Neuroscience of Language Lab at NYU

01/06/2022

Are you a native speaker of Danish? Opportunity to participate in paid MEG study in New York!

Purpose of study:
To investigate how the brain processes language.

Experimenter: Simone Krogh
Principal Investigator: Prof. Liina Pylkkänen, NYU Department of Psychology & Department of Linguistics

Location of study: KIT/NYU MEG Lab, 6 Washington Place, 10003 New York, NY

Specific requirements:
Native speakers of Danish only
18 years or older
No non-removable metal (e.g., permanent retainer)
No history of cognitive or language impairments
Normal or corrected-to-normal vision

Type of activity:
Participants will be presented with pairs of short sentences while their brain activity is recorded fully non-invasively by the MEG machine. The task will be to indicate whether the two sentences in a pair are identical or not.

Length of time: Approximately 2 hours

Remuneration: $30

Contact experimenter Simone Krogh via email smk928@nyu.edu for more information on how to participate.

20/11/2018

The NeLLab is hiring! One RA position in Abu Dhabi, one in New York! Info in the attached flyer. Please spread the word!

28/06/2018

Excited to announce that we are hosting , a conference on the neuroscience of language at NYU Abu Dhabi next April! Abstract deadline Nov 10th. Fabulous weather and keynotes guaranteed (Karen Emmorey, Vic Ferreira, Mina Teicher, David Poeppel, Nuria Sebastian Galles and Jeff Binder)! Mark your calendars and come join us!

NEUROLANG-AD 2019 ( ) April 22 – 23 2019 at NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The NYU Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab), New York University Abu Dhabi, and the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute are pleased to sponsor to an international meeting on the latest advances...

12/05/2018

Cheers to the end of semester and a CLEAN LAB!

04/04/2018

New article by Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Itamar Kastner, Karen Emmorey and Liina Pylkkanen reports joint work between our NYC and Abu Dhabi labs, showing evidence for shared neural correlates of basic phrase building in signed and spoken language. Original paper here: http://rdcu.be/KvG7

"We can only discover what is universal to all human languages by studying sign languages..."

30/01/2018

The Neuroscience of Language Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi is hiring! Both pre- and post-doctoral research positions as well as a programmer position. Come join us in a wonderful environment with state of the art facilities! Please spread the word.

14/01/2018

Data collection is completed for the 12 case studies of our "Neural Bases of the World's Languages" class and now it's raining brains over here!! Thank you to our amazing RAs who are making all this possible!

12/01/2018

NeLLab members visiting the Grand Mosque.

11/01/2018

Week 1 of Prof. Pylkkanen's and Prof. Al Kaabi’s course "Neural bases of the world's languages” is wrapped up at & MEG recordings of Spanish, Bulgarian, Finnish, Mandarin & Japanese are done! On tap for week 2: Nepali, Taiwanese, Arabic & Korean. We are excited for the mini conference of case studies next Thu!

07/11/2017

The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language is starting in Baltimore, MD, tomorrow! Presentations by lab members:

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Karen Emmorey & Liina Pylkkanen (winner of the best abstract award):
Turning a language “off” is cognitively effortful, but turning a language “on” is not: MEG evidence from bimodal language switching.

Graham Flick & Liina Pylkkänen: In search of syntax: The case of English post-nominal modification

Songhee Kim & Liina Pylkkänen: Quick and easy composition of event concepts in the left (but not the right) anterior temporal lobe

http://www.neurolang.org/

19/10/2017

Bilingualism research by Esti Blanco-Elorrieta and Liina Pylkkänen featured in The National today!

NYU Abu Dhabi study tested bilingual students to see which parts of the brain are engaged when switching between languages, and the results could contradict previously held beliefs about ‘bilingual advantage’