Readings
The textbook for this course is Language and the Brain: A slim guide to neurolinguistics by Jon Brennan. You can purchase it through the bookstore.
PDFs of all other readings are available here.
Nope. This is the full course bibliography, meaning that it lists all of the sources for the studies we will cover in class. Only some of these papers will be actually assigned as reading. Each unit’s page will specify the papers that are assigned as reading.
Course Bibliography
Antoniou, M. (2019). The advantages of bilingualism debate. Annual Review of Linguistics, 5(1), 395–415.
Bemis, D. K., & Pylkkänen, L. (2011). Simple composition: a magnetoencephalography investigation into the comprehension of minimal linguistic phrases. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(8), 2801–2814.
Bennett, C., Baird, A., Miller, M., & Wolford, G. (2011). Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction. Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 1, 1–5.
Brennan, J. R. (2022). Language and the brain: A slim guide to neurolinguistics. Oxford University Press.
Costa, A., & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2014). How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15(5), 336–345.
Dronkers, N., & Baldo, J. V. (2009). Language: Aphasia. In L. Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (pp. 343–348). Academic Press.
Ding, N., Melloni, L., Zhang, H., Tian, X., & Poeppel, D. (2016). Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech. Nature Neuroscience, 19(1), 158–164.
Embick, D., & Poeppel, D. (2014). Towards a computational(ist) neurobiology of language: correlational, integrated and explanatory neurolinguistics. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(4), 357–366.
*Ferjan Ramirez, N., Leonard, M. K., Torres, C., Hatrak, M., Halgren, E., & Mayberry, R. I. (2014). Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners. Cerebral Cortex, 24(10), 2772–2783.
Fitch, W. T., & Martins, M. D. (2014). Hierarchical processing in music, language, and action: Lashley revisited. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1316, 87–104.
Getz, H., Ding, N., Newport, E. L., & Poeppel, D. (2018). Cortical tracking of constituent structure in language acquisition. Cognition, 181, 135–140.
Gwilliams, L., King, J.-R., Marantz, A., & Poeppel, D. (2022). Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6606.
Hickok, G., Bellugi, U., & Klima, E. S. (1998). The neural organization of language: evidence from sign language aphasia. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(4), 129–136.
Huth, A. G., de Heer, W. A., Griffiths, T. L., Theunissen, F. E., & Gallant, J. L. (2016). Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex. Nature, 532(7600), 453–458.]
*Kim, A., & Osterhout, L. (2005). The independence of combinatory semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Memory and Language, 52(2), 205–225.
*Matchin, W., Sprouse, J., & Hickok, G. (2014). A structural distance effect for backward anaphora in Broca’s area: an fMRI study. Brain and Language, 138, 1–11.
*Marinkovic, K., Dhond, R. P., Dale, A. M., Glessner, M., Carr, V., & Halgren, E. (2003). Spatiotemporal dynamics of modality-specific and supramodal word processing. Neuron, 38(3), 487–497.
McCabe, D. P., & Castel, A. D. (2008). Seeing is believing: The effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning. Cognition, 107(1), 343–352.
Mesgarani, N., Cheung, C., Johnson, K., & Chang, E. F. (2014). Phonetic feature encoding in human superior temporal gyrus. Science, 343(6174), 1006–1010.
Nelson, M. J., El Karoui, I., Giber, K., Yang, X., Cohen, L., Koopman, H., Cash, S. S., Naccache, L., Hale, J. T., Pallier, C., & Dehaene, S. (2017). Neurophysiological dynamics of phrase-structure building during sentence processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(18), E3669–E3678.
Newport, E. L., & Getz, H. R. (2025). Language acquisition and the human brain (Vol. 2). In J. Binder (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. Elsevier.
Newport, E. L., Seydell-Greenwald, A., Landau, B., Turkeltaub, P. E., Chambers, C. E., Martin, K. C., Rennert, R., Giannetti, M., Dromerick, A. W., Ichord, R. N., Carpenter, J. L., Berl, M. M., & Gaillard, W. D. (2022). Language and developmental plasticity after perinatal stroke. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2207293119.
Newport, E. L., & Supalla, T. (1999). Sign Languages. The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences.
Pallier, C., Devauchelle, A.-D., & Dehaene, S. (2011). Cortical representation of the constituent structure of sentences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(6), 2522–2527.
*Phillips, C., Pellathy, T., Marantz, A., Yellin, E., Wexler, K., Poeppel, D., & Roberts. (2000). Auditory cortex accesses phonological categories: an MEG mismatch study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(6), 1038–1055.
Zatorre, R. J., Evans, A. C., Meyer, E., & Gjedde, A. (1992). Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing. Science, 256(5058), 846–849.