G61.3710/G89.3393:
Seminar in Neurolinguistics (31465), Spring 2007

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

Prerequisites: Cognitive Neuroscience (G89.2221 or equivalent) or an introductory course in Neurolinguistics (Spring 2003, Fall 2005, or equivalent).

On course numbers

• By Jan 24 midnight, send me email indicating which papers you'd like to present in class.

• By Feb 9, come see me to discuss your project.

• Feb 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.

• May 4th, midnight. Final papers are due (email them to me). There will be no late papers.

• 18-Jan Intro
  
• 25-Jan Broca
  
  • *Embick & Poeppel (2005)
  • *Ch 2 of G&A
  • *Grodzinsky & Friederici (2006)
• 1-Feb Broca
  
  • Suzanne:
    • *Hagoort, P. (2005). On Broca, brain, and binding: a new framework. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9 (9), 416-423. pdf
    • * 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
    • Hagoort, P. (2003). How the brain solves the binding problem for language: A neurocomputational model of syntactic processing. Neuroimage, 20 (1), S18-S19. pdf
    • Hagoort, P. (2005). Broca's complex as the unification space for language. In A.Cutler (Ed.), Twenty-first century psycholinguistics. Four cornerstones (pp. 157-173). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pdf
  • *Bookheimer (2002)
• 8-Feb Broca
  
  • Novick JM, Trueswell JC, Thompson-Schill SL. Cognitive control and parsing: reexamining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2005 Sep;5(3):263-81. Review. pdf
  • Mirror: *Ch 10 of G&A
• 15-Feb Subcortical
  
  • Crosson (1992): Subcortical Neuroanatomy and Language
  • Kevin:
    • Lieberman (2001)
    • Lieberman (2002)
  • Kana:
    • Crinion et al. (2006)
    • CJ Price, DW Green, R von Studnitz, A functional imaging study of translation and language switching, Brain, 1999. pdf
• 22-Feb Jon: "Language in Wonderland: Linguistic processing during natural story listening", Meyer (6 Washington Place), Rm 851, 4pm
  • Uri Hasson, Yuval Nir, Ifat Levy, Galit Fuhrmann, Rafael Malach: Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision, Science 12 March 2004: Vol. 303. no. 5664, pp. 1634 - 1640
• 1-Mar LP away
  
• 8-Mar Oscillations
  
  • Hugh (fundamentals – what oscillations are and why they’re interesting):
    • *Basar et al (01) (From your list)
    • Engel, Fries & Singer (01) Dynamic Predictions... (NatRevNeuro)
    • *Varela et al (01) The Brainweb: Phase synchronization... (NatRevNeuro) pdf
    • Tallon-Baudry & Bertrans (99)
    • Rodriguez et al (99) Nature
    • Makeig et al (04) Mining Event Related Brain Dynamics (TICS)
    • *Bastiaansan & Hagoort (06)
    • Hagoort 2004?
  • Manuel (gamma):
    • Tallon-Baudry C, Bertrand O. Oscillatory gamma activity in humans and its role in object representation. Trends Cogn Sci. 1999 Apr;3(4):151-162.
    • Palva S, Palva JM, Shtyrov Y, Kujala T, Ilmoniemi RJ, Kaila K, Naatanen R. Distinct gamma-band evoked responses to speech and non-speech sounds in humans. J Neurosci. 2002 Feb 15;22(4):RC211
• 15-Mar SPRING BREAK
  
• 22-Mar Oscillations Lab Demo
  
• 29-Mar LP away
  
• 5-Apr Oscillations Lab Presentations
  
• 12-Apr Source coherence
  
  • Andrea:
    • Salmelin R, Kujala J. Neural representation of language: activation versus long-range connectivity. Trends Cogn Sci. 2006 Nov;10(11):519-25. Epub 2006 Oct 2.
    • Gross J, Kujala J, Hamalainen M, Timmermann L, Schnitzler A, Salmelin R. Dynamic imaging of coherent sources: Studying neural interactions in the human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jan 16;98(2):694-9.
• 19-Apr Source coherence Lab Demo
  
• 26-Apr Source coherence Lab Presentations
  
• 1-May 1pm Presentations on final projects

Broca’s region today

• Chapters from: Grodzinsky, Yosef & Katrin Amunts, eds. Broca’s Region. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [to be made available]

• Yosef Grodzinsky and Angela D Friederici, (2006) Neuroimaging of syntax and syntactic processing, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 16, Issue 2, April 2006, Pages 240-246. [pdf]

• Embick, D. and Poeppel, D (2005). Mapping syntax using imaging: prospects and problems for the study of neurolinguistic computation. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd ,Oxford: Elsevier. pdf

• Bookheimer S., Functional MRI of language: new approaches to understanding the cortical organization of semantic processing. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2002;25:151-88. Epub 2002 Mar 19. [pdf]

• Marina Bedny, Justin C. Hulbert and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, (2006). Understanding words in context: The role of Broca's area in word comprehension. Brain Research, Available online 22 November 2006. Background: [pdf]

• Kotz SA, Frisch S, von Cramon DY, Friederici AD. Syntactic language processing: ERP lesion data on the role of the basal ganglia. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2003 Nov;9(7):1053-60. [pdf]

• Nadeau SE, Crosson B. Subcortical aphasia. Brain Lang. 1997 Jul;58(3):355-402; discussion 418-23. Review. [pdf]

• Ullman MT. Is Broca's area part of a basal ganglia thalamocortical circuit? Cortex. 2006 May;42(4):480-5. Review. [pdf]

• Ullman MT. Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model. Cognition. 2004 May-Jun;92(1-2):231-70. Review. [pdf]

• Lieberman, P. (2001). Human language and our reptilian brain. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, volume 44, number 1 (winter 2001):32–51. [pdf]

• Lieberman, P. (2002). On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 45:36–62. [pdf]

• Chee MW. Dissociating language and word meaning in the bilingual brain. Trends Cogn Sci. 2006 Dec;10(12):527-9. [pdf]

• J. Crinion et al., Language control in the bilingual brain, Science 312 (2006), pp. 1537–1540. [pdf]

• Breitenstein C, Jansen A, Deppe M, Foerster AF, Sommer J, Wolbers T, Knecht S. (2005). Hippocampus activity differentiates good from poor learners of a novel lexicon. Neuroimage. Apr 15;25(3):958-68. [pdf]

• Bastiaansen M, Hagoort P. Oscillatory neuronal dynamics during language comprehension. Prog Brain Res. 2006;159:179-96. [pdf]

• Tallon-Baudry C, Bertrand O. Oscillatory gamma activity in humans and its role in object representation. Trends Cogn Sci. 1999 Apr;3(4):151-162. [NICE INTRO TO GAMMA] [pdf]

• Basar E, Basar-Eroglu C, Karakas S, Schurmann M. (2001). Gamma, alpha, delta, and theta oscillations govern cognitive processes. Int J Psychophysiol. Jan;39(2-3):241-8. [pdf]

• Bastiaansen MC, van der Linden M, Ter Keurs M, Dijkstra T, Hagoort P. Theta responses are involved in lexical-semantic retrieval during language processing. J Cogn Neurosci. 2005 Mar;17(3):530-41. [pdf]

• Palva S, Palva JM, Shtyrov Y, Kujala T, Ilmoniemi RJ, Kaila K, Naatanen R. Distinct gamma-band evoked responses to speech and non-speech sounds in humans. J Neurosci. 2002 Feb 15;22(4):RC211. [pdf]

• Pulvermuller F, Eulitz C, Pantev C, Mohr B, Feige B, Lutzenberger W, Elbert T, Birbaumer N. High-frequency cortical responses reflect lexical processing: an MEG study. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1996 Jan;98(1):76-85. [pdf]

• Rohm D, Klimesch W, Haider H, Doppelmayr M. The role of theta and alpha oscillations for language comprehension in the human electroencephalogram. Neurosci Lett. 2001 Sep 14;310(2-3):137-40. [pdf]

• Klimesch W, Doppelmayr M, Wimmer H, Schwaiger J, Rohm D, Gruber W, Hutzler F. Theta band power changes in normal and dyslexic children. Clin Neurophysiol. 2001 Jul;112(7):1174-85. [pdf]

• Salmelin R, Kujala J. Neural representation of language: activation versus long-range connectivity. Trends Cogn Sci. 2006 Nov;10(11):519-25. Epub 2006 Oct 2. [pdf]

• Gross J, Kujala J, Hamalainen M, Timmermann L, Schnitzler A, Salmelin R. Dynamic imaging of coherent sources: Studying neural interactions in the human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jan 16;98(2):694-9. [pdf]

• Kujala J, Pammer K, Cornelissen P, Roebroeck A, Formisano E, Salmelin R. Phase Coupling in a Cerebro-Cerebellar Network at 8-13 Hz during Reading. Cereb Cortex. 2006 Aug 22; [Epub ahead of print] [pdf]

• Hoechstetter K, Bornfleth H, Weckesser D, Ille N, Berg P, Scherg M. BESA source coherence: a new method to study cortical oscillatory coupling. Brain Topogr. 2004 Summer;16(4):233-8. [pdf]

• Weiss S, Mueller HM. The contribution of EEG coherence to the investigation of language. Brain Lang. 2003 May;85(2):325-43. [pdf]