Invited talks:
Upcoming
May 16-18, 2008. TBA. WCCFL 27, UCLA.
May 20, 2008. TBA. Workshop on Neurolinguistics. University of Calgary.
August 25, 2008. TBA. Satellite Symposium at Biomag 2008: Uncovering the mechanisms of language processing by MEG. Sapporo, Japan.
2008
Syntax-Semantics Mismatch and the Neural Bases of Semantic Composition. UConn Linguistics Colloquium.
2007
Syntax-Semantics Mismatch and the Neural Bases of Semantic Composition. Experimental Pragmatics 2007 Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin, Germany
Polysemy in the Brain. Invited lecture at the Workshop on Polysemy and Conceptual Representation. Siegen, Germany.
Semantics in the Composing Brain: Neural Correlates of Type Mismatch Resolution. Invited lecture at the "Workshop on Language, Mind, and the Brain", Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
2006
The Visual System and Morphology. UMass Linguistics Colloquium.
The Visual System and Morphology. UPenn Linguistics Colloquium.
From word form to sentence meaning: MEG studies of semantic interpretation. Neurolinguistics Workshop. University of Tromso, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics.
Mechanisms of Noncompositionality Resolution: Interdisciplinary Investigations. UCLA Linguistics Colloquium.
2005
Linguistics in Cognitive Neuroscience. Happy Golden Anniversary, Generative Syntax: 50 years since LSLT. Workshop at the 2005 LSA Institute.
Missing Meanings. Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure at the 2005 LSA Institute.
Words and Brains (with Alec Marantz). Milan, Italy.
Missing Meanings: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach. Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Maryland.
2004
Compositionality and Neural Evidence. Psycholinguistics talk series, CUNY Graduate Center.
Manipulating Meaning: MEG Investigations. Cognitive Science Colloquium. Institute of Cognitive Science. University of Osnabrueck, Germany.
The Neuromagnetism of Linguistic Identity: MEG Investigations. Speech and Hearing Sciences Colloquium , CUNY Graduate Center.
2003
MEG Evidence for Early Effects of Morphology. KIT 3rd International Symposium on Brain and Language. Tokyo, Japan.
Competition at multiple levels: MEG studies of lexical processing. Cognitive lunch .Columbia University, Department of Psychology.
MEG, the Mental Lexicon and Morphology. Lecture series on Electrophysiology and Language. Nagano, Japan. Jointly organized by a group of researchers from the National Institute of Physiology in Japan, Hiroshima University, Tokyo University and Tohoku University.
How many representations? Using MEG to probe into representational identity. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
The representation and processing of secondary predication. Linguistics Department Colloquium Series, SUNY, Stony Brook.
The representation and processing of secondary predication. Linguistics Department Colloquium Series, Princeton University.
Double objects and secondary predication. Syntax talk series, CUNY Graduate Center.
How many representations? Using MEG to probe into representational identity. Psycholinguistics talk series, CUNY Graduate Center.
2002
Timing in mind and brain: lexical access. The First CMI Workshop on Morphological Processing and the Brain, Cambridge, UK.
The neuromagnetism of lexical access: MEG indices of activation and competition.Linguistics Department Colloquium Series. New York University, New York City, NY.
(with A. Marantz. ) The neuromagnetism of lexical access: MEG indices of activation and competition. Speech Communication Group Seminar Series, MIT Speech Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
The neuromagnetism of lexical access: MEG indices of activation and competition. CogLunch, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
The neuromagnetism of lexical access: MEG indices of activation and competition. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
2001
The neuromagnetism of lexical access: MEG indices of activation and competition. Cognitive Science Department Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
The neuromagnetism of lexical access: MEG indices of activation and competition. Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
M350: an MEG index of lexical activation. Department of Psychology and Department of Speech Pathology Seminar Series, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Verbal Domains. McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
M350: an MEG index of lexical activation. Department of Psychology and Department of Speech Pathology Seminar Series, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Possessor Dative Constructions are Double Object Constructions. MIT Appl Fest: a workshop on the syntax and semantics of applicative constructions, Cambridge, MA.
2000
MEG Studies of Lexical Access. The Second International Symposium of the Mind Articulation Project. Image, Language and Brain: Toward an Integrated Understanding. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
1998
Where is the Internal/External Causation Distinction? The Second Penn/MIT Roundtable on the Lexicon, Cambridge, MA.
On the Internal Structure of Stativity. (1998, March) MIT Lecture Series on Argument Structure.
The Lexical Semantics of Finnish Psych Verbs. (1997, March). University of Pittsburgh Linguistics Colloquium Series.
Conference presentations:
2008
Hugh Rabagliati, Suzanne Dikker, & Liina Pylkkänen, (2008). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: A manipulation of prediction strength and morphological type. The 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC.
Jonathan Brennan & Liina Pylkkänen, (2008). Semantic Composition and Inchoative Coercion: An MEG Study. The 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC.
2007
Hugh Rabagliati, Suzanne Dikker & Liina Pylkkänen (2007) Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: an MEG study. The 2007 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Jonathan Brennan, Yuval Nir, Uri Hasson, Rafael Malach, David Heeger, and Liina Pylkkänen. (2007)Language in Wonderland: Linguistic processing during natural story listening. The 2007 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Hugh Rabagliati, Suzanne Dikker & Liina Pylkkänen (2007). MEG reveals sensitivity to phrase-structure violations in visual cortex. The 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA.
Jonathan Brennan & Liina Pylkkänen (2007. Processing Events: Aspectual Coercion in Self-Paced Reading and Magnetoencephalography. The 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA.
2006
Zweig E & Pylkkänen L. Early effects of morphological complexity in visual word processing: an MEG study. The 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
Harris J, Pylkkänen, L., McElree, B., & Frisson, S. Interpretation of concealed questions: MEG and eye-tracking data. The 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
Zweig E & Pylkkänen L: Early effects of morphological complexity on visual evoked fields in MEG. LSA 2006 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2005
Pylkkänen L, McElree B. Distinct effects of semantic plausibility and semantic composition in MEG. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ.
2004
L. Pylkkänen, B. McElree & R. Llinas, (2004) Distinct effects of semantic plausibility and semantic structure building in MEG. Biomag 2004. Boston, MA.
L. Pylkkänen, G. Murphy & R. Llinas, (2004) MEG evidence for distinct processing of polysemy, homonymy and semantic relatedness bilaterally. Biomag 2004. Boston, MA.
L. Pylkkänen, B. McElree. 2004. Processing secondary predicates: does locality matter? The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. College Park, MD.
L. Pylkkänen, B. McElree. 2004. Representation of secondary predication: reading time evidence. Linguistic Society of America 2004 Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.
L. Pylkkänen, Gregory Murphy. 2004. Sense competition and the representation of polysemy. Linguistic Society of America 2004 Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.
2003
L. Pylkkänen, S. Feintuch, E. Hopkins, A. Marantz. 2003. Magnetoencephalographic indices of the effects of morphological family size and family frequency. Oral presentation in Human Brain Mapping 2003. New York City, NY.
L. Pylkkänen, S. Feintuch, E. Hopkins, A. Marantz. 2003. When do morphological family size and family frequency affect processing? An MEG study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2003 Annual Meeting. New York City, NY.
L. Pylkkänen, A. Marantz. 2003. Morphological Families and Phonological Neighborhoods: who competes when? MEG evidence. WCCFL 22, University of California at San Diego.
2002
Pylkkänen, L. (2002). Verbal domains: Causative formation at the root, category and phase levels, LSA 2002 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
L. Pylkkänen, A. Stringfellow, L. Gonnerman, A. Marantz. 2002. Phonological and semantic factors affect the same MEG component in lexical decision. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2002 Annual Meeting. Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Hotel, San Francisco, CA.
L. Pylkkänen, A. Marantz. 2002. Neural mechanisms of spoken word recognition: Onsets and inhibition. Linguistic Society of America 2002 Annual Meeting. Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel, San Francisco, CA.
2001
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A. & Marantz, A. (2001) Neural mechanisms of spoken word recognition: MEG evidence for distinct sources of inhibition. Helsinki Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. Lammi Biological Station, University of Helsinki, Finland.
A. Marantz, L. Pylkkänen. (2001). Morphological Decomposition in Derivation: MEG Evidence. The Third Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology. Barcelona, Spain.
L. Pylkkänen, A. Stringfellow, L. Gonnerman, A. Marantz. 2001. Are inhibitory effects in lexical decision due to suppression of activation or competition: an MEG study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2001 Annual Meeting. New York City, NY.
2000
L. Pylkkänen, A. Stringfellow, E. Flagg, A. Marantz. 2000. A Neural Response Sensitive to Repetition and Phonotactic Probability. Biomag 2000: 12th International Conference on Biomagnetism. Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland.
L. Pylkkänen, A. Stringfellow, E. Flagg, A. Marantz. 2000. A Neural Response Sensitive to Priming: An MEG Study of Lexical Access. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2000 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Marantz, A. & Pylkkänen, L. (2000). MEG Studies of Lexical Access. LSA 2001 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., Kelepir, M. & Marantz, A. (2000). Separating Lexical Access from Decision: an MEG study. NELS 31: 31st Conference of the North East Linguistics Society, Georgetown University, Washington, DC and The Second International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, Canada.
1998
Pylkkänen, L., (1998). Internal and External Causation as Properties of Roots and Causative Affixes. The First International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Alberta.
1997
Pylkkänen, L. (1997). Stage and Individual-Level Psych Verbs in Finnish. Workshop on Events as Grammatical Objects, Cornell University, Ithaca.