Episode Synopsis "#5 - Songhee Kim: How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition."

Kim, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2021). How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence. Brain and Language, 218, 104951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104951  Background papers: Westerlund, M., & Pylkkänen, L. (2014). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in semantic composition vs. semantic memory. Neuropsychologia, 57, 59-70. Zhang, L., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015). The interplay of composition and concept specificity in the left anterior temporal lobe: An MEG study. NeuroImage, 111, 228-240. Williams, A., Reddigari, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2017). Early sensitivity of left perisylvian cortex to relationality in nouns and verbs. Neuropsychologia, 100, 131-143. Transcript: https://wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab/nellabspotlight_ep5-songhee-kim/

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