Phillips, C., Pellathy, T., Marantz, A., Yellin, E., Wexler, K., Poeppel, D., McGinnis, M. and Roberts, TPL (2000). Auditory Cortex Accesses Phonological Categories: An MEG Mismatch Study. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 12: 1038-1055.

• Naatanen R, Lehtokoski A, Lennes M, Cheour M, Huotilainen M, Iivonen A, Vainio M, Alku P, Ilmoniemi RJ, Luuk A, Allik J, Sinkkonen J, Alho K. Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses. Nature. 1997 Jan 30;385(6615):432-4. [pdf]

• Dehaene-Lambertz G, Dupoux E, Gout A. Electrophysiological correlates of phonological processing: a cross-linguistic study. J Cogn Neurosci. 2000 Jul;12(4):635-47. [pdf]

• May PJ, Tiitinen H. The MMN is a derivative of the auditory N100 response. Neurol Clin Neurophysiol. 2004 Nov 30;2004:20. [pdf]

  McGurk:

• * Sams M, Aulanko R, Hamalainen M, Hari R, Lounasmaa OV, Lu ST, Simola J. Seeing speech: visual information from lip movements modifies activity in the human auditory cortex. Neurosci Lett. 1991 Jun 10;127(1):141-5. [pdf]

• Tuomainen J, Andersen TS, Tiippana K, Sams M. Audio-visual speech perception is special. Cognition. 2005 May;96(1):B13-22. Epub 2004 Dec 30. [pdf]

  Models:

• Presenter: Peter Hickok, G. and Poeppel, D. 2000. Towards a Functional Anatomy of Speech Perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4:131-138.

• Poeppel, D. The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as
  'asymmetric sampling' in time. Speech Communication 41 (2003) 245Š255. [pdf]

• Boemio A, Fromm S, Braun A, Poeppel D. Hierarchical and asymmetric temporal sensitivity in human auditory cortices. Nat Neurosci. 2005 Mar;8(3):389-95. Epub 2005 Feb 20. [pdf]

• Cutler, A. Clifton, C. Comprehending spoken language: a blueprint of the listener. In Brown, C. & P. Hagoort (eds). 1999. The Neurocognition of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [chapter 5]

• * Tarkiainen et al., Dynamics of visual feature analysis and object-level processing in face versus letter-string perception, Brain. 2002 May;125(Pt 5):1125-36.

• * Bruce McCandliss, Laurent Cohen, and Stanislas Dehaene. The visual word form area: Expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus.Trends in Cognitive Science, 13:155-161, 2003.

• Liu J, Harris A, Kanwisher N. Stages of processing in face perception: an MEG study. Nat Neurosci. 2002 Sep;5(9):910-6. [pdf]

• Von Kriegstein K, Kleinschmidt A, Sterzer P, Giraud AL. Interaction of face and voice areas during speaker recognition. J Cogn Neurosci. 2005 Mar;17(3):367-76. [pdf]

• Hillis AE, Newhart M, Heidler J, Barker P, Herskovits E, Degaonkar M. The roles of the "visual word form area" in reading. Neuroimage. 2005 Jan 15;24(2):548-59. [pdf]

• Cohen L, Jobert A, Le Bihan D, Dehaene S. Distinct unimodal and multimodal regions for word processing in the left temporal cortex. Neuroimage. 2004 Dec;23(4):1256-70. [pdf]

• Polk TA, Farah MJ. Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2002 Mar;131(1):65-72. [pdf]

• Nakamura K, Dehaene S, Jobert A, Le Bihan D, Kouider S. Subliminal convergence of Kanji and Kana words: further evidence for functional parcellation of the posterior temporal cortex in visual word perception. J Cogn Neurosci. 2005 Jun;17(6):954-68. [pdf]

Behavioral:
• Presenter: Tuuli Rastle, K., Davis, M., Marslen-Wilson, W., & Tyler, L.K. (2000). Morphological and semantic effects in visual word recognition: A time course study. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15, 507-538.

  N400:

• Kutas, M. and Hillyard, S.A. (1980) Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity. Science, 207(4427), 203-205.

• * Presenter: Jon Kutas, M. and Federmeier, K. D. (2000) Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4: 12, 463-469.

• * Helenius, P, Salmelin, E, et al. 1998. Distinct time courses of word and context comprehension in the left temporal cortex. Brain, 121, 1133-1142.

• Radeau M, Besson M, Fonteneau E, Castro SL. Semantic, repetition and rime priming between spoken words: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Biol Psychol. 1998 Jun;48(2):183-204.

• Koelsch S, Kasper E, Sammler D, Schulze K, Gunter T, Friederici AD. Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing. Nature Neurosci. 2004 Mar;7(3):302-7.

  M350:

• Embick, D, et al., 2001. A magnetoencephalographic component whose latency reflects lexical frequency. Cognitive Brain Research 10, 345–348

• * Pylkkänen, L. et al. 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.

• Friedrich CK, Kotz SA, Friederici AD, Gunter TC. ERPs reflect lexical identification in word fragment priming. J Cogn Neurosci. 2004 May;16(4):541-52. [pdf]

  Early effects:

• * Assadollahi R, Pulvermuller F. Early influences of word length and frequency: a group study using MEG. Neuroreport. 2003 Jun 11;14(8):1183-7. [pdf]

• Hauk O, Pulvermuller F. Effects of word length and frequency on the human event-related potential. Clin Neurophysiol. 2004 May;115(5):1090-103 [pdf]

  Mismatch:

• Pulvermuller F, Kujala T, Shtyrov Y, Simola J, Tiitinen H, Alku P et al. Memory traces for words as revealed by the mismatch negativity. Neuroimage 2001; 14:607Š616. [pdf]

• Pulvermuller F, Shtyrov Y, Kujala T, Na¬a¬ta¬nen R. Word-specific cortical activity as revealed by the mismatch negativity. Psychophysiology 2004; 41:106Š112. [pdf]

• Frangos J, Ritter W, Friedman D. Brain potentials to sexually suggestive whistles show meaning modulates the mismatch negativity. Neuroreport. 2005 Aug 22;16(12):1313-7. [pdf]

  Aphasia:

• Boatman D, Gordon B, Hart J, Selnes O, Miglioretti D, Lenz F. Transcortical sensory aphasia: revisited and revised. Brain. 2000 Aug;123 ( Pt 8):1634-42.

• The nonlinguists in the class, please read: O'Grady et al. 1997. Contemporary linguistics. Ch 4., pp. 117-133.

• * Devlin JT, Jamison HL, Matthews PM, Gonnerman LM. Morphology and the internal structure of words. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Oct 12;101(41):14984-8.

• Davis MH. Units of representation in visual word recognition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Oct 12;101(41):14687-8.

• * PylkkŠnen, 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.

• Presenter: Jason Fiorentino, R. & Poeppel, D. (submitted) Compound Words and Structure in the Lexicon. [pdf]

• Koester D, Gunter TC, Wagner S, Friederici AD. Morphosyntax, prosody, and linking elements: the auditory processing of German nominal compounds. J Cogn Neurosci. 2004 Nov;16(9):1647-68. [pdf]

• Isel F, Gunter TC, Friederici AD. Prosody-assisted head-driven access to spoken German compounds. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2003 Mar;29(2):277-88. [pdf]

• * Pinker S, Ullman MT. The past and future of the past tense. Trends Cogn Sci. 2002 Nov 1;6(11):456-463.

• Stockall, L., and Marantz, A. (in press) A single route, full decomposition model of morphological complexity: MEG evidence. The Mental Lexicon.

• Tyler LK, Stamatakis EA, Jones RW, Bright P, Acres K, Marslen-Wilson WD. Deficits for semantics and the irregular past tense: a causal relationship? J Cogn Neurosci. 2004 Sep;16(7):1159-72.

• * Presenter: Eric: Pylkkanen, L., Llinas, R. & Murphy, G. (in press). Representation of polysemy: MEG evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience [pdf]

• Presenter: Eric: Beretta A, Fiorentino R, Poeppel D. The effects of homonymy and polysemy on lexical access: an MEG study. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2005 Jun;24(1):57-65. [pdf]

• * Burgess C, Simpson GB. Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms in the retrieval of ambiguous word meanings. Brain Lang. 1988 Jan;33(1):86-103. [pdf]

• Grindrod CM, Baum SR. Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution in a discourse context: evidence from individuals with unilateral left and right hemisphere lesions. Brain Cogn. 2005 Feb;57(1):70-83. [pdf]

• Coulson S, Williams RF. Hemispheric asymmetries and joke comprehension. Neuropsychologia. 2005;43(1):128-41. [pdf]

• Grose-Fifer J, Deacon D. Priming by natural category membership in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Neuropsychologia. 2004;42(14):1948-60. [pdf]

• Edith Kaan and Tamara Y. Swaab, The brain circuitry of syntactic comprehension, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 8, 1 August 2002, Pages 350-356.

• * Angela D. Friederici, Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1 February 2002, Pages 78-84

• * Phillips C, Kazanina N, Abada SH. ERP effects of the processing of syntactic long-distance dependencies. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2005 Mar;22(3):407-28. Epub 2004 Nov 19. [pdf]

• Presenter: Suzanne Gunter, T., Friederici, A. & Schriefers, H. 2000. Syntactic Gender and Semantic Expectancy: ERPs reveal early autonomy and late interaction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 556-568. [pdf]

• Ellen Lau, Clare Stroud, Silke Plesch, Colin Phillips (submitted) The Role of Prediction in Rapid Syntactic Analysis. pdf

• * Stowe, L. A., Haverkort, M., & Zwarts, F (2004). Rethinking the neurological basis of language. Lingua. pdf

• Perani D, Cappa SF, Schnur T, Tettamanti M, Collina S, Rosa MM, Fazio F. The neural correlates of verb and noun processing. A PET study. Brain. 1999 Dec;122 ( Pt 12):2337-44. [pdf]

• Friederici, A., D., RŸschemayer, S., Hahne, A., & Fiebach, C. (2003). The role of left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension: Localizing syntactic and semantic processes. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 170-177. [pdf]

• Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Selection from perceptual and conceptual representations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 466-482. [pdf]

• Rizzolatti, G., & Arbib, M. (1998). Language within our grasp. Trends in Neurosciences, 21, 188-194. [pdf]

• Friederici AD, Gunter TC, Hahne A, Mauth K. The relative timing of syntactic and semantic processes in sentence comprehension. Neuroreport. 2004 Jan 19;15(1):165-9. [pdf]

• Sakai K, Noguchi Y, Takeuchi T, Watanabe E. Selective Priming of Syntactic Processing by Event-Related Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Broca's Area. Neuron. 2002; 35(6): 1177.

• * Presenter: Martin Hagoort, P., Hald, L., Bastiaansen, M., Petersson, K.M. (2004) Integration of word meaning and world knowledge in language comprehension. Science, 304, 438-41.

• Pinango, M. M., & Zurif, E. (2001). Semantic operations in aphasic comprehension: Implications for the cortical organization of language. Brain and Language, 79, 297-308. [pdf]

• * Pylkkanen, L., Llinas, R. & McElree, B. (submitted). Distinct effects of semantic plausibility and semantic composition in MEG. [pdf]

• Rowe, A. D., Bullock, P. R., Polkey, C. E., Morris, R. G. (2001). `Theory of mind' impairments and their relationship to executive functioning following frontal lobe excisions. Brain 124: 600-616. [pdf]

• Shamay-Tsoory SG, Tomer R, Berger BD, Goldsher D, Aharon-Peretz J. Impaired "affective theory of mind" is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage. Cogn Behav Neurol. 2005 Mar;18(1):55-67. [pdf]

• Presenter: Garrick Clark MG, Rosen GD, Tallal P, Fitch RH. 2000. Impaired processing of complex auditory stimuli in rats with induced cerebrocortical microgyria: An animal model of developmental language disabilities. J Cogn Neurosci 2000 Sep;12(5):828-39.

• * Presenter: Jen Clahsen H, Almazan M. 1998. Syntax and morphology in Williams syndrome. Cognition 1998 Sep;68(3):167-98.

• * Zukowski A. Knowledge of constraints on compounding in children and adolescents with Williams syndrome. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2005 Feb;48(1):79-92

• Zukowski, A. Uncovering grammatical competence in children with Williams Syndrome. Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University.

• Rice ML, Wexler K, Marquis J, Hershberger S. 2000. Acquisition of irregular past tense by children with specific language impairment . J Speech Lang Hear Res 2000 Oct;43(5):1126-45.

• * Presenter: Hugh Rice ML, Wexler K, Redmond SM. 1999. Grammaticality judgements of an extended optional infinitive grammar: evidence from English-speaking children with specific language impairment. J Speech Lang Hear Res 1999 Aug;42(4):943-61.

• van der Lely HK. Domain-specific cognitive systems: insight from Grammatical-SLI. Trends Cogn Sci. 2005 Feb;9(2):53-9. Review.

• Watkins KE, Dronkers NF, Vargha-Khadem F. Behavioural analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: comparison with acquired aphasia. Brain; a journal of neurology. 2002; 125(Pt) 3: 452-64.

• Watkins KE, Vargha-Khadem F, Ashburner J, Passingham RE, Connelly A, Friston KJ, et al. MRI analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: structural brain abnormalities. Brain; a journal of neurology. 2002; 125(Pt) 3: 465-78.

DEC 1 TBA (we'll decide as a group which topic we will want to expand on)

DEC 8 PROJECT REPORTS

DEC 13 (Tues runs on a Thu schedule) PROJECT REPORTS