Maryland at SNL in Philly

On brains and language in Philadelphia.

October 6-8, the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) takes place in Philadelphia, featuring several posters from Maryland, including Alex Krauska, Craig Thorburn, Xinchi Yu and London Dixon; post-docs Tal Ness and Shohini Bhattasali; linguistics faculty Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips, Bill Idsardi and Philip Resnik; plus several alumni, including Wing-Yee Chow, Dustin Chacón, Diogo Almeida and Brian Dillon.

• Moving away from lexicalism in psycho- and neuro-linguistics: A non-lexicalist model of language production / Alexandra Krauska and Ellen Lau
• The neural basis of agent-patient relations in working memory / Xinchi Yu and Ellen Lau 
• Cognitive control in thematic role assignment: Evidence from neural oscillations / Tal Ness, Valerie Langlois, Wing-Yee Chow, Colin Phillips, Jared Novick and Albert Kim
• Symbolic vs. Gradient Phonemes / Chao Han, Arild Hestvik, Ryan Rhodes and William Idsardi 
• Local and Global Context Models in non-native English speakers / Craig Thorburn, I.M Dushyanthi Karunathilake, London Dixon, Mudi Zhang, Ellen Lau and Jonathan Z. Simon
• Progression of acoustic, phonemic, lexical and sentential neural features emerge for different speech listening / I.M Dushyanthi Karunathilake, Christian Brodbeck, Shohini Bhattasali, Philip Resnik and Jonathan Z. Simon
• Verbs’ selectional preferences modulate N400 response in sentence processing / Chiebuka Ohams, Shohini Bhattasali and Philip Resnik
• Brain activity in Hindi & Nepali reflects language-adapted processing strategies / Dustin A. Chacón, Subhekshya Shrestha, Brian Dillon, Diogo Almeida, Rajesh Bhatt and Alec Marantz