Search Results - "Marantz, Alec"

Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions by Matar, Suhail, Dirani, Julien, Marantz, Alec, Pylkkänen, Liina

“…During language comprehension, the brain processes not only word meanings, but also the grammatical structure—the “syntax”—that strings words into phrases and…”
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Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order by Gwilliams, Laura, King, Jean-Remi, Marantz, Alec, Poeppel, David

“…Speech consists of a continuously-varying acoustic signal. Yet human listeners experience it as sequences of discrete speech sounds, which are used to…”
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Modeling Human Morphological Competence by Oseki, Yohei, Marantz, Alec

“…One of the central debates in the cognitive science of language has revolved around the nature of human linguistic competence. Whether syntactic competence…”
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Architecture and Blocking by Embick, David, Marantz, Alec

“…We discuss theoretical approaches to blocking effects, with particular emphasis on cases in which words appear to block phrases (and perhaps vice versa). These…”
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Adaptation to mis-pronounced speech: evidence for a prefrontal-cortex repair mechanism by Blanco-Elorrieta, Esti, Gwilliams, Laura, Marantz, Alec, Pylkkänen, Liina

“…Speech is a complex and ambiguous acoustic signal that varies significantly within and across speakers. Despite the processing challenge that such variability…”
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The Form of Morphemes: MEG Evidence From Masked Priming of Two Hebrew Templates by Kastner, Itamar, Pylkkänen, Liina, Marantz, Alec

“…Studies of lexical access have benefited from comparisons between languages like English, which shows concatenative morphology, and Semitic languages showing…”
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Prefix Stripping Re-Re-Revisited: MEG Investigations of Morphological Decomposition and Recomposition by Stockall, Linnaea, Manouilidou, Christina, Gwilliams, Laura, Neophytou, Kyriaki, Marantz, Alec

“…We revisit a long-standing question in the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic literature on comprehending morphologically complex words: are prefixes and…”
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Building words and phrases in the left temporal lobe by Flick, Graham, Oseki, Yohei, Kaczmarek, Amanda R., Al Kaabi, Meera, Marantz, Alec, Pylkkänen, Liina

“…A central part of knowing a language is the ability to combine basic linguistic units to form complex representations. While our neurobiological understanding…”
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Introducing MEG-MASC a high-quality magneto-encephalography dataset for evaluating natural speech processing by Gwilliams, Laura, Flick, Graham, Marantz, Alec, Pylkkänen, Liina, Poeppel, David, King, Jean-Rémi

“…The “MEG-MASC” dataset provides a curated set of raw magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings of 27 English speakers who listened to two hours of naturalistic…”
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Syntactic Priming As a Test of Argument Structure: A Self-paced Reading Experiment by Oltra-Massuet, Isabel, Sharpe, Victoria, Neophytou, Kyriaki, Marantz, Alec

“…Using data from a behavioral structural priming experiment, we test two competing theoretical approaches to argument structure, which attribute different…”
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Lexical access in early stages of visual word processing: A single-trial correlational MEG study of heteronym recognition by Solomyak, Olla, Marantz, Alec

“…We present an MEG study of heteronym recognition, aiming to distinguish between two theories of lexical access: the ‘early access’ theory, which entails that…”
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Memory for affixes in a long-lag priming paradigm by Gaston, Phoebe, Stockall, Linnaea, VanWagenen, Sarah, Marantz, Alec

“…Psycholinguistic research on the processing of morphologically complex words has largely focused on debates about how/if lexical stems are recognized, stored,…”
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A Syntactic Specialization for Broca's Area by Embick, David, Marantz, Alec, Miyashita, Yasushi, O'Neil, Wayne, Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.

“…Despite numerous aphasia and functional imaging studies, the exact correlation between cortical language areas and subcomponents of the linguistic system has…”
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Verbal argument structure: Events and participants by Marantz, Alec

“…► Syntax is a reflection of a structured representation of meaning. ► Basic principles relating verb meaning to syntactic structure transcend the…”
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Auditory cortex accesses phonological categories: an MEG mismatch study by Phillips, C, Pellathy, T, Marantz, A, Yellin, E, Wexler, K, Poeppel, D, McGinnis, M, Roberts, T

“…The studies presented here use an adapted oddball paradigm to show evidence that representations of discrete phonological categories are available to the human…”
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Application of an MEG eigenspace beamformer to reconstructing spatio-temporal activities of neural sources by Sekihara, Kensuke, Nagarajan, Srikantan S., Poeppel, David, Marantz, Alec, Miyashita, Yasushi

“…We have applied the eigenspace‐based beamformer to reconstruct spatio‐temporal activities of neural sources from MEG data. The weight vector of the…”
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Decomposition, lookup, and recombination: MEG evidence for the Full Decomposition model of complex visual word recognition by Fruchter, Joseph, Marantz, Alec

“…•We report an MEG study of morphological decomposition in visual word recognition.•We test the predictions of Taft’s Full Decomposition model, using corpus…”
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The selectivity of the occipitotemporal M170 for faces by Liu, Jia, Higuchi, Masanori, Marantz, Alec, Kanwisher, Nancy

“…Evidence from fMRI, ERPs and intracranial recordings suggests the existence of face-specific mechanisms in the primate occipitotemporal cortex. The present…”
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Cognitive neuroscience and the English past tense: Comments on the paper by Ullman et al by Embick, David, Marantz, Alec

“…Commentary is offered on Michael T. Ullman et al's "Neural Correlates of Lexicon and Grammar: Evidence from the Production, Reading, and Judgment of Inflection…”
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Evidence for Early Morphological Decomposition in Visual Word Recognition by Solomyak, Olla, Marantz, Alec

“…We employ a single-trial correlational MEG analysis technique to investigate early processing in the visual recognition of morphologically complex words. Three…”
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